Disclaimer: yeah I know. This shit isn’t for everybody. I just like to post stuff like this to fuck wit ya…

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Fartlek’s a funny word but no, it doesn’t have a thing to do with your ass –except maybe for burning it off perhaps. What fartlek means is “speed play” in Swedish and it has to do with, well, lemme let the dictionary tell ya:

 A mixture of aerobic and nonaerobic exercise: a method of training, especially in athletics, that involves alternating between aerobic and nonaerobic exercise in the same session. 

In other words, GO HARD and then go a little easier for a coupla minutes and then GO HARD again. Fartlek. Cut one.

So I go to the high school football field via my bicycle to warm up. It’s a mile and a half trip so that oughta do it. I park near a steep hundred foot berm and…sprint! HARD! Haul ass quick up, up, up the hill as brutal and fast as I possibly can.

Then… stop.

Walk back down the berm. Sloooow and easy. I ignore the high schoolers burning by and resist the urge to tell ‘em gimme a break! I’m damn near fifty! Anyway, I…

DO IT AGAIN!

And so I do this ten times in a row and then jog an easy, sloooow mile around the track a coupla times to make a half a mile cool down.

…and then pedal home where I re-hydrate with an orange Gatorade and take a shower.

“Speed play.” It really works to get your blood pumping and melt away the pounds and make you feel oh-so-good. Try it, you’ll like it.