Thursday, July 31, 2008

Today was just one of those days. My alarm went off at 5:10am and I rolled over and turned it off and asked myself if I can just stay in bed and not workout. I rolled over and fell back asleep and woke up at 5:25am, which would have made making the 6:00am class tough. I got up and got ready and figured I could get there and watch the 6:00am finish up and join the 6:45 am class for the workout. I debated going to class again because going to the 6:45 class would definitely make me late for work. Good thing my boss in on vacation!

Anyhow I got to the Blue Room at 6:20 and Jerry told me I could start right away and don't have to wait for the 6:45 class. That is when I looked at workout.

800 meter run
1-10 Burpee Ladder
1-10 Pullup Ladder
800 meter run
10-1 Burpee Ladder
10-1 Pullup Ladder

So basically a ladder workout is one where you increase reps by one each round until you get to 10 reps in this case. This would call on me doing 1 burpee, 1 pullup, 2 burpees...... First thing I thought of was not too bad and maybe today is a good day to get back into pullups. I looked over at Adrienne as she was doing ring rows instead of pull-ups and decided I shouldn't rush it and could just substitute ring rows. Jerry thought that was a great idea but thought doing 1 ring dip for 1 pullup may be too easy so he had me do the ladder by 2 ring rows. Ok sounds like a good workout. Then I saw Steven doing the workout with a 20# vest and figured well if Steven is going to do it then I can.

I have never run with a weight vest (even though I recently bought one for $200 that is on back order). It was definitely different. I was running the first 800m and thought well I guess I am going to be covered for the Burpee Challenge for today - Day 18. My burpees felt really good and strong. Jerry even commented on them and how soft they looked vs. the up down way of slamming/dropping your body down on the mat. I will be curious to see the photos he took. Ok back to the workout. The ring rows were not tough to start, but got really hard right around round 6-7, or 12-14 ring rows and I had to partition it into sets with a 5-10 sec break in between. I have gone hard on plenty of workouts but this was one of the hardest workouts I have ever done. It was hard to get 4-5 ring rows at a time. I actually had a little bit of doubt about finishing into my second round (downward ladder). I knew I was going to complete it but figured I wouldn't post one of the best times, so I drudged on, a few ring rows at a time. When I got that last ring row, I yelled time and just let go of the rings and fell back onto the mats with a loud thud. I was spent! I just laid there in my sweat and then took off the vest and continued to lay there. Jerry is challenging me injured or not, this workout was crazy! Overall I did 110 burppess (so definitely covered my 18 for today) and 220 ring rows, with a 20# vest! I was happy to be done with this one.

Now comes the wait for the photos and white board to be posted. I will be curious to see how I rank with others. I think my workout was more challenging then the burpee-pullup ladders so it may be hard to compare my time, which I think was 37:20 or something.

I leave for vacation tomorrow and can't wait. I am going to hit the workout tomorrow morning, suppose to be deadlifts, and then am hitting the road to the beach around 2pm. I have been trying to figure out how I am going to maintain the Zone while at the beach. Working out should not be a problems, since I am packing my rings, jump rope and elastic band. Jerry was also nice enough to let borrow his Hopper Deck of Workout Cards. Can't wait for vacation!