Stations

Thursday - April 16, 2009

Tonight's workout was by far my favorite kind - STATIONS. This little bias most likely stems from a few years ago (about a decade now to be more precise), when I first started training under Coach Brad Taliancich at the old JCC, where he was working as an athletic director and training me for the Maccabi games (a sort of mini-Olympics for teens). We did a lot of station work then, and I thoroughly enjoyed those workouts. So if you're training with me, you can expect these station workouts, though not necessarily the same stations as tonight since I will continue to make every workout as unique as possible.

There we 2 sets of 4 stations tonight, which we ended up rotating through 3 times (that works out to 6 total sets, and 24 stations total), with 45 seconds for each station and 30 seconds to recover and move on to the next one. Since we are still in the early stages of training with this group, I chose the stations to maximize the overall fitness, as opposed to isolating any body part or focusing on any type of activity (strength, cardio, etc). With a group of 8 tonight, we had a very nice distribution of 2 people per station, which worked out well with the pairs pushing and motivating each other throughout the workout. The weather was once again agreeable (I don't want to jinx it, but it's important to note) and the ladies worked hard! I have a real good feeling about this group, and truly believe we can accomplish a lot over the next few weeks.

The official 6-wk session starts next week. Please remember to sign up for the class at www.teamxyg.com ... we will start on time (6:00 PM) so please be prompt ... looking forward to ANOTHER GREAT WORKOUT.

Sincerely,
Phillip Glotser