50% Barbara

Warmup: Mobility Exercises, 5 Jumping Pullups, 10 pushups, 20 squats

WOD:

50% "Barbara"

Five rounds, each for time of:
10 Pull-ups
15 Push-ups
20 Sit-ups
25 Squats

Rest precisely 1.5 minutes between each round.

Results (no HR Monitor today):
26:45

Round 1 _ 3:29 _ 1:41
Round 2 _ 4:14 _ 1:33
Round 3 _ 4:05 _ 1:33
Round 4 _ 4:30 _ 1:46
Round 5 _ 3:53

Comments:
Hmmm. Not terribly consistent. I wish i had enough laps on my watch to track each exercise separately to see where the bottle neck is.

I know that i was having trouble counting reps today, so in the rounds that were significantly longer - #2 and #4 particularly, i may have done extra reps for forgetting my count. I suspect that pushups were probaly the most variable exercise.

All pushups were full ROM. However i realize that when i am tired i rest at the bottom of the pushup (i.e. collapse on the floor). From now on I am going to try to only rest in between reps, and not in the middle of them.

To be kind to my hands, I decided to go with jumping pull-ups instead of the kip attempts I did on saturday. I had bandaids then tape and then padded biking gloves. I tried it with just the tape, and it was pretty painful. It seemed to be fine with the gloves. I don't know whether kipping would have been ok - probably best not to push it first time back on the bar.

I was definitely sweaty when i was done, but i did not feel totally wiped out. I could not have completed the full workout in the time alloted - there were only 17 minutes left when i finished, and it took me 26 minutes to finish half - and i know the second half would have been noticeably slower. I probably could have done 75%. But this way i should be well rested for my PT session tomorrow with Max.

Half Barbara

It's time. I promised myself that I would take half-volume recovery weeks every 4-5 weeks. The trip to Florida was near the end of August, and it's been pretty full-tilt since then. My body has two annoying, persistent injuries it's trying to get over, so I'm gonna play it smart this time and TRY to avoid further injury by giving my body the tools it needs to fix itself. It isn't easy.

There was some debate as to whether to go to class at all today, but ultimately we decided that it would be better to get some work in and hang out with the CF folks than to stay at home feeling sorry for ourselves, so in we went, and I'm glad we did.

* 17 hour fast *

Five rounds, each for time of:
20 Pull-ups
30 Push-ups
40 Sit-ups
50 Squats

Rest precisely three minutes between each round.

20:00 even
sub: Russian KB swings (1.5 pood) for pull-ups. Half-volume, half-rest.

This felt stupidly easy. More like a glorified warm-up than a workout. But I guess that's what is meant by "recovery." It felt like cheating. I felt guilty, watching everyone else kill themselves. Like staying home from school when you're not really sick.

Oh well.

Barbara (lite)

Five rounds, each for time of:
10 Pull-ups
20 Push-ups
30 Sit-ups
40 Squats

Rest precisely three minutes between each round.

1 - 4:34
2 - 4:49
3 - 6:38
4 - 6:49
5 - 7:19

Starting in round 4, I switched to BW-30# pullups on the gravitron. This was a very difficult routine (aren't they all?) and I can understand all the puking threads on the board. I didn't expect the situps to be the hardest part, but they were. Pushups felt strong, squats seemed fine.

Followed by Karle's spin class. Took it easy most of the time, but pushed hard on the sprints. After ~15 minutes of recovering from Barbara on the bike, it felt good.