Tag: BikeErg

Moving Sand

On Saturday we spent about 2 hours hauling sand and then I mowed the lawn. That was enough for the day.

On Sunday morning I did more yard work, we had some plans, and we got out in the garage around 4:30 to start a workout. Neither of us were in to it and we decided to go for a walk instead, which was about 2.7 miles. Bodies just needed a break I think.

Yesterday I walked 18 holes on the golf course. In the evening I made 10 more trips carrying two 5-gallon buckets of sand to the dumpster, which was done in less than 30 minutes.

We really haven’t worked out since Friday! Up near my hip socket started feeling weird today around 3pm when I was sitting at my desk.

Warm-up

  • 5:00 BikeErg (2,041m)
  • 80′ Lateral Monster walks
  • 80′ Monster walks

Strength

Push Press

  • 10×45
  • 5×95
  • 3×125
  • 3×145
  • 3×165
  • 2×165

I was supposed to be doing a 10:00 EMOM of 3 reps, but I only got through the first set and then on in the second set I had some shooting pain from that left leg. So after pouting a couple of minutes I sat down and worked my shoulders

6:00 EMOM

  • 5 Seated Dumbbell Shoulder Press (50#)

Conditioning

27-21-15-9

  • cal BikeErg
  • Push-ups

Was supposed to be deadlifts with 225 (planned to scale back to 185), but I could feel my leg when I tried a couple reps with 95 pounds. So I decided to use the bike. Was able to go unbroken on the push-ups and finished in 5:01

Midline

4 Rounds

  • 10 Hollow Rocks
  • 10 V-ups
  • 10 Tuck-ups
  • 10s Hollow Hold
  • 1:00 Rest

Been a long time since we’d done this one and it showed. Took me 6:43.

Back

3 Sets

  • 12 High pulley underhand row (double handle, 93-82-82#)
  • 12 Incline DB Row (35#)

3 Sets

  • 12 Incline Straight Arm Pulldown (60#)
  • 12 Incline Lat Pulldown (forward facing, 93#)

I’m going to sit here and hit my leg with the massage gun. I really hope this isn’t some new injury. Maybe some kind of pinched nerve from sitting all day.

Not Doing 90 From the Floor

Walked 18 holes yesterday in the heat again, but it didn’t hit me as hard the rest of the day.

Warm-up

  • 3 Sets
    • 40′ Tip Toe Walk
    • 10 Calf Raises
  • Calf Stretches
  • 20 PVC Passes
  • 10 Hang Power Snatch (45#)
  • 5 Hang Power Snatch (75#)

Conditioning

  • 2000-1500-1000m BikeErg
  • 3-2-1 Rounds
    • 15 Hang Power Snatch (75#)
    • 45 Double Unders

Modified the Mayhem version, which was power snatches with 95 because I wasn’t doing 90 snatches from the ground. I held under a 2:00/1,000m pace on the bike and got faster each time I was on it. Taped my thumbs and went 8-7 for the snatches until the final set where I did them unbroken. Too many misses on the double unders. Finished in 19:55 in a pool of sweat.

Midline

3 Rounds

  • 15 V-ups
  • 10 Plank Walkout
  • 30 alt Side Crunches

Burn started in the middle of round two! Finished in 6:48.

Never Ending Got Overs

So much for yesterday’s workout being about recovery. When I got up out of the loveseat to head to bed last night my right shoulder was messed up! Felt better today after I got moving in the morning. Out in the garage a little after 4pm.

Warm-up

  • 400m Run
  • 80′ Lateral Monster Walk
  • 80′ Monster Walk
  • 10 Monster Squats
  • 10 Landmine Curtsy Lunges (45#)
  • 5 Dumbbell RDLs (35#)
  • 10 Landmine Curtsy Lunges (70#)
  • 5 Dumbbell RDLs (45#)

Legs

3 Sets

  • 20 LM Curtsy Lunges (95#)
  • 10 RDL (50# DBs)

3 Sets

  • 10 Goblet Squats (62# KB)
  • 10/10 Lateral Step-ups (20″, 40# DB)

Might as well call this shit cardio.

Conditioning

3 Rounds

  • 40 cal BikeErg
  • 30 T2B
  • 20 Burpee Box Get Overs (24″, hands can touch)
  • 5:00 Rest

I knew this was going to be rough. I averaged about 1,200 cal/hr on the bike every time. I went 12-8-4-4, 5×6, 10×3 for my toes-to-bars in the respective rounds and wouldn’t you know it, the smaller sets were the fastest because I took almost no rest between the sets. The burpee boxes seemed to never end. My round times were 6:08, 6:08, and 5:56.

Heavy Day

On Thursday I walked 18 holes and was wore out from the windy and chilly day. Out in the garage at 4pm.

Warm-up

  • 3:00 BikeErg (1,338m)\
  • 80′ Lateral Monster Walks
  • 80′ Lateral Monster Walks
  • 10 Air Squats
  • 5 High Hang Squat Cleans + 5 Hang Squat Cleans (45#)

Weightlifting

3 Position Cleans (High Hang Squat, Hang Squat, Squat)
2 Sets @ 70%
3 Sets at 75%
Do not drop the bar during the complex

  • 2×95#
  • 1×135
  • 1×155 (belted up)
  • 1×175
  • 2×185
  • 3×195

Conditioning

12:00 AMRAP (2-4-6-8-10…)

  • Deadlifts (225/155#)
  • Double DB Shoulder to Overhead (50/35#)
  • Weighted V-ups (20# DB)

We haven’t had this weight on the bar for a deadlift in a long time. I wore a belt throughout. For the deadlifts I did 2-4-6, 2×4, 2×5, 3×4, 5-5-4, and 7. Was able to stay unbroken with the dumbbells, doing push jerks the whole way. Both movements went better than expected. Got through the 14s plus 7 deadlifts.

Quick Partner Intervals

I was whooped last night! Out in the garage at 4pm.

Warm-up

  • 2:00 SkiErg (404m)
  • 80′ Lateral Monster Walks
  • 80′ Monster Walks
  • 10 Air Squats
  • Dead Hang / Shoulder Stretching
  • 8 DB Thrusters (15#)
  • 8 DB Thrusters (25#)

Conditioning

8 Sets (each, IGYG)

  • 12 cal BikeErg
  • 10 DB Thrusters (35#)
  • 8 Burpee Box Jump Overs (20″)

The lower box and lighter weight was nice for a change and really let me hit the gas. Brandi went first. Each of our first rounds took about 1:50 and B settled in at about a 2:00 pace after that. I got a little faster for a few rounds and then turned it on for the last four, getting down to 1:34 for my final round. Took us 29:42 to finish. I really enjoy workouts like this where I can go-go-go and get a big rest.

Strength

Push Press

  • 5×45
  • 5×95
  • 5×135
  • 3x5x155

The bar felt heavy after 80 thrusters. Did these from the rack, which sucks.

Midline

2 Rounds

  • 30s Hollowbody Knee Tucks (alt, alt, both w/ 12# DBs OH)
  • 10s Rest
  • 30s OH Leg Lifts (12# DBs)
  • 10s Rest
  • 30s Jack Knife (12# DB)
  • 10s Rest
  • 30s V-sit Up and Over DB
    10s Rest

Did two rounds today instead of three since the other stuff took awhile. I got 17-13-16-30 both rounds.

Unbroken 20s

We were going to go out for an easy run and do push-ups throughout, but it started raining. Out in the garage around 4:30.

Conditioning

4 Rounds

  • 2:00 TrueForm Run
  • 20 Push-ups
  • 2:00 BikeErg
  • 20 Push-ups

Started out standing on the bike in the first round but we quickly decided that was not a good idea to continue. I managed to do every set of push-ups unbroken, which was surprising. My distances were 0.38 – 0.41 – 0.43 – 0.45 km on the TrueForm and 1,032 – 1,056 – 1,059 – 1,086 meters on the bike. That has hard!

Back

3 Sets

  • 15 Lat Pulldown (104-93-93#)
  • 15 Lean back Lat Pulldown (104-93-93#)

3 Sets

  • 15 Straight Arm Pulldown (49#)
  • 15 Incline Back Fly (20#)

Bike Intervals

Yesterday I walked 18 holes with the temperature in the mid 80s and my score in the high 80s. Workout at the usual 4pm.

Conditioning

6 Rounds

  • 2:00 BikeErg
  • 3:00 Rest

I did 1,134 – 1,142 – 1,145 – 1,150 – 1,155 – 1,176 meters.

Chest

3 Sets

  • 15 Incline DB Bench (40#)
  • 15 Incline DB Fly (20#)

2 Sets

  • 15 Batwing Fly (incline, 10#)
  • 15 DB Peck Dec (20#)

Decided we should cut it short with the thrusters tomorrow for the Pair UP ThrowDOWN workout.

Midline

3 Rounds

  • 30 Swimmer Crunches
  • 30 Crunches
  • 30 Leg Lifts
  • 30 Single Leg Lifts
  • 30 Plank Hip Dips

Finished in 9:02, 1:01 faster than the first time we did this with 30s!

Murph Prep Twist

I didn’t golf yesterday because a demolition crew was over removing the concrete slab that had been the sunroom floor. I spent some time on the outside of the house in the evening. Had to cut the lawn today in between meetings because it’s growing even though we haven’t been getting rain. Out in the garage at 4pm.

Warm-up

  • 3:00 BikeErg (1,282m)
  • 40 PVC Passes

Conditioning

  • 850-400-200m Run
  • 30-20-10 Pull-ups
  • 60-40-20 Push-ups
  • 90-60-30 Air Squats

I set a goal to go unbroken on every set of pull-ups and easily did it. I did all sets of 10s for the push-ups and just kept grinding through the air squats, which seemed to go forever. Finished in 20:38. Interesting and challenging twist on Murph prep.

Legs

4 Sets (each)

  • Glute Bridge
  • 20 Plyo Lunges

Gorilla Get Overs

Out in the garage at about 10:30. My hips are feeling that 2+ miles of running I did yesterday.

Warm-up

  • 3:00 BikeErg (1,528m)
  • 80′ Lateral Monster Walks
  • 80′ Monster Walks
  • 10 Monster Squats

Strength

Overhead Squats

  • 6×45#
  • 6×75
  • 3×95
  • 3×115
  • 3×135
  • 3×155
  • 3×165
  • 3×175
  • 3×185

Got out the jerk blocks for these and I put on the belt starting with 115. My legs are tired from yesterday.

Conditioning

  • 50 cal BikeErg
  • 5 Rounds
    • 5 Power Cleans (135#)
    • 5 Burpee Box Get Overs (32″)
  • 40 cal BikeErg
  • 4 Rounds
    • 4 Power Cleans (155#)
    • 4 Burpee Box Get Overs (32″)
  • 30 cal BikeErg
  • 3 Rounds
    • 3 Power Cleans (185#)
    • 3 Burpee Box Get Overs (32″)

It was written for 30 inches, but with my jerk blocks, adding the extra 2″ top pieces widens out the space which felt better. Since they were get overs, we could use our hands, so I did something like this Gorilla version. Looking at the workout I was wondering if I could go unbroken. The first 5 rounds felt a little heavy, but I decided to try with the 4 rounds and I made it so when I got to 185 it was a challenge and I was pushing the page on the BBGO too. Tough workout, but it was fun to cycle a heavy barbell again. I finished in 20:30.

Mayhem Murph Prep

Yesterday I walked 18 holes since I was supposed to have a demolition crew coming over today. That got pushed back to Monday though. It’ll be a week tonight and my upper abs are still sore! Mowed the lawn during lunch today and out in the garage at 4pm.

Warm-up

  • 2:00 BikeErg (1,018m)
  • 15s Dead Hang
  • 40 alt Arm Circles

Conditioning

  • 500-400-300-200-100m Run
  • 5-4-3-2-1 Rounds of “Cindy”
    • 5 Pull-ups
    • 10 Push-ups
    • 15 Air Squats

Jumped around it the Mayhem daily workouts to get up to the Murph prep stuff. Of course I went out hot on the run. My shoulders felt really tight for several rounds of “Cindy” and the push-ups started to get hard near the end of the 4 rounds. Finished in 20:43. That was tough and I had some “Fran-lung” going on afterwards.