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TODAY’S TRAINING INSPIRATION:
PHILIP BOIT

Today’s Colin Timberlake Training Inspiration is a man who is the only reason there is a Kenyan flag flying at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.

Philip Boit has seen his years of training and commitment rewarded by the right to compete in the Winter Games in cross-country skiing.

At the age of 39, it is no small accomplishment to reach the Olympics in a sport so focused on cardiovascular fitness, and his participation provided an entire country with something to cheer for and a reason to feel included in the world’s foremost winter athletics festival.

Regrettably, Boit fell ill and had to withdraw from the event, which would have been his fourth Winter Games representing his country.

However, he has carried the Kenyan flag at the previous three Winter Games and laid down a legacy that future winter athletes from Kenya can aspire to follow.

TODAY: LEGS (Fast Tempo, 90 Second Rests)

SEATED LEG PRESS (DECLINE) (6 sets)
450 x 15
630 x 10
630 x 10
630 x 10
630 x 8
630 x 10

SINGLE LEG SQUATS (per leg) (3 sets)
Body x 10
Body x 10
Body x 10

QUAD EXTENSIONS (5 sets)
150 x 20
210 x 12
230 x 10
250 x 10
250 x 10

SEATED HAMSTRING CURLS (5 sets)
130 x 14
170 x 8
150 x 10
150 x 8
110 x 12

TRAINING NOTES

Total Sets (Legs): 19
Total Weight Lifted (Legs): 68,410 lbs

It doesn’t mean much of anything but every once in a while it’s kind of fun to add up all the weight you pressed and pushed during your workout and come up with a total. It always comes out to be some number that makes you feel like Schwarzenegger for a few seconds, even if he would have lifted that number with his index finger in half as many sets.

And it gives you some math to do and keep yourself occupied during rest periods between sets…

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