the Rule of Three

Welcome back, today I'm gonna saw a few things about what I like to call the rule of three. Totally just made this up, but it's based off of a concept that I've been toying with for a few years. First off, I absolute love the the gym. It's my work place, its my garage, its my Max. You know like the Max. You know from saved by tha....never mind. Its where my peeps are. But when I graduated from college, and was in the credit card retention business, I didn't think I could justify paying for a gym membership, so I slowly built my home gym. I may get into that whole thing on a later blog. Anyway it was pimp, I had a pull up/dip rack in my little studio, still ranks as the best home gym investment in the history of my world. Anyway back on track. The rule of three simply states this. If you have a piece of cardio equipment, exercise through three commercial breaks, or blast hard and cruise during the breaks. Some times if you watch three scenes on a DVD that's enough, they do have to be longer scenes. The goal is to knock out an extra twenty or thirty minutes of exercise either first thing in the morning, or before bed. I might not do it right before bed, but it would be later in the day, as a second workout of if I couldn't make the gym. The rule also applies to resistance, you can play with the idea and mix it up. Three exercises, to failure. Three sets for three exercises, round robin them so one body part recovers while the other is working. An example of one combination I'm doing on some mornings is push up crunch combo. I'll push to close to failure, which is generally around thirty five or forty flip over and knock out, about thirty crunches, I then resume my push ups, switching my hand placement in an effort to tax the muscle from a different angle, I also switch the type of crunch that I preform. I complete four sets of each. It's a great way to start the day, even if I'm super sore, it would help to get the blood flowing back into those muscles and it alleviated some of the soreness. So if you wanna burn an extra couple hundred calories remember the rule of three, you might wanna implement it a couple times a day.