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Sep200911

james

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Killer Time Saving Workout

Ok straight into it today with another quick, challenging workout. This workout is designed to tick off the boxes of strength, fitness and fat loss. And sitting here writing it up , I’m not sure which is harder, doing the workout or general moving for the next two days!

Set up a barbell for deadlifts and a kettlebell for swings. I used 100kgs and 30kgs respectively. In between these two exercises you will do pushups. Choose a level, easier or harder, for the pushups depending on your strength.
After you have warmed up you will do the three exercises in a circuit. First round do 20 reps, second round do 15 reps and third round do 10 reps (that’s of each exercise). Rest ad much as you need to but as little as possible throughout.
Remember if you aren’t questioning why you are doing this at some stage, then chances are you aren’t working hard enough.
After you have done all three rounds, take s few minutes to gather your breath and you breath.
Next move onto the chin up bar armed with a stopwatch. All you want to do here is start the timer and do one chin up. When the timer gets to one minute, you want to do two chin ups. Continue adding one chin up per minute until you can no longer keep up. This may seem easy to begin with but it will catch up to you quick enough. I managed to get up to eight reps before calling it quits.
That’s it. Roughly 30 minutes in length but one supreme workout the did have me questioning why I was doing it!!
Let me know how you go.

May200928

james

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Killer Upper Body Workout demonstrated by James Kerrison Personal Training Hobart

You know, it really bugs me when people say that they don’t have enough time to train. I can vouch for the fact that time is a very valuable commodity, in fact it is probably one of the most valuable to me at the moment.

But here’s the thing. You don’t need to be spending hours upon hours in the gym. If you are doing nothing, then simply doing something will be better. If you can spare 30 minutes 3-4 times per week then you can still make improvements by increasing your fitness, increasing your strength and burning more fat. Not to mention that by exercising with some intensity you will become more efficient at work, have more energy and decrease your own (and the nations) healthcare costs. Not bad for a few investments of 30 minutes hey?

So what do I do in 30 minutes that will help me to get leaner, stronger, fitter and sexier?

Well I would break it down like this.

If you can only do three days, then one day would be interval sprint session (bike, running, swimming doesn’t matter), day two would be the Killer Upper Body Workout (video below) and day three would be a full body circuit.

If you can get the four days in there I would simply double up on one of the workouts. It doesn’t have to be too complex. Either redo your favourite workout or just restart the cycle above from the sprint session.

Oh yeah, I almost forgot. This post was supposed to be about my new upper body workout. I sort of went off on a tangent there!!  Here’s the video.

May200909

james

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Super Quick and Easy Fat Burning Beef Chili

Last year I made the chili to beat all chili’s! The problem was I miscalculated how much chili powder I needed to add to the mix. Great if you like this sort of thing super hot, but it made it inedible for the rest of the family!

This time I have opted for a more friendly version with a bit less, but just enough zing!

Ingredients

600 grams lean beef mince
750 gram can of kidney or mixed beans (give them a good wash)
1 medium onion chopped
1 medium tomato chopped
2 large carrots chopped
1/2 green , red and yellow capsicum chopped
2 cloves of garlic or equivalent crushed
750 mL V8 vegetable juice or equivalent
1/4 Cup cashew meal
1 teaspoon chili powder
1/2 teaspoon cumin
1/2 teaspoon pepper

Go ahead and brown the mince with the onion and garlic and spices mixed through.
Put all the other ingredients into a large pot with a lid and add the mince mix when it has browned.
Bring the mix to a boil and then simmer for 30 minutes.

This should make enough for 4 large or 6 medium serves. It keeps well for leftovers and freezes equally as well.

You can get creative and mix and match the vegetables, spices and juice that you use for varying results.

Give this a try and let me know what you think!

Apr200923

james

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Fat Burning Cardio

Forget cardio. Well at least forget cardio in it’s usual form. Unless your goal is to get better at riding a stationary bike, or running on a treadmill then you had better ditch the idea that this will help you burn fat.

To get the maximum amount of fat burning happening you want to recruit a lot more muscles, build fatigue and be working hard enough to question why you are doing it at all. By using high intensity intervals the goal is to get your heart rate up around or over 90% of your maximum. A typical session should last at most 30 minutes. You want to get in, go hard and go home. No messing around.
Instead of just going for a run next time you have a cardio day scheduled, try the following workout.
All you need is a few dumbells or kettlebells, a treadmill (running outside would be better) and the desire to work hard.

For Time :  Maximum number of rounds in 30 minutes

Run 250 metres
10 One-arm dumbbell/kettlebell swings (each arm)  Hard – 10kg, Easy – 6kg
Run 250 metres
50 Mountain Climbers (25 each side)
Run 250 metres
10 One-arm Alternating dumbbell/kettlebell clean (each arm) Hard -20kg, Easy – 10kg
Run 250 metres
50 Bodyweight Squats

Rest as much as you need to but as little as possible.

This fat burning workout will get you using all your big muscles which will get your heart rate sky high, burning so many more calories than a normal cardio session.

It is important to fully recover between session like this. With this in mind I would recommend that you did no more than two of these sessions per week.

Also, make sure that you have your food and nutrition in order. You can learn more here.

Post your results below.

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