robbiew's log

[robbiew]

Missed a few days training thru tonsilitis but last night I did a circuit of roughly 20mins made up of 10 rounds of 15 burpess, 4 pullups and 10 pushups.

Total:

150 burpees
40 pullups
100 pushups

2 x planks @ 1m 30secs

3 x bicycle crunches (15/side)

[robbiew]

25 burpees warmup

L1D1: 61 rounds

3 x planks for 1 minute

Gotta get rid of this...again!

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[robbiew]

2 x 25 burpees warm up

L1D2 timings:
28 seconds
28 seconds
27 seconds
28 seconds
27 seconds

I felt ok so I had a 5 minute rest then did L2D3:
Pullups 8;1;1
Pushups and squats I did without pausing. Time taken was 1 minute 28 seconds.

[KTG]

Great job! It looks like you have terrific strength base. My bet, alas, is that the diet fight is really going to be key.

[robbiew]

You are so right about the diet! Up to October last year I was doing ok...no pot belly! But I was made redundant end of the year and training (except for cycling) took a back seat and the snack monster emerged. At 51 the fat collects really quickly when the munchies take over and training lapses!! I know I'll struggle as I move up the levels unless I eat more sensibly! That's the reason I posted a pic of myself to keep focussed...not healthy to be like that!!

[robbiew]

A warm up of 30 burpees followed by;

L2D1....57 rounds. That extra pushup made me sweat big time and I can feel it in my triceps!!

[robbiew]

Forgot to post my workout on Wednesday!!

Warmup of 30 then 15 burpees.

L2D2: Times for the rounds were:
R1 32s; R2 30s; R3 29s; R4 30s and R5 30s.

Today I did a 30 burpee warmup then....

L2D3 Total time was 1min 42secs.
Pullups 9, 1, 1, 1, 1. My forearms didn't want to know!! I think I should've warmed my arms up properly too.
The pushups and squats I did without pausing.

Don't know whether to do L2 again until I can do all the pullups without stopping....I'll have a think about that one!

[KTG]

Great job! I think you've clearly got this level down. For most of us the D3 test can include as many breaks as necessary to get through all of the reps.

[robbiew]

Thanks! I could go up a level I'm sure, but when I was on Simplefit previously I tried to go up a level every week. This resulted in the worst tennis elbows you could imagine! I read somewhere that although your muscles adapt quickly to the workload and get stronger, it takes your tendons a couple of weeks to get to the same level. Maybe this was why I got such bad tendinitis in my elbows...I wasn't giving my tendons enough time to adapt to the workload and get stronger. Don't know if this is a fact but it seems to fit in with the trouble I had. For this reason I'm gonna do level 2 again!