CrossFit Day 75
Today’s workout was the return of “Tabata Something Else“, an evil brutal workout that had the nausea monster chasing me as soon as I hit the stop button on the heart rate monitor. To review, 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. My timekeeper is a Tabata track I downloaded a while back, played lovingly by my iPod Shuffle. Technically, today’s a rest day, but I decided yesterday to bump the Saturday workout to Sunday.
I set up a pullup bar in my laundry room, about three feet off the floor and did assisted pullups from an Indian-style seated position. This was a little more strenuous than I’d anticipated it would be. Next were the pushups, of which I did 10 more than last time, but far fewer than I’d have liked. The situps improved by 18 and I did 11 more squats. After I clicked the timer off and headed over to make my whew protein shake, I noticed the nausea kicking in. I sat on the couch, sipping my chocolatey concoction and felt like I’d just had my ass kicked rather soundly. I broke 300 this time in one continuous effort. If I take the bonus work off last time, I improved my score this time around by 45. Not bad, eh?
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: 17:09, 10:16 zone (hard), HR: 156 avg, 175 max; 211 cal
- AP: 14 11 11 11 08 07 08 09 = 79
- PU: 13 08 09 06 05 05 05 04 = 55
- SU: 09 11 10 11 09 10 09 08 = 77
- SQ: 13 12 10 10 11 11 12 12 = 91
- Total: 302 (257 last time)
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