Wednesday night was my second try at “Cindy” : do as many rounds as you can in 20 minutes of 5 pull-ups, 10 push-ups, and 15 air squats. This time I managed 14 rounds; last time I did 12. The push-ups are the really slow part. For about seven minutes, I was doing a round a . . . → Read More: “Cindy” Revisited
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Thursday, for time: Wednesday night, we did a long version of the “Helen” workout: four rounds (Helen is normally only three rounds) of: One of our friends at the gym, who I’ve mentioned as “Dave 2” or “Army Dave,” went to Iraq on a contract with a security company. He got killed this week. We had been looking forward to becoming better friends with him and his wife after his return—we knew them both. It is so hard to . . . → Read More: The Worst News Last night we did each exercise for two minutes, wrote down our number of reps, then went through it a second time. These are the exercises and my reps for both rounds: Tonight was unusual. Everything I did was a personal best, not that that’s saying very much in most cases. The recent multiple rope climbs were freaking me out because I was so slow and got such rope-burns on my legs. (We had five rope climbs each on both Tuesday and yesterday.) I go slow to spare . . . → Read More: Personal Best(s) Tonight’s workout–I almost didn’t survive it! Tonight I missed part of the workout because I got there late. But here’s what I did–two rounds of these, with my numbers for both rounds after: I met up with three guys from the gym and two teenaged boys that one guy has been informally coaching. They work out once a week outside of the Seattle University athletic center, on a lawn secluded by landscaping. On the lawn are two far-apart poles and four pull-up bars. Tom received his pair of gymnastics rings yesterday. We took them up to this well-equipped schoolyard to hang them over the pull-up bars and do ring push-ups, dips, pull-ups, inverted hangs, and whatever else we could think of. The schoolyard has fantastic outdoor training equipment. It’s great that this private school lets the public use their field . . . → Read More: Deluxe Schoolyard |
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