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[machomonotreme]

So, in my time here, I've been doing a lot to increase my physical strength and fighting abilities. I realized just how far I had left to go to achieve my full potential! And now, I found a great new way to work out that will help me get way, way stronger. It's not only about lifting ridiculously heavy stuff but you have to do it FAST. And you get to run and do a bunch of other stuff too, all in the same training session and it's all timed. Sound hard? It is! And it's great!

It's called Crossfit.

Why aren't more people doing this? How come I'm only hearin' about it now? Feel like I'm behind the times, here.

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[monotreme_101]

Dunno why he wouldn't be happy with it. He likes being strong and that's what this is all about.

So, it works kind of like this - you pick some exercises from one of the regular kinds of things you might normally do. Calisthenics or weight lifting or track or whatever. You set yourself up a number of reps for each one. Then you do them one after the other as quick as you can for a set amount of time. So, like, maybe fifty curls, one hundred jumping jacks, seventy reps of however much it is you like to bench, and twenty backflips. That's what you do over and over and over again for as many times as you can in like a half hour.

It's hard but really fun!

[trustycrowbar]

I don't know. Just the name makes it sound a bit too, uh... comprehensive, for him. Call it an oblique hunch.

[Actually it's not even that oblique. Taking weights and making them AEROBIC would be heresy for the man.]

It does sound intense. Sounds a little like triathlon training, now that I think about it.

[machomonotreme]

Triathlon - that's the one with running, biking and swimming, right? It would probably help you a lot with that. The stronger your legs are and the better you are at shiftin' yourself quickly, the better you can win any kind of race!

[trustycrowbar]

Right, exactly! Going from water to cycle to track, seems to be a lot like this... just without the long-term endurance factor. However, I can still think of a few people I've met whose lives could've been vastly improved by a 30-minute workout every day.

[By "improved" he actually means "lengthened." But these are just semantics.]

So what's your routine? Now I'm curious.

["How many push-ups can an echidna do in 30-minutes" sounds like the topic of either a deranged biologist's thesis or an incredibly bizarre joke. This isn't lost on him.]

[monotreme_101]

I'm still learning, but you can find some good routines on MewTube and then just like... play with them to make them worth your while. So, instead of benching 1.5 times your body weight, ramp it up to like 6 times and start at 30 reps instead of 10. Then run on the treadmill for like... two miles. Then do some barbell deadlifts and maybe finish up with some pull ups while wearing a weight belt so it's not too easy! That seems to be the theme with these workouts - make sure they're hard for you to do so that when you're sore all over, you pretty much KNOW it's working.