H.I.T. Training: Sunday Morning Update

I am going to track my progress by body fat % according to my Tanita scale. Usually this scale is about 3% higher than the body fat doohikey they have at the gym so it might be a little high but it will be a good way to track changes even if the absolute value is off.

Note: I do the entire workout in Vibes. Squats and leg press are especially different this way. I highly recommended taking off your shoes to do leg exercises.

Sunday October 25th:

Body fat %: 29

Week 2 Workout (Sunday October 25th).

I'm kinda experimenting with different exercises just to feel them. I will eventually settle on a routine. I just got the Body by Science book and am almost done reading it. The information is very useful. So I will probably tweak these workouts somewhat in the coming weeks.

Squat (Lifefitness machine thingy): 80 lbs.

Shoulder Press: 10lbs.

Chest Press: 20lbs.

Assisted Pullup: 120lbs

Assisted Dip: 120lbs

Seated Row: 45lbs

Hip Abductor: 70lbs

Hip Adductor: 70 lbs

Warm-up: 5 minutes random running intervals (wearing Vibes). 12 min/mile slow and 10 min/mile fast. Yes I am a slow runner.

H.I.T: Once a Week Workout

I want to have more muscles and be stronger but I am lazy as all hell and hate going to the gym. I love to run around and play sport and hike but doing some kind of routine weight training thing gives me the blues. So I decided that a Mike Mentzer style training was the thing for me. So I came up with my own plan. Basically I will do a fully body weight lifting routine once a week. I will do one set of each exercise to failure and then move on the the next exercise with little to no rest. There is only a handful of exercises that I will do:

weighted squats

shoulder press

pull downs

pull ups

dips

bench press

rows

Notice there is no abs in this. I believe that the other exercises work the abs more than enough. It is low body fat % which gives the six pack.

I will also do a very short warm-up to get the central nervous system activated:

1-3 minutes very fast running

a few pushups

a few pullups

So starting next weekend, Oct. 24-25 I am going to document my progress with photos and a training log as a kind of experiment to see if this works.

Recently, I added two exercises that I forgot! Oops gotta do those dip and pullups. They are essential to upper body strength.

Satellite GPS and Atomic Clock Confirm Relatvity?

Do satellites really confirm Relativity? This "fact" is usually touted as the big thing that pretty much proves the gravity hypothesis of the universe. Not so fast. Here is a good analysis:

http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/ptti/1996/Vol%2028_16.pdf

GPS AND RELATIVITY: AN ENGINEERING OVERVIEW

Henry F. Fliegel and Raymond S. DiEsposti

GPS Joint Program Office

The Aerospace Corporation

El Segundo, California 09245, USA

Conclusion (from the paper):

Except for the leading [gamma] factor, it is the same as the formula derived in classical physics for the signal travel time from the GPS satellite to the ground station. As we have shown, introducing the [gamma] factor makes a change of only 2 or 3 millimeters to the classical result. In short, there are no "missing relativity terms." They cancel out.

An alternative hypothesis to why atomic clock rates change and additional analysis of relativity and GPS:

http://www.ldolphin.org/vanFlandern/

Rethinking Relativity

Tom Blethel