Training and Over Tired

Yesterday was a long day for me and I wasn't sure how KB class was going to go. I had planned to do our long, boring, non-thinking workout so that we could just do a lot of work and get it over with. Then I got this insane idea that we would do that work out but with a crazy rep range. Here is what we did:

Alternating Cleans, Clean and Press and Snatches. What I mean is that you do one clean on your right arm, switch hands using a H2H swing and then do a clean on your left. Continue in this fashion back and forth. You can do alot more at a time because neither arm is working continuously.

The ridiculous rep range was:

Set one - 20 reps per arm on each exercise

Set tw0 - 30 reps per arm on each exercise

Set three - 50 reps per arm on each exercise (we ran out of time and stamina. I only got 2 of the exercises done this go round and others got 35 reps of each exercise)

Try it out. I used a 16 for the cleans and a 12 for the rest. Our big guy used a 20 kg for most of the class. I can tell you that the rain set in and we were nice and hot, muggy and sweaty by the time it was all over.

I wish...

I was better at this blogging thing. Time just gets away from me and all of a sudden it is 2 months later and I haven't written one thing.

Things for the Triathlon are going well. I have amended my time to 1 hour and 30 minutes although that will be stretching it for me - I am super slow on the bike. Here is what I have done for the last week.

Tuesday, May 18th
Am swim. Instead of the warm-up I went ahead and did a timed 500 yards. It took about 13 minutes and I did 2/3 of the way freestyle. Not bad. Then I did another 750 yards and called it a morning.

PM Kettlebells. We did upwards of 420 snatches in an hour. It was hard.

Wednesday, May 19th
AM strength Training w/ Marc. We did a circuit that included banded pushups, banded triceps, and heavy KB rows.

Afternoon Ride. We rode our 10 mile loop in 56 minutes.

Thursday, May 20th
AM Cardio. I did my 2 mile sprint in 19 minutes, working a little bit on level 7.0

PM Kettlebells. We did 2 big circuits: #1 - Judo Chops and Deadlifts, 5 reps for 10 rounds. I used a 16 Kg for the Judo's and an 88 lb. for the DL's. #2 - C&P and Stiff Leg DL's, same set/rep scheme. I used the 16 Kg and the 88 Kg. Oh yeah and for the warm-up I did 50 swings w/ the 106 lb and 50 with a 16 Kg.

Friday, May 21st
AM Cardio. 2 Mile sprint in 18:45 - I ran in 2 minute intervals on 6.0, 6.5, 7.0, 6.5, 6.0 then back up and down.

AM Strength Training. We punked out this morning and did 30 minutes of easy band squats and then 30 minutes of stretching

Saturday, May 22nd
AM Kettlebells. We did the double front raise, snatch, snatch press combo for 5 sets of 6 reps each, Bottoms up presses for 4 sets of 5 and some more presses to equal an hour.

Afternoon Bike Ride. My quads were so tired but I pushed hard to try to get my time down. we did the 10 mile loop in 54 minutes this time.

Sunday, May 23rd
I thought I needed some run time outside on the pavement. I ended up running just under 3 miles in about 30 minutes and finishing off with about 2.4 miles extra in walking. I will do this again next week to see if my time or distance improves.

Monday, May 24th
I just did strength training this morning. We did squats w/ 95 lbs. for a set of 25, 50 and 100. Then we did bench press with the mini bands doubled for 10 sets of 5 reps - fast.