A question for John regarding time

[budgiefan]

John:

At first glance, this may look like one of those "watch me prove John is full of beans" posts, but hopefully you know me better than that. It's genuine curiosity.

I'm just curious about how much time each day and week you devote to exercise. My curiosity was piqued by the email the other day regarding roman chair sit ups. When you outlined your daily ab routine, I thought, man, that's gotta take some time. The I remembered similar posts regarding your pullup routine and interval sprint routine. Plus, I know your into martial arts and yoga and do DSRs and DVRs througout the day. It started to sound like a lot of time each day was spent exercising.

Now, I know you don't do everything every day, and I also realize that you've been doing a lot of these exercises for 40-ish years, but I'm curious - How much time each day do you devote to exercise? What does your schedule look like? Like, what time do you get up, what exercises do you do in the morning, mid day, evening, etc?

Thanks!

Jeff

[John Peterson]

Hey Jeff,

You're asking a great series of questions. And naturally based upon what you have pointed out it would seem that I must spend an incredible amount of time each day exercising. The truth is that I will specialize on something for a few months and then move on to something else. Example: for a period of almost six months I was specializing on Pull-Ups and training them six days a week at very high volume and by that I mean 5 to 8 or more sets each day averaging between 25 to 35 reps per set. At present I'm focusing more on high Volume Push-Ups and abdominals and have cut my Pull-Ups back to twice a week performing 5 X 25 or more reps per set. This way there is always something that I find challenging and it keeps strength and fitness training interesting rather than being drudgery. Another example is from a few years ago, I worked up to performing 5 sets of 20 Superman Wheel Push-Ups each day six days each week. Believe me, that was an accomplishment. So the point is Jeff that I have such a wide variety of Transformetrics exercises to choose from and focus on.

---John Peterson

P.S. It's really easy to fit DVRs and high power ISO's into our training each day. In fact, I often perform Isometrics in business meetings and people are not even remotely aware of it.

[John Peterson]

Hey Carland1,


The Superman from standing which is what I do is one of the most difficult of all exercises for athletes of all types to perform. It requires full body strength to an extraordinary degree. The Atlas Sit-Up by contrast is a superb health building exercise that enhances strength and flexibility to a great degree from head to toe but it is not even remotely like The Superman Wheel Push-Up. Personally, I don't think the two can be realistically compared.


---John Peterson