Planning Future Workouts

All the workouts I do have a plan behind them, I don't just do random exercises with whatever "looks good". I carefully chosen exercises that I fell will best help me towards my Ninja Warrior goals.

I had an initial plan for the rest of the month (which I'm going to stick with) and  a workout plan for future months, but I have since been revising some of those future plans ever since I meticulously went through the most recent season of Ninja Warrior and broke down the stages again (see previous blog posts). Now my original plan is not that far off, but I do feel like the revised plan is better. And then I started thinking back to when I was heavily training Capoeira.....

Back when I was doing Capoeira, I came up with the crazy idea that I was going to start to do weight training in the morning for an hour and then Capoeira at night for 2 hours. For a little over 2 weeks, I did 3 weight training days, 2 cardio days, and 5 Capoeira days. I was working my ass off, all while having a 9-5 job. Just be on those two weeks my body called me up and said "stop what your doing your killing me." I remember sleeping a Saturday away.....

I used to design workout programs with full body workouts and each full body workout would have a major load on one part of the body more than the others. Now for clients I still design this type of workout when they only workout once a week. Hit the whole body and whatever they can get in during the week is bonus. But for someone working out two days a week I take a more athletic approach by doing one day with Pull and Knee Dominate exercises and the other day with Push and Hip/Hamstring exercises.

Right now I've got a 3 day weight training with 1 day of cardio, but the thought has crossed my mind of doing 2 workouts a day 3-4 days a week, I could go with two different options:

Option 1:
Day 1: AM = Pull/Knee Dominate PM = Push/Hip+Hamstring
Day 2: Rest
Day 3: AM = Pull/Knee Dominate PM = Push/Hip+Hamstring
Day 4: Rest
Day 5: AM = Pull/Knee Dominate PM = Push/Hip+Hamstring

Option 2:
Day 1: AM = Pull/Knee Dominate PM = Cardio

Day 2: AM = Push/Hip+Hamstring PM = Cardio
Day 3: AM = Rest
Day 4: AM = Pull/Knee Dominate PM = Cardio

Day 2: AM = Push/Hip+Hamstring PM = Cardio


One thing you want to stay away from is over training, while to some extent volume can be good, you body can only take so much before it says "F U I'm going on strike"...... But at the same time if I could get more in a shorter amount of time SAFELY, then it might be worth the extra work.

Oh and BTW, unless your nutrition is totally awesomely perfect (unlike how mine was yesterday) don't ever think about doing the above mentioned, you'll injure yourself pretty quickly.

My problem is there are just so many video games and stuff around the house to do before your like "OMG OMG OMG OMG I need to get out of here and go to the gym or do something!" That's the real reason why i've considered it, kill some time and all.

Still thinking about it..... we will see....