Chubby Racer

 Just did 100 burpess in 10:19.  Last week I didn't time myself, and it felt like it took 18 minutes.  Guess time doesn't fly when you're suffering.

This post is 2 days late because I forgot to write it.  Been busy in the mornings with other crap.  This metcon was just a 2 mile run with a vest.  It's the longest I've done so far, and I survived!  That's about all I can say about it.

My olympic lifting coach doesn't want me doing waiters carries or farmers carries for the time being, so these workouts are going to get pretty simple.  Today's is" survive a 2 mile run with a plate carrier. Also going to do 4 sets of 3 snatch lift-offs @ 135 per my coach.  Good luck!

I figured I'd post a general life update as I sit here drinking my preworkout and watching hour 19 of Le Mans. Training: I'm drinking preworkout on a sunday morning because I've found a new olympic weightlifting coach, and I see him on saturday and sunday morning, and then he programs for me MWF.  I then program for myself some cardio on Tuesday.  I mentioned that in my previous blog, but figured I'd put that here for completeness. Competitive shooting:  dovetailing with my training because I want to start doing tactical games, I have been doing most of my cardio as runs with my plate carrier as that'll be something that shows up in the tactical games.  As far as the shooting goes...well...I've been to the range once, and it was BAD.  My pistol game needs lots of work.  I have a 3gun match this month which will give me some practice, but I need to get to the range too. I've ordered some rubberized grips that I hope will help me hold onto the damn pis...

Today is a pretty simple one:  1.5 mile run with a 20# vest.  For a little warmup coupled with skills work, try some double unders if you have a jumping rope, and afterwords, attempt some rope climbs if you have a climbing rope. This one I'm not going to time.

Best laid plans of mice and men and all that, Metcon Monday is going to have to become metcon tuesday.  I was finally able to connect with my new olympic lifting coach, and he's writing my programming for me for monday wednesday and friday.  In addition to being in his gym saturday and sunday for technique work, I'm left with 1 day a week to program for myself.  So, stay tuned for tomorrow when we resume posting workouts.

A little background for those that have never heard the word "metcon" before, it's a portmanteau of metabolic conditioning used almost exclusively in the crossfit world.  Speaking of that world, I'm out.  I found a new Olympic lifting coach, so I'm headed down that road again which leaves a cardio gap in my training.  See, metcons are really just cardio disguised as...well, anything else. So, in order to fill the cardio gap, I'm going to be writing my own workouts with a bent towards the type of things I might see in a tactical games competition, as I also intend to start trying that out this year.  These workouts will be out of my garage, and will therefore included pretty limited and/or cheap equipment, and no cardio equipment like a treadmill, rower, or air bike as I don't have any of those.  Consequentially, they should be easy for most to duplicate.  So, without further adieu, I give you the very first workout 12 Minutes as many reps as possib...