All posts tagged "conditioning"
Home alone with a sleeping baby tonight but I needed to get a workout in. In the living room, as quiet as a mouse:
Repeat 10x
Total time: 16:16. Not as tough as I thought it would be. Maybe 10 situps and 20 pushups per round would have been a better challenge.
Out by the Old Stone House on this lovely cool evening:
Total work time: 10 minutes, resting 1 minute between sets. Total score = 515 (PR). Glad to finally hit 500 on this one. That first set was smooth like chocolate milk. Finished up with 6 x 50m sprints on the turf field.
Previously: 489 on 6/5/10; 452 on 4/25/09; 435 on 3/11/09; 485 on 2/12/09
Did this one in the soft sand by the boardwalk on the Jersey Shore:
The battery in my timer stopped mid-workout, so it was untimed. My wife was yelling “too slow! go faster!” the whole time, so it wasn’t braggable anyway. Crab walks in deep, soft sand absolutely suck. My wrists got so fatigued that I had to stop a bunch of times to shake em out. Took a dip in the ocean afterwards, which is the best thing in the world after a workout!
You know, for variety. This workout was cooked up by my wife:
Not bad overall. Some things were impossible to maintain for 3 mins (oapu, plank) but I stayed busy for the most part.
A jump-centric night workout by the Old Stone House:
AMRAP in 20 minutes.
Total score: 9 rounds +9 pushups. Man, that was a lot of jumping. Used the brick wall near the OSH for the wall jumps (which was the toughest part) and the decline pushups. I was gunning for 10 rounds but fell short. My brain has a hard time dealing with unknown quantities in these AMRAP workouts - telling my body to keep working for X more minutes. I bet if I timed myself for 10 rounds, I’d be able to finish it in under 20 mins since I could keep telling myself ‘2 more rounds, 1 more round’ - I’ll have to try it for comparison. But really I just need to learn to shut my brain off and WORK.
After kung fu class, trying to get my old shape back:
Repeat 5x, resting 30 sec between rounds.
Felt pretty good. I love mixing in the medicine ball work with these circuits.
Went to the Huntington HS track for another crack at the Interval Challenge to find out just how out of shape I really am.
Repeat 4x
Total time: 19:23. Blech. The pushups were slow going but those runs were just atrocious. Thought some of the elderly track walkers were gonna pass me by my fourth lap.
Previously: 18:32 on 7/5/09; 4/2/08
Sorta like the crossfit wod, but with my trusty sandbag, Larry Storch. 21, 15, 9 of the following:
Total time: 4:35. After I finished up, headed out to Washington Park and set my gymboss for 4:35 to see how many burpees I could crank out. Completed 66, which is crap. Did this at the tail end of a 24 hour fast.
Scaled down a classic from from Ross Enamait’s Full Throttle Conditioning:
Repeat 3x
Total time: 16:30.
This one calls for 5 rounds, but I was hoping to keep up the intensity by shortening it. Unfortunately the pushups really slowed me down anyway.
I’m still easing back into the serious workouts, so I kept this circuit short:
Total time: 6:20.
I only tripped up on the rope once during the set of 30, otherwise all DUs were unbroken. Cooled down afterward with some light rope skipping and pushups.
Repeat 8x, no rest.
In the basement, so burpees were full ROM - touching the ceiling at the top. First time doing burpees in a while. No wrist pain. Felt good.
After almost a week of complete rest (inactivity), I was chomping at the bit to get some kind of workout in. Took the old rope out on the roof deck on this balmy holiday evening and was delighted to find that jumping rope didn’t hurt anything.
Repeat 12x, resting 30 sec between sets.
Some intervals were standard high-knee-sprint-in-place, some were pure double unders. I strung together 51 consecutive double unders in one set, which is almost a PR. Anyway, it felt good to sweat again (and not just from the sweltering heat).
I’ve been babying my wrist for about a week now and it’s still feeling sore. I picked some movements that don’t require wrist flexion and cooked up a little metcon. 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 of the following:
Total time: 9:17 (I think). I was screwing with the timer, so I’m not positive about the time, but it sure felt good to get a little circuit in.
In the basement after putting Ms. Smalls to bed:
Total work time: 10 minutes, resting 1 minute between sets. Total score = 489, which is an PR and I cut the rest in half.
Previously: 452 on 4/25/09; 435 on 3/11/09; 485 on 2/12/09
10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 of the following:
Finished in 4:47. Well, it was supposed to be quick. Wanna fight about it?
