Movember Wrap-up, All 30 Days of Stache Growth :{


If you have around an hour and twenty minutes to kill and want to see some beautiful Canada BC back country, or perhaps you just really enjoy quading then checkout my most recent Quading at Tamihi Creek in Chilliwack British Columbia Canada YouTube Video. And yes it's a great workout!
Some info about the ride and video:
It's been a while since I did an at-home workout video! Most weeks I workout 5 days at my CrossFit Gym since it's close to home and my membership lets me go as much as I like, so I may as well get my moneys worth and get some extra motivation in a supportive group situation.
This week my schedule just didn't work with the CrossFit times so today I decided to do my workout at home and take this opportunity to record it for you all.
I only really had a half an hour or so, so to maximize my workout I did my usual high intensity CrossFit Style no rest multi exercise workout and in this program I worked my Chest, Back, Arms and Abs.
This high intensity workout consisted of 10 complete rounds, each round I did 6 reps of each of the following exercises:
The entire workout took me about 17-18 minutes and it got really hard to complete some the exercises near the very end which is pretty much what you want to achieve if you want to push yourself.
The Fitbit Force is the second fitness band product I have reviewed from Fitbit, you can checkout my Fitbit Flex review to see what I though of Fitbit's predecessor to the Fitbit Force.
As I mention in my accompanying YouTube video review for the Fitbit Force. I am not going to go into a bunch of specs and quotes copied and pasted from the Fitbit website, here is a direct link so you can go and check all of this out for yourself. What I will tell you is what the Fitbit Force actually does and does not do for you.
Well first of all the Fitbit Force is an upgrade or "version 2" of the Fitbit Flex, they both do a lot of the same things so make sure to checkout both units before deciding on which one to buy as the Fitbit Flex is a bit cheaper and may have enough features for you depending on your needs.
So what can the Fitbit Force and the Fitbit Flex both do:
So what is different between the Fitbit Force and the Fitbit Flex?
All in all both the Fitbit Force and Fitbit Flex are really great Fitness bands, when I did my head to head comparison of the Fitbit Flex versus my Jawbone Up, the Flex came out the clear winner for me! So now moving forward with the Fitbit Force, I do like the additional features the Force offers, mainly the user interface OLED screen that I can reference very quickly and the built in watch is kind of handy too. The Altimeter is another useful piece of information that helps me track my activity, really the only downside for me is the fact that I know at some point the band is not going to look so fresh and new since I do wear it while I workout, and I will want to replace it, hopefully Fitbit offers some sort of band replacement option that is not too expensive?
My recommendation if you already have a Fitbit Flex, keep it, unless your like me and have to have the latest and greatest ;) If your a first time Fitbit customer then spend the extra $30 and get all the new bells and whistles...
Please keep in mind I am not a Powerlifter, powerlifting is part of the CrossFit workout program.
Yesterday was Deadlift Day at my CrossFit Langley Workout Gym and the program for the day was 5 sets of Deadlift reps adding weight to a max set of 5 reps, and this is how it worked out:
We did not plan the single rep of 403 pounds, but I felt good doing the 5 reps at 363 pounds and decided to go for it! By the way my workout partner Jeff also hit a Personal Best and got 403 pounds. Looking back at the video, I see I need to keep my back a bit straighter, got a bit lazy this time...
I'm not going to lie, I felt a little not in my back (lower right side) and I am feeling it today but it is just a very small muscle pull and other than a bit of discomfort I'm OK, I may even go to CrossFit tonight ;)
By the way we finished this strength Deadlift workout with a 13 minute AMRAP (As Many Rounds As Possible) consisting of a rotation of 3 x 185 pound Deadlifts, 10 box step ups, and 5 pushups. I lost count but we did over 20 rounds…
I don't recommend going for Max Deadlift very often (As back injuries are not fun) but it is nice to see what one can do, now that I hit my goal of over 400 pounds I am content to lift sets for strength and may look at trying another Personal Best some time next year.