For overall time perform
5-1
Deadlifts (165kg/365#)
Handstand Push Ups
Rest 5 minutes
2000 meters Row
Rest 5 minutes
20/15/10
DB Thrusters (45#)
Side to Side Ties to Bar
Well, after hearing from Blair how hard it was for him, I'm not going to lie, I was a little nervous. But with Steve and Reggie joining me for the workout I was feeling ready. The Deadlifts weren't so bad, I felt a little rusty and I could feel my spine rounding a bit (and that was confirmed on the video...). The HSPU were fine. I had to kip with them as I actually can't do an actual HSPU (something I'm working on pretty hard core these days. I'll get one soon!). I finished this in 3:00 flat and felt pretty good going into the rest. With the row, I felt fine, started slowly and planned on speeding up after I hit 1000 meters. I ended up speeding up, but a little late, finishing in 7:11 and still feeling like I had a good deal left in the take. I really wish I had pushed harder on this as I always feel like the rower is a strong exercise for me. Well, 5 minutes later was the thrusters and toes to bar. I felt pretty good for the thrusters and when i hot the bar, well, I crashed. At this point it became pure guts (and Steve was like 3 reps ahead of me, it was the perfect push). I ended up finishing in 27:00 flat and felt totally drained, it was great.
Tomorrow I have a couple options: wake up early and do the lumberjack workout, or, wake up early and go for a power run. It'll be a game time decision.
Thanks Steve and Reggie for a great workout. And of course, thanks Blair for doing these with me from overseas!
Never Stop, GET FIT.
Josh Courage
11 comments:
how did we end up doing different versions of this?
It was pretty much the same thing besides the thruster/burpees difference. I got your email about that change last minute and decided that I'd stick with the thrusters to see how they felt.
I'm really curious about why that one beat you up so much? Was it a fueling thing? Or does the rowing really just beat you down like crazy? There are a few things that get me really fast, like actually right now, push ups destroy me for some strange reason. The other day I did 100 push ups for time and was doing only 2 at a time by the time I reached 50! Interesting stuff really.
Either way, I think this was a good workout we did for a couple reasons. One, it killed you. I think it's so good to have something that destroys you every now and again. I remember a month back I went for a bike ride with a good group of riders and they left me in the dust the second they took off. It completely demoralized me. Seriously, I started to tear up a little, I thought I was so worthless. But in the end it as so good to have the beat down feeling because it fueled my training, tweaked my programming and motivated me so much.
Two, it was a great all-around workout. Getting a solid heavy lift in (even if it was sort of a metcon), taking a nice break, conditioning straight up with the rower, a nice break again, then just crushing us down with the final couplet. I really felt like I got a FULL workout in for the remainder of the day.
Anyways, felt like a ramble there, looking forward to getting a couple NON trans-continental workouts with you next week.
True, the non-trans continental will be nice.
as far as why this beat me up, i think it was 2 things.
first, rowing hurts me. im pretty good at it, but i dont like it much and find it very painful.
second, it was my first workout after a week off. probably a bit of a shock to the system going from zero to sixty like that.
but i agree overall. such a good routine from the perspective of balance, intervals, etc. would have liked to see you guys do the deadlifts without bouncing... but i digress.
i get in wednesday at 3:00 so i should be in the city by 4 at the latest. when are you back from albany?
Trying this one out today.
Dan, let me know how it goes man!
Not sure if my last comment posted, just in case it didn't I'd like to reiterate that that was terrible. Haven't done a 2k row before, totally underestimated that and I'm pretty sure that I almost crapped myself on the thrusters. Anyway, here's how it went
Total: 26:18
DL/HSPU (HSPU below parallel on 20kg plates) 2:00
2K row: 7:18 (thoughts of, this hurts... a lot)
DB Thrusters, side2side toes to bar: 7:00 (uhh... was basically dropping the DB's every 5 reps)
Great work out guys!
Dan
Not sure if my last comment posted, just in case it didn't I'd like to reiterate that that was terrible. Haven't done a 2k row before, totally underestimated that and I'm pretty sure that I almost crapped myself on the thrusters. Anyway, here's how it went
Total: 26:18
DL/HSPU (HSPU below parallel on 20kg plates) 2:00
2K row: 7:18 (thoughts of, this hurts... a lot)
DB Thrusters, side2side toes to bar: 7:00 (uhh... was basically dropping the DB's every 5 reps)
Great work out guys!
Dan
Dan that's awesome! Great work pushing through that one man, it really was a beast of a workout!
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