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dOOD, you're stealing my thunder... ...thighs.

Lacrosse. I love watching lacrosse. Do you love lacrosse, Peter?

I meant in a purely anaerobic sense, of course.

I love being able to do way more pullups than Peter can.

My current routine is 28 upper body weight exercises; with military, incline, and bench press at the end, the finish off with pushups. I'm really lucky to crank out, like, 15 by that time. This is the last day of this training period, then my routine changes. You might try your crunches and push ups before you run (after a brief warm up). You'll get a better strength work out when you're fresh, and your strength work out won't affect your aerobic training much. Yeah, I have been thinking of doing just that. I normally warm up with 20 squats, 20 lunges with each leg forward (making sure the knees never go beyond the toe, and never breaking a 90 degree bend at that knee.) Then I do some moderate twisting, turning, and streaking before I start to run. I just hate to stop running once I start. Getting started again just sucks. Push up and crunches are really my only strengthening part of my work out. Oh, I got it, I can concentrate on doing push up, squats, lunges, crunches every other day, and run less, and on the other days work more on the cardio, running, and less on the strengthening. (I need to put up a chin-up/pull-up bar) Thanks for the inspiration. You can do weight work outs, then run right afterwards, if you want and have the time. What seems to be working well for me is do a weight workout for a certain set of muscle groups every 3 days (I just split it between 1)legs/abs/back and 2)upper body) I do one set per exercise (not including a light warm up set for each major muscle group) till muscle failure. One set is supposed to produce just as fast a gain in strength as multiple sets, plus it saves a bunch of time. Having tried both, I've found that this is true. For aerobic workouts, I just do the standard hard/easy: alternating between high intensity (anything that takes me up near the anaerobic threshold: intervals/pyramids, etc) days and easy (longer runs) days. I also swim every 3 days; nothing makes me feel better afterwards. I just pulled a whole season of pro workouts off the web, cut the distance in half (I'm not training for a Channel crossing, but thanks) and follow them. Keeps the boredom way down .

My current routine is 28 upper body weight exercises; with military, incline, and bench press at the end, the finish off with pushups. I'm really lucky to crank out, like, 15 by that time. This is the last day of this training period, then my routine changes. You might try your crunches and push ups before you run (after a brief warm up). You'll get a better strength work out when you're fresh, and your strength work out won't affect your aerobic training much.

Yeah, you might feel good about that, but I once saw a Kiwi rugby player open a beer bottle with his EYE SOCKET.

Jebus, I already answered! I JUST DON'T KNOW! The PERSECUTION!!!!

How many pushups can you do? I think my best in the past 12 months was 35 or so. I used to do sets of 20, 5 sets minimum. I can't do that now but I think if I work at it I can get back there soon. Don't know. I've been doing em at the end of the WO. I'd have to start fresh to figure that out.

Let the sun shine in.

It is the dawning of a new age, Peter.

This is how you return my love?

OK, I made up the baby part.

while carrying an angry baby.

I ran around Mt. Hood.

Gotta be face to face. Meet your tormentor! Plus, I gotta be sure you're strapping on your little payload.

Crunches and hanging bent leg lifts, Diooode. situps are so 80s. And they're not good for your back. Pushups are awesome.

How about some lovin' for those aliens?

I can bench press Minx.

Getting well fit insulated non-plastics will improve your life in this and so many other ways.

Pushups are so 60s.

Those are chinups, not pullups. The guy's just burning calories with all the wasted motion. He'd get a much better strength and aerobic workout in the same amount of time if he did way fewer chinups with a 4 count up, 2 count hold, and 4 count down pace, then cranked on a stairmaster.

Pullups: palms out. Chinups: palms in. Pullups work your biceps and forearms more, while chinups shift some of the work to your lats more.

Not a single one of those would count in my book. That's THE worst pullup form I've ever seen.

FOUL! I'm COUNTING on that handicap, beyotch! You only weigh what I weighed when I was, like, 12! OK, you do the contest with the handicap. If you lose, you can do a retry without. And I can do lunch. Loser buys. If you win on a retry, it's a tie and we go Dutch. Deal?