The Other Side Of Pain!

My fiance Mary and me were having a conversation the other day about the difference between ourselves and other people we see training at gyms. We all want results as bad as the next person does, yet we've found there is a major difference between our approach and most other people's who train- and that would be the amount of pain we're willing to put ourselves through.

For instance, here was my last cardio workout: (unless you train on a heavy bag regularly and try to get over 200 quality strikes, you'll not really understand just how hard it is to reach these numbers)

Round 1- Shadow Sparring (180)
Round 2- Shadow Sparring (200)
Round 3- Heavy Bag emphasis on Speed with hands. (approx 180 strikes)
Round 4- Heavy Bag emphasis on Power with hands (approx 190 strikes)
Round 5- Heavy Bag emphasis high volume hands with speed kicks (190)
Round 6- Heavy Bag emphasis high volume hands with high volume kicks (200)
Round 7, 8, 9 &10-Heavy Bag same (180-200)
Round 11- Shadow Sparring (230)
Round 12- Walking Lunges (100)
Round 13- Squat Jumps (70)
Round 14- Burpees (50)
Round 15- Jump Rope (with 50 Double-Unders)

I did the Heavy Bag rounds first this time because I was mostly focused of developing my skill and simply did the exercises at the end for conditioning.

Here's an example of Mary's Shoulder routine:Mary is available for Personal Training sessions as well. She is an active amateur body builder with over 10 years of weight training experience. You can contact her at mmonoc@hotmail.com

Rotation One: (performed 3 times)
Standing Lateral raise
Standing Unilateral Side Raises
Seated Dumbbell Shoulder Press
Seated single arm side lateral raise
Standing alternating front lateral raise
Standing side lateral raise
Standing Dumbbell Press

Rotation Two: (performed 3 times)
Seated Arnold Press
Seated Side Lateral Raise
Standing alternating Front lateral raise
Standing Alternating Dumbbell Press
Around the world side lateral raise
Around the world front lateral raise
Seated Dumbbell Press

Rotation Three: (Performed 3 times)
Upright Rows
Barbell Shrugs
Dumbbell Shrugs

The key, we’ve found for ourselves, is to push the pace with whatever it is we're doing and try to keep it up as high as possible for the duration of the workout and NOT slow down. This way, when it feels as if I can’t breath on the heavy bag, or Mary's muscles are burning and crying for her to stop, we push through. By doing this often we found we can push harder over time which of course is where the results are: on the other side of pain.