Once again I'm down here in San Diego, learning more about the famous Feldenkrais Method, which I've written about quite a few times before in this space. Since "The Method" as it's sometimes called, is all about rewiring your nervous system and giving you new options for movement and general use of the body, we are encouraged to do things non-habitually while we're here for out training weeks, including, yes, exercise.

Which of course presents something of a problem for an exercise freak like me. Still, I tend to shake things up while I'm down here, not only because of the directive from our instructors but because my body tends to feel different anyway; I get into an experimental mode and just start playing around with different things.

To that end, I went to the gym and just whipped off the following workout:

• Foam rolling on a med-ball, full body, 5 minutes.
• Dynamic stretching and warm-up, including bear crawls, overhead lunges, twisting lunges, walking SLDL, etc., 10 min
• incline Reverse crunch, 25
• Med Ball Mountain Climbers, 25
• Swiss Ball Plank w/leg lift, 25
• Incline Sit-Up, 15
• Giant set, Continuous:
• Freemotion Standing Chest Press 3 x 15
• Double-squat to Reverse Lunge to Overhead Med-Ball Press, 3 x 15
• Freemotion Standing Row 3 x 15
• Med-Ball Burpee 3 x 15
• Superset:
• One-Arm Overhead Dumbbell Push Press 2 x 5
• Jumping Step-Ups, 2 x 10
• StepMill, 7.5 minutes alternating 40 seconds slow, 40 seconds fast.
• Full-body stretch, relax, Feldenkrais movement

Everything was done with as little rest as possible. I even rationed my trips to the water fountain. I always was under time pressure.

Now, a stodgy fitness pro--maybe me!--might look at this workout and wonder what were the goals of the exerciser who did this wily and unconventional workout: some plyometric drills. Some strength-training drills. Some calesthenics. Some Olympic-lift variations. Some interval training. Some--yikes!--core exercises based on flexion, for Pete's sake! What kind of nonsense is this? They'd wonder what the hell I was up to, what my GOALS were, for heaven's sake, and how could I expect to reach them on such a hodge-podge style of training? Does this insane person want to gain muscle, lose fat, build power, get stronger, get faster, get more enduring, get more functional?

The answer is, essentially, yes. I want all those things. But not to the exclusion of the others. I'm a fitness glutton, hungry for every and any aspect of fitness, and I'm not really willing to sacrifice any of them for any of the others.

Sure: I've gone through periods of focusing on one or two aspects of fitness. But that's not where I am now. I like the hodge-podge thing. Yes, there's progression over time and I'm monitoring to make sure I'm never hurting myself. But I like combining lots of different stuff. The body just seems to respond to it.

On top of everything else, it's also more fun than being too overly focused on one method, style, or goal.

Here's someone who seems to agree with me.