Last 10 weeks seem to have paid off. Haven’t got my official report card yet but I did get my grades from my end of semester:
Maths C (Specialist Mathematics)
End of Semester, A+ (dropped 3 marks on the entire test)
Exit: A+
Maths B (Calculus and Pure Mathemaics)
End of Semester, A+ (dropped 4.5 marks of the entire test, 3 of them because I accidentally missed a question)
Exit: A
English
Written: A
Spoken: A
Physics
EEI (extended experimental report): A
End of Semester Exam: A-
Practical: A+
Music
Composition: A+
Analysis: A+
Performance/Practical: A-
Bonus points for improving 10 percentile points on the UMAT practice exams from my first to most recent attempts.
I’ve got three weeks until next term, and five until UMAT. Going to try getting sleep under control (6 hours a night sucks) and getting some more prep done.
Taking two pairs of these bad boys from dad’s laundromat. Each container is 20L, and I’m planning on filling two with sand and two with water for some loaded carry work.
That adds to roughly two 30kg blocks and two 20kg blocks
Carry around the block. This would be fine if we didn’t live on top of an 80ish metre hill at a 20% incline. It also takes 10-15min brisk walk to do one lap
Carries up and down the parking lot
Up and down stairs, seeing as we live in a ten storey building
Carry down the hill, sprint up, walk down, carry up the hill, repeat
Doing “suicides” carrying the block up to a lampost, leaving it, walking down, sprinting back and then carrying to the next lampost, walking down and sprinting back etc.
In short, most of it is cool ways of using the big ass hill
I might also try tying a harness or rope to the handle and using as a sled.
I know you’ve been using a sandbag at home, I’m considering picking one up from bunnings or something for some other type of carry/conditioning work
Going to start doing hard conditioning at least once weekly now that I’ve got extra time on my hands. It was good to see that my work capacity has actually improved since I started giant-setting, as I’ve been doing no other conditioning.
Sunday Conditioning Hillside Suicide
So the hill I live on has 6 lamp-posts up one side, each about 15m from the last. Starting from the bottom, I sprinted to the nearest post, walked back, then to the second post etc etc. Once I reached the highest post, a laddered back down
This was tough, but a lot easier than I expected. My conditioning has definitely improved a lot.
