Thursday (1/27/2011) evening, my words of “Dave, for the next 8 weeks, I will do whatever you tell me to do” came back to haunt me. I got a text that said “WOD 100 sit ups, 100 reverse sit ups, try to do sets of at least 25, no time”.

Sigh.

Sigh because I really suck at sit ups. But whatever, I did it. I got some cramps which sucked, but I was able to do the regular sit ups in sets of 25. The reverse sit ups hurt way too much to do more than 10-15 at a time. Sad, I know.

Friday (1/28/2011), I got another text from Dave saying “you should come to class tonight”… so I did. The WOD was something I didn’t really have a very positive feeling about especially for a lumbering lardo like myself. It was:

• 1000m row
• 800m run
• 10000m row

I have to admit that I really surprised myself here. I finished in 13:05 and didn’t really feel all that bad. Don’t get me wrong, the last 500m on the C2 felt like an eternity, but at least you know with the rower, that if you keep going, eventually it will be over. The 800m felt just fine and I was able to actually run rather than do that silly looking jog/speed walk crap.

Saturday (1/29/2011), Jody showed us a good time at open gym with “The Superbowl Shuffle” which was a 20 minute AMRAP of:

• 7 burpees
• 14 CF games style push ups (where you take your hands off the floor at the bottom)
• 21 box jumps
• 28 lunges (14 R/L)

I didn’t count, but I think I got either 4 or 5 rounds in. Whatever it was, it was a good WOD and it felt good to move. She followed that WOD up with “Five Minutes of Fun” which is anything but. Well, it’s 5 minutes, but it sure as shit is not fun.

So there you have it. I worked out for 6 consecutive days this week and am feeling just fine… great, in fact. Maybe these green things really are magical. I haven’t been all that sore either. Maybe just a little bit here and there, but really, I feel like I can do whatever whenever. My recovery is getting much better too. About 2 minutes after that row/run/row WOD, I was pretty much ready to do something else.