Despite going to sleep pretty late last night and being utterly exhausted, I dragged my sorry ass to conditioning class this morning b/c I told Hugh I would be there after testing. Turns out that I am still pretty damn tired, but I am really happy that I went.
We haven’t done a “fight gone bad” in a while. FGB is meant to mimic how an MMA fighter would feel during a fight. The format is 5 exercises done for 1 minute each with a minute of rest at the end, all repeated 3 or 5 times. Today, we did 3. The idea is that after about 1 minute of an exercise, you should be at just about muscle failure, so you stop, change gears, and do something else.
Anyway, today’s workout was 3 cycles of the following:
- Step ups (20lb dumbbells)
- Push press (55lbs)
- Medicine Ball Sit Ups (12lb medicine ball)
- Medicine Ball Cleans (25lb medicine ball)
- Kettle bell sumo dead lift high pulls (1 pood, I think)
- Rest
I was able to get out a total of 295 reps. This is WAY harder than it sounds… Here’s the breakdown of my reps:
Exercise | Round 1 | Round 2 | Round 3 | Total |
Step ups | 27 | 20 | 17 | 64 |
Push press | 30 | 22 | 21 | 73 |
Med Ball Sit Ups | 21 | 18 | 16 | 55 |
Med Ball Cleans | 16 | 12 | 12 | 40 |
KBSDHP | 22 | 20 | 21 | 63 |