new personal best

Tonight, once again I worked out a little while doing the grill thing.

Tonight I tried un-even double swings. 16kg in the left hand, 24kg in the right hand. 5 swings. Switch hands, 5 swings.

Then I went to the pull-up bar. I grabbed hold, and got 4/5 of the way up. I got my nose to my bar. I tried hard, but couldn't get any further.

Then I went back and forth between pull-ups with the band, and 4/5 pull-ups without it. While doing the bands, I tried a couple of corncobs. I swayed my head more than I moved my body but that too was a start.

The Weather Underground says.....

The Weather Underground says that it's 58 degrees outside.

My head is still covered in sweat.

Tonight:
warm-up
10 burpees (really need to get better at those, I used to be able to do way more than 10 at a time).

Workout
4 sets of the following:
Double 24kg Kettlebell Swings
3 assisted pull-ups (at least I've gotten up to three with the 1 3/4 inch band).

Rested 2 minutes between sets

GLEEE

I can't really afford it, I can but don't want to spend the money....

A couple of weeks ago, a group of us on the AOS forum asked about a heavier reloadable kettlebell... They have some. It goes up to 150lbs (well 147). I want, and will be buying it Thursday when I get paid. I shouldn't but I said I'd buy one, and they have some that they are selling.

feeling it today.

I'm feeling yesterday's workout now. I'm a little sore in the legs, the butt, the lats, and the shoulders. It's kind of nice. I know I worked out, and feel better about yesterday's workout.

I'm pretty sure that I'm going to place an order for a 32kg bell thursday. Get a new heavy for swings.

I feel like a fraud

I feel like a fraud when it comes to working out. I don't do it enough. I don't put enough effort into it when I do, do it. I don't take it seriously, and take way too many breaks.

Today's workout. I only made it through 1 time, with lots of breaks. I would have loved to go through it again, because I don't feel worked out, but I don't have another 70 minutes to waist on it, since I have have to go to a friend's party, and I want to work on a computer before I go.

A lot of the stuff that involved the bell resting on my arm hurt too. My right wrist is brused from being smached between a sleeper couch and a door way. Two people on the other end (I was alone on my end) pushed before I was ready, and smashed the arm into the door. It's been bruised for a few days. I'm sure banging my kettlebell off it today (yes there was some banging which means that my form was off in a few spots) didn't help. However it hurt just resting the kettlebell on that spot too.

Today, all 16kg Doubles from a friendly challenge:
20 double swings
20 clean and presses
farmer's walk up and down the back part of my drive 2x
20 double thrusters
10 R/L renegade rows.
10 R/L double single leg dead lifts
clean walk up and down the back part of my drive 2x
20 burpees (without kettlebells, the way I meant it to be)
20 double bell getup situps
over head walk up and down the back part of my drive 2x
10 alternating cleans (probably the easiest thing besides the swings)
10 double kettlebell snatches

Like I said, with all the stopping I did, it took about 70 minutes.

While I was waiting

My sleep schedule is all messed up right now. Last night was probably the best night of sleep yet, but I've been up 18 hours now, and not the least bit tired.

Grilled a stake tonight, that was different. I ate so much chicken the last few weeks that I've taken to clucking... I'm only half kidding. Captain clucks, no idea where he picked it up at, him doing it has gotten those cadburry cream egg adds stuck in my head, the one where everything is trying to cluck like the cadburry bunny.

I can't seem to break past sets of two. I keep trying but I just can't pull it off. I've been working the negatives though, and got the chest all the way to the bar. When I do them, I put my knee in a band, and try from a dead hang. I just wish I could break the 2 barrier.

Tonight's workout (while waiting for the coal to get ready):

2 assisted pull-ups
1 assisted pull-up
2 assisted pull-ups
(adjusted the strap so I was standing in it, and got thrown like a rocket launched me).
2 assisted pull-ups
2 assisted pull-ups
2 assisted pull-ups

Tonight's solo workout

Made of fail tonight. I wanted to see if I could last an hour swinging. Original plan was supposed to be 20 swings, 2 minute break, repeat for 60 minutes total. Nick suggested 2min x 2min instead.

I decided to go with the 16kg bell to try and actually pull it off.

Sadly, after round 2 I had problems. Round one, I was doing all kinds of swings, 1 hand, 2 hand, hand to hand. Round 2 I was all 2 hands. Round 3 and 4 were mostly 2 hands, but I'd stop to itch. My leg was itching like mad and I couldn't ignore it any more in round 3, also felt like I was going to hurl. Round 5 2 hands, but my grip gave out on the left hand. The whole forearm burns. I think it may have had to do with my heart rate monitor.

Rounds:
75 swings
80 swings
30 swings
50 swings
40 swings. Mid swing on 40, the bell left my left hand, and I figured it was time to call it a night.