Hello all!
This week I have been doing my Spartan training with the #5WeeksToSpartan program and I have also spent most of the week moving… basically my body is now sore and totally smashed!
While this week has been really hard it has made me realise how far I have come, I have been able to do a lot of the moving of our house/home office and I have had 5 days of really solid training. I never thought I would be able to do anything like that!
So what did this week look like for me?
Monday – Rest Day! YES!!!!
Tuesday – High Round High Intensity
Wednesday – Slow and Heavy with Jen
A – 3 rounds 1 min box jump
B – 3 rounds 30sec each
- Step ups – 10kg, 12.5kg, 12.5kg (each hand)
- Walking lunges – 17.5kg, 22.5kg, 22.5kg
- Farmers carry – 16kg (each hand)
- Front squat – 22.5kg, 25kg, 25kg
C – 20 burpees
D – 3 rounds 20sec each, 30 sec of burpees after each round
- TRX row
- Bar hang
- Push ups
- Burpees 8,8,8
Thursday – Stairs 30 mins as many reps as possible. This week I had to do the stairs in Glebe near Wentworthville Park, with moving and work I just couldn’t get to Coogee Stairs… Anyway I did 28 laps in just under 30mins. In the middle of last year I did these stairs and after 3 laps I was fried… so 3 laps to 28 some would say that’s an improvement. Myself, I couldn’t believe it!
Friday – Rest! Friday was supposed to be Slow and Heavy, but after moving house all week I was 100% shattered. I could not force my body to do any more on Friday. There was still plenty of movement through the day moving the final bit and keeping on with assembling the new place. I’m not usually one to just turn of my alarm and stay in bed but this day was one of those days my body was broken.
Saturday – Park Death with Jen
4 laps of the oval, then there was lots of squats, lunges, push ups, crab walks, bear crawls, more running and of course burpees!
Seriously I can’t even remember the order we did everything in… I call that my training brain!
I did 4 laps of the 420m oval in 10’42” minus 1’30” of recovery – we did a lap then 30 sec recovery x4. So average time was about 2’30″… I know I can do that better though so I definitely try it again soon.
Sunday – Hills Work 45mins
This was really funny, I had excited butterflies in my tummy about a training session. The last time this happened was when Nardia and I broke in their new Ankor harness.
We did 16 laps up and down in of Moore Park Hill in 45min. We also alternated adding weight. I had the 10kg sandbag 6 times and the 8kg MB 5 times from memory.
That was HARD! But the girls and I were so happy that we got it done… and it really was the perfect weather, not too hot!
So that’s what this week’s training looked like for me.
Next week’s plan is:
- Monday – Coogee Stairs
- Tuesday – Jen’s high intensity workshop
- Wednesday – Jen’s slow and heavy session, then1 lap of Centennial Park for time and pace
- Thursday – Rest
- Friday – slow and heavy at my home gym
- Saturday – Jen’s park death session
- Sunday – Jen’s obstacle course workshop
Pumped!
…SBK