Hey Allen,

In general black tea is considered a diuretic (increases your urine output), having a dehydrating effect (not nearly as much as coffee). Green and white teas have a little caffeine but not enough to seriously dehydrate you.

So, the bottom line is this:

Herb tea without caffeine can count towards your water intake (hydrating effect)
Green tea or white tea can count towards your water intake partially (hydrating effect)
Black tea counts the least of the teas towards your water intake (possible dehydrating effect).

So, if you like tea and want it to count towards your daily water intake, focus on the non caffeinated or mildly caffeinated kinds.

Hope this delayed response is helpful.

Bill

Hey!

In today's card deck workout, one of the exercises was to sprint in place. How does that translate from the instruction to do anywhere from 14 to 2 reps? For sprinting, by "reps" does it mean "seconds"? Seems a bit short? Minutes? Seems a bit long? Guidance please.

Thanks,
Bill

Got your reply just in time for my afternoon workout. Thanks, Brad.

Hey!

For today's workout, I can't find touchdowns in the video library (tried searching different spellings). Is that the same thing as a touch back? If not, please describe.

About sit ups, that's the kind I did way back in high school. I thought the fitness world decided they were bad for the back or something and changed to crunches. Fitness world wrong again?

Thanks,
Bill

Thanks, Sarah,

I noticed today that someone changed the instructions a little since I did the exercise. Much clearer now. Thanks.

Still, an intense workout. If you add up all the yards comes to:

1 mile shuttle runs (1780 yards=1 mile)
1 mile lateral slides
1 mile crawling

Hats off to the Monkey Bar member who does a mile of crawling!

Love the workouts.

--- Last Edited by Bill Adams at 2008-09-25 18:04:37 ---

I hope I'm misunderstanding this exercise because there's no way I can come close to finishing this exercise.

The instructions say: 30 Shuttle Runs (15 yards & back, 10 yards & back, 5 yards & back equals 1 rep)

So, I understand that to mean I do 30 reps of the above to equal one shuttle. Each rep = 60 yards (15+15+10+10+5+5). Multiply that by 30 reps = 1,800 yards, that can't be, can it?)

The workout of the day says:
1. Run 2 Shuttles (3,600 yards)
2. Lateral Slide shuttles (1,800 yards)
3. Crawl 2 shuttles (3,600 yards)

Crawl 3,600 yards?? Come on, guys. It can't be so. Tell me I've really misunderstood this exercise.

I can't get the pistols video to play. When I click on Windows Media Player, I get the Quicktime icon which still doesn't play. When I click on Quicktime, I just get the icon, not the video. I have the latest update from Quicktime so not sure what the problem is.

I've tried going to YouTube, but can't find it there either.

Thanks. Love the program.

Thanks! I'm enjoying the workouts.

I'm a little puzzled by one of the exercises in today's workout. "lateral cable jumps". In the video section, I see an example of "lateral jumps", but I don't see anything for "lateral CABLE jumps". How do you use the cables to do lateral jumps? Thanks.

Bill