Update 1: Ass thouroughly kicked

So a late night spent worrying and scheming about the workout that awaited me in the morning was followed by an "early" rise of 10AM by my esteemed coordinator asking me whether I could work today. "No", I replied. "You asked me to do stocktake at another store today".

So after some initial wasted breath I made my way to the gym. Having completed high intensity workouts previously I decided to forgo the recommended breakfast for fear of re-experiencing it mid workout. Turned out to be the right choice.

I sauntered into the gym head down, mega focussed as you would and started a quick warm up of dynamic stretches. Leg raises, arm rotations and all that lovely stuff.

Onto the actual workout:
The pull ups were probably the easiest of the exercises managed to do today. Whilst I did not do them in one almighty 25 rep set, I did manage 10, 10, 4, 1. A tad comical I must admit.

The dead lifts were done and dusted without too much fussing about. Squeezed em out in 15, 10,15,10. Not bad. Although in accordance with the Gym Jones range of motion rules the majority of the lifts would not count. I managed to lower the barbell to just above the floor but the extra centimetre or so was too much to consider even after the first 15 or so.

The push ups. As anticipated, were probably the easiest to push out. I managed them in the same manner as the dead lifts; 15, 10, 15, 10. I have to admit, the change of focus of the muscles, from lower back/legs to chest really took its toll. It was a good thing I had skipped breakfast as I have no doubt it would have be relived before the box jumps.

Speaking of, these turned out to be my undoing. The immediate change of focus caused a rush of blood back to my legs leaving my brain a tad under oxygenated. Dizziness kicked in at about the 15 rep mark and I was forced to retire from the attempt, defeated in body but not in spirit.

In the spirit of this workout, a benchmark to work up from, I attempted a set of floor wipers using a 40kg barbell. My hat goes off to anyone able to complete one of these; it is clear to me now that my core strength, despite what I had thought, is probably nowhere near what it should be.

Anticipating further failure I decided to continue with setting a benchmark, only using much lighter kettleballs. I grabbed two 8kg and did the prescribed 50 clean and press (with the balls touching the ground in between reps) in 5 sets of 10.

It was about here I could really feel my stomach churning. I took a breather and chugged some water down for about 10 minutes and eventually worked up the motivation to attempt the final 25 pull ups.

*sigh* I got 1 set of 10 out before I gave up. Mind you, these were perfect form, over-hand, head above the bar, pull ups. Kinda proud I was able to squeeze these out.

now, I must rush off to the aforementioned stocktake.

adios amigos

jubs