Thursday, December 18, 2008

Themed Training - Technical Endurance/Tabatas

Today was supposed to be a themed training on technical endurance preceded by three Tabata sessions (Squats, push-ups, and atomic crunches) to sufficiently tire out the muscles. Due to the winter break and whatnot, only Frank and Trey showed. Here are the numbers (my numbers are from yesterday, though I did most of the Tabatas with them without counting as I timed):

Andy:
Squats - 14 14 12 8 9 11 9 8
Push-ups - 11 9 9 10 6 8 3 3
Atomic crunches - 6 4 7 3 2 1 1 1

Trey:
Squats - 10 11 6 9 6 6 4 10
Push-ups - 7 7 5 2 4 2 5 3
Atomic crunches - 1 3 2 4 3 4 3 5
(Note: After the first attempt, Trey began to swing into them to complete the crunches; by the end, he kept his legs tucked)

Frank:
Squats - 7 8 12 6 11 6 9 10
Push-ups - 13 12 7 3 3 1 1 2
Atomic sit-ups - 1 1 0 1 2 6 4 5
(Note: After the third set, halfway through the fourth, Frank kept his legs tucked up. The last two cycles consisted of normal sit-ups)

Overall, I'm still pretty pleased. You can tell where we all are weak! You can also see that Frank burned himself out too quickly on the push-ups.

Now, the idea for the themed training was to do short endurance runs with obstacles in the way and the like. After Trey and his friend Kelly got lost forever getting back to us (or so they say), I was tired enough to just let us play around. Everyone's muscles were pretty wobbly, and just the casual technical training was enough for everyone to continue to feel it, so no worries. We'll hit it harder come February when we do this again.

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