Scaring the members

I ended up staying at work today for a 10:30 lesson, which gave me an extra hour-plus to kill. My legs and hips are a little tight and sore from the squat-mania this week, so I thought I'd head over to the fitness center and do a little something quick to loosen them up. The set-up in there is not particularly convenient for the things I like to do, so I designed it around what would be in the least crowded (with machines) area, but would still make me feel bad-ass. Because that's important, I guess. I wanted to do double-unders and pistols, but the legs were not feeling the pistols. (Why I thought they would, I have no idea.) So, for some unknown reason, I switched them out for single-arm DB overhead squats. Because OHS always make me feel awesome. Always. Didn't necessarily make my legs feel better, but it wasn't terrible either, and it got my heart rate up plenty.

I went with 25# mainly because it was the heaviest dumbbell on the side of the gym where I was set up. I could have walked all of 40 m to get something heavier, but decided against it. 30 or 35 would have been a good weight if I wanted to kill it, but I didn't feel the need to push the legs or the shoulders any harder than necessary today.

50-40-30-20-10
double-unders
10-8-6-4-2 (each arm)
single-arm DB OHS (25#)

5:29


Double-unders felt pretty good but not rock solid. The second round tripped me up a bit, but I did a better job than usual of stopping to take a couple breaths, calming down the nerves a hair, and then jumping right back in. When DUs go south, I tend to get frustrated and it all goes downhill fast. The last half of 40 was smooth, and 30-20-10 were more of the same. The squats felt pretty good - it wasn't super-light, but my shoulders and core were definitely not challenged. My tired old legs were glad I stayed light, though.

Cooled down with a really easy 500m row (2:15ish, I think) and headed back to get ready for the lesson. Still had 20 minutes left, and it felt obscenely hot in there after the workout, so I swam a bit - mostly breaststroke and some kicking with fins. Tried to take it nice and easy.... pretty easy, since I suck at swimming. I actually ended up swimming longer than I have in probably a year. Not that says much, but I think being warmed up helped a lot.