
taylor's workout log
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Rest week madness --
2/9/09
Ran intervals on treadmill x 5. 1 minute at around 10 mph, 2 minutes at 5 mph.
2/10/09
8 minute run, then 8 rounds on heavy bag, 2/1s. Finished off shooting hoops for 10 minutes or so, around a 45 minute workout in all.
2/11/09
L1D1 -- 41 rounds
Subbed dips for pushups until the end (shoulder started to hurt). Finished off with back extensions and situps, 20 each.
2/9/09
Ran intervals on treadmill x 5. 1 minute at around 10 mph, 2 minutes at 5 mph.
2/10/09
8 minute run, then 8 rounds on heavy bag, 2/1s. Finished off shooting hoops for 10 minutes or so, around a 45 minute workout in all.
2/11/09
L1D1 -- 41 rounds
Subbed dips for pushups until the end (shoulder started to hurt). Finished off with back extensions and situps, 20 each.
2/13/09
My favorite kind of "rest" day -- 8 rounds of 2/1s on the heavy bag, abs to follow, 5 minutes warm-up and cool-down.
Really went all out a few rounds. May have a slight injury to my left from some funky hooks, but otherwise it was AWESOME. Nothing that fun should be good for you. I get done, I want to die, but it's glorious.
Back to a strictly-interpreted L4 next week.
Also, started a quasi-Zone diet about 3 weeks ago now -- no sugar, bread or high-GI foods during the week, but I loosen it up for the weekend a little (a few beers, pancakes on Saturdays with the family). So far cut from about 173 to 168, and I'm finding myself gravitating towards good food. So, nice.
My favorite kind of "rest" day -- 8 rounds of 2/1s on the heavy bag, abs to follow, 5 minutes warm-up and cool-down.
Really went all out a few rounds. May have a slight injury to my left from some funky hooks, but otherwise it was AWESOME. Nothing that fun should be good for you. I get done, I want to die, but it's glorious.
Back to a strictly-interpreted L4 next week.
Also, started a quasi-Zone diet about 3 weeks ago now -- no sugar, bread or high-GI foods during the week, but I loosen it up for the weekend a little (a few beers, pancakes on Saturdays with the family). So far cut from about 173 to 168, and I'm finding myself gravitating towards good food. So, nice.
2/21/09
Long slow run through the Wilshire District. About 4 miles, about 45 minutes.
2/22/09
L4D3 -- 5:00 exactly. Crazy.
The good: Cranked out 10 full dead-hang pullups to start.
The bad: Could only manage sets of 3, then 2, after that. So wasted from the effort, could only do pushups in sets of 10.
The ugly: My inglorious failure at pullup 17, and the absurdly long break following it. Pullups took a full 2:40 -- had to race through the rest to finish, then collapsed in a heap.
Finished off with the customary fast-walk to the bookstore and back.
Long slow run through the Wilshire District. About 4 miles, about 45 minutes.
2/22/09
L4D3 -- 5:00 exactly. Crazy.
The good: Cranked out 10 full dead-hang pullups to start.
The bad: Could only manage sets of 3, then 2, after that. So wasted from the effort, could only do pushups in sets of 10.
The ugly: My inglorious failure at pullup 17, and the absurdly long break following it. Pullups took a full 2:40 -- had to race through the rest to finish, then collapsed in a heap.
Finished off with the customary fast-walk to the bookstore and back.
2/26/09
Rest day.
2/27/09
Okay, technically today was supposed to be L5D2. But I have a cruddy, frustrating secret I gotta spill.
I HATE LxD2. I just hate it. Call me a baby, whatever -- I don't look forward to it, I bum out when it's that day, and I half-ass it when I'm actually doing it. Love D1, great stuff. D3 is a bruising fitness test, dig it. D2 just feels like scut work. If I'm doing a strength workout, other than pullups, I feel like it should involve free weights. And then I wonder if one strength day with weights is enough. Getting enough cardio/interval stuff with D1/D3, boxing training and running, it feels like. Anybody else ever run into this?
So I gotta figure out what to do about it. Today? I did a modified StrongLift 5x5 workout -- 1 full round of L5D2 to warm up, then --
5x5 squats at 145#
5x5 bench at 135#
1x5 deadlift at 155#
3x5 pullups (failed on last set at 4)
Captain's chair abs
Any thoughts on this? I think I'll be sitting at L5 for a while, that seems about my level of fitness right now -- and maybe my enthusiasm for D2 will grow again -- but any favored substitutions would be most welcome.
Thanks for listening to me complain. All that said, I dig SimpleFit, love what it's doing to my fitness level, and can't say how much I appreciate Kevin's work and and the SF community's input.
Rest day.
2/27/09
Okay, technically today was supposed to be L5D2. But I have a cruddy, frustrating secret I gotta spill.
I HATE LxD2. I just hate it. Call me a baby, whatever -- I don't look forward to it, I bum out when it's that day, and I half-ass it when I'm actually doing it. Love D1, great stuff. D3 is a bruising fitness test, dig it. D2 just feels like scut work. If I'm doing a strength workout, other than pullups, I feel like it should involve free weights. And then I wonder if one strength day with weights is enough. Getting enough cardio/interval stuff with D1/D3, boxing training and running, it feels like. Anybody else ever run into this?
So I gotta figure out what to do about it. Today? I did a modified StrongLift 5x5 workout -- 1 full round of L5D2 to warm up, then --
5x5 squats at 145#
5x5 bench at 135#
1x5 deadlift at 155#
3x5 pullups (failed on last set at 4)
Captain's chair abs
Any thoughts on this? I think I'll be sitting at L5 for a while, that seems about my level of fitness right now -- and maybe my enthusiasm for D2 will grow again -- but any favored substitutions would be most welcome.
Thanks for listening to me complain. All that said, I dig SimpleFit, love what it's doing to my fitness level, and can't say how much I appreciate Kevin's work and and the SF community's input.
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V-ball, I guess that's my question. To my (totally, completely uneducated, small) brain, that high a rep count feels like an endurance exercise, vs. a pure strength day -- I just wonder if the time might be better spent pounding out heavy weights at lower reps.
Ah, hell, I'm probably just being a weenie about it. I hate the 3 minute rest, dig in again too quickly, then burn out before it's through. Maybe I should just try, you know -- doing it RIGHT for once...
Anyway.
2/28/09
Long slooooow run, 4 miles, 44 minutes.
Ah, hell, I'm probably just being a weenie about it. I hate the 3 minute rest, dig in again too quickly, then burn out before it's through. Maybe I should just try, you know -- doing it RIGHT for once...
Anyway.
2/28/09
Long slooooow run, 4 miles, 44 minutes.
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