Yesterday kicked my butt

It was another one of those wake up at 4:30am days, since I had to go all the way from Ruckersville for my workout.

I was scheduled to do 300m swimming, but I would up doing 450m. I have been looking over my TI stuff and felt like I was doing a little bit better and wanted to do some more swimming to see how it felt. I still have to work on breathing, because I feel like my lungs are going to explode, but I think I noticed a small improvement on my strokes and my speed. (Hopefully it was real and not just percieved!)

Then I did a 30 minute workout on the treadmill. I figured since I was inside, I'd try to mix it up a little, and did a rolling hills type interval workout like this:

5 min warm up - speed 5.0 incline 1.0
2 min interval - speed 5.5 incline 2.0
2 min recovery - 5.0, 1.0
2 min interval - 5.5, 3.0
2 min recovery
2 min interval - 5.5, 4.0
2 min recovery
2 min interval - 5.5, 3.0
2 min recovery
2 min interval - 5.5, 2.0
2 min recovery
5 min cooldown - 5.0, 1.0

Slow I know, but I'm working on it!

I don't usually talk about this part of my Tuesday/Thursday, but my karate class was killer today.

Usually we stretch to warm up and do a few of some variety of pushups and situps.

Not yesterday!

We started with some footwork speed drills running around a pad, then we did some plyometric jumping drills over said pad, then we did burpees (with a jump at the end), then we headed over to the bags to do abs. We did 1 min situps (and I should mention that we had to wrap our legs around the bag and touch the back of the bag on the up and the floor behind our heads on the way down to make sure we were actually sitting up and coming back down), 1 min legs raises, 30 second break, 30 seconds of situps/30 seconds of leg raises, 30 second break, 15 seconds of situps/15 seconds of leg raises. This amounted to about 35 minutes of drills/exercises. Tougher than it sounds!

So took a planned early afternoon off and sat on my couch!