I started talking to my dad about getting more active and hitting some workouts with me on a regular basis about 6 months ago. This week he asked me to design a program for him that has enough depth and longevity to it that he will be able to workout with no worry of when and where the next workout is going to come around.
I understand his desires and now am faced with mapping an entire fitness plan without the luxury of working with someone and developing workouts that benefit that person immediately and are productive because the level of fitness is plum with the expectations of the rigor of the specific workout.
Where I am now, I am thinking of ways to start this process. Based on his fitness level the structure of the workouts must accommodate what he is capable to do. If I design things that are too difficult the structure back fires and the same goes if the workouts are too simple - leaning more towards simple than anything else but to not push for extended amounts of time is a waste.
Being able to map an entire transition out, beginning to end, before the start is something I've not yet been able to do and I how it goes varies. Thanks to my gift of being a hopeful-pessimist I see the extreme to each end.
If this works out and this planned program successfully molds this body of my father I would have a program that is successful for at least his body type. If not, I know how to get success on a day to day program and I can try to build again later.
Right now, I want to design a six week workout plan that allow my dad to use his body to be able to run for and move for 10 minutes. He says he wants to be able to hike and move around in the mountains without having to deal with his own fat ass - he wants his body to stop restricting him from doing the things he wants to do so I am going to focus on his endurance and coordination among general fitness, but for him to move and control his body without uber fatigue would be sweet.
The journey has begun and on him and I go.
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