John’s Ramblings

Wednesday was a rest day, as I needed a little recovery time after a pretty strenuous workout at Hocevar Performance on Tuesday night.  By Wednesday afternoon I was feeling the DOMS coming on strong!

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I needed a workout on Thursday, but still being a bit sore in the thighs I opted for another round of Viking Warrior Conditioning rather than a strength workout.  I did my usual warmup of forward lunges & side lunges, and immediately wished I had done some foam-roller work ahead of time!  Things did loosen up a bit, though, and I went inside to do my third attempt at the 15:15 VO2 Max protocol:

• 16 kg kettlebell
• 7 snatches in 15 seconds
• 15 seconds “active rest”
• Alternate hands, repeat 80 times.

I made it up to 60 sets before I popped, which is a nice progression from the 40 & 50 of sessions 1 & 2.  Doing these in front of the mirror, I was kinda surprised to see some muscles in my upper torso and shoulders that hadn’t ever popped before.  Results are a good thing, to be sure!

As far as weight-loss results are concerned, I’m down a couple of pounds for the week, which is good.  Maintaining focus over a 3 day weekend (Terri and I took today off) may be a bit of a challenge however.  Focus, John:

Some physical abilities are gifts.  The rest must be purchased with sweat.

Terri needed to get some blood taken for lab work today, so no food or coffee this morning before she left.  I was getting hungry, so I “nudged” her out of the coziness of bed so that she could get that done and I could cook up some breakfast.  I did not feel that it would have been fair to whip up a big ol’ batch of turkey bacon or whatever if she had to smell it but not eat it.  Once the garage door closed after her I cracked open the menu plan, only to find that breakfast was cottage cheese with flax seed meal and protein powder.  I don’t think that the tantalizing odors of ground flax seeds would have disturbed her sleep one bit.  Oh well.

Tags: exercise, hocevar performance, kettlebell, weight loss, workout

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