Thursday, May 14, 2009

Tabata Thursday

HYBRID Tabata Circuit:
  • Burpees (10, 8, 8, 8, 6, 6, 6, 6)
  • Mountain Climbers
  • Air Squats (18, 18, 17, 16, 15, 15, 15, 15)
  • Chinnies
20 sec work; 10 sec rest; next exercise (8 times through the circuit)

Did hybrid b/c I thought it would preserve intensity, but I'm not sure that was way to go b/c exercises impact each other (squats made burpees harder b/c the jump is the part that you get conked out on, for instance). I don't know. This was a tough but I thought it was going to be tougher -- I was expecting an epiphany. I thought it was gonna feel so effective that I would be changing my name to Tabata... not so. Surprisingly, those Mountain Climbers were hard as hell -- that's where I was having hardest time at end maybe. Go figure. Chinnies were silly I think -- straight sit-ups, lying hip swings or weightless russian twists would have been better.

Had some gas left but not a lot of time. Hit the weight room for some DB Benches and Russian Twists and had to call it a day.

Tomorrow will have to be squats, sprints/intervals and core... *maybe* a little arm jonk, some pull-ups, I dunno -- could always be down for a tough GPP or wicked high volume weight room routine to make up for this unsatisfied feeling from today's Tabata round.

Weighed in on the over side of 180. WHAT THE FUCK. I ate fried stuff twice this week and prob drank a few too many beers. But still... I been doin' work! I should be on the steady decline. I guess I really need to focus on diet.

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