It was a little tough getting out of bed this morning at 9am. My neck and back are a little off, but they did loosen up after moving around. I went in for the 11am class.
Warm-up
3 rounds
- 30s Jumping Jacks
- 30s Plank
- 30s Jumping Jacks
- 30s Bottom Squat Hold
WOD
“Barbara”
5 rounds
- 20 Pull-ups
- 30 Push-ups
- 40 Sit-ups
- 50 Air Squats
- 3m Rest
This was my first time meeting “Barbara”. She sounded like a real bitch before I got to shake her hand, but after we got to know each other a little bit, she’s an alright gal. I like workouts like this where you can have 3-5 minutes of hard work followed by a rest and then do it over again.
My goal right from the start was not to go out too fast, because I’ve done that too many times in a WOD like this one. I also didn’t want to get to the point of fatigue in my push-ups because after that it’s almost impossible to knock out any good amount of reps. I did 10 and 10 pull-ups in round 1, but then went 10-5-5 every other round. Did about 10 push-ups to start each round and then broke up the rest into smaller sets as my arms tired. Sit-ups and air squats were all unbroken except for the first round of squats. I wasn’t sure how I was going to be able to do with 50 of them so I took 2 short rests. I was feeling better than ever with my air squats so for the last 4 rounds I was able to do them unbroken. In the last round I was actually able to bang out the last 20 at an even faster pace, which felt good.
My times for each round were very consistent:
- 4:23
- 4:26
- 4:26
- 4:33
- 4:27
Everything within a 10 second window. I’ll take that type of consistency every time. Total time of 22:15.
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