creating workouts = creating recipes

jgoycoolea

Cathlete
I have decided that I am due for a circuit week. So I have been thinking about how to structure it. I was considering cardio options--step, MMA's, athletic drills, and within those low impact, mixed impact, and high impact. I was considering body parts and how to spread them into the circuits, total body, lower only, upper only, pushing only, pulling only, one part only per cicuit, etc. I was also thinking about how to combine the two, like maybe kickbox and shoulders work together, or low impact with chest and back. And of course there is poundage to consider, should I go heavy or light.

So you see, there are so many ways to combine all of this. The possibilities are endless really. And isn't it incredibly fun to think about???? You can custome your own workout to your own desires.

Then a thought occured to me. I have often wondered how on earth tv chefs manage to keep on coming up with new recipes. And I suppose to them it is really the same. They are taking concepts they know and love and rearranging them in new ways. Personally, there is nothing worse to me than having to look in the fridge and wonder what on earth I am going to concoct for dinner. Having to take those separate ingredients and form my own plan fills me with misery. I prefer to plan it out prior to grocery shopping and have a plan in place, based on existing recipes.

Seeing the recipe creation process from a workout creation process helps me to identify with chefs and understand how they can do it. Not of course that this has been necessary, but so often I have shook my head and wondered how Rachel Rae just keeps popping them out.

--Jeanne
 

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