Training Log: Entry 3514

**OPERATION PLANET MONGO**

AM WORKOUT (0510 wake up via Valkyrie's alarm)

*Tactical Barbell Operator* Cycle 1, Week 1, Workout 2

"INDOOR POWER INTERVALS"

5 rounds of

* 2 minutes max effort (as max as can be done in 2 minutes) rower

* 3 minutes rest

Notes:

* Per Planet Mongo, my emphasis is on the rower vs sprinting.  I've got the resistance set at 5, which, if nothing else, I know is the middle resistance setting.  The first 2 minute round was a very hard effort, but by round 3 I started petering out in the final minute of the 2 minute rounds.  Still giving it my all, but by objective measures of the console my output wasn't as strong as it was at the start.  Part of that is simply the exhausting nature of the workout, but the other part is me not giving it enough rest for the sake of squeezing this workout into the time I'm allotted.  The protocol allows for up to 5 minutes of rest, and I should really consider that sometime.  But for now, this is still doing a good job of taxing my conditioning, and I think alternating between this and Oxygen debt 101 would do me some good. 

* Trying to focus on technique as much as I can while still getting in good power.  Want to pull with my back rather than my arms.

* My left groin is still a little buggy: I apparently borked it harder than I thought at Tang Soo Do.  Felt it kinda slip on my walk with the pup and the Valkyrie yesterday.  It's just tender, but I have to watch out that it doesn't become more.

* I signed up for that strongman competition I was talking about, and it honestly works out pretty perfectly with my schedule.  I'll complete this 6 week cycle, have 1 extra week of training before my cruise, then have almost 2 full weeks off before coming back to have a full 6 weeks to run another cycle of Operator before the competition.  The events will be very easy to work into my current training, and, in turn, I already did some max sandbag carry work yesterday, and intend to continue that daily habit along with the chins per Planet Mongo.