Friday, April 16, 2010

Heavy workouts suck too

Today's workout was a strength workout followed by a heavy lifting metcon.  I didn't think that it would be too bad.  After yesterday's workout, I don't think it could be any worse.  I started with a warmup of stretching out and some squats, pushups and burpees.  I also did a half mile jog at 6 mph on the treadmill.  I felt pretty good after the warmup and thought that the workout would go nice and easy.  WRONG!

I started doing the bench press, which was the strength portion.  Not as strong as I would have liked, but hey, you have to start somewhere.  After finishing the strength portion, I set up the bar for deadlift.  The 15 min. metcon workout called for 5 deadlifts at 315 lbs. and 10 toes to bar, as many rounds as possible.  I can't quite get my toes to the bar, so I modified those and did knees to elbows.  Still, it sucked.  About halfway through, a callous on my hand ripped open on the deadlifts, which makes the rest of the workout a pain in the ass.  I pushed through and got a very disappointing 4 rounds.  Man, was I smoked though.  This workout brought me back to reality.  It taught me never to underestimate a workout, because heavy workouts suck just as much.

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