Training Log: Entry 3468
AM WORKOUT (0530 wake up via Valkyrie’s alarm)
**12 LABORS: CAPTURING THE CRETAN BULL**
*Tactical Barbell Operator* Cycle 2, Week 1, Workout 2
“HEAVY BAG RESETS”
5 rounds of
90 seconds max intensity strikes on Bas Rutten Body Action System
2 min rest
Notes:
* Sleep was awful last night, due to external factors. The Valkyrie AND the wolf are both sick, and whereas the former is able to use a cough suppressing medicine to not be TOO disruptive in the middle of the night, the latter spent the entire night hacking on phlegm, and between the two it was a cacophony of coughing and gagging that wasn’t the most pleasant of white noise. I had already decided on a short and intense HIC for this morning, and my kid had school canceled due to extreme cold temperatures (going to be -30 with windchill today), which made the decision to train in the basement vs the garage even more logical and allowed me the opportunity to sleep in as long as possible.
* I was torn between a few different heavy bag focused workouts, but settled on this due to the simplicity. Just hit the bag as hard and fast as you can for 90 seconds and then recover and do it again. Re-reading the entry and seeing that K. Black was fine with you looking like a “slow drunken monkey” at the end of the round gave me the assurance I needed, because with high intensity stuff as a very slow twitch lifter, I often wonder if I’m meeting intent.
* It is nice to do these explosive workouts the morning after that carb up meal. I figure I’ll never be more primed. I’m also noticing that I’m just plain feeling physically really good right now: just some small aches and pains, vs “contemplating hanging up the gloves” sorta stuff I was going through during my last competition prep. I think this program and THAT program are clear signs that I can’t trust myself to come up with my own programming. Along with feeling good and getting stronger, I’m not hemorrhaging bodyweight like I was before, but seem to be losing in a more gradual manner and keeping the muscle I built.
* As for the workout itself, I didn’t record it because the internet would tear me in half if it saw the ridiculous spastastic “striking” I was doing on the BAS, but it fully met the intent of exhausting myself within the 90 seconds. I appreciate how I can avoid loading my body this way. And though the Body Action System isn’t an actual heavybag, it definitely provides me the force feedback I’m looking for. I wear my everlast MMA style bag gloves for this, because trying to go max effort 90 seconds with 16oz gloves would most likely look like the Kimbo vs Dada 5000 match.
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