I do not know who that guy is, but it was the first thing on Youtube when I was looking for backworkout, so I threw it up here. Because that is what I am looking for now.
Today I decided I wanted to challenge myself in a really immediate way. I wanted to push my body in a physical manner, in a way that I thought was safe, and yet it would sort of put me out there in the hinterland of my perimeter. I wanted to do 2 workouts. Originally I had wanted to do three, but I got distracted by Christmas shopping, so no one is perfect I suppose.
For me, I had questioned for as long as I have been losing weight the nature of my workout, and today I had confirmed it. I had often thought that my owrkouts were safe, in the pocket, cover band style workouts. Not the exertion of the rock and roll animal I wanted to be, and certainly nothing that would ultimately challenge me in a massive personal changing sort of way.
So today, I worked out twice. I got up at 7, and worked out. Did the cardio, did the weights, the usual. Then I went back at noon and did cardio and a different weight workout. I have to say, it was a very impressive sort of experiment. I felt amazing after the first one, and even better going back for the second one. So, it was a great time.
I am sure that people in the know will say that muscle needs this and that time to heal, but honestly it is not like I am doing some Lee Haney style workout. But rather my exertion is really light weight, and on a scale of 1 to ten, I bet I am less than a 6 in regards to my phyisical potential. So today was intended to push that sort of further. To expand on that.
The second workout was a back workout, and arms. It was amazing. I have never really been all that sure of back exercises, even when I was in shape. But, I just sort of did a little bit of research, and got the form right from doing light weights. Feeling your back sort of inflate, that is an amazing thing.
I have never been a fan of bodybuilding. I dig the results, I dig the process, but it never spoke to me. But for years, I have honestly had this sort of poetic connection to the contraction of the muscle fiber. On a truly mocroscopic level, it is amazing, and powerful. It is that sort of contraction that draws me to all things athletic, that is how I find poetry in all of it.
Today was a good workout day. Tomorrow will be even better.
