Spring Into Summer Muscle Challenge!
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Love your new pic xcalygirl!0
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indianarose2 wrote: »Love your new pic xcalygirl!
Thanks @indianarose2. Funny how bulky lifting heavy has made me, huh?
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More like beautiful!LOL! ;-)0
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Did the timed test workout last night. I looked like I was convulsing doing the hollow rocks
You should have an all of the above option for the modification of that one lol. Doing the 400m, plank, and weighted test tonight. I'll measure and do the WOW Friday morning and have the sheet to you *only* a week late.
Doing well on my water goals!0 -
I did the workout of the week. Used a 20-lb dumbbell because that's what I have at home but I held the end like a kettlebell to do swings. I modified with push-ups instead of burpees because those rattle my head.
At first I was like, "oh this is pie," but by the end with. All the push-ups, I was snorting like a bull and swearing at myself.
Also did the 400 m and the plank for the beginning test. Can't believe I used to run the 400 in half the time in high school. I always toted my abilities as a middle distance runner but now I guess I'm a no distance runner
Final test workout tomorrow. Want to use actual kettle bells at the gym. I'll get that paperwork filled out some time before the end of this challenge 0 -
Did the WOW this morning after lifting. I also used a 20 lb kb. I did hip-thrusters-no pushup but with the jump at the end. Burpees and I don't get along to well. Also, the hip thrusters were more like slow motion mountain climbers and I use pushup bars to help ease strain. By the time you are up to 10 burpees/hip thrusters/whatever your ticker is really going!
@ xcalygrl -- I agree your new pic is lovely!!
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I finally filled out my form! LMK if you have questions.0
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Did the WOW just now. It got me breathing pretty good. I hate burpees BTW, haha! I didn't time myself, so I'm not sure how long it took.0
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Did the wow with a dumbbell and incline push-up modifications (x2) in 10 mins. It was fun! Probably bc I did such a light weight for the swing. I thought we were supposed to use a 2 kg kettle so I only used 5#. Thinking I might just do the whole thing over again tomorrow with a heavier weight. Is the doc like the out yet? Thanks krokador for the fun!0
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Oh I posted my wow results in the workout thread but I will post them here too. 9 minutes even. And I learnt that I have been half assing burpees my whole life. It's been 2 days and my chest is still feeling those pushups (or the bench pressing I did before hand, or a bit of both).0
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This is going to be real quick because I forgot to post this last night xD My plans keep getting rained on by life! Anyhow, this week's WOW is going to make most of you gals face your archenemy. You think you hate burpees? You're going to hate this even more (I think). On the plus side, it'll give you a new appreciation for your own strength, so there's a valid tradeoff here
Death by OHP
With a timer set to every minute (this is an EMOTM type of set-up), perform:
-> 6 (+2 per minute) reps of any overhead pressing movement of your choice.
Push/kipping/cheating reps are allowed. As a base I would use somewhere between 50-70% of your 5x5 weight.
Keep on going until you can no longer perform the prescribed amount of reps per minute (trust me, starts out easy, doesn't stay that way long).
As an optional kicker, if you wanna make this full body, perform BW squats for the remaining amount of time in every minute. If you're insane, do jump lunges. (I'm not sure even I would do that >_>)
Score is weight used + number of total reps of OHP + number of bw squats
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I forgot that we are supposed to be doing weekly updates here! Not much to report.
1. Not making progress yet on my squat and DL because have run out of weights did increase reps in hope of making some sort of progress.
2. Definitely no progress in measurements, struggling to stay within my calorie limits lately. I recently increased from 1330 to 1500 and seemed to open the floodgates of eating for me.
3. Daily habit not going great either.
Not the best report. I just need to regroup and get to work harder!0 -
Today happens to be OHP day for me so maybe I'll use this as my workout finisher. I might regret this because it's supposed to get up to 90 degrees today and I'm wearing glasses. Do I get extra points if I can fog my glasses?
Also, I WILL like this better than burpees!
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Just to make sure I'm understanding correctly for the WOW. We set a timer, on the minute we do 6 OHP exercise, rest/bw squats, then on the next minute we do 6 plus 2 (so 8 total), then more bw squats, then 10 total, then more squats, etc. until we feel like dying?0
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Just to make sure I'm understanding correctly for the WOW. We set a timer, on the minute we do 6 OHP exercise, rest/bw squats, then on the next minute we do 6 plus 2 (so 8 total), then more bw squats, then 10 total, then more squats, etc. until we feel like dying?
That's how I understood it, but it wouldn't be the first time workout descriptions have been misinterpret by me .0 -
Just to make sure I'm understanding correctly for the WOW. We set a timer, on the minute we do 6 OHP exercise, rest/bw squats, then on the next minute we do 6 plus 2 (so 8 total), then more bw squats, then 10 total, then more squats, etc. until we feel like dying?
Well, until you're unable to complete the reps within the minute (they don't have to be unbroken, tho) but yes, that,s the gist of it ;P0 -
Lol, I thought they had to be unbroken. I might have been able to squeeze a couple more out but meh!
45 lbs 6/8/10/12/5 and 60 bw squats total score 1460 -
Also did Krok's EMOTM. I'm still shaking!
OHP
6+2 ladder plus BW Squats
56 OHPs (6/8/10/12/14/6) plus 67 squats-- I was on round 5 before I couldn't go on. Used 30 lbs for the OHPs.
I think I am going to feel this one later!
Also, I did it unbroken.
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Attempted this on Tuesday after my regular OHPs but I was sweating like a wildebeest and had no fuel left in the tank. Will do today.
I've been doing well on my water drinking goal except yesterday where I matched it with alcohol (golf tournament).0 -
OK so I did OHP for the WOW with the empty 45-lb bar. Completed 5 rounds (6,8,10,12,14 = 50 total) with 82 total BW squats in between. I took almost the whole minute to do the last 14 presses, got a single squat in, then had nothing left in me to try the next round.0
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Didn't get to do the wow from last week. Is it too late? Didn't do measurements because of shark week (love that term-who came up with that again???) Building up my squat and deadlift from 65 to 80 toward my 100# goal! Daily habit is more like a biweekly habit so far but feeling pretty good!0
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indianarose2 wrote: »Didn't get to do the wow from last week. Is it too late? Didn't do measurements because of shark week (love that term-who came up with that again???) Building up my squat and deadlift from 65 to 80 toward my 100# goal! Daily habit is more like a biweekly habit so far but feeling pretty good!
I'll be honest and say I haven't exactly had a chance to keep up with recording all the results. I'll have to find some off time and compile everything by going back through the thread later. lol. Feel free to do the WOW at any point. YOu'll still get kudos for trying!
My daily habit has happened 11 times out of 18 so far, so not really good. I've been falling behind on the pull-up negatives thanks to my forearm (which still hurts
) Spring is so much busier this year than I remember it ever being. Then again, havign july weather this early on makes everything not make any sense anyway... 0 -
New WOW, by the way! This one is short and simple:
Sit-outs tabata.
8x 20 seconds of ALL OUT work, 10s rest.
What are sit-outs?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koPaodFxSHA
What if I can't do that? Do mountain climbers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmwgirgXLYM
Score = total reps completed per side!0 -
For last week's WOW. I did it on Friday, but I forget to check in. I got a total score of 179. (Used a 45lb bar, got 50 OHP, and 84 BW Squats.)0
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Obviously, I flaked on doing this challenge. My work schedule barely allows for me to get 5x5 done. I'm following all of your progress, though!0
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I want to update my progress so far (since we're close to halfway through). So, my goals:
Milestone: 1000 push-ups over the entire challenge
Daily Habit: at least 10 mins of stretching
Progress:
444 push-ups so far, 556 to go.
Stretch: 11 days, missed 9 days. I'm hoping to not miss anymore.
I'll be doing the WOW this evening when I get home 0 -
So update;
1) 200 km of running. Starting to think this might have been too lofty of a goal. I'm not ready to give up on it quite yet but I am starting to have some doubts. I'm at 74.6km currently.
2) daily habit... Lol more of a twice weekly habit. I've set a reminder on my phone so that I don't just forget then go oops too late now.
3) better pant fit. I was camping for 5 days last week. Nothing currently fits right. Hoping this water weight goes away quickly so I can get a better gauge of how much fat I managed to gain over those 5 days.
WOW I got 76 total. The first 20 seconds those things seemed really awkward but then I found my groove. I enjoyed it even though by round 4 I thought I was gonna die.0 -
So, I haven't had a chance to do the WOW so far, but hopefully will be able to try it this weekend.
As far as goals (started challenge May 4):
1) Run at least 6 miles per week. Total=24.75. So far, so good.
2) Do 50 push-ups a day. Total since May 4=850 for an average daily total of 47.22 lol, so a little short. Looks like I have some making up to do!0 -
This week's wow - I've always wanted to learn to breakdance thanks Krokador! Didn't read the fine print on scoring at the bottom and didn't count reps. Also took more than 10 sec break between sets, more like 30 secs but completed all 8 sets. Sorry, I'm not one for attention to detail which is why I like 5x5 :P I also did last week's wow bc I didn't get around to it last week. 20# OHP 6,8,10,12,20 + 87 BW squats = 163 if it counts. Why did I skip from 12 to 20? Remember that attn to detail thing I mentioned a second ago? ;-) Anyway, thanks Krokador! Fun stuff!0
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