![]() " I'm on the home gym plan with no increase in budget for the rest of 2005," he explains.Ĭaster also shifted from eating anything he wanted - "too much red meat and cheese" – to things like oats, egg whites, and buckwheat kasha. He scoffed at his wife's light dumbbells and used his own body weight for resistance, doing pushups, pull-ups, squats and ab exercises. For example, on a 25-minute run, Caster jogs four minutes, then sprints for a minute, jogs four minutes, then sprints the next minute until 25 minutes are complete.Ĭaster followed his cardio workouts with strength training. The training is a cardio workout in which you alternate your normal jogging pace with bursts of speed. an hour earlier than usual before his one-hour commute into Manhattan - to complete high-intensity interval training (HIIT). ![]() He boiled all this down to two simple goals: to increase his pushup total to 50 from 20, and to be able to sprint for a minute straight to prove his heart was gaining strength.Ĭaster started waking up at 5 a.m. Plus, he wants to instill healthy eating habits in his children while they're still young (one is 13 months old and the other is two and a half). He knew he had to exercise to improve his cardiovascular health, and the Leaner by Labor Day effort presented him with an opportunity to get started. He also has a family history of heart disease, which claimed the lives of several uncles while they were just in their 50s. He needed to lower his cholesterol, which was at 230. You might say that Vincent Caster put his heart into the Leaner by Labor Day Club. Goal: Lower cholesterol and do 50 pushups Profession: Executive office coordinator for a hotel
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