Monday, September 8, 2008

I am pretty sure I was still pumped up about my Fight Gone Bad performance when I walked into the blue room today. It was a good day, I felt well rested and ready for a good workout. So here it goes:

5 rounds - 30 minute time limit
20 pullups
30 pushups
40 ab mat situps
50 squats

No offense to the 6am crew, but I am becoming a fan of 6:45 not just because of the crew but because you have scores/times to shoot for and being as competitive as I am that helps me work out even harder. I saw some of the times and knew I wanted to get below 28 minutes and actually thought I could go for sub 25 minutes. Gar had gotten a PR on pullups at 6am with 30 and that got me to thinking about finally trying to set one, so I did. I got 29 pullups. I think you lose your grip before anything else, something to work on. Gar set the standard at 6am by getting 30 in round 1 and then counting those extra 10 against round 2, so I did as well.

I know my weaknesses and one of them is my lower back and tendency not to keep a strong core position when doing squats because I feel my lower back is week. For the first time the squats felt great and I felt I was getting low enough and not rounding my back. I was able to knock out 25 squats take a few seconds and do another 25 in each of the 5 rounds.

Another side note, Jerry got a huge time clock for the new place and brought it in Sunday for FGB. It is awesome, I can look up and gauge my time now without having to bug Jerry. I didn't really look at the clock until I was starting my ab mats of the 5th round and realized I could totally get my goal of a sub 25 min time and kicked it up a bit. I got through my final squats and yelled time with a time of 24:57! It is hard to explain but I love the feeling after a good workout especially when you meet your goals. I had that feeling after this workout and after FGB yesterday, I only hope to maintain this performance all week.