I just completed my Turbulence Training strength workout for the day. Overall, it was a good workout. Took me about 24 minutes to go through and I pretty much followed the overall layout exactly.
I did substitute a couple of exercises. The workout consisted of squats, rows, lunges, a couple ab exercises and a low back exercise. I took out one of the ab exercises, the side planks. Not that I don't think that is a good choice to strengthen the core. But Turbulence Training is marketed as a fat loss program, and side planks are not an optimal choice for that specific purpose. So I replaced those with an active 3-point crunch.
I also did away with the low back exercise. Again, strengthening the low back is important; however, as with the side planks, it isn't an optimal choice when your specific goal is fat loss. As I mentioned in a previous post, there is not any compound shoulder exercises in the intermediate routine, so I replaced the back extension with an Arnold Press, a twist on the standard overhead press.
I like the supersets in the program. They keep my workouts intense and short.
Unfortunately, I do find myself getting a little bored already. For the intermediate routine (which you do for 4 weeks, but since I'm an advanced trainer, he recommends I do it for 2 weeks, then move on to the advanced routine) there are 2 workouts that you alternate.
Although this is my first official week on the program, I did the workouts a couple times last week to get a feel for layout. I like a lot of variety in my exercise routine, so doing the same workouts for the last 2 weeks as left me a little bored and uninspired.
But I'll stick to it for another week and see how it goes.
I'm going to do hill sprint intervals in a little bit, then I'm done for the day. Tonight is free night so I'm going to enjoy some pizza and cake!!
Have a great weekend!
Carpe Diem, y'all!
PS - If you want to join me in my Turbulence Training, go here for more information on the program.
I did substitute a couple of exercises. The workout consisted of squats, rows, lunges, a couple ab exercises and a low back exercise. I took out one of the ab exercises, the side planks. Not that I don't think that is a good choice to strengthen the core. But Turbulence Training is marketed as a fat loss program, and side planks are not an optimal choice for that specific purpose. So I replaced those with an active 3-point crunch.
I also did away with the low back exercise. Again, strengthening the low back is important; however, as with the side planks, it isn't an optimal choice when your specific goal is fat loss. As I mentioned in a previous post, there is not any compound shoulder exercises in the intermediate routine, so I replaced the back extension with an Arnold Press, a twist on the standard overhead press.
I like the supersets in the program. They keep my workouts intense and short.
Unfortunately, I do find myself getting a little bored already. For the intermediate routine (which you do for 4 weeks, but since I'm an advanced trainer, he recommends I do it for 2 weeks, then move on to the advanced routine) there are 2 workouts that you alternate.
Although this is my first official week on the program, I did the workouts a couple times last week to get a feel for layout. I like a lot of variety in my exercise routine, so doing the same workouts for the last 2 weeks as left me a little bored and uninspired.
But I'll stick to it for another week and see how it goes.
I'm going to do hill sprint intervals in a little bit, then I'm done for the day. Tonight is free night so I'm going to enjoy some pizza and cake!!
Have a great weekend!
Carpe Diem, y'all!
PS - If you want to join me in my Turbulence Training, go here for more information on the program.
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