The plan for August calls for a variety of exercises, 12 to be exact. We would roll the dice and select a particular number of exercises, then cycle through those exercises a specified number of times, depending on the day. It’s all on the calendar.
It turns out there are a few problems with that. One is, you will never select a number “1″. Another is you are more likely to roll 6, 7, 8, than you are numbers on the extreme ends. Plus, we never decided what to do about duplicate rolls. The biggest problem is that it was too random. We really need to structure it a little better.
For my part, I rolled the following: Burpees, TGU, alternating swings, hack squat, Hindu pushups. You can see there is a TON of PUSH, and a lot of full-body. This was grueling, and not in a good way. I worked through it in about 25 minutes, but did not do all reps. We agreed that the number of reps is a goal, and I did not hit some of them. The getups were especially hard, after working the arms so much in the Burpees and Hindu pushups.
So we agreed that we would separate the exercises into areas: push, pull, legs, core, and full-body. We had two exercises each in push, pull, legs and core, and four in full-body. So we revised the plan a little, and I will post the new calendar soon. On a “medium” day where we do five exercises, we will select one from each category; hard days will have two full-body exercises and one from the other categories; and light days will have no core, but one from each of the other categories. We’ll see how that goes.
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