If you feel that the lifestyle you are leading is entirely too soft and that you would like to get more power and muscle into your life, you should take a look at one of the more strenuous routines meant to give people extreme fitness.
If you love jogging, you should feel at home with this extreme fitness routine; the Spartan Run. This routine will have you running for three miles and doing pushups and crunches while resting for the next mile. Specifically, you run for one mile. You stop to take a breather and then do 100 pushups (preferably with a minimum of interruptions for catching your breath). Then you follow this up with another hundred crunches.
Everyone is familiar with pushups and there are many styles for doing this. Crunches are taken while lying on your back with the two arms folded in such a way that your palms are both supporting the back of your head. You slowly bring your torso up and to one side. Then you go back down and repeat for the other side.
Back to the extreme fitness Spartan run; having finished the crunches, you run for another mile, after which you unwind with 75 pushups and 75 crunches. The last mile comes next, and you finish up with another 50 pushups and 50 crunches.
Spartan runs are ideal for developing the muscles of the arms and shoulders, the muscles on the back and the abdominal muscles. In effect, this is perfect for getting your torso tuned up and for achieving extreme fitness. The benefits that can be derived from this routine include fat reduction in the areas mentioned, development of muscular tissue in the same areas and improvement of the over-all shape of the torso.
The health benefit of this extreme fitness exercise deserves elaboration. Since our muscles consume most of the energy we use everyday, increasing muscular tissue will promote reduction of the flabby fat in the body. Even when some muscles are resting, others are working. The healthier your muscular tissue is in the abdomen, the more you stand to get awesomely ripped.
The logic of extreme fitness is extremely simple. The right kind of exercise develops the muscles that need some trimming. Muscular development leads to increased caloric requirement (not necessarily to an increased metabolic rate). The increase in caloric need promotes the burning of excess fat in the body. This in turn leads to a healthier person.
One thing usually leads to another. Extreme Fitness Worldwide leads to extreme health.
