Workout Diversity for Injury Prevention, Recovery and Gains

I have always believed that changing up your workout program and adding a variety of workout strategies to your workout program is a great idea, but lately I kind of got a bit away from this. Perhaps I thought that the CrossFit classes I was going to offered enough variety for me and maybe if I stepped back just a bit then the CrossFit alone would have been just fine.

As good as CrossFit is, it can be very physically demanding and there is a lot of repetition involved, it's not really about how much working out I am doing at CrossFit but rather the intensity and demand I'm putting on my body five days a week. if I was in my 20's or 30's, perhaps it would not be as hard on my body, but now in my mid 40's I feel every workout more than ever and recovery time is taking longer than it used to ;)

So I am going to take my own advice and step back just a bit from my CrossFit, maybe only go 3-4 days per week and add some more diversity to my workouts, get back to my Total Gym a bit and do some less jarring isolation type exercises. I believe this will benefit me in the log run by helping to prevent injury, recover quicker from each workout and see more gains in terms of overall joint usability and muscle health and strength.

Watch my YouTube Video as I explain why it is so important to add Diversity to your Workout Programs to avoid Injury, improve recover time and see gains in strength and overall health!

CrossFit Metcon Workout - 55 Push-ups, Pull-ups, Sit-ups - 150 Air Squats, 225 Feet Walking Lunges, 75 Back Arches

Another Metabolic Conditioning Workout I did over at CrossFit Langley. It consisted of two parts:

Part one was a Ladder workout with Pull-ups, Push-ups and Sit-ups. Usually you start off with 10 reps per set and drop one rep off per set till you are left with your last set of only 1 rep, it works out to 55 reps in total so I generally just do 5 sets of 11 reps. Works out to be the same but I find I do less walking around and get them done faster this way.

Here's how my "Ladder" was divided up:

• 5 sets of 11 Pull-ups (55 reps total)
• 5 sets of 11 Push-ups (55 reps total)
• 5 sets of 11 Sit-ups (55 reps total)

Part two consisted of three rounds of the following:

• 50 Air Squats (150 reps total)
• 75 feet of Walking Lunges (225 feet total)
• 25 Back Arches (75 reps total)

I really found part two very tiring but still pushed hard and made it through :)

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

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Quading at Tamihi Creek in Chilliwack British Columbia Canada

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:

• Location: Tamihi Creek in Chilliwack British Columbia Canada.
• Quads Ridden: 2014 Polaris Sportsman 570 EPS, 2010 Polaris Sportsman 400, 1985 Honda ATC350X Three Wheeler converted to a Quad.
• Camera Used: Liquid Image Model 367 HD Camera Goggles (Recorded  720p 60fps)

Home CrossFit Style Workout for Chest - Back - Arms - Abs

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:

• 6 Pull-ups x 10 rounds (total of 60 reps)
• 6 Push-ups x 10 rounds (total of 60 reps)
• 6 Sit-ups x 10 rounds (total of 60 reps)
• 6 thirty pound Dumbbell Curls x 10 rounds (total of 60 reps)
• 6 Olympic Ring Dips x 10 rounds (total of 60 reps)

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.