Playing catch-up

Its been a few days since I've taken the time to update the good ole blog, the weekend was pretty uneventful as far as high intensity short duration workouts were concerned. I must say though that I did more hiking through thick forested & steep slopes than I cared for, hunting is a great way to get out doors and the reward is a freezer full of organic meat, but I must say that when the weather turns to crap it can be a testament to your determination.

Anyways, I got back downstairs last night to stare Angie in the face. This workout had been brooding in my mind all day and I knew that success here required larger sets of the pull-ups & push-ups. How people were pounding out sub 10 minute times in this wod is impressive but not unrealistic, it just means completing each excercise in under 2.5 minutes.

I did a good warm-up of:

50 x 45lb Sumo deadift high-pulls
30 push-ups
3 min skipping
30 dips
50 x 45lb thrusters
30 pull-ups

Good 20 min stretch, getting the splits down!

Angie:

100 pull-ups
100 push-ups
100 abmat sit-ups
100 squats

Time: 15:02

Beat my last personal best by about 2 minutes! Not a bad improvement but I still see a large opportunity to get more done in those first two exercises than I managed to. It was a good and I felt like I didn't have a huge amount of energy left at the end. I really pumped out the squats and my quads were screaming at me by the 100th one, sub 15 would have been nice but that will just have to happen next time.

Afterwards I did a bunch of abs & isolated chest movements. The L-sits are coming along nicely, getting them for longer than 30 seconds a set now, my goal for them will be over a minute. I wish I had my bench built here in the basement, would make for using my excellent home-made squat/bench rack a blast. I'll have to get it done here soon.

Guess there's always tomorrow.