I'm alive and planning a 12 week workout rotation

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I'm sure some of you are having to pick your jaw up off the floor from reading the subject of this message.  I know I have Exercise ADD and normally wouldn't even think of doing rotations, but I'm actually planning one.  I went the the National Strength and Conditioning Association Winter Clinic last weekend and it was this awesome mix of kettlebells, sandbags, and functional exercises that totally kicked my butt while trying to get through a cold that turned into bronchitis (and if I go back to the doc this week he will probably say pneumonia because it is worse in my chest now then when he told me bronchitis last week), but I fell in love with the combination of training forms.  At the end of the day, I won one of the raffles and got a dvd by Josh Henkin called Fighting Fitness.  Josh was actually one of the presenters at the clinic and I talked with him for probably 30 minutes afterwards about training and kettlebells and sandbags (he's known as the sandbag guy) and am seriously wishing I could do my internship with him in Arizona because it would just be an awesome environment for training.  Anyway, if you haven't seen the stuff I posted on my Facebook last week after the conference about sandbag training, you should seriously check it out.  His website is:  http://www.henkinfitnesssystems.com/ but he also has a lot of videos on You Tube, too, that you can check out.  Anyway, the Fighting Fitness dvd that I got isn't like a normal dvd that we follow along with for a workout.  It is 12 different workouts but it is just the demos of proper form for each of the movements.  Josh emailed me the EBook that goes with it today and I just finished reading it.  The EBook explains a lot of the concepts and principles of how to use the workouts to make your own individualized workouts and rotations.  Basically, you adjust the number of sets and the time for each set (the sets are based on time not reps) and the rest time between sets to change up the workout based on what you specifically need.  It is geared toward being sold to trainers and strength and conditioning coaches for athletes and not the general public, so that is why it is set up the way it is.  Anyway, I'm planning on starting with no weights and learning the form because the moves are very different then what I'm use to doing for my lifting.  I'll probably do a month of no weights so I can do all 12 workouts without weights (3 workouts a week for 4 weeks) and then do them all again with kettlebells the second month and then, hopefully, I'll have the extra funds to buy the sandbags before the 3rd month when I want to do them all with both kettlebells and sandbags as they are intended to be done.  That would actually only be doing each workout 3 times in 3 months, so maybe that won't be so bad on me for my Exercise ADD.  LOL  Plus, I'm thinking that the 3 days a week will work well with my crazy school schedule this semester.  I have 18 credit hours the semester and am going nuts trying to keep up with just the reading.  I only got about half of my homework done this weekend and I read 18 chapters.  Yeah, I was suppose to read 41.  Freaking nuts how much reading we have this semester.  So, if you don't see or hear from me, I'm buried under a pile of books.  LOL  I do use Facebook for messaging classmates, though, so I'm on there regularly if you need me between now and May.    Hope you are all doing well with your workouts and I'll try to make some time to catch up on email as soon as I catch up on school reading.

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