6K(-ish) Swing Challenge - Day 8 of 12
Sunday - 16 October 2022
Workout: Swing & chin-up + penalty round, 0620-0700 + 0800-0805 (40 + 5 minutes)
6 rounds of:
a) 10 swing, 1 chin
b) 15 swing, 2 chin
c) 25 swing, 3 chin
d) 50 swing
e) 90-second rest
Time: 32:42
Swings: 8400/6000(-ish)
Fasted. Went to bed later than usual last night, so I turned my alarm off, rolled over, slept another half-hour this morning. But I’m somehow running about a full hour behind. Anyway…
Chins at 45 lbs today—remember how I said grip wasn’t a big challenge anymore? That was before I did this workout with a plate strapped to me. WOW! I’ve never done weighted chins at 45 lbs before, but now that I have, I realize how lop-sided my eccentric is: I really rely on my right arm to bear the weight during the descent, particularly when my left grip is shot.
Oh, and the last 10 swings of the last round were just awful, definitely the closest I’ve come to losing the KB. I was really cheating the ROM on the upswing during those reps just so I didn’t lose it!
That doesn’t sit well with me, so I’ll do another round a bit later in the day before my second workout, but I won’t count the swings—they’ll just be that poor-form penalty thing I do sometimes.
Edit: 8400 swings in, my calluses have calluses, and those have blisters!
Can’t wait to see what kind of shape my hands are in at the end of this!
Edit 2: Okay, 10-15-20-50 penalty swings in 3:00 flat. They still hurt like the dickens, but my form was solid throughout. Oh, and bad news: I realized I forgot to do yesterday’s BB curls (again), so I own 141 unbroken for last week. Maybe I’ll get to those today, maybe I won’t, but I WILL catch up before this week’s 142 roll around.