"Yes, I like to torture."

    - Dr. Vollin 

Torture. That is what it looks like to many people.
I personally like to do my exercise sessions in 40 minutes or less.
Tack on a warm up and some time at the end to warm down" and it may
be a little over an hour. Plus morning sessions of twenty minutes of
basic joint mobility,Qui-Qoung or something similar and maybe some
Yoga or stretching before bed and it adds up to 2 hours. Just reading
this will send most tired old fatties running for even deeper cover where
they will never be seen again. Unless of course it's meal, snack or TV time.
Anyway, that's the way I do it and it works and believe it or not I enjoy it.
To the low energy fatties though they rationalize it as torture. 

Thing is they absolutely, positively don't even have to do what I do. They can
just do 5 minutes of exercise and feel a big difference. Heck, they will eventually
(fairly quickly actually) see a big difference too. The funny thing is most,
deep down inside, like the "perceived torture." They might bitch and moan about
it but somewhere inside their bodies are craving it. Especially the feeling of
relaxation and satisfaction that inevitably follows. If this is torture then I say bring it on!

I like that kind of "torture." There is an old movie from 1935 called The Raven
starring the great Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff. I happen to love this stuff BTW.
In the film Lugosi plays Dr. Vollin. A mad, genius of a surgeon who is obsessed with
Edgar Allen Poe. He even painstakingly reconstructs devices of torture supposedly taken
from Poe's stories.

Of course none of this leads to anything good. Lugosi saves a young girls life with special
surgery and falls for her. She is already spoken for and her father condemns the whole idea.
Vollin goes over the brink and straps the father to a pendulum, throws the girl and her fiance
in a room where "the walls close together" and makes others watch the whole thing!
Lugosi explains that he rips the pain out of himself by inflicting pain on others.
As he is becoming more and more mad one of them says to him "You like to torture!"
Lugosi replies (in a way that only he could) "Yes. I like to torture." Anyway, the movie
ends well. The girl and the fiance are rescued by Karloff (who is dying from a gunshot by
Dr. Vollin) and they then rescue the father. Dr Vollin? Well....he ends up being thrown
into the room where the walls come together and.... I think you can guess the rest. 

 In my own way I like to "torture" people too, but not because it rips the pain out of me.
I do it because its gratifying to see others rip the pain out of themselves. They respect
themselves more. They like it when they can see their bodies changing. The satisfaction they
get from another exercise session feels good, and like I said 5 minutes a day is enough to change things. 

What kind of 5 minutes you ask? First might be a few chin ups. A minutes worth. Modified so
there is not stopping. Then catch a breath and do a minute or so of squats. Deep ones.
With rhythmical breathing. By this time they may be cursing me but catch a breath and move on.
Next may be 10 slow push ups. By this time a low energy fatty would have had it.
Just lay there and breathe deep. More relaxed, blood flowing, muscles and mind worked. Do this every day
(sometimes a couple of times a day) and you will feel and even begin seeing a positive difference.
Stay tuned for other ways to put in a 5 or 10 minutes of positive"torture."
This weeks episode features chin ups. Next week you get to see me try a 30/30 chin up/push up
combination that takes less than 10 minutes. How did I do? Watch next week and find out.
Until then use the info in the Fusion Fitness TV episodes
to build your own 5 minute routine. Start today. Make your mistakes and learn as you go
and tell yourself. "Yes, I like to torture."

Best,

Robert