Well, it's been a challenging year plus, and I find myself starting yet another chapter of my life. A big part of taking care of my whole health going forward is making sure I'm regular and diligent about getting fitness in. I realize more and more how much it helps me not only physically, but emotionally and spiritually as well.
Additionally, I thrive when I have routine and regularity so hopefully maintaining a log again will add another level of accountability.
Anywho, I haven't worked out for fourteen or so months until early last week, when I started doing some light bodyweight shenanigans around the local lake park.
I'm at eight days in a row now and finally taking up my former athlete's offer to use his personal spot so I can move weight again. Seemed like a good time to start recording things again.
I don't have any overly specific goals in training right now. I'd like my cluster weight back. That's the only thing I can think of off the top of my head. I'm really trying to have fun with it while getting in some quality clock time. I've been using variations of deck of cards workouts to keep things entertaining since until today I was working out solo and generally alternating between loaded and unloaded days.
Bodyweight as of 12-21-2021: 162#
Last few days:
12-19-2021
Strength:
Every 3 Minutes x 5 Sets
--x3 Back Squat
--Accumulate quality strict pull ups
Squats @ 185#
22 Pull Ups, alternating grips in sets of two
Conditioning:
30 Minute Clock
Deck of Cards
--Draw 4 Cards, perform, rest 3 minutes
Coin = 10 Calorie Ski Erg
Goblet = 10 KBS AM 53#
Sword = 10 Box Jumps 24"
**By the way this is a deck of spainish playing cards, hence the coin and sword. Didn't have a regular deck lying about.
>>>6 Rounds and a couple of reps completed. So a little over 240 Reps. I couldn't tell you what order they all went in but there was definitely a round with thirty box jumps in there that was pretty unpleasant. Pace felt stronger than expected. No rebounds on the box jumps. Doubt my old knees and ankles are ready for that yet.
12-20-2021
Conditioning:
40 Minute Clock
Deck of Cards
-Rounds of:
-400m C2 Bike
-200m Ski
Draw 6 Cards:
Sword = 5 Burpee
Coin = 10 Sit Ups
Goblet = 15 Air Squats
>>>5 Rounds and back through the bike and ski again. Might have been six, I need to start marking I guess. Pacing was great, lots of built in rest pulling the cards after every set of bike and ski. Hit a round of 90 air squats at minute 20 that took the wind out of my sails a bit though. It's going to take me a while to figure out how I want to program the C2 bike, haven't spent much time at all with it.
12-21-2021
Strength:
10-8-6-4-4
--Deadlift
--Bench Press
Ended deadlift @ 225, Bench @ 155
>>>Just dipping the ol toes in the water again. Just tried to keep things as clean as possible. Doing my deadlifts DOH in a clean stance for the time being.
Conditioning:
Deck of Cards, w/ Partner
Every 9 Minutes x 6 Rounds
Draw 5 Cards, Split reps in any manner
Coin = 12 Axle Clean + Push Press @ 120#ish
Goblet = 16 DB Snatch @ 55#
Sword = 20 Burpee Over Axle
Then: A: 600m C2 Bike, B: 400m Ski (Same time)
>>>Really fun piece with my former athlete whose space I'm using. His conditioning has improved dramatically since he started training for these tactical games. He outworked me a lot on the axle so I tried to make up for it on the burpees and snatch.
Ideally this workout should have been a 50 minute clock with three minute rests after each round. Also, the bike needed to be 700 or the ski 350. Great pump though. Lots of fun. Stoked that tomorrow is unloaded though.
