Connie is perhaps the biggest fan of Sonic the Hedgehog to have ever lived.
She even loves Sonic Underground, a very strange 90s cartoon series which has been described as “one of Sonic’s worst moments” with a theme song sung by a man who “sounds like he’s trying to win his exwife back”.
Another sonic-related thing she seldom goes more than a few hours without mentioning are her little 2.5” action figures.
I started buying her these because they’re fully one half the price of the 6” figures, so she gets double the fun with no real loss of play value (a habit I learned from my parents who used to buy me star wars micro machines instead of the larger action figures for much the same reason).
The relevance?
Tenuous at best.
But I needed a suitable way to introduce the concept of “Micro Workouts” in a pinch, and this is what I came up with.
Onward:
Micro Workouts are something I have been doing for the last fortnight or so in an attempt to solve the problem of having to keep fiddling with the quantity of food I am eating lest I get fat.
By that I mean, typically, when I feel I am gaining fat, I’ll eliminate “extras”. Things like Jess’ delicious homemade bread with dinner, my mid-afternoon snack, and other things I shall not mention for the sake of brevity.
This works in that I stop getting fat, but it doesn’t sit right with me because I don’t want to have to keep scaling back my food intake given it has a knock-on effect on my performance in the gym and ability to gain muscle.
So, I decided this time I was going to train more.
But.
As I am a husband and father of two who works obscenely hard and has a diverse range of interests that don’t involve lifting weights or doing cardio, simply adding in another regular workout or two isn’t an option.
Enter Micro Workouts.
These are short (15-25 minute) sessions you can do at home combining a little cardio with bodyweight movements.
They’re also very “easy” in that you ought to be able to do them every day you don’t have a regular session without burning out or destroying your joints.
For example, I am currently doing five rounds of:
Stationary bike – 3 minutes
Bodyweight squats – 15 reps
Pushups – 10 reps
Situps – 5 reps
I don’t rest between rounds, so with a basic warmup and cooldown the whole event takes me a smidge over 20 minutes.
This is time I would otherwise spend gawping at my phone, so I believe this is a better investment.
My abs and general feeling of wellbeing agree.
You know, I think I am going to write a book on this. So keep your eyes peeled for that if your interest is piqued.
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Thank you,
Phil Tyreman