Saturday, March 28, 2015

3/28/2015

For 15:00
1st minute: :30 row easy
2nd minute: :30 airdyne easy
3rd minute: 3-5 strict fat bar pull ups
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Not for time:
20 alternating KB turkish get ups
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1 set:
:60 airdyne increasing effort every :15 so that last :15 is all out

complete
5 pull ups each set
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complete w/35# KB
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complete


I was glad today was on the lighter side, I felt really exhausted and sore from 15.5. I enjoyed the EMOM, the strict pull ups were super easy. 

TGUs took forever. The 35# KB felt liked it weight 100 pounds today.

I did the airdyne sprint on Augustus since Betty was being used, it was fine until I reach the last :15 and went all out, then the pedal started catching and it slowed me down a bit. Next time I'll just wait until Betty is available. 

3/27/2015 (15.5- First attempt)

15.5
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10:00 airdyne @Z1
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10:00 mobility work of choice

15.5- 10:01
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complete
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complete


There are no words to describe how bad 15.5 felt. Holy shit. That was fucking terrible. 

When this one was announced, I was pretty indifferent. I knew it was going to hurt but I didn't think it would hurt THAT badly. This one isn't super great for me, I'm not a huge fan of thrusters. Stephen and I decided that my game plan was to keep the calories between 975-1000 cal/hour on the row and break up the thrusters 12/9/6, 9/7/5, 8/7 and then go unbroken on the last set. On the 27 and 21 calories I was able to hold my pace but on 15 and 9 it definitely slowed down. It wasn't a drastic change but it was slower than my goal pace. I was able to stick with the plan on the thrusters for the 27 and 21, but once I got to the set of 15 I hit a wall. I broke them up 7/4/4 and I was resting way too much between sets. I definitely need to cut down rest time between sets when I redo it on Monday. The last set of 9 thrusters felt like the walls were closing in and my body was going to explode. It was so awful.

This is the most painful workout I've done in a very long time, I think the only other workout that compares to this one is the OPT row/KB/burpee test. It took me a solid hour to recover. Jesus. I figured I would end up around 10:00 but Stephen said I need to be faster than that. When I redo it on Monday I'm not going to change anything on the row, but I'm going to break up the thrusters 9/9/9, 7/7/7, 5/5/5 and go unbroken on the last 9. I also need to rest less between sets of thrusters. I'm dreading doing this workout again. On the plus side, I know how painful it is so I know what to expect. On the down side, since I do know how bad it's going to feel I'm afraid I won't want to push as hard. But I'm just going to have to go there again.


Trying to process what just happened





3/26/2015

20:00 airdyne very easy
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10:00 mobility work 

complete

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