I’ve just started taking a big old thermos of tea out seems to do the trick, bar warms up pretty quick. The pull ups at the park the other day were pretty eye opening though, think I almost got my hands stuck to them.
I’ll probably start slowly phasing this type of stuff in. There’s already a hefty workload involved here, so I don’t want to add too much too quickly.
@ChickenLittle it’s worth remembering that when we say “cold”, we mean cold for England. Today was “freezing” because technically it was hovering around the zero mark, but we’re definitely amateurs in the extreme weather game.
Swedish society almost literally requires a smartphone for identification (banking, healthcare, signing things digitally) otherwise I would get a dumb phone. If it weren’t stupidly expensive to run two cellphone plans I’d get a dumb one and keep my current smart phone for administration. Get an mp3 for music.
Jumps: 3 x 5
Hang Clean:
5 x 42.5kg
5 x 47.5kg
5 x 55kg
Front Squat:
5 x 65kg
5 x 72.5kg
5 x 80kg
Back Squat:
22 x 80kg
Press:
5 x 50kg ss. Kb carry (36 and 24kg)
5 x 50kg ss. 20 walking lunges
5 x 50kg ss. Kb carry (36 and 24kg)
5 x 50kg ss. 20 walking lunges
5 x 50kg ss. Kb carry (36 and 24kg)
5 x 50kg ss. 20 walking lunges
5 x 50kg ss. Kb carry (36 and 24kg)
5 x 50kg ss. 20 walking lunges and 20 air squats
5 x 50kg ss. Kb carry (36 and 24kg)
5 x 50kg ss. 20 walking lunges and 20 air squats
Dips:
3 x to failure ss. BPAs
Notes:
Felt sore AF going into this, all my legs from ankle up
Weights all felt fairly light and easy, volume definitely didn’t.
Stole @carlbm squat workout. Started the 20 rep squat set expecting to just do 20. Wasn’t dead at 20 so decided to push to 25, then something went horribly wrong in my neck around rep 22.
Walking lunges continue to suck but are a far better call than goblets for this part of the workout.
No run today because time, but also running in -2 probably sucks really bad. May run tomorrow but I expect it to be a 16 hour work day, so may also give it a rest.
Put one extra upper body work in too because I had 5 mins and the presses felt stupid easy.
You’re training in an unheated space right now, right? With a fat loss/body transformation goal, I got the best results in my training ever back when I was in North Dakota training in a garage during winters were it got to -60 F (with windchill) outside. For a helpful perspective in that, -45F is…-45C. It’s the one time the two temps meet.
But in either sense, I’ve heard things about “brown fat” response to cold weather, and damned if I could NEVER replicate the results I got when I was training in that environment. It seems to just strip away fat from the inside out.
All this to say, even if you don’t go for that run, training in the cold is probably doing some good.
