Cardio Workout #1 (Animal Style)

[The Anvil]

I hate treadmills and cardio bikes, but use them often! I also have bad knees and ankles, but still hit my hill workout once or twice a week. Finding the right hill may be your toughest challenge for this workout.

Find a hill that has a decent incline and is big enough for you to run across for at least 200 yards.

Mark your start point, or make sure you know where it is. Sprint up the hill 20 to fourty yards, then jog at that level about 200 yard, and try to recover, jog as slow as you want, but running sucks so the faster you jog, the sooner you eat! (if you are running a set number of laps, we run for a period of time, 1 HR)

Once you have jogged the hill across far enough, walk back down to the base of the hill. (walk so you do not fall down the hill!)

Jog back to your start point, and start your sprint phase again. Repeat

WE do these runs for about an hour, and our loop is almost a quarter mile. We hit from 4 1/2 to just over 5 miles, but speed is only important on the sprint. Try not to stop, no matter how slow you jog! Take some Motrin, you may be sore the first few times!

FIGHT HARD!

[marty22]

Jeez....I better take Advil Liquigels too.

[wpruitt]

Very impressive.  And I thought walking two miles a day was impressive !

[slyinglide]

My knees are shot.....Some days I need advil just to get out of bed, but I do walk.  I have a route similar to that one, but running it would probably put me down.......I just try to keep my pulse rate up around 155 to 160 as per my Dr.   I did do this 2 to3 times a week, but since I started the diet with my G/F, I am going to do it everyday

[The Anvil]

The biggest thing is to keep going, I use the hill to spike my Heart Rate, then recover coming down the hill and jogging back to the sprint. (replicates the ups and downs of a fight) When I fight I don't have a smoothly elevated heart rate for an hour or however most folks do cardio, so I don't run that way, I want my body to react when it needs to, and recover quickly.

You can walk this the same way, just push yourself at different stages, or stop at a point (s) on your normal walk route and do a set of jumping-jacks and push-ups, then continue your walk. (your body will react to new stress, but you have to make it work, not always fun) The big thing is look what you want to achieve,(I want to fight trained professionals,  be able to work for up to 15 minutes almost all out, with little rest) a lot of what I post is going to be more than most people want to do, so cut it up a bit and be your own ANIMAL!

[Brkeatr]

OK....OK.....how about a workout for someone in their late 50's   ......LOL......

[Mikekoz13]

OK....OK.....how about a workout for someone in their late 50's   ......LOL......

Go to kitchen..... open snack cabinet, pull out favorite snack, open frig, pull out favorite beverage, proceed to recliner, open favorite snack and beverage, consume both, work out finger by changing to favorite sporting event, doze off for 1 hour.... workout complete

[Brkeatr]

Come on Mike !!  Look bro, I already do that....I need something a little different .....lol....but seriously, I took off at 6:30 am and walked a couple miles.....seems to work for me...

[throwingbombs]

I have heard that running down hills will destroy your knees--but running up is ok.  Be careful with the hills!  Other than that--it sounds like some good training.  Interval training is the best they say--this seems like a good interval.

[daylan]

Come on Mike !!  Look bro, I already do that....I need something a little different .....lol....but seriously, I took off at 6:30 am and walked a couple miles.....seems to work for me...

Swim like a madman! Good cardio, good strength and toning and can lead to your joints and back feeling a hell of a lot better. Of course, I dont swim like that but YOU could! lol! I stick with a 1/2 hour of paid walking at work every day, another 1/2 hour with the dogs at night and then lot of whooppee with the misses to round out my cardio. Strength traing comes just from being the only male in the house...you know opening pickle jars, getting things out of the storage unit, moving the same couch 14 times so that it can be placed back in it original location....