Training Log: Entry 3723

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

TACTICAL BARBELL MASS PROTOCOL GREY MAN Week 1, Workout 2

“VIKING RAID”

• Row 100m

• Carry 150lb sandbag

• Add 100m to the row each round

• 15 minute time cap

Notes:

• I was about 3/4 done with the 700m row when the timer ran out.

• This is outside the TB framework, and just a refinement of a workout I came up with a few years ago, but it’s very similar to Fobbit intervals. It’s distance based, rather than time, and the row distance increases, rather than being at a fixed interval.

• This had a wonderful training effect. I was certainly getting a conditioning impact from it.

• I was struggling with the bag carry, which I imagine is partly recovering from the competition and the training from yesterday.

• In that regard, I woke up wonderfully sore, which is what always happens the first week of Grey Man, but this was actually quite tonic in that regard. Hit pretty much all the achy muscles and gave them a chance to get in some bloodflow. In general: this is a keeper.

• Weighed in at 83.2kg. Scale FIRST said 82.3, so it’s got dyslexia. Probably need to replace the batteries.

• Tang Soo Do sparring tonight. My favorite week.

• Meant to log this yesterday, but I was in such a deep state of ketosis that the ammonia on my breath was actually giving me a smelling salt reaction during my DB rows. I’ve never noticed it being so strong before.