The Last Couple Workouts

Wow, these last two workouts really drained me. The first being Fran's ugly mutilated step sister:

1000m row
21 Thrusters 95lbs
21 pull ups

750m row
15 Thrusters 95lbs
15 pull ups

500m row
9 Thrusters 95lbs
9 pull ups

I came the closest I ever did to throwing up at this one. I contemplated not finishing it, but after giving myself some rest towards the end, I decided that I should finish it no matter how long it took (which was about 34 min and 42 seconds).

I was done by the time the pull ups were introduced. Rowing and Thrusters literally drained all my energy. I did eat before, but I think I should have waited (Chicken w/brown rice, vegetables-onions; green pepper; snap peas; carrots and broccoli, some sunflower seeds thrown in and water) a little bit longer than 20 min (that's the high end). All in all I was glad to have accomplished it, but would have liked to have had a bit more energy to complete it faster. I really think I need to work more on cardio endurance...which is strange, given the next topic which was yesterdays workout:

21-15-9
135 lb clean
Ring dips

We don't have ring dips at work and I don't own any personally; and I sure as hell am not doing 63-45-28 for dips again. F that crap. So I asked one of the Assistant fitness managers for help and he directed me towards the hanging leg raise pad deal things (I'm spacing out right now). Where you place your elbows in them and hold onto the bar above you. They are very unstable and provide for a great substitute if nothing else is available. This one took me just around 31.5 minutes to complete (I did stop and talk with the maintenance guy, but I think I would have taken breaks periodically throughout that would have equated to that time spent talking, which was probably about 2 min if that).

I like cleans. Cleans are fun and I had our Fitness Manager point out something improper I was doing and told me how to correct that, so I was trying to work on it the rest of the time (Hard for me to describe on here what it was). The dips were pretty challenging so I had to break them off into smaller groups, take a little break and keep going.

The strange thing about this workout in relation to my comment about improving cardio is that during this workout I felt my heart was fine; my heart endurance could keep up, but the muscular endurance just wasn't there at all. I have only had this happen a couple times before and it's very strange when it does happen, because after the workout I feel as though I could keep going; but I know that I just don't have the strength to do so.