What I have done for the new year is make a concerted effort to modify my training; rather than the same cycle I was doing over and over...run, lift, run, lift...I wanted to mix it up and try some new things. Actually, I started early...I started in with this new stuff on 30 Dec. ;-)
I'm tracking some...albeit not all...workouts on 4x6 note cards, not just to keep track but to also keep a record and see how much I can improve. When I do weight-lifting (including cycles of pullups and pushups with a 40lb weight vest), I don't usually record those workouts.
The first workout, on 30 Dec, was cycling through three exercises...burpees, pullups, and V-sits. Totals, spread across 6 sets (started with 30 burpees as a warm-up on set 0):
Burpees: 235
Pullups: 70
V-sits: 215
On 3 Jan, I did another cycle workout, this one with burpees, pullups, 2-ct situps and 4-ct flutter kicks. Totals:
Burpees: 305
Pullups: 86
Situps: 115
flutter kicks: 280
Since then, I've done what I refer to as Champe hill repeats; there's a high school in my neighborhood with a hill in front of it, and running to the top and back down to the corner is probably close to 1/2 mile. What I'll do is start with a 2+ mile run in the neighborhood to warm up, and then do hill repeats...but I'll run some of the legs carrying an old tire that I found. On 13 Jan, I did a 6x hill repeat run, carrying a tire on legs 1, 3, 4, and 6. On 15 Jan, I did a 5x hill repeat run, carrying a tire on legs 1, 3, and 5.
Today, I did another cycle workout, one I called a "modified Murph". The "Murph" is a WOD named for Navy SEAL Lt Michael Murphy, and here's an excellent rendition of the story behind the man. The WOD consists of run 1 mile, then do 100 pullups, 200 pushups, 300 squats, and then run 1 mile. I did a modified version of the WOD, as I didn't have time to get out today before it got dark...so my version was:
150 V-sits
106 pullups
310 pushups
390 body weight squats
180 flutter kicks
So...nothing to do but keep going. Mud on!
