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TACFIT Warrior – sick day again….

Well, I got sick again….

I was feeling a little under on Saturday and thought, well what the heck, so I went for my high intensity day of TACFIT Warrior. The problem started with my neck, it just started hurting, then my head, then my whole body. I stopped working out half way through, just before I started the 4th exercise. Then it was worse on Sunday, Monday was even worse aches all over, cough, etc. Well I am finally starting to feel a little better, except I keep going to bed late so I don’t get much rest. I am going to get back to doing this, being sick is just not working for me. I am still alive and will get back into the swing soon. I really can’t wait to get going again, I have seen so many benefits from the TACFIT workouts.

TACFIT Warrior – Wave 2 day 6 of the 7×4 program – Moderate intensity day

I for some reason am struggling at to when is the best time to workout, with this new job and my other goals I am working on I can’t decide if workouts at night or in the morning work better for me. Oh well, I will get it all figured out soon.

Today was Wave 2 day 6 of the 7×4 program – Moderate intensity day.

I have no issues with most of them the sit thru ones still get my heart rate up, so I was watching myself on those a little more this time. I do go higher on intensity with the plank pull some times as well and want to watch that. I am having difficulty fitting in my full warmup and cooldown because I chose to sleep a little longer – I would like to stop burning the candle at both ends. I love how the exercises have helped me feel better in the shoulders, last time we did TACFIT I was having some pain and discomfort on occasion, this time around it seems to be easier since I am remembering to keep my lats packed down.

Basic Spinal Rock: 7
Monkey Front Lunge: 5/5
Plank Pull: 8
Rear Sit Thru Press: 2/2 – started out with my regular and slowed things down a little at the end to lower the intensity
Sit Thru Extension: 4/4 – still high on heart rate – this one tends to fatigue me a lot as well
Shinbox kick: 5/5

I do enjoy working out in the morning, it seems to help me feel better during the day, when I workout at night I don’t get to enjoy that as much and tend to feel more stressed, this is what I am thinking, I will pay more attention to this to really see if that is true for me, if it is I have found my answer for when to workout.

TACFIT Warrior – Wave 2 day 3 – moderate intensity day – I am back from the land of the SICK!

Well, I started thinking I was falling out of my workouts again…. Not this time! I am back, from the land of the sick – and I was good enough to share with my family too.

So I started back up on my wave 2 of the 7×4, being sick was not good to me. Today was moderate day, day 3 of wave 2. I had a good workout, really tried to watch my heartbeat as an indicator like one of my friends recommended. I did really well until the Sit Thru Extension, then my heart rate jumped and I felt like I was exerting more than a moderate day. Legs felt like jelly on Sit Thru Extension as well. I did get of track in the shinbox kick so I actually did an extra set during a rest period, not sure how that happened. Felt good to be back on the TACFIT Warrior workout program!

Basic spinal Rock: 6 – low heartbeat
Monkey Front Lunge: 5/5 – heartbeat of about 100
Plank Pull: 7 – heartbeat 110
Rear Sit Thru Press: 2/2 – heartbeat was at about 140
Sit Thru Extension: 4/4 – heartbeat was at about 170
Shinbox kick: 4/4

I spent some extra time after the cool down to do some of my old stretching tricks, it was good to feel limber again.

A great article on building functional muscle

I wrote a great article on building functional muscle and wanted to just make a few comments on it here.

First off lets talk about what functional muscle isn’t. In common traditional workouts and weight lifting specifically, you are focusing on specific muscles, isolating the muscles to build them. This process allows you to sculpt your body to look bigger in those areas because you are building those specific muscles. The problem is that usually there is little or no thought in the opposing muscles, this puts you are high risk of injury especially when doing intense activity such as playing sports, martial arts, or worse when you actually want your body to be able to perform in a life or death situation like in the military/police/or rescue personnel.

Functional muscle is the opposite, it is a full body focus. You build all the movements of the body, so the workouts do require frequent changes to make sure no one movement or no one area of the body gets a higher focus. There is also a lot of focus on the flow of movement, or transition from one position to another. There also must be some specific work to maximise recovery and also the prevention of injury. I have only found one program that really maximizes on the purpose of building functional muscle, it is the TACFIT programs by Scott Shonnon.

Here is the article that I wrote on this subject: http://hubpages.com/hub/Tacfit-Warrior-build-great-looking-functional-muscle

TACFIT Warrior – Wave 2 Day 2 – Low intensity (recovery day)

I am still getting use to my interval timer I got for Christmas, and I like using it so much better. I was have some tightness in my shoulders and triceps still so it was good to have this recovery day. If you noticed I did double up today, I didn’t want to do any workout on Sunday. Feels oh so good to be working out again.

TACFIT Warrior – wave 2 day 1 – no intensity

I am telling you, it really feels good to do the no intensity day. I really like the selected movements. This is the day that has really helped me recover from my lower back issue that I have been having, which is basically gone now. I have had so many benefits from the tacfit stuff, it blows my mind. I have recommended this workout to tons of people, if they would just do it for the first couple of waves they would get addicted too. lol

TACFIT Warrior – Christmas day – High intensity final day of first wave.

High intensity day:
So I have had issues fitting in my workout this week with all the crazyness. I finally decided to do it tonight, and it was especially nice using my new interval timer that I got for christmas. It was not a good idea to jump to the high intensity day, however it works for me since I want to get on the right track with a no intensity day tomorrow. So here are my numbers/stats:

Basic spinal Rock: 7 – low heartbeat
Monkey Front Lunge: 6/6 – heartbeat of about 100
Plank Pull: 9 – this was good, my arms are still jelly from this one.
Rear Sit Thru Press: 3/3 – heartbeat was at about 120
Sit Thru Extension: 5/5 – heartbeat was at about 170
Shinbox kick: 5/5 – heartbeat came down a little to about 130

I then followed my own stretching program that I am developing, I have a goal of getting my full splits back by March.

Hope you guys had a merry Christmas!

TACFIT Warrior – Day 3 Moderate 7×4 version

It felt good to get up and get going on my moderate day, I am doing the 7×4 since I am a man of routine. I must say it sure brings back all the memories about first waves of TACFIT Commando, I always seem to over push on the first moderate day, with the 7×4 this time I don’t feel so bad about it. I ended up getting somewhat tired on just the first warm up exercise with TACFIT Warrior. I also remember now how I hate doing these exercises in pants that have a seam on the butt, the pressure of the spinal rock on the seam and my tail-bone starts to hurt. I agree the rear sit thru press is what spiked my heart rate and really was a challenge for me, my form is really bad on that one. I wish I would have ran through the instructions a bit more on this before starting, and I will, it just would have been easier a little. I just love the TACFIT stuff, it’s great.

Day 3 – Moderate – Recruit 7×4 version
Basic Spinal Rock – 6
Monkey Front Lung – 7 (3/4 alternating) – heart rate about 150
Plank Pull – 8 – heart rate about 150
Rear Sit Thru Press – 4 (2/2) – heart rate about 170+
Sit Thru Extension – 6 (3/3) – heart rate about 200
Shinbox Kick – 4 (2/2) – this is one I wish I would have watched before today…..

Happy to be back in on this!

TACFIT Warrior – Day 2

I had so much going on today with over a foot of snow that I wanted to shovel and wanting to get in to work to see what I could do about the ISP outage that I did not get to my TACFIT Warrior workout until almost midnight. It felt good to do the Low intensity workout, I compare it to the TACFIT Commando and I really like both, this one seems more like a low intensity type of workout, with Commando there were just a lot of exercises, not hard ones, just a lot. The movements felt good. The real cool thing is that with only having done two days my back is already starting to fell better, remember it was bothering my quite a bit over the weekend.

TACFIT Warrior – Day 1

I feel really great, for one thing I have started Tacfit Warrior for another thing the strain prevention movements from the no intensity day are really going to help with my lower back. I have found that if I am not doing this type of movements my lower back gets tight and then starts hurting. Last time this happened was about a month or two ago and it got so bad I went to a chiropractor. This all started about when I stopped being consistent with the TACFIT Comando stuff, huh, interesting… Just after one day of the strain prevention no intensity day I already feel more relaxed in the lower back, I know this is going to really help me out.

I am going to start with the Recruit level, just seems like the best fit for me. I know that no matter what level I choose the first wave or two is going to be difficult and a little painful with soar muscles, it will be good though. I am deciding today if I will be doing the 4×7 or the 7×4, not sure right now. It is nice that the no intensity days and the low intensity days are not just the warmup/cooldowns it adds variety to the program.