Workout Recap - Week of June 16, 2019
My home's air conditioner decided to stop working. Naturally, this coincided with a heat wave. So, yeah, that's sapped some of my enthusiasm for doing much of anything indoors. Nevertheless, I did grind out a full five workouts this week. The performances themselves weren't anything remarkable (not in a good way, at least), admittedly, but it's still better than not having done them.
Sunday
Type: As Fast As Possible
6 sets of:
6 Pull Ups
6 Burpees
6 Bridges
Time = 7:45
Bonus: hauling dirt
The bonus in this case wasn't anything regimented nor particularly quantifiable. However, the fact remains that I did help to load, unload, and carry around what amounted to roughly 1 ton of dirt just prior to doing this workout. It wasn't really something that I'd planned on, but it did turn out to be a nice real test of my fitness, and I feel that I more than held my own.
Tuesday
Type: As Fast As Possible
21/15/9 Pull Ups
21/15/9 Bridges
21/15/9 Mountain Climbers
21/15/9 Side Lunges, each side
Time = 9:30
Bonus: 5 breath isometric one-armed dead hangs
Truth be told, the fact that I can look at a workout that included forty-five pull ups and have nothing to say for it is something that I doubt will ever stop feeling amazing.
Thursday
Type: As Fast As Possible
4 sets of:
15 Close Squats
10 Lunges, each side
10 Divebomb Push Ups
15 Straight Leg Raises
Time = 11:00
Bonus: 8 hammer pull ups
It's pretty well-known that creativity is spurred through constraints and seed ideas, as opposed to just trying to make something up on a blank canvas. In this case, I'd wanted a workout that I could expect to take about ten minutes and that would include several movements other than burpees that would be slow, so that I could keep the rep target numbers to fifteen or less.
Friday
Type: Pass/Fail
Close Handstand Push Ups - 1 set of 7 (pass)
Stand-to-stand Bridges, one wall touch on the way up - 1 set of 10 (pass)
Skin-the-cats - 1 set of 8 (fail, 6+2)
Bonus: 5 kneeling fingertip push ups
I had approached this with the intention of doing two sets, but even as I was just getting warmed up, the heat was too much, so I switched over to a single larger set instead. Even so, I was a bit too ambitious with it, clearly, given the failure to meet the target for my skin-the-cats. On a related note, I think that I'm still missing the necessary flexibility and balance to do real stand-to-stand bridges, and I don't think that using a wall to help me get started on rising from the bridge position is the solution for that problem. Unfortunately, I'm not sure about what I can do to help develop that. I'll need to do some research and brainstorming on that front.
Saturday
Type: As Fast As Possible
7 sets of:
7 Pull Ups
7 Burpees
Time = 8:15
Bonus: 1 pull up, 1 burpee
I did it. That's all that needs to be said about this workout.
