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The Fat Burning Machine Merges!

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Since 2007 I have maintained a blog at http://www.thefatburningmachineblog.com and have finally decided that it would be best to merge that site with this one.  My focus has been more on this site and all the ideas I have revolve around this site, so to save some money, I recently imported all the posts from that site to this one.  You can reach these posts at The Fat Burning Machine Category Page.  I am sure you will find some enjoyable reading within those posts.

I currently plan to go back through those posts and do some follow up posts that contain links to the old content.  It will be fun to revisit those posts and will give you, the reader, some excellent new resources that I have collected over the past 4 years.

Thank you for being a loyal supporter.

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The Beat Goes On

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I want to discuss my current progress with all of you and show you that if a guy like me can do these things, anyone can do these things. It is all about the mindset you bring to the problem. I personally believe in myself. How about you?

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Going to Failure

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This past weekend was my scheduled one max rep test workout. I generally look forward to this workout, but this time I approached it with great trepidation because I'd been sick for the previous week. The illness really had an affect on my lifts.

I stepped up to do my squats, racking my previous max plus an additional 40 lbs. I unracked the bar and took one step back. I dropped down and asIi came out of the bottom, realized that I'd never get back up, so I bailed out. This was the beginning of my problems for the day. I backed the weight down to my previous max plus 5 lbs. I completed that easily. I proceeded to add 5 lbs. and did another easy rep. This continued until I was within 5 lbs of my initial attempt. This process drained my already exhausted body.

I wound up having problems with both my bench press and my deadlift. I learned a very important lesson about max lifts: always go backwards from the failure weight to find the max. I also learned that trying a max workout is a bad idea after an illness.

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5-3-1 Insanity: Sick Feeling

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Today started out at 4 am with an Overhead Press workout and no assistance exercises. The idea is to blast the shoulders, but still give the body some extra recovery time. The prescription was 2 sets of 3 reps followed by 1 set of 1 rep at 90% of my 1 rep max. It was short, but intense.

I managed to easily complete 3 reps at 120 lbs. Honestly, it was too light. The next set was 3 reps at 140 lbs. This, too, was easy. To compensate I shortened the rest period (always working the experiment). On the final set I hit 155 lbs for 2 reps. The intensity was high. My workout partner completely failed on his attempt at 140 lbs for 1 rep, so we had him do 2 assisted reps with that weight.

I rested for 11 hours (actually, I worked that many hours) and then tackled the Insanity Pure Cardio and Cardio Abs workout. For some reason my heart rate was way too high during the workout. At times I hit 170 bpm! I completed the 55 minute session, but now I feel horrible. I have been shaking badly. I can tell I've taken a metabolic hit because I feel ill. I feel like I hit my upper limit on intensity. Now, the sick part of me is happy that I was able to be so intense, but the normal part of me wishes I could have gone easier. I definitely dug deep for this workout.

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