HB #7 Season 9

Didn't get to post for the last few days.

Yesterday (would'a' been 10/7/18) was cold and rainy, and i went out to the shop for a Tabata type workout. That went horribly, and showed me in stark fashion how outta shape and generally weak i've become. Somewhat depressing, but not really unexpected. Basically tried Push Ups, Bent BB Rows, and Hanging Straight Leg Raises. I used a timer that comes stock in SecondsPro, and it worked out to be a 20/10sec duty/rest cycle for 8 intervals with 1 minute rest between exercises. I could not find something like an optimal or agreed-upon HIIT scheme online, and what i could make a timer out of was so vague and disparate, that i gathered it really doesn't matter what you do or how long you do it as long as it is very high intensity. 

In a nutshell, all the exercises were too heavy, and i ended up modifying 'em to finish. One ends up doing a lotta reps with that kind o' structure. PushUps i knew i could do a few sets of 40 or so, but not 8 cycles as it turned out, and i ended up hitting my knees to keep the burn going. Started way heavy on the Rows, paused the timer to drop weights and was still heavy, and just ended up doing a Row/Deadlift/Row to keep moving. That was sorta tragic. On the SLRs i did get 3 or 4 sets, but then melted and switched to Planks for the last few. Again, used to be able to hold a Plank for 2 or 3 minutes without a rest, which would be the entire exercise cycle; so for these to hurt i have lost some goodly amount of fitness. At any rate, i need to incorporate more HIIT style training into the plan. And i need to lift a weight more than every 9 months. 

On Sat. 10/6/18 i got in HB #7. This came after a coupla' days of basically overtraining, and i went through the day really dragging. Went to work out more to stay on schedule than with hopes of pushing limits; but this was one of the best HB workouts i've layed down in a very long time. This, again, was on the Heavy timer. Weighed in at 202 lbs clothed. 

WUJ: -15

Large Open:

1: +10: ↔ No fail. Pretty easy.

2: +30: ↔ No fail. Not too bad! Cooler maybe.

3: +50: ↔ Nofail. Li'l pumpy, but not too bad. Really equivocal about increasing weights here.

Small Crimp:

1: -65: ↔ That felt really easy.

2: -45: ↑ Ha! No fail!

3: -25: ↑ WooWEE! Got 2 solid, then fail on the last.

F 2/3/4:

1: -15: ↔ No fail.

2: +5: ↔ Ok. No fail. Hard maybe...

3: +30: ↑ Whew! No fail! Cooler or something. Could go up there!

Slopa':

1: +20: ↑ Yeah. Maybe fail last 1/2 sec last rep.

2: +40: ↑ Last 3 sec last rep. OK OK.

3: +70: ↑ Last 1 sec! Not outta reach!

F 3/4/5:

1: -40: ↔ Li'l pumpy @ end, but no fail.

2: -20: ↔ Woo... Last sec last rep. Really tweaky!

3: BW: ↑ Ahhh! Maybe last 1/2 second! HA! Tweaky, but ok.

SemiClosed: 

1: -50: ↔ Oooo man! No fail. Torched at the end.

2: -30: ↔ Yeah, last 2-3 secs last 2 reps. Burnin'.

3: -Pin: ↑ Last 3 sec last rep. Hard, and i milked the thumb catches for that one.

This was a good workout, but odd. It was one of those spacey The-body-showed-but-the-mind-was-AWOL sort of workouts. Also it was pretty cool then by comparison to prior workouts, and that helped a ton. Good stuff.

Fri. 10/5/18 got in a 1:30 bike ride. Wasn't very good 'cuz i was thrashed from running the day prior, which was only 30 mins (on 10/4/18) and itself not too fresh due to (i think) a bike ride the day before.