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TODAY’S TRAINING INSPIRATION:
FARRAH FAWCETT

Today’s Colin Timberlake Training Inspiration is a woman who was inspirational in many ways other than remaining an excellent example of physical fitness well into her 50s.

When Farrah Fawcett passed away a week ago, it provided an example to take measure of a life in which much was achieved and from which a great deal of inspiration can be taken.

Having burst onto the scene with a famed bathing suit poster and a lead role in Charlie’s Angels, a series not known for the artistic challenges it provided for its actors, Fawcett worked diligently to build a reputation for credibility as an actor. This was unquestionably achieved in the mid-1980s with her starring role in the television movie The Burning Bed.

The film about domestic abuse is not only widely regarded as the best television movie ever made, but it also was instrumental in getting laws changed in several states in order to better protect women from spousal battery.

Her appearance in Playboy magazine at the age of 50 not only indicated a commitment to and achievement of a high level of fitness and physique at an age where many women are covering up more and more of their bodies, but also helped usher in and lend credibility to such expressions as “50 is the new 40″ and similar slogans.

Farrah Fawcett succumbed to cancer after a long battle with the disease that covered several years. As she deteriorated physically, she allowed herself to be the subject of a documentary, Farrah’s Story. The fact that a woman who had been synonymous with physical beauty for decades and had rarely been seen in public looking anything but pristine and flawless, was now allowing herself to be documented while looking anything but pristine, showed an impressive lack of vanity and a strong measure of courage in her willingness to do what was within her power to strike back at a disease that was attacking her as it has attacked so many others.

Ultimately, her participation in the documentary could only serve to increase cancer awareness and share the brutal realities of the disease with those who have not experienced it firsthand, meaning that she left the world having contributed significantly to the causes for two crucial issues in today’s society. Just as importantly, she went out swinging.

TODAY: SHOULDERS (3-3-3 Tempo, 90 Second Rests)

ARNOLD DUMBBELL PRESS (3 sets)
30 x 7
40 x 5
50 x 2

SEATED MACHINE SHOULDER PRESS (3 sets) (per arm)
50 x 7
70 x 4
100 x 2

DUMBBELL LATERAL RAISES (3 sets)
15 x 6
15 x 5
20 x 4

DUMBBELL FORWARD RAISES (3 sets)
15 x 5
15 x 4
20 x 2

HORIZONTAL GRIP BACK FLYES (PEC DECK) (3 sets)
115 x 6
145 x 4
175 x 3

VERTICAL GRIP BACK FLYES (PEC DECK) (3 sets)
115 x 5
145 x 3
175 x 2

TRAINING NOTES

Total Sets (Shoulders): 18

A decent workout. It didn’t feel too challenging but I wasn’t deficient in effort or focus.

I supersetted the two grip variations of back flyes on the pec deck, with 60 seconds of rest between each set.

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