What I'm Doing These Days

Its winter.

Winter in Canada means hockey, so most of my workouts like I mentioned in my last entry are based around hockey.

I love hockey. While it is extremely demanding, especially if you play with equipment and allow physical contact, it is one hell of a workout and a whole lot of fun.

Its also a great fat loss tool. I still haven't figured out whether or not its more like HIIT training considering the fast timed shifts, rest, repeat, or just normal cardio. Either way, at the end of the day, if you play for a few hours you'll be burning upwards of 2,000 calories, but more importantly you'll be depleting your glycogen stores, forcing your body to quit storing all those carbs as fat(if you eat a lot of carbs that is)....and instead using them to fuel your body.

For many people its very hard to pace themselves and go through a hard workout like that when they're in the gym lifting weights or on the treadmill, bike, etc, etc. Competitive sports are a huge advantage that way.

If you happen to play hockey 3-4x per week, make sure you get that recovery drink in within 30 min of finishing playing. I suggest chocolate milk.

But, what I've been doing lately when I'm not playing that often is not drinking or eating anything after the game. Seems to be helping with fatloss. Just hydrate yourself with water. Usually when I'm not hydrated properly, which is easy to do when you play hockey I have a pretty bad headache. Drinking lots of water during and after the game helps a lot with that.

I also saw how my training the past year has paid off. Despite being at a heavier weight from last year to this year I'm a lot faster. I don't tire as easily, and my balance and endurance are a lot better too. And all this happened without doing squats. I still need that power rack.

With that I'll leave you with a couple videos.