2 months to go until the Tough Mudder. I actually have been kind of slacking in the workout department this past weekend. My brother was in Chicago for work this past weekend. So I didn't go to MBar this past Friday, Saturday, or Sunday. Boo me. I did go to the first Old Style practice of the year. It was nice to get out and play some ultimate. This past weekend was also a bit more consumption of alcohol than expected. I went out for drinks with Oros and Noodles on Friday night. Saturday night I threw a surprise party for Jennie's 5 year anniversary of her donating her kidney to her father, so I had some drinks Saturday night too. That coupled with the lack of sleep and the poor eating habits this past weekend made me a little lethargic this Monday morning. Needless to say I did want to go to Mbar. I dragged my butt out of bed though and went. Here's what we did today:
Alternating btwn renegade rows and see-saw military presses. Reps of 20-15-10-5 for each exercise. I used 12K's for the see-saw military press and 16K's for the renegade rows.
Then alternated between Turkish get-ups and windmill lunges. 3 sets of 5 reps for each side for each exercise. I used a 12K for the Turkish get-up and a 16K for the windmill lunges.
I'm trying to move up in weight so it took me awhile. I also tried the monkey bars again. Feel a little uncomfortable in my right shoulder after going about halfway twice. I feel like I need to step it up all around. I need to step up the intensity level at MBar and more running. I'm starting to get a little nervous for the ToughMudder. What the hell have I gotten myself into?
Monday, May 23, 2011
Friday, May 20, 2011
Been awhile. Where's the chatter?
So it's been awhile since I've done my workout update. I'm just going to list the days that I wen to MBar. I actually can't remember all the workouts. Blah.
Friday May 6: MBar
Sat and Sun, May 7-8: No working out due to Steve's BP. Great time was had by all.
Monday May 9: MBar
Tuesday May 10: Ran 5 miles
Wednesday May 11: MBar
Thursday May 12: No working out. Work go in the way. Stupid work.
Friday May 13: MBar
Saturday May 14: Played Dick and Jane
Sunday May 15: Played Goalty
Monday May 16: MBar
Tuesday May 17: MBar
Wednesday May 18: MBar
Thursday May 19: MBar and Goalty Pickup
That brings us to today, Friday, May 20. My plan is to, surprise, surprise, go to MBar. Today's workout, which I did 2 weeks ago, is going to be brutal, if I make it to MBar. It's 100 reps of Clean, Squat, Press. Last time I did it, I did it with 2 16K Kettlebells. It took me over 30 minutes. Hopefully I can beat that time today. Off to get my car's oil changed. I'm going to try to do a better job of updating this thing.
Friday May 6: MBar
Sat and Sun, May 7-8: No working out due to Steve's BP. Great time was had by all.
Monday May 9: MBar
Tuesday May 10: Ran 5 miles
Wednesday May 11: MBar
Thursday May 12: No working out. Work go in the way. Stupid work.
Friday May 13: MBar
Saturday May 14: Played Dick and Jane
Sunday May 15: Played Goalty
Monday May 16: MBar
Tuesday May 17: MBar
Wednesday May 18: MBar
Thursday May 19: MBar and Goalty Pickup
That brings us to today, Friday, May 20. My plan is to, surprise, surprise, go to MBar. Today's workout, which I did 2 weeks ago, is going to be brutal, if I make it to MBar. It's 100 reps of Clean, Squat, Press. Last time I did it, I did it with 2 16K Kettlebells. It took me over 30 minutes. Hopefully I can beat that time today. Off to get my car's oil changed. I'm going to try to do a better job of updating this thing.
Thursday, May 5, 2011
Time for some yoga P-lott
I think it's time you did some yoga P-lott. We have a good Eischens yoga DVD which I've found to really help rehabilitate hurt joints. It most def helps my knees and lower back. I need to get it to you sometime to try. Here's what I've been doing since my last update.
Tuesday, May 3
Went to MBar in the morning.
Wednesday, May 4
Went to MBar in the morning and biked for an hour with Jennie and Aaron through Maple Bluff, which basically means hill workout.
Thursday, May 5
Went to MBar in the morning. I'm going to try to make it to goalty pick-up if the rain holds off.
No yoga this week. Also, this weekend will also probably be a no workout weekend with Steve's BP on the plate. I think a weekend off might be a good idea anyways. Jennie points out that I don't want to burn myself out. I need to keep doing hill stuff. I hate hills.
Tuesday, May 3
Went to MBar in the morning.
Wednesday, May 4
Went to MBar in the morning and biked for an hour with Jennie and Aaron through Maple Bluff, which basically means hill workout.
Thursday, May 5
Went to MBar in the morning. I'm going to try to make it to goalty pick-up if the rain holds off.
No yoga this week. Also, this weekend will also probably be a no workout weekend with Steve's BP on the plate. I think a weekend off might be a good idea anyways. Jennie points out that I don't want to burn myself out. I need to keep doing hill stuff. I hate hills.
easy week...
Due to my inability to raise my shoulders over my head, the clicking in my knees, and the mucous running out of my nose, this week has basically been a throwaway.
I basically played frisbee and rball and called it good. Anytime I tried to do pushups or run my shoulder or knee would act up.
I think maybe I came out of the gate too strong and need to dial it back a notch. Will start anew on Monday.
This weekend, I will only be working on my tolerance and my liver at Steve's bachelor party.
I basically played frisbee and rball and called it good. Anytime I tried to do pushups or run my shoulder or knee would act up.
I think maybe I came out of the gate too strong and need to dial it back a notch. Will start anew on Monday.
This weekend, I will only be working on my tolerance and my liver at Steve's bachelor party.
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Weekend of drinking equals bad workout weekend
Man P-lott, you're making me feel lazy. I need to step it up so I'm not holding us up during the TM. I'm still a little worried about the monkey bar obstacle. I think I have a mental block with that one. I need to get over it. I also think I tend to give up really easily. I need to work on pushing myself beyond what I think I can actually do. I usually surprise myself. So here's what I've done since my last post:
Friday, April 29
Went to MBar in the morning. We did a 4 exercises for 6 minutes of each exercise. Each set was 15 sec of work followed by 15 sec of rest. The exercises were push ups, pull ups, Hindu jump squats, and jungle gym xt leg curls. Then I did a 5 mile run with Jennie in the afternoon at about a 9 min/mile pace.
Saturday, April 30
Goalty for 2.5 hours
Sunday, May 1
I took it easy today. I was hungover and still really sore from Friday. Went out and threw with some of the Masters players and we played hotbox for like 30 minutes.
Monday, May 2
I did MBar in the morning. I did 6X4 clean and press with a 20K kettebell for each arm. Followed that up with doing back dome for 15 seconds followed by a sit-up exercise. I did a prison type workout from 10 reps of the sit-ups to 1 rep, alternating with back dome between. Then I did 3 sets of 10 power wheel roll-outs and 15 sitting axe chops with a med ball for each side. Then did a 3 mile run in 25 min 53 sec later that afternoon.
This weekend is Steve's BP, so I am planning on Saturday being my rest day. Alternatively, I also might be really hung over Sunday so maybe I'll workout out at the Aloft hotel on Saturday and make Sunday my rest day. We'll see how I feel this weekend. I like the idea of doing 2 a days at least 2 or 3 times a week. I'm also going to start going to MBar before goalty. I might be tired for goalty, but the goal is to rock the TM, not goalty. I actually have been enjoying working out and pushing myself. I find that at the beginning of a run or a bike ride I hate it. Then in the middle and toward the end I want to rock it. Like I said above though, I need to work on pushing myself. In the end I am my worst enemy at performing at a high rate.
On a separate note, I would like to try to get together with the Madison TM peeps and try to plan some kind of obstacle course for us to do. An extended trail run would be cool. Not this Sunday, but maybe next Sunday. Here's to being one ToughMudder.
Friday, April 29
Went to MBar in the morning. We did a 4 exercises for 6 minutes of each exercise. Each set was 15 sec of work followed by 15 sec of rest. The exercises were push ups, pull ups, Hindu jump squats, and jungle gym xt leg curls. Then I did a 5 mile run with Jennie in the afternoon at about a 9 min/mile pace.
Saturday, April 30
Goalty for 2.5 hours
Sunday, May 1
I took it easy today. I was hungover and still really sore from Friday. Went out and threw with some of the Masters players and we played hotbox for like 30 minutes.
Monday, May 2
I did MBar in the morning. I did 6X4 clean and press with a 20K kettebell for each arm. Followed that up with doing back dome for 15 seconds followed by a sit-up exercise. I did a prison type workout from 10 reps of the sit-ups to 1 rep, alternating with back dome between. Then I did 3 sets of 10 power wheel roll-outs and 15 sitting axe chops with a med ball for each side. Then did a 3 mile run in 25 min 53 sec later that afternoon.
This weekend is Steve's BP, so I am planning on Saturday being my rest day. Alternatively, I also might be really hung over Sunday so maybe I'll workout out at the Aloft hotel on Saturday and make Sunday my rest day. We'll see how I feel this weekend. I like the idea of doing 2 a days at least 2 or 3 times a week. I'm also going to start going to MBar before goalty. I might be tired for goalty, but the goal is to rock the TM, not goalty. I actually have been enjoying working out and pushing myself. I find that at the beginning of a run or a bike ride I hate it. Then in the middle and toward the end I want to rock it. Like I said above though, I need to work on pushing myself. In the end I am my worst enemy at performing at a high rate.
On a separate note, I would like to try to get together with the Madison TM peeps and try to plan some kind of obstacle course for us to do. An extended trail run would be cool. Not this Sunday, but maybe next Sunday. Here's to being one ToughMudder.
Monday, May 2, 2011
Bad Shoulders and Super Legs...
All in all, this was a successful weekend of working out...
Goaltimate was relocated to an elementary school. Before entering the field of battle, I decided to challenge myself and and see if I could conquer the monkey bars at the playground. With a bit of a nervous sweat covering my brow, I heroicly stepped up, held my feet off the ground and dominated those Monkey Bars like it was 1990 again. Just for good measure, I did it again after goaltimate. And again. And again. Next time I bring the grease. I am gaining confidence that I may actually stay dry for that obstacle. Boo yah!
On Saturday, I played goaltimate for 3 hrs which kicked my ass. Then did my TM workout from the other day later in the afternoon before heading out for some celebratory birthday drinks with IO.
Sunday, however, I woke up with my left shoulder stiff and sore. Normally, I would say my pain free range of motion is about 90%, but the pain is minimal and, with effort, I can successfully go through the full range of motion. On Sunday, I would say my pain free range of motion was somewhere around 75% and I could only get through roughly 85% unassisted but 100% with the help of a door fram or something. Not good. I popped some anti-inflammatories that I had left over from when my shoulder was real messed up. And, today its better. Sore. but manageable. Looks like I will have to spend extra care easing into upper body workouts.
Because of the shoulder thing, I concentrated on lower body Sunday. I borrowed the "Super Legs" workout that Jordan Bingham used during Thrill Show conditioning practices. Great leg workout. I think I will incorporate it into my M/W conditioning days.
Here is what I did (there are some variations that I will incorporate later)...
20 squats
20 lunges (10 on each side)
20 scissor kicks
10 jump squats
The entire set should be done in less than 2 minutes and I did three sets. Some of the variations are Burpees, skater squats, even pushups if your legs are sore. If I am at home, sometimes I add in a wall sit.
I also add in some core work as well - planks, situps, etc.
Hope you all had a good weekend!
Goaltimate was relocated to an elementary school. Before entering the field of battle, I decided to challenge myself and and see if I could conquer the monkey bars at the playground. With a bit of a nervous sweat covering my brow, I heroicly stepped up, held my feet off the ground and dominated those Monkey Bars like it was 1990 again. Just for good measure, I did it again after goaltimate. And again. And again. Next time I bring the grease. I am gaining confidence that I may actually stay dry for that obstacle. Boo yah!
On Saturday, I played goaltimate for 3 hrs which kicked my ass. Then did my TM workout from the other day later in the afternoon before heading out for some celebratory birthday drinks with IO.
Sunday, however, I woke up with my left shoulder stiff and sore. Normally, I would say my pain free range of motion is about 90%, but the pain is minimal and, with effort, I can successfully go through the full range of motion. On Sunday, I would say my pain free range of motion was somewhere around 75% and I could only get through roughly 85% unassisted but 100% with the help of a door fram or something. Not good. I popped some anti-inflammatories that I had left over from when my shoulder was real messed up. And, today its better. Sore. but manageable. Looks like I will have to spend extra care easing into upper body workouts.
Because of the shoulder thing, I concentrated on lower body Sunday. I borrowed the "Super Legs" workout that Jordan Bingham used during Thrill Show conditioning practices. Great leg workout. I think I will incorporate it into my M/W conditioning days.
Here is what I did (there are some variations that I will incorporate later)...
20 squats
20 lunges (10 on each side)
20 scissor kicks
10 jump squats
The entire set should be done in less than 2 minutes and I did three sets. Some of the variations are Burpees, skater squats, even pushups if your legs are sore. If I am at home, sometimes I add in a wall sit.
I also add in some core work as well - planks, situps, etc.
Hope you all had a good weekend!
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