Thursday, April 12, 2007

The Tractor Pull

Here's my new favorite workout. It can be tailored for people of all levels:

-- start walking/running at a comfortable pace (e.g. where you can have a conversation)
-- up the speed by X mph at regular intervals
-- keep going until you can't anymore

If we were all to do this every day for 6 weeks, the gains would be amazing.

I don't normally quote numbers but tonight's workout started at 6 mph and bumped 0.2 mph every minute. I stopped after 9.6 mph.

I did this twice tonight. I only mention it because back in 2000 I probably would have topped out at 5.5 mph after starting at a walk. It doesn't take much to get fit, but it does take discipline.

ps. I also call this workout "Feeling the Bang" and "Boiling Frogs" (LOL).

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