Hello Nausau, My Old Friend… September 12, 2007
Posted by hardly Flexibility, Kettlebell, Medicine Ball, Row, Strength Training, Uncategorized
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Warmup:
- 100 Wall-balls @ 18 kg
- 100 situps
Workout:
- Tabita Row (5 rounds of 1 min on, 30 seconds rest): 286M (pb)
- 2x the following (completed in 8:01) :
- 40 bodyweight squats
- 30 Swings @ 20 kb
- 20 push-ups
- 50 Kettlebell Clean & Press @ 16 kb: Nausea attack, no score (bummer)
- 3 laps of walking lunges
- 2 sets of 6 (per arm) windmills @ 12 kg
So, yeah, in the middle of the workout, my stomach decided to let me know that perhaps, just maybe, could be that my core body temperature was a bit too high. Perhaps it was time to stop. Sit down. No wait, lay down. Drink a quart of water. Think thoughts other than those involving repainting the weight room a nice color of, well, stomach juice. I was successful, but still. My trainer and I think that I may have pushed too hard on the row. It was a personal best effort, so it could be. I also ate breakfast later than normal because we woke up late because both the girls decided that they needed to wake up mom & dad - about 5 times during the night!
I wasn’t expecting a great workout today because of the sleep issue, but I didn’t expect this!
Tomorrow, though, another day.
Oh, and my coach and I had an interesting conversation today about fitness. He talked about how Triathalons were developed, in part, because they require multi-discipline capabilities. But, as the sport developed, everyone started the specialized training that is used in triathaloning as we know it today.
He posited the following:
To achieve true all-around fitness, a person should be able to compete in any given event at the drop of a hat. The person who most consistently excels at a wide variety of sports is probably both the best competitor and the one who is in the best shape. His idea is to have a competition where everyone shows up on the given day, draws their event out of the hat and then goes and does it.
I kinda think this is wild idea. One that would be fun to watch.
For example, let’s say you show up and you draw the folllowing five events:
- 400 M IM Swim (Freestyle, Breast Stroke, Backstroke, Butterfly)
- 200 M run
- Max pull ups in 10 minutes
- 1 K row
- Triple-jump
-or-
- 5k cross-country run
- Tennis Tourney
- 50ft Smallbore Rifle shoot (or Field Archery?)
- 25K Bike Ride
- 1:1 Basketball Tourney
-or-
- Farmer’s Walk
- Bear Crawl for 100 M
- Push Ups - Fastest to 100
- Stair run, fastest up 50 flights of stairs
- Sit-ups, most in 10 minutes
Wouldn’t these be fun, challenging, and a hoot to watch on YouTube? Just thinking, mind you. Sorta like World’s Strongest Man combined w/modern Pentathalon (Kim is wondering where in the heck Dressage or Fox Hunting is in my lists, I’m sure!).
Comments
You know me all too well…
Love your blog title, by the way!!
That would be a lot of fun! I think your coach has a brilliant idea.