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1st Day of Bootcamp (Session 4) August 6, 2007

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I really can’t believe that I’m starting my 4th BootCamp (each seession is six-weeks in length). However, the results have been fantastic, and on another level, it’s obvious I’ve been doing something different of late.

Today’s workout was seemingly all about setting benchmarks. What was cool is that I nailed some personal bests in several of them which means that progress has occured!

Warm-up:

Workout:

Tabata events are those where you perform a given exercise for 8 timed sets, where a set is 30 seconds performing, and 20 seconds resting. Your score is the lowest number you complete in any given set.  And usually, where you end up doing the least is the last set (sorta obvious), unless you’re just fooling around trying to figure out where your mark is for a given tabata excercise.

The one thing about Boot Camp is everything is counted or timed. And, as you get better at a given excercise, it gets harder and harder to eclipse your previous mark (declining returns, etc).  Even though I missed a few of these, I’m not too worried about them. For one thing I think my max situp score was partially due to a timing error the last time around, so I’ve got a VERY hard target as a result. Second, running the 1K at the end of a big leg-work day was, well, hard. Had it been in the middle, I probably would have beat my 4:20 pb time.

Wonder what’s in store on Wednesday?? Kettle bells most likely… ;-)

Health:

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Comments

1. Lisa Sabin - August 6, 2007

Gotta love the kettlebells!