Saturday-Day 47
Did the noon class at my friend's CrossFit gym today. After getting my teeth out on Tuesday I felt well rested...until the workout which was a 20 min AMRAP that was split up into teams of 3. To those unfamiliar with CrossFit terms, AMRAP stands for "as many rounds as possible" or "as many reps as possible." The workout wasn't difficult but it was my friend, a random guy that probably just started working out and myself. Needless to say my friend and I had to pick up the slack which led to the two of us getting less rest and doing 75-90% of all the reps of the workout ha. I understand that everybody has to start somewhere but it was a little ridiculous for my first workout back after a few days off. Here was the workout:
Warm up: CrossFit plyometric exercises followed by shuttle run
Workout
20 min AMRAP of:
1 length Farmer's carry, bear crawl (up,back) alternated with 15 burpees, 20 air squats, 25 situps
(While one person is performing farmer's carry,bear crawl other 2 partners are completing reps one at a time)
Additional core work after workout
1,2,3,2,1 of: hollow hold while doing V-ups, pushup (resting in top position), air squats(resting in bottom position)
Cooldown: 10 min walking around socializing and catching my breath ha my mouth was throbbing
Went home and spent the next few hours playing league of legends with my friend from the gym and then started getting ready for work. But not before I had enough time to PR on my plank again...by like a minute.
Final time-8:45
It was super shitty for the first 5 minutes but after that I kind of zoned out. Arms were difficult to unbend once I got finished but after that not too bad. I really will get ten minutes soon and it's not like a regular plank is the most amazing thing in the world as far as core exercises or in general but the amount of pain you have to endure really helps with mental toughness. After almost hitting 9 minutes I feel like nothing can phase me physically anymore. And just to put things in perspective the guy that currently holds the world record for a plank or "abdominal bridge" does it for like 2 hours. Fucking insane...the guy is in his 40's or 50s and is a total badass. The record was like 30 minutes before he obliterated it.