Really bumping up against time constraints here, and I was moving at a decent clip. Might need to be a bit more selective in which movements I do on which day…
Thursday - 22 May 2025 Workout: ???, 1700-1745 (45 minutes)
5 rounds of:
a) Pull-up (strict, various grips) - 5
b) Push-up - 10
c) Air squat - 15
d) KB swing - 32 kg - 15
e) Ab mat crunch - 15
Assault bike - 15 m
We’ll call that conditioning.
Interestingly, though, I’m falling into my own trap: This is supposed to be about whatever I feel like doing, but there’s a pattern emerging… Not sure if that’s a good thing or a bad thing, but whatever it is, I can’t seem to avoid it—even when I try!
Friday - 23 May 2025 Workout: ???, 0910-0950 (40 minutes)
(Modified) Elizabeth WOD - for time:
21-15-9
Power clean - 95 lbs
Dip - BW Time: 8:48
Assault bike - 15 m
Seated calf rasie - 120 lbs - 3 minutes
Modified to do power cleans instead of “regular” cleans and dips instead of ring dips. Time is abysmal, I’m sure, but I’m happy with how that went nonetheless.
Edit: Didn’t feel like doing those calf raises this morning, even though I had plenty of time. Went back and knocked them out this afternoon, though—good burn!
@Bagsy - Thanks for your comments, and for dropping in! Luckily we’re on the mend now—everything became much easier to deal with once power was restored.
(That said, NOT having power was an interesting experiment in being unplugged, and there were aspects of it that were quite refreshing!)
On the road early to see family, but knocked this just as soon as we got back. I’ll admit I really didn’t want to, but I went ahead and did it anyway—hopefully that bodes well for the future.
Ten minutes on the Assault bike to finish a workout you didn’t feel like doing in the first place requires a special kind of motivation (or level of insanity…). I’d say this definitely bodes well for the future. lol
@shaneinga - Thanks, man! I’m happy that neither my horizontal nor vertical pressing strength has fallen off too badly. (My lower body is a different story, though…)
Called it after that set at 300: I was hoping to go 315+, and there were reps in there, I’m sure, but I could tell the quality reps were pretty much gone—certainly there weren’t 5 crisp, fast reps left.
It is what it is—and that’s lots of opportunity! (Thanks, @simo74!)
