Okay, enough with the depressing journal entry.

So this year is basically the year where I actually do well in school and the year where I start attempting to eat nails in terms of overall badassery. I don't think I'm doing either particularily well, but if anyone cares or wants to try this and tell me how it was, I'd appreciate it.

If you want to get fit, one of the best things you can do is move something slightly heavy a lot. What I do for conditioning generally revolves around either sprinting, rowing machines, or things called complexes, which basically revolve around linking together a bunch of exercises into a gauntlet of being stabbed in the lungs with your own dignity.

Example:

Deadlift x 8
Front Squat x 8
Overhead Press x 8
Box Jump (three foot box) x 8
Some abs malarky or something. I use hanging knee raises, because I'm a bitch, but you could do a lot of stuff. x8

And then see how many times you can do that in 20 minutes. Use the same weight for everything, with emphasis on speed. Go really light. Like... really light. Like don't use weight plates, just use a barbell so people look at you like you're retarded. And then knock out things as fast as you can.

Alternately, you can do something called a pyramid, which is where you do basically the same thing, but you start with 10 reps and as soon as you finish the first set, do the exact same thing but to 9 reps, then 8, then 7, etc. until you hit 1 rep. At which point you collect your liver from the floor where you threw it up at around the sixth rep cluster. Really tough. There's a tap out limit of 23 minutes, and if you can't do it in that time you should go lighter. To put this in perspective, I can deadlift 300 pounds and run a five minute mile but I can't do this particular pyramid with anything more than 65 pounds. You could just do it with a bag of sand and it would be horrible. Stronger guys have an easier time with it than aerobic guys, because the overhead press is a very limiting factor for volume and speed.

Anyway, I hope someone tries it and tells me how it is. I wanted to get rid of my sad journal and replace it with something a little less disheartening, and this was the first thing that popped into my head.