My legs are sore from a lot of squats programed this week! This morning was also squats! I think all 5 workouts programmed for the week include some type of squat or step ups. Today’s tempo squats burned! And tempo step ups (2 seconds down) was a new movement that was challenging.
We are warming up and the sun felt good this afternoon. I was a little underdressed because I thought it was warmer than it actually was. Oops!
Two thirds of the way done!
Kind of anti-climatic that today was more of a rest day. Yoga and an unweighted walk in the slightly warmer sun!
Another brutally cold morning. And another cold day off from school. So I went back to V3. I did some yoga and it took me a little bit to figure out what workout to do but I opted for one that had squats, thrusters, and I modified to bike instead of run. The workout took about 30 minutes. But I had also planned on swimming so even though I was pushing an hour already I went down to the pool.
I decided that my body was already warmed up and jumped into the TriDot swim assessment. I did it in the wrong order and without enough rest, because I couldn’t remember! I did 200m – 2 min rest – 400m. It’s supposed to be 400m – 10 min rest – 200m.
I also used a swim snorkel and didn’t push off the walls, so it was 25m lengths with a short pause. My times were 4:47 and 8:18. Not too bad for where I’m at currently.
Enjoy this pic from my afternoon walk.
We are in the depths of a deep freeze again, but the sun is bright which made the afternoon walk not quite as bad.
I went to V3 again this morning since there was no school! It’s felt good to use some barbell instead of just my dumbbells at home.
Yesterday I forgot to say I finished another nonfiction book. Chasing Excellence by Ben Bergeron. Another CrossFit adjacent book but this one was all about mindset as Ben is big on character development of his athletes.
This book highlights Mat Fraser, Katrin Davisdotter, and Cole Sager from 2015 which is the same year discussed in Mat’s book. I enjoyed the stories but also the traits that Ben shared.
I did some of the TriDot Assessments today.
The Bike assessment is a warm up then 15 miles as fast as possible. Today was 29:06, which is a 3 minute improvement from January’s assessment.
This afternoon I did a 5k walk, the actual assessment is a run. But I’m still not able to run. I was surprised that I dropped 2 minutes off the walk. Some of the sidewalks and stuff was messy from the recent snow, but it didn’t seem to slow me down. My time today was 51:40.
