HB #8, Season 9 and some HIIT...

...Or SMIT, or whatever. On 10/9/18 i got in HB 8. Prior to that (notably prolly less than an hour prior) i went out for some HIIT Sprints. That'd be High Intensity Intervals for the parsimonious; and after more research, i discovered there's a difference between that and SupraMax Intervals (or SMIT) which is what i and most folks are actually doing, and what apparently works more effectively for fat loss and fitness increases at any rate. The difference, i gather, resides in percent VO2max attained; and since that's not practically measurable outside a lab, and even with a HRM the goal is basically to run my butt off for the interval, i'll use the terms interchangeably. So with terms equivalent, and HIIT (clearly) sounding cooler than SMIT (which evokes an image of having stepped in something), i'll have done HIIT workouts, thankyouverymuch.

So: on 10/9--would'a' been Tues--i did a HIIT Sprint workout, which went much better than the flolloping miss with weights the few days antecedent. I had trouble finding a settled-upon timer for these, so i used a pre-programmed timer from SecondsPro, which had me doing 20sec work intervals with 10 secs rest between. Had some minor glitches (as i couldn't really hear my watch beep ending the intervals), but it went really well and i think i laid down 9 intervals. Did at the least get my HR into the low 180s, which would exceed my age predicted max HR.

After that, i had more time to research a li'l more thoroughly, and it seems my rest interval was way too short. For today i reset my watch to 20sec work intervals, and 40sec rest, and the rest amounted to basically walking slowly and sucking wind instead of jogging. I think that went way better, and i got better quality musculocardiopulmonary destruction. Again, did 9 sets today.

Also on 10/9 i got in HB #8. Weighed in again at 202 clothed.

WUJ: -15

Large Open:
1: +10: ↔ No fail.
2: +30: ↔ No fail. Maybe a li'l pumpy at the end.
3: +50: ↔ Yeah. Just not too bad.

Small Crimp:
1: -65: ↔ Tiny pump at the end. No fail.
2: -45: ↔ No fail! Really not bad.
3: -20: ↑ Got 1 solid. Failed last 3 secs rep 2, and total fail rep 3.

F 2/3/4 [Untaped prior]:
1: -15: ↔ Yeah, no fail.
2: +5: ↔ No fail. Pretty easy this time!
3: +35: ↑ yeah! Pretty easy. Increase.

Slopa':
1: +20: ↔ Ok yeah! No fail for once!
2: +40: Woot! No fail!
3: +75: ↑ HAHA! No fail!

F 3/4/5:
1: -40: ↔ No fail. Felt better today.
2: -20: ↔ No fail. Hardish.
3: +5: ↑ HA!! No fail!

SemiClosed:
1: -50: ↔ No fail. Not too bad!
2: -30: ↔ No fail! Hard hard, but no fail. Better!
3: +5: ↑ I think i can say i got 2 solid and failed last 1/2 last rep. ish. Timer caught me off guard and i got my fingers in the wrong place which threw me off on the first rep.

This was just an encouraging workout. Some of the tweaks that've been plaguing me and making me nervous have subsided, and i felt like i kinda busted through a plateau through this and the last few workouts. One HB to go. Looking forward to the power sessions. :)