Most of my resistance workouts — weights, bodyweight, core stuff, I do in the late afternoons/early evenings before dinner, six or seven days a week. I run a four-day cycle for various muscle groups. Walking the dog and martial arts forms aren’t part of the equation here.
Not a morning person, my biorhythms flow better later in the day.
Too, when I am working, sitting in the chair, I have a timer set every forty-five minutes, whereupon I get up, stretch, do some toe-touches and -raises, air- or wall-squats, like that, mostly for circulation. Sitting too much is a killer.
Here of late, to shake things up a bit when the gong goes off to get out the chair, I have been doing a single set of reps with a kettlebell or dumbbells, or chins and dips, like that.
Work is force through a distance, and spread out over the course of a day, one set every forty-five minutes, I’m doing more sets and reps of whichever exercise I’m electing, so more work, but easier, because I’m doing only one set at a time. Not getting the pump as with three sets.
Now, I’m still doing my regular workout before dinner, but that focuses on a different exercise than the one I’m doing every forty-five minutes.
For instance, if I do light dumbbells in a compound movement — curls and Ahnahl presses during the day, then I’ll do squats/deadlifts/back stuff in the evening.
This is not a new concept, just the first time I’ve played with it, and I’ve only just started, so it’ll be interesting to see what, if anything, it does after a few weeks or months. Assuming I keep my diet the same, I would expect to drop a couple pounds of fat and maybe add a little muscle.
Stand by, I’ll report back in a few weeks.
