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'It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.' Theodore Roosevelt 23 April 1910

Wednesday, 25 May 2011

Fitness Test & CrossFit



After the hard weekend I've had a couple of easy days and today I had my annual fitness test. I wasn't sure how I would do with my change of training regime but the results were actually not too different. Light blue on the MSFT (same as last year but a few extra shuttles) and dark blue on press ups (60) and sit ups (58); both of these scores represented small improvements on last year.

And tonight I headed off to the CrossFit gym; the session was very simple, as many rounds as possible in 20 minutes of:

5 pull ups
10 press ups
15 squats

No weights involved, just bodyweight. This is actually a very hard session as the fatigue accumulates. For me, it was the shoulders that suffered most, making the press ups exceptionally difficult as the rounds built up. In the end I managed 14 complete rounds and the 5 pull ups of the 15th. I expect my shoulders will be very sore tomorrow!

Train smart folks.

5 comments:

Cavegirl said...

That picture is gratitious!

I feel like I've swallowed a thesaurus!

The WOW I like is 20 minutes of as many of this ... 1 pull up, 2 press ups, 3 full squats - my record is 48 using 12 kg of assistance on the pull ups, not tried it in a while though.

Turbo Man said...

gratitious???

What does that mean?

Cavegirl said...

Alas, I'm in mental melt down and your comment's box doesn't spell check!

Gratuitous - of course!

Turbo Man said...

Ah, yes, Gratuitous.

And your point is what exactly? :-)

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