I thought I would share with you my 8 am workout this morning.  It was one of my toughest workouts ev-ah.  At 8 am, I was laying in my bed in a hotel room.  Yep – I admit it, I slept right through my planned workout.  I didn’t wake up until I heard my cell phone ring at 8:05 and it was my friend Kyle Battis calling.

You see, I had good intentions of working out this morning at 7:00.  I was going to workout at 7 and then eat a hearty breakfast of eggs, bacon, pancakes and whatever else was offered at the buffet in the hotel.  (Oh, I may have forgotten to mention, but I’m at a conference so that’s why I’m in a hotel all weekend in rainy Connecticut).

So I had good intentions to workout, but I didn’t take the necessary steps to make sure this happen.  Namely, I didn’t set my alarm.  Well duh!  No wonder I didn’t wake up on time.  I know, I know, but you see I figured that since I was in a strange bed, that I would automatically wake up early on my own.  That’s how it usually happens.  But I guess my bed was a little too comfy, because I was sound asleep until my phone rang.

So the first point to this email is to tell you that your good intentions to workout are not always good enough.  You may tell yourself that you’re going to workout, but are you taking the necessary actions to do so?  Make a plan and write it down.  That’s a good place to start.

Now, back to me and my missed workout – all hope is not lost.  Fortunately I have a knack for being able to put together full body workouts where I don’t need any equipment and I can do them anywhere, even in my hotel room. So after my conference, I plan on doing one of my famous 10 minute quad sets.

A quad set consists of 4 exercises – an upper body exercise, a lower body exercise, a core exercise and a conditioning exercise.  You do these exercises with no rest in between.  For my 10 minute circuit, my goal will be to get through as many rounds of this quad set as I can in 10 minutes.

So after my conference ends this evening, I’ll walk up to room 537 and the Stamford Hilton and do the following:

Push Ups with my feet on the desk chair x 20 reps
Squat Jumps x 20 reps
Suicide Planks x 20 reps
Mountain Jumpers x 20 reps

I’ll get through as many rounds of this circuit as I can in 10 minutes.  Think 10 minutes isn’t very long?  Ha.  If you’re thinking that I’ll just continue to laugh at you on the inside.

Quad sets are a great type of circuit and we do this type of circuit in week 7 of My First Six Pack.

But today I just wanted to give you a sample of it.  Try the above circuit and you’ll be hooked.  Or at least you’ll have worked up a good sweat.

Before I leave you for the weekend, I just had lunch with Jayson Hunter, one of the founders of Prograde Nutrition.  Now Jayson can put away the food – 2 double cheeseburgers supersized fries and a large coke.  Pretty surprising for a dietitian.

Actually I’m kidding – Jayson ate quite healthy at lunch.

He’s here at the meeting handing out samples of Prograde Chocolate Peanut Butter Cravers (I’ve had 3 already), and he asked me to remind you about his super duper special for The Carb Rotation Diet.  <<== Look at this

I’m hoping you don’t mind me sharing with you some little tidbits about my day.  Because I kind of like sharing with you.

Have a great weekend.

Scott

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