Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Seemed like a good idea.

Played in the Godzilla bowl last night. Lost, hurt my foot, but kicked a little ass.

Today, from the crossfit site:
For time, 25 Walking Lunges, 20 Pull ups, (box jumps and double unders replaced with 500M row because of sore foot), 25 dips, 20 Knees to elbows, 30x 45 lb DB swings, 30 sit ups, 20x 30 kg hang squat cleans, 25 back extensions, 30x 20 kg thrusters, 3 x 20m bear crawl (subbed for rope climbs). 23:26. Youch.

Friday, August 24, 2012

Death by...

...100 cuts.

Today I set up 5 cones 5 yards apart. Starting in the middle: cut to 5 yards, back across the middle to 5 yards, across to 10 yards, across to 10 yards, back to middle, to 5, across to 5, across to 10 across to 10, back to middle. It takes 30 seconds. Rest 90 seconds. Repeat 10 times. Its fucking brutal.

Yesterday was a light day of power cleans. First with the barbell warm (65lbs) 10 x deadlifts, squats, hangs, presses, sumo's, OHS. Then 3 x 95/115/125/135/115. Easy and I kept good form. Did 5 knees to elbows in between. Finished with 20KG hip-ups (20 with both feet on the ground, 15 right, 15 left 20 both).

Wednesday, August 22, 2012

mountain time

press: 110x5,5,3
squats: 235x5,5,5
chins: 5,4,4 (use a stricter form like i think i'm supposed to)
curly curls: 70x8,6,8 (did the first set immediately following the chins so maybe that's why the second set fell off).

also, i think it was 5 years ago today that i wandered into the Cognos gym and started this oddyssey.

The mess

Every year after Nationals (10!) I feel quite the bio-mechanical mess. This year is not quite the exception, but close. With scabby knees and one of them quite sore on the inside I went out at lunch to burn off some work despair.

1600m- 6:06, rest 3 minutes
1200m- 4:45, rest 2 minutes
800m  - 3:25, rest (a really short) 1 minute
400m  - 1:25

Monday, August 20, 2012

Post nationals

by some coincidence i was purging my old and superfluous and small clothes yesterday. as nationals marched on, i purged old team shirts (but i still have a box of swag - shhh).

today -
(I was still walking funny from my squats on Thursday so I did the deadlift instead today)

bench: 150x5 finding the base
cleans: 135x3,3,3,3,3
deadlift: 255x5
and some wrist curly things because I find stronger forearms really help with the DL, chins, and bench.

My wife isn't letting me do cardio because of my walking issues from Thursday.

Nats

Nine games, 1 win, no injuries. Well...


Thursday, August 16, 2012

back in the saddle again

finding the base on squats & presses
squats: 235x5
press: 110x5

chins: 5,4,4
phone curls: 65x8,8,8

finisher: suitcase walks (1 handed farmer's walk?) 95 x3. 1:28, 1:03, 1:33. Walk 30m, switch hands, walk back. Hard with barbell. Off by the slightest and it starts pointing towards the floor. Rest period was equal to work but I might change that to 60s for simplicity's sake.

<some time later>

20 minute-ish jog.

Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Of late

Getting ready for Nationals.

G and I created a brutal conditioning workout: Death by 100 cuts. Five cones, 5 yards apart, start in the middle then cut to 5, 10, 15, 20, middle, 5,10,15, 20 middle. Rest 90 sec. Repeat 10x.

On the weekend I ran 5K on the hottest day of the century. 23:50. Lots of stops. Frisbee practice Sunday night.

Tuesday was a loner work workout: Run 1 mile (5:58) 50 squats, 50 push ups, 50 sit ups (by 10's) and then run 400M (1:11).  Also pretty brutal.

Today with Scales we lived the goodlife: 150 thrusters with 30kg. Fug. Lightened the load to 20KG at 100; 17:05.

Monday, July 30, 2012

HELLO...

Lo.Lo..lo...lo

Been a while. Summer time super busy mode. Moved house (yeah back yard box), moved mountains (at work) and just plain moved. Lots of running and frizzbee related training this summer. Almost every other day I go out sprinting / running in some form or another, with fellow frizz guys or on my own. I have only been to the gym a few times (squats one day, cleans once, a few circuits with Scales lately -I think he loves them).

Of note over the past summer: knee feels 110%, 5k time is consistent at ~22 and change, 16-12-8-4 a few weeks back was 6:00, 4:33, 3:22, 1:17, did 8x 200m sprints with 400 m recovery runs last week, have played 3 tournaments, one of which was this weekend. Last weekend I worked out in my backyard and neighbourhood in the hot sun. Rounds of thrusters and 800m runs and sit ups. It was awful. I did it with my shirt off and felt cool running on the path. The dip in the pool afterward was awesome.

Today, despite tourney legs, made up a circuit and did it: 5 rounds for time of 500m row, 15 x 65lb presses, 15 front extensions. Did it in a not entirely exhausting 33:30. The presses were hard.

Only 2 weeks to go until nats, for which my team qualified by being the only team in our province to want to compete. Its an "off year", so they say.

Thursday, June 21, 2012

white slacker

deadlift: 110kgx6
bench: 65kgx5,5,6
row: 65kgx8,8,8
phone curls: 40kgx5,5,5

"run" 7.5km/h, 2 miles

Monday, June 18, 2012

vote for pedro

That was on a t-shirt I saw today.

deadlift: 105kgx5
bench: 65kgx5,5,3 - well who knows, the guy working there offered to spot and then helped me without my actually failing. Maybe I would have made it.
rows: 62.5kgx8,8,8
phone curls: 32.5kgx8,8,8

forgot my gym shorts so no cardio. 

Tuesday, June 12, 2012

sweat lodge

deadlift: 100kgx5
bench: 60kgx8,8,8
db press: heaviestx6,6,6
phone curls: 30kgx10,10,8

run: 2miles @ 7.5kmh

Friday, June 8, 2012

ninatoka Canada (Vancouver!)

If I say I am from Canada, this is the most common response.

Monday:
5.4 miles in 1:02. Then we boarded the plane.

Friday:
bench: 60kgx6,6,6
db press: heaviest (not that heavy) x5,5,5
bb row: 60kgx8,8,8

run - 25min @ 7.5kmh, 150bpm. This was tougher than I expected. Could be hangover related. Or I'm a wus.

Tonight we're going to Indian Bingo. Apparently this is a thing.  Last night was keg party at Caribou Court (Canadian residence of CIDA and DFAIT workers). Night before was Brazilian BBQ (overunder, don't bother, josey is already tired of the Brazilian sausage party jokes).

Monday, June 4, 2012

hodi

so when I was in town last week I mentioned that I had been working out but hadn't posted. Here we go!:

Strength workouts -
Apr 12
Clean 135x3x5
Row 135x8,8,11
Sumo 225x8
Curls 65x12,12,9

Apr 23
Squat 225x5,5,5
Bench 145x5,5,8

Apr 28
Squat 230x5x3
Bench 147.5x5,5,8
Clean 137.5x3x5

Apr 30
Chins 7,7,4
Rows 137.5x6,6,6
Sumo 225x11

May 1
Squats 235x5x3
Bench 150x5x3

May 3
Cleans 140x3x5
Chins 7,6,4
Curls 65x8

May 5
Squat 240
Bench 152.5

May 7
Clean 142.5x3,3,2,2,1
Rows 137.5x8x3

May 16
Squat 245x5x3
Bench 155x5x3

May 19
Squat 250x5x3
Bench 157.5x5x3

May 23
Squat 255x5,5,5
Bench 160x5,5,4
Row 140x8,8,8

Runnin' and runnin' -
date             miles   time
4/28/2012    2.02    0:22:08
4/30/2012    2.00    0:24:00
5/2/2012    2.00    0:28:34
5/5/2012    2.00    0:29:15
5/7/2012    3.33    0:40:00
5/17/2012    3.33    0:40:00
5/28/2012    3.00    0:32:39
5/31/2012    3.00    0:29:42

Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Race weekend!

Spent at a marathon wine club then mildly hungover, which poutine eventually cured.

Yesterday I did Sunday's crossfit: A warm up then 3x3x3x3x3x3x3 cleans, starting at 95 and ending at 145, then back down to 135 for the last set. Then 5 rounds (1 per minute) of 5 dips and 5 knees to elbows.

Frisbee game in the evening.

Monday, May 21, 2012

Exactly a workout

Took Benno to frisbie (my god, he is pretty fun to watch) and while he played I:
Ran 5 K (21:48), 3 minutes rest then did 100 push ups  and 150 squats and cloccked out at 38:52.

Not exactly a workout 2

Sushi for lunch on Friday.

However Saturday sweetie and Timmy and I went out for a bike-ride-park-jogging stroller outing and did quite a bit of moving in the AM. Tried out those bright red shoes. Mmmm.

Sunday I did a crossfit; 3 rounds for time of 50 double unders, 40 sit ups, 30 20lb cleans, 20 pull ups, 10 handstand push ups (progressions). After 24:50 and only 2 rounds a pomegranate mimosa seemed like a MUCH better form of fitness, so I stopped. Cheers!

Not exactly a workout...

...more of a birthday present. Picked up a pair of these on Thursday and they are an instant hit. Get some.

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Easy

Another Innovation Dr. run with G, S and W.

150 m run @75%, 100m jog, 50 m walk, repeat 11x

Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Help from Friends

Frisbee runs with G and co worker S on innovation.

Light warm up then a 2 mile run (15.28 -I won!)
2x 80 m sprints, walking rest, Repeat.
2x 40m sprints, 20m coast, 40 msprints. Repeat.
Kicker (my request) 20m walking lunges, 10 pushups, repeat 3 x. + 10 tuck jumps.