Tag: Walk

Mashed Potatoes

Warm-up

  • 3:00 Walk
  • 3:00/3:00 Side Walk
  • 3:00 Backwards Walk

Arms

15-12-9

  • Tricep Pulldowns (rope, #6 setting)
  • French Press (50# DB)

Legs

  • 15-12-9 Hamstring Curl (#4 setting)
  • 60-50-40s Bottom Squat Hold

Conditioning 1

3 Sets

  • 30 alt Hang DB C&J (25#)
  • 20 Plank DB Pull Through (25#)
  • 10 Push-ups

Not good planning, but destroyed my triceps today. My arms were visibly shaking through every set of pull throughs and I thought I might collapse.

Strength

Incline Bench Press

  • 15×45#
  • 15×75
  • 15×95
  • 10×105

Conditioning 2

10:00 Bike (sit back, pedals out in front of body)

Steady pace but nothing crazy.

I’m just mashing shit together when I get to the gym and look around. Good enough for a travel week.

At the Dreams

Traveled to Cancun yesterday for a work trip. Made it to the resort’s gym before dinner today.

Warm-up

  • 5:00 Spin Bike
  • 2 Sets
    • 10 Reverse Pattern on Ball (5s)
    • 10 Wall Slides
    • 20 alt Seated Hip Openers
    • 20/20s Supine Leg over Stretch

Upper

15-12-9

  • Lat Pulldowns (Setting #12, whatever that means)
  • DB Curls (25#)

I bit off more than I could choose with the weight choices, so that’s why the descending rep scheme.

Legs

4 Sets

  • 10/10 Single Leg Step-up with Knee Drive (18”)
  • 20 DB Reverse Lunges (30# DBs)

Nasty!

Midline

3 Sets

  • 15 OH Crunch (35#)
  • 20 Slow Bicycles
  • 15 Leg Lifts
  • 30 Oblique Heel Touches

Really felt the burn.

Cool Down

  • 3:00 Walk
  • 3:00/3:00 Sideways Walk
  • 3:00 Backwards Walk

To the Classic

I walked 18 yesterday plus a bunch extra because we jumped holes a couple of times to get around a slow 4-some. B is recovering from a concert today (haha), so light day.

3 Sets

Walked 2.77 miles in 49:09.

No workout tomorrow since we’re going to the Rocket Mortgage Classic.

Back is Acting Up Again

Yesterday I walked 18 holes and could feel my back at the top of my backswing. It wasn’t feeling great the rest of the day. It was rough getting out of my chair last night and I could feel it throughout the night. So modifying movements today. Out in the garage at 4pm. I did some monster walks without the band.

Legs

  • 10 DB Lunges (30# DBs)
  • 10 Reverse DB Lunges (30#)
  • 20 Reverse DB Lunges (30#)
  • 30 Reverse DB Lunges (30#)

It was definitely more comfortable doing them reverse, as long as I braced my core properly when I stepped back with my left leg.

Midline

  • 10/10 Bird Dogs
  • 10 McGill Curl-up
  • 5/5 Bird Dogs
  • 5 McGill Curl-up

All with two second pause.

More Legs

3 Sets

  • 40’ Tip Toe Farmer Carry (40# DBs)
  • 12 Calf Raises (40# DBs)

Conditioning

7 Rounds (each, IGYG)

  • 15/10 cal BikeErg
  • 12 Pull-ups / 5 Strict C2B Pull-ups

I did the strict pull-ups so I wouldn’t put that stress on my back. Got faster each round on the bike and stuck to 3-2 every round of the chest to bars. We finished in 14:58.

Went for a 2.08 mile walk.

Track & Donuts

Walked 18 holes yesterday and was a little sore in my chest and shoulders. Got a slight headache later even though I drank a lot of water with electrolytes. We headed to the track at Heritage High School at 3:00 today. Warmed up with a 400m jog.

5 Rounds

  • 200m Run
  • 100m Sprint
  • 100m Walk
  • 200m Run
  • 100m Sprint
  • 100m Walk
  • 100m Sandbag Carry (100/65#)

Though I stayed pretty consistent and I felt good. Finished in 31:20. Not knowing how long something like this would take I originally programmed four rounds and added the fifth when I got there to make sure I went over the 30 minute time domain. With the warm humid weather my arms were so sweaty it got increasingly hard to keep golf of the sandbag, but I made each 100 meters unbroken.

6 Rounds

  • 5x Bleacher Runs (18 steps)
  • 20 Incline Push-ups (2nd bleacher seat)

This was much worst than I expected! So nice for a change of scenery and to be outside.

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No Way!

I mowed the lawn yesterday and didn’t really do much else. Shitty night of sleep because of worries. 🤷🏻‍♂️ My hands are sore from hook gripping and holding the bar! My traps are sore too from shrugged cleans. Went to the Heritage track at 10am and then back to the garage.

Conditioning

  • 800m Walk
  • 400m Jog
  • 400m Walking Lunge
  • 400m Walk

After all of the plyo lunging, I’ve been wanting to give the 400m lunge a retest. Beautiful morning for it.

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Last October my time was 10:39, when I alternated between 20 step-through lunges and 20 bringing my feet together. My goal was to go sub 10 today, by doing 30 step-throughs followed by 10 with a feet gather. I was surprised how great I felt at 100 meters and knew I was flying. As I rounded the final corner I turned to see where Brandi was and she was not far behind me! So I pushed it doing a final 62 step-through lunges without stopping. My time was 8:47!!! Holy Fuck I couldn’t believe it.

Strength

Bench Press

  • 10×45#
  • 10×95
  • 6×145
  • 3×185
  • 3×205
  • 3×220
  • 3×230
  • 3×240
  • 3×250
  • 1×262.5

Went for a PR, because why not, but it came off the rack weird so I called it after one rep.

Midline

E2M – 5 Rounds

  • 16 Alternating V-ups
  • 16 Heel Reaches (leg lifts without lowering legs to the ground)
  • 12/12 Side Plank Bounces

Another good one from Kristi. I did my side plank bounces with my hand on the ground.

Accessory

5 Sets

  • 30s HS Hold (try to take feet off the wall)
  • 30s Rest
  • 30s Banded Curls (blue band, last 4 sets with fat grips, ~25 reps)
  • 30s Rest

On the 12th Day of Running

Not a great night of sleep, but HRV went from a red 89 to green 107. I actually felt better yesterday. Rained out for golf today so I went it to lift with Alex at 5:30. Warmed up with Crossover Symmetry Activation, bottom squat holds, and a lot more empty bar snatch work than usual.

Snatch

  • 2x2x40kg
  • 2x2x50kg
  • 2x60kg
  • 2x70kg
  • 2x75kg
  • 1x80kg
  • 1x85kg
  • 1x88kg
  • 2 misses 92kg
  • 1x92kg

I wasn’t feeling crisp from the get go. Either the 85 or 88 was pretty forward, so I stopped my descent, pulled the bar back and it ended up being a power snatch. I was in my head on the attempts with 92, I think because it just wasn’t feeling as good as it has been. I’ve been hitting 90 no problem. Committed and the bar locked into place nice and smooth after a nice rest. Stopped on the success. That’s about 203#, which I think is the most I’ve done since setting my PR of 210# in October. Four workout days in a row could have something to do with how I felt too.

Pause Back Squat

  • 5x20kg
  • 5x70kg
  • 5x90kg
  • 5x105kg
  • 3x120kg
  • 3x130kg
  • 3x135kg

Just a short pause in the hole to make it harder. Tried out some adjustments I picked up from a video with Ed Coan. Could really feel a difference. Squatting kilos seems so weird because I don’t know the jumps or have a good feel for what’s on the bar. Reps felt solid. I wore the belt for the last two sets. That was almost 298# for the final set, so I’m happy with that.

Run Every Day

Got home and headed out for my run. Rain had stopped earlier in the day, though I did get a little mist when I was starting out. It was a great temperature for running. Around a mile and a half my stomach was not agreeing with the protein shake I drank during squats. I was actually feeling pretty good before that too. Once I hit the stoplight I decided to walk home from there. Ran 2.13 miles in 20:32 and walked about 3/5 of a mile.

Windy Cancun

Can’t believe how windy it has been here. Walked on the beach yesterday and today after breakfast. Didn’t really do anything else yesterday though. Hit up the fitness center around 12:30 today.

  • 4 Rounds
    • 25 Push-ups
    • 20 Lunges
    • 0.25 Mile Walk (15% incline, 3.5 mph)
  • Cash out: 50 Push-ups

The stupid treadmill wouldn’t stay paused enough while I was doing my push-ups and lunges, so I had to reset it after the first two rounds, which took at least 30 seconds. The pause didn’t work after the 3rd walk, so I was able to get right back on after my reps were done. Whole thing took 25:50. I did 10-10-5 for the first 3 rounds of push-ups and 15-10 on the 4th. For the 50 I was able to get in 3 sets of 10 before having to break them up. Very little rest in between all sets of push-ups. Walked 5:00 on the treadmill to cool down.

Heading home tomorrow.