Today’s workout is a little hard to explain, but it was pretty simple once I got out there and started doing it.
Basically I was on an oval (do you guys have ovals in America? It’s a bit like a baseball ground… only it’s more… ovalish) doing laps straight up the middle with a medicine ball (10kg/22lbs) – which works out to 100 meters (110 yards).
The first 100m looks like this:
- 2-handed throw overhead
- sprint to the ball, then 10 x clapping pushups
- 2-handed throw from between the legs
- sprint to the ball, then 10 x situps with medicine ball
- Turn around, then 2-handed throw backwards over head
- sprint to the ball, then 10 x jumping jacks/star jumps
Then the next 3 x 100m looks like this (sprinting to the ball of course):
- 2-handed throw overhead
- 2-handed throw from between the legs
- Turn around, then 2-handed throw backwards over head
So that combined to a single 400m set, which I did 3 of. The catch is I can fit 3 of each throws in to 100m, which meant 30 clapping pushups, 30 situps @ 10kg and 30 jumping jacks (no biggie there) for each set – which works out to 90 reps for each.
I’m hoping to eventually work up to doing the pushups, situps and starjumps on every lap, but I think it might be a while till I get there!
Anyway, it’s been two weeks but here’s some pictures:
Perhaps my troubles stem from wanting to believe my body and activity level is still up to the standard of those years. Or perhaps it’s because in those times I just went along to my taekwondo classes every night without having to make a concious “I’m going to work out” decision. Maybe my body remembers being at this point, and decides it will fall back in to the old routine it was used to?
