Thursday, May 30, 2013

WoD at Work

Oh poor blog how you have been negated.  Yes, we are still alive and working out but not posting about them. RL Trumps blogging.  For me it’s just working too many hour and Lucas is a Slacker who just eats bonbons in bed.

Anyway my workout habits have changed.  Like most people I work in an office.  At first all I did all day as sit on my ass for 10-12 hours and workout at home but that has changed the last few months.  I wanted more. I now try to get but every hour and just walk around the building several times.  This has helped a lot and I use a Fitbit to track of my steps to keeps me motivated. 

Recently I added tabats at the office to my WoD.  I try to do two sets a day one in the morning and one in the afternoon.  Now since I am in an office I limited by two factors: 1) I cannot get too close to the floor since it is NASTY and 2) I can’t get too sweaty.  Here is a sample round that I did this morning

Tabats Seven 30 Second rounds with 10 rest:
  • ·         Squats
  • ·         Lunges
  • ·         Inverse pushups from a bench
  • ·         Jumping Jacks
  • ·         3x planks from the bench


Friday, August 24, 2012

Six Months later…

Well you might have noticed the lack of updates lately.  It’s not because we have stopped… it that a massive amount of bad karma came our way.  I have been laid off, had a family member die, got a new job and have another family member die in those six months.  This basically killed a lot of the WoDs and blogging motivation. Hopefully things will get better in the coming months but as of now its kinda lackluster.  This is what I have been trying to do on a daily basis:
  • 5 Min jump rope warm up
  • 30 Squats, sit-ups and pushups
  • Walk/Run at least 5 miles a day
I know it’s not much but I am trying to stay somewhat active. I also picked up a Fitbit to use as a motivator.  It does get me out of my chair at work. Sitting all day is bad.  

Thursday, February 16, 2012

Half Assed WoD is better than no WoD

Well Tuesday’s WoD was cut in length do to me getting in late.  Have a new job means this will happen from time to time. So we got something done but not as much as we wanted.  Here it is:

Warm up: 5 mins of Jump Rope

Tabitas, 8 rounds 24 secs 12 seconds rest:
  •          Negative Push-ups
  •          I Chin Ching 13/14/15
  •          Hindu Squats
  •          Arm 1
  •          Negative Situps
  •         Blasters… would have been done if we did not run out of time.


Testing starts at school this week and next week so there might be sporadic WoDs.  Good luck to  that who is testing!

Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Enter: Tyler Durden

Well since Lucas decided to slack off and doing things like "work", I'm back as the Fitness sage.  It's been a long time. Since we have not done an AMSAP in a while the command decision by yours truly made it happen.  He was yesterdays WoD:

Warm up: 5 mins of Jump rope

AMSAP 20 mins
10 Frog Leaps
10 V-ups
10 Rockets
10 Bird Jumps (John came up with this one.)
10 Medi-ball Twits

The tallies for the group were:
David: 4
John: 3
Phil: 3
Lucas: 0 :P
Tyler: 2

Wait.  Who is Tyler you ask? A new Recruit!  He is a Tai Chi Green Sash that been hanging around the dungeon for the last few weeks and he decided to join in. He survived with out barfing or passing out which means we have to work him hard if he shows up next time. :)  Welcome aboard Tyler!

Thursday, February 2, 2012

This week's fun

Tuesdays' workout consisted of :20/:10 tabatas

  1. pushups
  2. scissors
  3. frogleaps
  4. arm 1
  5. v-ups with weight
  6. squats/lunges as you see fit
Followed by a healthy amount of punching and kicking the crap out of kick shields.  Ah....

Tonight we did a :22/:11 x8 tabata set of

  1. partner pushups
  2. partner situps
  3. jades
  4. bicycles
  5. arm 1
  6. Hindu squats

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

A return to arms...and legs...and abs

David returned to us after a sorrowful couple of weeks.  So great to have him back but sorry about the death of his brother in law. Exercise is, indeed, good for the soul and psyche so it was back to it with a long tabata round:

There have been a number of workouts I have not posted; sorry but I've just been dang busy...
:20/:10 x 8
  1. flutters
  2. push-press (with a 65# in the mix)
  3. squats
  4. burpees
  5. bicycles
  6. push-ups
  7. Lucas' new kick thang (on one leg, front, side, roundhouse, hook without putting the kicking foot down)
  8. Rockets
That was so good a workout it made Phil complain...

Wednesday, January 4, 2012

New Year's retribution

the soreness from yesterday's workout is settling in and reminds me to post our workout:

warm up with a bunch of gabbing about relationships and computer crap...oh, and maybe some jump rope and rowing.

Set one:  tabatas :20/:10 x8

  1. jumping lunges
  2. twists
  3. dips
  4. push press (#30)
  5. rockets
set two: AMSAP (12 minutes), 10 each of:
  1. v-ups w/weight
  2. squats w/weight as you so choose
  3. rollouts
  4. pushups
  5. kettlebell lifts
  6. somethin' else, I think
Another year, another 100 hours of lifting, pulling, twisting, and sweating to conquer...

Thursday, December 29, 2011

Sore on the floor WOD

I was still aching from Tuesday's workout so there were plenty of old-man-groans escaping from my lips today.  David warmed up with rowing and jumprope.  I got there too late to do more than about 2-3 min. of jumprope and a bit of stretching.

Partner medicine ball tabatas this evening.  :22/:10 x8

  1. Medicine ball situps
  2. Medicine ball pushups
  3. Wood choppers
  4. squat throws
  5. leg lifts with med-ball (4x), figure 8s (4x)
6 minutes of medicine ball throws.

Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Man-slayer WOD

Wow--I guess I've been neglecting my duties; there HAVE been other workouts this month but somehow they didn't get posted. 

There have also been missed workouts due to the holidays so I felt the need to make up for missed workout outs and excessive consumption of food and drink.  So I drafted a workout that turned out to be more than we could swallow:

Warm up with jumping rope then

Round 1--:20/:10 tabatas:
  1. flutter kicks
  2. kettlebell lift
  3. medicine ball twists
  4. squat with 25#
  5. Burpees
Round 2--17 minute (cough, cough) AMSAP, 10 each of:
  1. pushups
  2. rockouts
  3. rollouts
  4. blasters
  5. push-press w/ 45#
 In the end we had three exhausted middle-aged dudes and an unknown number of vaporized calories filling the dungeon atmosphere...

Thursday, December 1, 2011

More AMSAPing

Okay, straight to da point here.  Got some new stuff in today's workout so it was a bit of an experiment.  Always a good thing.  Warm ups then 20 min. AMSAP:
  • 10 steam engines
  • 10 side squats with weights
  • 5 pull/chin-ups
  • 10 bridge squats
  • 10 t-ups
  • 10 push-ups with elevated feet or hands or whatever
Warm down with some plants, I mean planks (that typo's too funny to delete) AND Chie Chuan, Third Bird and push hands. 

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

"I'm too fat" WOD

May I just state for the record that David named this workout, not me.  I'm quite content, actually...

I got there a bit later than usual due to a work commitment so I'm not sure what the warm ups for others were; I got in about 3-5 minutes of jump rope and I'm sure David did the same.

Our main workout included new exercises and was quite challenging.  20 min. AMSAP:
10 each of:
Renegade rows
Kettlebell pulls
dumbbell leg lifts (ouch)
60# push-press (ouch)
rubber-band style twists (what were these called?)
dumbbell half-jumps

four rounds for us all (albeit David and Phil got part-way into the next round and I didn't)

6 minutes of medicine ball throwing

6 30-sec rounds of planks.

Tai chi class for David and Phil, kung fu class for Lucas (did chie chuan 20 times--good for me but painful)

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

A workout without arguments

Looking to push hard on the tabatas I created a high-aerobic workout which did have me winded at many points.  Warmed up with some jumprope and 30-sec bag work rounds then:

:20/:10 tabatas x 8
Bicycles
Mountain climbers
Jumping jacks with weight
Twists with various weight medicine balls
Blasters
push-ups
V-ups

Yes, that's SEVEN sets.  I'd like to get back up to eight myself.

Warm down with one-minute medicine ball toss rounds X 7 since I lost count of the number of rounds...

Friday, November 18, 2011

Conjunction Junction what’s your Function?

Yesterday's WoD started out on an interesting debate on Math function and imaginary numbers hence the title of the post.  For the record Linux is the WORST O/S Evah! :)  Okay now that that is out of the way lets get to the WoD:

Warm up: 5min Jump, Diving by Zero and 5 min of Rowing

Tabatas (8 rounds 22 Secs, 11 secs rest)

  •  Rockets w/ Medi-Balls
  • V-ups w/Medi-Balls
  • Squats or Side Squats
  • Arm1 - Push pulls w/ 80lbs and 30lbs Kettle Bell
  • Twits w/ Medi-Ball
  • Wood choppers
Cool Down: 6x 1 Minute Rounds of medi-ball toss

Thursday, November 17, 2011

Ruh-roh, better get a Rex-Ray

AMSAP for Tuesday's workout.  Warmed up with the usual and then
20:00:
15 V-ups w/weight
5 pull-ups/chin ups
15 Squats with weight
20 bicycles (shoulda been 40)
10 "ring" rows
15 leg extension thingies with 50 lb
D: 6 rounds, P & L: 7

finished it out with 8 minutes of slinging the medicine ball around in various manners.

Saturday, November 12, 2011

Tuesday's Twisted Tabatas

Almost forgot this one even with the self-emailed photo. 

Anyway, we did a :20/:10 set with David, Phil, John & me (Lucas) present:

Warmed up with the usual and then

Blasters
Medicine ball long-distance side throw
V-ups with weight
Medicine ball pushups (ouch)
Rockets
Partner situps

Pretty standard fare....

Friday, November 11, 2011

Two guys, a Kettle bell and a Dungeon.

Well all that was left since people either had to work for a liven or had to Slack off was Phil and I. We had a pretty good work out and it was all Phil's idea.  So he can only blame himself for the pain.

Pre-Warm up: 5mins of Jump Rope and 5 mins of Rowing. (only David did this)
Warm up : 4 rounds of bag work for both Phil and David

AMSAP for about 20 mins:
(There is a snafu with the timer which paused a min in so we had to guess after it restarted)

A set consisted of 10 Reps of:
Push-Ups
Twists w/ 14lb medi ball
Squats
Arm I  (70 lbs push pulls and 35 lb Kettle Bell)
Wheel of Pain
Side Squats with 12lb Medi Ball

The totals were: 6 sets for David and 5 sets for Phil.

Cool down was Yang Dagger a few times.

Thursday, November 3, 2011

Phil's Phabulous Phiphty Phanphare

Simple but grueling: 
AMSAP in 20 min:
50 v-ups w/weight
50 pushups (can revert to bench dips if needed)
50 squats

warm down with talk about vegetarian restaurants and science history

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

miscellaneous workout

Warm-up as usual.  then :20/:10 tabatas
  • flutters
  • burpees
  • mtn. climbers
  • pushup (4) dips (4)
  • toe touch & rollouts
  • wood choppers
6 minutes of medicine ball toss and 3 minutes of planks (30-sec rounds)

Thursday's fun

Almost forgot about this nice workout.  Obligatory warm ups and then this AMSAP:

10 each of burpees, v-ups w/weight, renegade rows, jumping lunges, "ring rows," toe touches.  David and Phil got to seven rounds, I was just shy.  I shall not comment ;-)

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Fight Gone Bad variant

A little "bonus" workout today since I missed the workout yesterday and unemployed David has time on his hands.

Couldn't find our previous Fight Gone Bad so we made one up.  I like these because they are like a cross between AMRAPs and tabatas.  Tabatas don't give me the workout they once did, even with the weights and such that we've added.  I like 'em but I really relish these intense workouts that leave me burned out.  I am going to suggest this more often with different sets of stuff

Warmed up with the usual rowing and jumproping and then 3x(one minute rounds of:)  
  • Squats with about 25 lbs
  • Push press with 40 lbs
  • Twists 12 lbs
  • Squat mediball toss 15lbs
  • Rockets with 10lbs
  • rest with 0 lbs. 
David's total count: 396
Lucas' total count: 467

Perusing Ryon's blog archive I found his Kung fu Fight Gone Bad (I think ours holds up pretty well, actually):

  • 1″ Burpee
  • 1″ Squats
  • 1″ Sit-up
  • 1″ Sumo-deadlift-high-pull (kettlebells of varying sizes)
  • 1″ Push-Press
  • 1″ Rest