Day 37: Max Out Power
It's tough to follow up a late-night workout with an early-morning one. For some sick, twisted reason, that's what I did to myself today as I tried to gut out Max Out Power.In my head, as I'm breezing through the warmup, I'm thinking, "This is easy. All I gotta do is kill it for 45 seconds and I get a whole 15 seconds off. No sweat."
Actually, fool, there was lots of sweat. And no, it wasn't easy. I actually did breeze through the warmup -- four and a half minutes of cardio warmup followed by a one-minute power move -- before taking a water break and bracing for the actual workout.
Max Out Power is one of those workouts that is designed to get progressively harder as you approach the end -- at least that's how I take it. The first sequence of moves are mainly squat jumps -- front and back; side to side -- which I typically dominate. I'm still working on the mastery of the second sequence, however.
I don't know who in their right mind sets up a sequence of five or six pushup moves, even if the last couple you get to put your knees down, in a row. My arms are like jello by the second or third move in the sequence.
A week ago, I crashed out with a Max Out Time of 12:40 and I was lucky to get that far. Today, I was fortunate to get a little bit stronger from last week. Not by much, but at least I'm trending in the right direction. My Max Out Time for today's workout was 45 seconds better, at 13 minutes, 25 seconds.
I did my ultimate crash at 28:25 when I hit my Weep Time (quietly, again, it was first thing in the morning; couldn't wake anyone). I'll take it. Last week was a tough ride and I'm just getting back into a groove and need any motivation I can get. Next up: Max Out Sweat.
Recap
Workout: Max Out Power
Max Out Time: 13:25
Weep Time: 28:25
Weep Time: 28:25
Weekly Weigh-in: Stay tuned for Day 43 of the journey
Monthly Photo: Stay tuned for Day 60 of the journey
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