Tag: Airdyne

10 Max Sets

Another really solid sleep. My body feels good. Out in the garage at 4pm.

Warm-up

  • Steamboats
  • 20 PVC Passes
  • Dead Hang

Strength Conditioning

10 Rounds

  • MAX Strict Pull-ups
  • 2:00 cal Airdyne

Took 30-31 minutes, which is kind of what I expected after writing down my scores each round and transitioning between stations. Much harder than I expected though. I was doing 73+ RPM on the bike throughout. I got 15-11-10-9-8-8-8-7-7-7 pull-ups (90 total) and 54-55-55-56-57-58-58-58-58-60 calories (569 total). Can’t believe I didn’t look up my strict pull-up PR, because I matched it here with the 15 and know I could have squeezed out one or two more. Damn it!

Accessory

5 Sets

  • 10 Seated Horizontal Rows (40-40-50-75-75#)
  • 6/6 Kroc Rows (70#)

Fundraiser #3

I decided to only mow the front yard Sunday night, so I did the back yard on Monday night. Yesterday my body felt a little beat from the previous three days and my abs were already feeling those parallette shoot throughs. Glad it was a rest day. I did do my floor PT exercises and the core work.

McGill Big 3

  • 10-8-6 Curl-up
  • 10-8-6 Side Planks
  • 10-8-6 Bird Dogs

Out in the garage at 4pm today.

Warm-up

  • 10:00 Airdyne (199 cals, 5.03 km)
  • Monster Walks
  • 20 Monster Squats
  • 20 PVC Passes
  • 5 Sit-ups
  • 5 Deadlifts (35# DBs)
  • 5 Inchworms
  • 5 Deadlifts (50# DBs)

It’s been weeks since I’ve warmed up that much for anything.

Conditioning

Support Your Local Box Fundraiser #3

SITUP_Leah

  • 50 DB Deadlifts (50/35# DBs)
  • 50 AbMat Sit-ups (no arms)
  • 50 Step-ups (24/20″)
  • 50 Single Arm DB Thrusters (50/35#)

My back was blowing up a bit in the deadlifts since I haven’t done the movement at all in months. I took an extra breath or two every 10 reps or so, but never put the dumbbells down. This workout has an interesting standard for sit-ups I hadn’t seen before; I’ve always touched my hands behind my head. It was fine for 50 reps, but I could see it adding up over 100 or 150 reps without being able to throw your arms in to it. I did two sets of 10 each leg and then a set of five each with quick transitions. I switched arms every 5 thrusters and never stopped. Finished in 7:56. Most importantly, no back pain!

Strength

Superset these two movements. I thought I’d be more fatigued than I was from the thrusters, so was happy to get up to 145 while holding a solid back position.

Shoulder Press

  • 5×75#
  • 5×95
  • 5×115
  • 3×135
  • 3×137.5
  • 3×140
  • 3×142.5
  • 3×145

Front Raises

  • 8x8x10# plates

Take it Overhead

Not feeling sore anywhere. Out in the garage just before 4pm.

Warm-up

  • 10:00 Airdyne (190 cals, 4.9km)
  • Steamboats
  • Shoulder Press
    • 10×45#
    • 10×75
    • 5×95
    • 5×115

Strength

5 Sets

  • 5 Shoulder Press (125#)
  • 10 Lateral Raises (10# plates)

First time lifting a barbell overhead in over two months! Really tightened up my core and the weight felt good. I would have been struggling with 135#.

Conditioning

5:00 AMRAP — 1-2-3-4-5…

  • Burpees
  • HSPU

I’d done this one four times back in 2015 while following a gymnastics program. My best on 2015/12/23 was 6+5. I got through the round of 6s with two 2:09 on the clock, so I smoked it, getting 7+10 today. Unbroken through 6, then 3-2-2 on the set of 7, and I fell off the wall after the first HSPU in 8 and struggled through a second rep. Would like to give it a try without lifting first.

Accessory

4 Sets

  • 8/8 Kroc Rows (53# KB)
  • 6 Evil Wheels
  • 30/30s Single Arm Overhead Hold (53# KB)

I haven’t done any rows like this through the rehab. They felt really good. Evil wheels felt great compared to about a month ago at the gym, when I couldn’t go all the way down. On my final set I was even doing two second pauses all the way at the bottom. The OH holds felt good too! It was a really good session.

I knocked out some banded PT exercises and will get my core work done after finishing up something for work work.

Midline

McGill Big 3

  • 10-8-6 Curl-ups
  • 10-8-6 Side Planks
  • 10-8-6 Bird Dogs

Hello Barbell, my Old Friend

Yesterday my quads and ass were a little tight and sore. I worked the speed bag a couple of times for a few minutes and I’m already getting the hang of it. I took an awesome nap before a late lunch. Didn’t end up doing any PT or core work for the day.

Last night I slept 9.5 hours! Out in the garage at 4pm.

Warm-up

  • 5:00 Airdyne (99 cals, 2.51 km)
  • Monster Walks

Conditioning

“Jackie”

  • 1,000m Row
  • 50 Thrusters (45/35#)
  • 30 Pull-ups

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve had this girl WOD on my TODO list and didn’t end up doing it. Using an empty bar seemed like a good way to ease back in to the barbell. I rowed in 3:40 with my steady 1:50 metcon pace. Unbroken but way too slow on the thrusters. I was cautious with my back and not knowing how 50 reps would feel. I could have gone much faster. Finished those at 6:20. The pull-ups were much harder than I expected. I started out 7-5-5 I think and then like 3s and 2s. Pathetic. Finished at 7:45.

Accessory

2 Sets

  • 3:00 Banded Bear Hug Marches (30# Slam Ball)
  • 2:00 Rest
  • 3:00
    • 12/12 Lateral Step-ups (24″)
    • 12/12 Banded Bulgarian Split Squats (red, 3 count descent)
  • 2:00 Rest

Got the idea for the banded split squats from Eramo again. The timing of the reps I chose for the two movements in the second three minutes was damn near perfect, giving just a little extra rest before the two minute clock started.

Then I did some of my floor PT exercises. Was hoping to get in my core work later in the evening, but didn’t get to it.

A New Speed Bag

Was planned to be a rest day yesterday anyways, but I took the day off work too after my episode on Wednesday night. This morning I hung up a speed bag, which I’ve always wanted.

speed-bag

Out in the garage around 4:30.

Warm-up

  • 3:00 Walking
  • 3:00/3:00 Sideways Walking
  • Banded PT

Conditioning

30:00 Airdyne

Nothing crazy today. Went 726 calories and 16.56 km on my AD2.

A little later I did the core work.

Midline

McGill Big 3

  • 10-8-6 Curl-ups
  • 10-8-6 Side Planks
  • 10-8-6 Bird Dogs

Couldn’t Form Words

Out in the garage at 4pm. Was up to about 65° outside!!

Warm-up

  • 10:00 Airdyne (192 cals – 4.94 km)
  • Monster Walks
  • 20 Air Squats

Strength Conditioning

5 Sets

  • 15/12 cal Row
  • 10 DB Lunges (50/35# DBs)
  • 20 Plyo Lunges
  • 30 Walking Lunges
  • 2:00 Rest

This was based on a squatting version from Kristi Eramo, which she gave as a substitute for heavy back squats. I went unbroken and it was fucking brutal. Took a little over 21 minutes. I got a little light headed after and felt pretty wrecked. Wasn’t sure if I was going to continue.

Conditioning

  • 42-30-18 Air Squats
  • 21-15-9 HR Push-ups
  • Rest 4:00 and repeat

I was really slow on the air squats. Took me 4:28 and 4:22 for a total of 12:50 with the rest. I started to have an episode (similar to something in 2017) where I couldn’t come up with words, which was kind of scary. My friends were really concerned and called one of our Doctor friends over. I had a mountain dew right away and then a bunch of other fluids. I started feeling better after about 90 minutes or so and was able to think properly again and come up with words. Maybe it was the warmer day, lack of recent sleep, or not enough carbs (which is sort of what it initially felt like). 🤷🏻‍♂️

Tri-ing Interference

My quads and ass are barely sore anymore. Still can’t believe I wasn’t destroyed from Saturday. I guess all the other lunges and single leg work is paying off. Out in the garage at 4pm.

Warm-up

10:00 Airdyne

Went 202 cals and 5.01 km.

Strength

5 Sets

  • 5 Deficit Strict HSPU (0, 1.75, 3, 3.75, 4.5“)
  • 15 Front Raises (8#)

The most I’ve ever done for a one rep deficit was 11.5 inches, several years ago. A couple of weeks ago I did 10 reps at about 4 inches, so this was disappointing. I wonder if I don’t have my hands as wide when I’m on stacked plates, which would make it a lot more difficult. I’ll have to play around with it.

Conditioning

  • 30-20-10 Burpees
  • 30-20-10 Push Presses (75#)
  • 60-40-20 DU

In those first few push presses I could feel it was going to be terrible. Triceps were already blown up. I used a rack so I wouldn’t have to pick the bar up off the ground and I managed to stick to all sets of 10, resting the barbell on my back in two of the three breaks. Never missed a double under and finished in 8:39.

Midline

3 Rounds

  • 45s Lying Leg Lifts
  • 45s Turtles (Heel Touches)
  • 45s Hollow Hold
  • 45s Russian Twist
  • 1:30 Rest

I had to do scaled hollow holds after round one and didn’t use any weight for the Russian twists. Been two months since I’ve done any ab work like this!

Gettin’ Some Vitamin D

My hips were even more sore yesterday and my calves started to get sore. It was a beautiful day, so in the afternoon I went for a 3.5 mile walk. In the evening I did my floor PT exercises. Soreness is mostly gone today. Another great day in the mid 50s. Out in the garage at 4pm

Warm-up

6:00 Airdyne

Went 111 calories and 2.92 km.

Conditioning

3 Rounds

  • 30 Step-ups (27″)
  • 20 Pull-ups
  • 15 HSPU
  • 20 Step-ups (27”)
  • 10 Pull-ups
  • 5 HSPU
  • 700m Run (around block)

After a few reps I realized I had put a 15″ block in my stack instead of the 12, making it 27 instead of 24. Whoops! Stuck with it. I broke the pull-ups and handstand push-ups in to all sets of fives. On the 30 step-ups I went 10 each leg and then five each and then 10 each for the 20. My first round was somewhere around 9:30 and total time was 30:31.

Accessory

4 Sets

  • 50 Band Pull Aparts (blue)
  • 24 Hammer Curls (alt, 25# DBs)

Felt good so I kept going from one to the other without rest. Also added the fourth set for more of a burn. The pull aparts got nasty in the third set, but I was able to stay unbroken on them.

Oh No

After the workout yesterday I squatted down and leaned over the box. When I got up, I felt a little something in my back. Woke up without any pain this morning, which is a good sign, but I can feel a little something there, so I’m not going to push anything for a few days. Out in the garage at 11am.

Warm-up

  • Monster Walks
  • Steamboats

Conditioning

5 Sets

  • 2:30 Airdyne
  • 20 Shoulder Taps
  • 20 HR Push-ups
  • ~30s Rest

This was a modification to be able to share the bike. Got 20-40 seconds of rest after each round and I was also adjusting the seat before and after I was done and recording my calories and distance before kicking up to the wall. Was harder than I expected. Took me about 24 minutes with 89-93-92-91-92 cals and 1.64-1.67-1.67-1.65-1.68 km.

I crouched down for a bit after the workout and when I stood up I could feel that tightness in my low back. Shit Balls! Decided to skip the PT work again because of it.

Tuesday Triceps

I don’t feel any tightness at all in my back after doing the goblet squats yesterday! Did my floor PT exercises during a lunch break. Out in the garage at 4pm.

Warm-up

  • 5:00 Airdyne (2.47 km, 96 cals)
  • PVC Passes

Strength

4 Sets

  • 10 HSPU
  • MAX DB Shoulder Press (20/35#)
  • 3:00 Rest

My plan was to do all of the handstand push-ups strict, but in the first set I knew that wouldn’t hold. I was able to do all 10 strict for the first two sets. Then I did 6 strict plus 1 strict in to 3 kip, and finally 5 strict plus 5 kip in the fourth. I lost the shoulder presses real quick getting 15-8-6-5 reps.

Conditioning

21-15-9

  • cal Ski Erg
  • Burpees

5:00 Rest and Repeat

When I got a few reps in to that first set of 21 burpees I knew this was going to be bad. Oh shit! My triceps were blown! I was having a hard time pushing myself up off the ground. My ski pace slowed significantly after the first 21 calories. First time through took me exactly 6:00. I started out the second time much slower on the machine, but was able to pick up the pace for the 9 cals and then push the burpees, to make up some ground, getting 6:02.

Accessory

3 Sets

  • 15 Hammer Curls (20#)
  • 15 OH Banded Tricep Extension (single red)