CrossFit Day 27
Today’s workout was pretty simple, but quite difficult. Dubbed “Tabata Something Else”, this tabata workout involved four exercises—pullups, pushups, situps, and squats. A tabata is where you do a particular exercise for 20 seconds, then rest for ten. Since I don’t have a timekeeper partner, I downloaded a song for the purpose, loaded it onto my iPod Shuffle, grabbed a notebook, and headed down to the park.
After I finished my first eight rounds of assisted pullups and started in on the pushups, I accidentally yanked my headphones. Instead of halting the heart rate monitor until I could get the iPod cable figured out, I accidentally hit the stop button. Oops. Looks like we’re starting over. So, this tabata is 8 rounds of pullups, 8 rounds of pushups, 8 rounds of situps, and 8 rounds of squats. I just get a bonus of 73 pullups and 5 pushups.
The last 3 rounds of any set are gruelling. Luckily, since the time here is short, there’s not much time to move. But, it’s still difficult to get into a position to write numbers on a notebook from the situp position. I’ll have to use my cell phone next time instead.
My results: 21:57, 14:25 zone, HR: 153 avg, 169 max; 282 cal
- AP 1: 11 10 09 09 09 08 09 08 = 73
- AP 2: 12 10 09 08 09 09 08 08 = 73
- PU 1: 07 08 06 06 05 05 04 04 = 45
- SU 1: 09 09 08 08 06 06 07 06 = 59
- SQ 1: 11 10 10 10 10 10 08 11 = 80
- Total: 335 (including AP1 + 5 PU), 257 (without AP1 and extra pushups)
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