Training Montage

[_kent]

I read recently that there's this amazing new workout which can make you fit if you exercise for four minutes a day.

It's also the case that the training montage music from Rocky IV is about 4 minutes long.

Surely that can't be a co-incidence.

Comments

[eviltwinemma]

So is the Montage Song from Team America. Perhaps it's some kind of universal law.

[_kent]

That's it, then. I'm going to start doing the four minute workout, and get a collection of training montage songs to do it to. Though this four minute workout had better involve that punching a punchbag really really fast thing, or it's just not going to work for me.

[bateleur]

Request for clarification: do I have to do Drago's bits too or just Rocky's ? If the former, where can I get the drugs ?

[_kent]

Seems to me that Rocky IV proved conclusively that the best training in the world, hormone injections, lots of computers measuring things and cybernetic implants for all we know, are no substitute for low-tech training in a hut, with montage music.

[bateleur]

Ah, OK. Personally I interpreted as "America will always beat Russia".

[_kent]

I think that one was a given.

Rocky IV was most amusing with its suggestion that it's Russia who have the athletics training camps, steroids and computer monitored training, while poor backward America had nothing but lifting heavy improvised weights, and pluck. And the montage music, of course. In a franchise that was always at best a parallel to reality, Rocky IV took a massive orthagonal leap away.

[verlaine]

Hmm, I would do a fitness workout if it only involved 4 minutes' effort a day too. But probably to a Black Box Recorder song or something...

[_kent]

Four minutes does sound like a reasonable minimal investment of time. I'm not at all sure what you have to do, but one source suggested that what we were talking about was about 8 exercises with the very heaviest weights you could manage, each of which you did seven times. The suggestion was that you should be doing enough to be completely knackered in four minutes. I don't know where I'm going wrong - it takes me about four minutes to struggle out of bed in the morning, by which time, I'm completely knackered. I should be an Adonis by now!

I'm pretty sure that the whole thing hinges on you listening to pompous 80's rock fanfares while you do it, though. Eye of the Tiger, man. Eye of the Tiger.

[vardebedian]

What could have possibly possessed you to choose a tiny fox as your default icon? My first visual associations with your cumbersome carcass are really not "tiny fox", and I can't imagine what apart from dysmorphia should have led yours to be.

[_kent]

Nothing, really, except I took that picture yesterday in my back garden. Or rather, I was in the house, the fox was in the garden, sleeping next to the tree. Unfortunately, I woke him up opening the back door, and he left soon after.