Tim's Week in Exercise

I've been very good. Back to a more reasonable school schedule has made it easy to get to the gym regularly.

In my last post, I indicated what I did at CrossFit on Saturday monring, and that day killed my quads for a few days... I did, however, get back to the gym Monday, where I took it fairly easy on my lower body (though I did two set of 500 meter rows), and I attempted to "walk out" the soreness in my quads by walking 20 laps around the indoor track (which is 2 miles). Did tons of stretching too.

Tuesday I rode the bike: 23 minutes of high intensity interval training. I can feel my endurance increasing, and although my quads were still really sore, the bike did not hurt too badly. It still hurt a lot to go DOWN stairs, but going up was not so bad.

Took a break Wednesday, even though the CrossFit "way" is to go with a rest day every THREE days.

Yesterday (Thursday) I did 3 sets of 5 170 Lb. deadlifts, which is just lifting the bar from the floor to standing, but not lifting the bar - just letting hang straight-arm. It does not seem like it would do much, but you get winded, and break a sweat very quickly, Deadlifts works every muscle in the back, most in the core and legs, shoulders and arms. It also gives me a bit of a buzz -- don't know what that's all about, but I like it. I also did 3 sets of 5 dips, and walked (sometimes ran) around the track for about 20 minutes.

Topped it all of with a nice, 15 minute sauna.