Fun of a different kind!

[Catrin]

This is "Warrior Cardio" week for my group training, and while our coach's warmups are always intense, for the last week of the month they progress in intensity so we are ready for the main event. This morning part of our second warmup included mountain climbers on sliders. Sounds simple, but we had one foot in the air - the only foot on the ground is the one attempting to do the mountain climber. I did it - it was just a few inches for each one but I DID it The main event that we were warming up for was intense, but fun! I think that I am a sick woman....

[Catrin]

"Warrior Cardio" week has rolled around again - it is always the last week of the month. My butt was thoroughly kicked this morning! Our "finisher" was the following:

Prowler sled push for 200 meters
100 monster rope over-head slams
50 wall balls (in my case it was 42 wall balls and 25 goblet squats)
25 Head Cutters (burpees with a kettlebell)

All of this followed a 10 minute body weight pyramid and a 6 minute KB clean and mountain climber combination.

I was the second slowest, so far, in completing this work in 15:24. I am NOT ashamed of that time, it was a royal butt-kicking - which is a good thing for a holiday week! Back tomorrow morning for another one before heading out of town for the rest of the week. BTW, the fastest time so far was 8:45 THAT was awesome, and from a man in my age group.

[Irulan]

We did dumbbell 100's today. That is 100 of each exercise before you move on to the next one. 10% of body weight in each hand, for me that's a 12 on each hand. I had to downgrade when I got to the curls.
bench press
squats
rows
lunges
curls
catch and release
horizontal pull ups
side lunges.

.If you hit failure before 100 you have to (pick one) row 500m, jump-rope 100, jumping jacks 100, quadmill, run of set of soccer field lines, and then between each dumbbell set you had to do some core in this order, choose one, going down the list.
10 log rolls
20 pikes
30 alternate pikes
40 sky divers
50 hip dips
and I forget what was after that as I only made it to the horizontal pull ups.

"fun", right?

[Catrin]

Irulan, your coach and mine are related!

I've heard through the grapevine that our coach has the Hell Mill planned for us tomorrow morning. Basically it is an assortment of exercises done around a 200 meter track, a single exercise for each 200 meter lap (8 total laps). So lap one (or one of them), will be bear crawls for 200 meters. He has different versions of this particular workout so we will see in the morning what is in store for us. We don't do this often, it isn't a common workout. He does usually pull the stops out around holiday time. It should be a lot of 'fun', and an interesting way to prepare for a 7.5 hour drive directly afterwards

[Catrin]

We didn't do the Hell Mile last week - which is a good thing since I had that really long drive right after. I am considering doing a more shoulder-friendly version of it this Saturday, we will see.

This morning was a great workout as always, and we did an EMOM (every minute on the minute) for 15 minutes. The idea is very simple, the first minute you do 1 of each (2) exercises. Rest for the remainder of the minute. Second minute complete 2 of each and continue that way until the 15 minutes are up. The goal is to complete all reps of both exercises within each minute. If you fail to complete all reps of both exercises within the minute time frame then you cut the reps for both in half and just complete that number for the rest of the time.

So, for example, if you make it to the 8th minute and complete all 8 reps of the first exercise but not the second, for the remainder of the 15 minutes you complete 4 of each during each minute.

Our two exercises today were kettlebell goblet squats and pushups. He actually had me do something else for the second exercise as pressing is a problem for me right now. I got all the way to the 15th minute I did not, however, complete, I failed on the 15th round. I am pleased with that however, it is the closest I've ever gotten to completing this particular EMOM workout. The only thing better than goblet squats for this are deadlifts

[Crankin]

I felt like I was dying in boot camp today. It was the evil one, but while it wasn't tough cardio wise, almost none, she had us doing planks with sliders. I hate those things. I can do the standing stuff with them, no issue, but today was misery. I always use smaller weights in her class, and even those were hurting me. But... I felt better afterwards, and then I went to PT, where I got a very good massage.

[Catrin]

I hear you Crankin, planks and sliders can be...interesting for me as well because of my bad shoulder. Things seem to be improving though - slowly - but improving.