Sunday, February 6, 2011

the fast and the furious

I've spoken before about short workouts and i thought today i'd give an example of a short workout i preformed over the weekend.

i planned to do some tire flips, sprints, jogging, and stone carrying.

it was very hot and muggy.

walking to the tire I'd already broken out into a sweat,
i flipped it 10 times and was left breathless, but jumped into my 40meter sprint right away , gasped a couple of times then went for my jog. i jogged about 6 1/2 min. which is about 3/4 of a mile for me at the moment.
when i returned to my point of origin i then hefted a 66kilo stone and carried it up and down a short flight of stairs and across a distance of about 10 meters. (maybe a little further??)

thats it . training session done.

13 min 50 sec.

i used a lot of muscle, and a lot of stamina by the time i got to the stone carries.
power training, endurance, mental toughness, guts, strength and conditioning all in one relatively brief session.

could i do more. yup
did i need to. no
and doing more would have required a bit of a rest . probably half an hour to finish 2 such sets.
and what would i have gained from that 2nd set? character building but not much else. push hard enough on the first set and the second one (in this secenerio) is more prohibative than productive

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