Getting Fit with Fat C.K.: The Return
I’m getting back in the saddle on getting into shape. The Wii workout didn’t cut it and I couldn’t maintain it, because there is only so much of your wife walking in and laughing at you for working out with a video game that one can take, and only so much a wife can do to avoid making fun when she’s trying to be supportive, given such absurd circumstances. In any case, I’ve decided to go back to the only thing that ever really worked at keeping me in shape: kicking my ass with a hardcore boxing workout.
So, at the end of every workday at Mahalo, I’m going to start kicking my ass into shape. I started Monday and I’ve been sore ever since. Today will be day two (I had to take yesterday off, as we have the Mahalo Writer’s Group on Tuesdays where those of us who are interested get together and workshop our fiction writing / screenwriting). I plan on doing this 4 days a week minimum. I eased into it on Monday by doing 12 minutes on the treadmill at a moderate pace with one minute of burst sprinting. I also did jump-rope, but only about 50 or so jumps. That crap is hard when you haven’t done it for years. I also did 400 regular crunches and 50 on each side. It will take me a while to work back up to several thousand crunches per workout, like I used to do when boxing. I also curled 50 pound free weights and bench-pressed with the free-weights too, 50 pounds per hand. 3 reps of 15 with the curls and 3 reps of 10 with the bench-press. Then I did 50 punches with each hand with 5 pound weights. Then I punched with no weights as fast as I could, each hand, 100 punches per rep for 3 reps. I started out with a bunch of stretching and continued to do stretching throughout.
Today, the only place I am really still feeling the burn is in my abs and in my neck and in the muscles right around my elbows. I could already feel the abs making me stand up slightly straighter yesterday. The entire workout took about an hour with a lot of me pausing to gasp for air. Eventually, I’ll work this up to 2 hours after work Monday, Wednesday, Friday and one hour Tuesday, Thursday. Wish me luck!
UPDATE: I forgot to mention that this is all possible thanks to the mini-gym we have going on here at Mahalo. We have new bathrooms with showers, so I can workout at the end of the day and get cleaned up before I go home. Also, we’re getting a heavy bag, so I can start punching away. Can’t wait!
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April 16th, 2008 at 11:55 am
You’ll totally kick ass, I wish you the best of luck in this.
However, I have to ask. “It will take me a while to work back up to several thousand crunches per workout, like I used to do when boxing.”
Several thousand crunches PER WORKOUT?
Are you insane?!
My lazy ass is tired just reading that.
April 16th, 2008 at 12:06 pm
Yeah, one of the most important parts of boxing is being able to take a punch, specifically a gut punch, so you spend a lot of time focusing on building a cage of muscle around your gut. You also spend a lot of time on neck exercises, so that your head doesn’t wobble off. I left that out in the above description, but I did do some basic neck exercises, pushing my left hand against the left side of my head while trying to push back with my neck then doing the same on the right side, then using both hands for the front and the back.
April 16th, 2008 at 12:07 pm
Also, unlike with weights where you may go slow to really build the muscle, with these crunches, they are all super fast repetitive focused crunches to get your muscles used to flexing quickly (as in response to a fist hitting them).
April 16th, 2008 at 9:34 pm
Rock on C.K., you can do it!
April 17th, 2008 at 3:00 pm
Wow. My ex boyfriend was a boxer and I just thought it was mostly hitting things.
Now if I ever get hit in the stomach Im going to be like “CK was right. Damnit.”
Well thats a lie, I’d cry first.
But I’m rooting for you !