Absolutely nailed my workout today! The harder I worked the stronger I felt.
I took yesterday off, because my mysterious reoccuring knee problem re-appeared and it was still there this morning. I fiddled around all morning trying to decided whether to do a workout and what to do (legs? back? cardio only?). I just couldn’t find any inspiration. So I left the house telling myself that I was going to do a real arse kicking workout. I’d planned mainly cardio intervals after some chins and rows. I half-heartedly dared myself to make myself puke.
When I got to the gym I really gave my brain a good shake, took 3 deep breaths and committed myself to the workout. I warmed up on the treadmill (6.5km/h incline 6.5) to get my heartrate up to about 60%, it’s never high when I lift which is a big frustration. I jumped of the tready and headed for the stairs to the 3rd floor weight room. I felt myself resist the idea of climbing the stairs, as I often do, and employed my usual trick of telling myself each step was springloaded; this always turns me around and before I knew it I was sprinting up the stairs, through to the back of the weight room and effortlessly banging out 20 assisted chins without blinking (using the weight the last person had left). The woman next to me looked at me like ‘wow, your mad, but gee you look like your loving it’ and i realised I totally was, so I turned on my heels, sprinted out the room and nailed the stairs again. I knocked out 5 more sets of stairs, chins and dips at a rate of knots and my heartrate was pounding out between 150 and 170.
‘Shit, that was alright, how’m I gonna beat that?’
Rows next. I went to grab my current weight DBs, 22.5kg, and both sets were gone, leaving myself and another guy debating whether to go up or down. I called his bluff and grabbed the 25’s and easily banged out a set of 8. May as well hit those stairs again, I thought. I was even faster and more powerful and running back in knocked out 10 jacks while I was there. Another set of the same but it was all a bit too easy and I was really only aiming for sets of 5 so I upped the weight again and knocked out another 3 sets with stairs. I was getting some crazy looks by now and grinning between breathes.
When you’re going this strong why stop?! So I knocked out 5 strong sets of 12.5kg DB bicep curls only failing on the last rep and threw in 10 burpies and a minute of bench stepups in my ‘recovery’ time. This really had the heart pumping and man was I ready to hurl by the last set. Time to finish it off with 3 nasty triple-supersets of ezycurls (17.5, 12.5, 7.5kg) with some bench knee raises for my already aching abs and I was done. I felt I had a few sprints in me and bolted down the stairs back to the cardio floor but sadly looked at my watch and realised my bus home was only 10 minutes away. I figured I’d pretty much nailed my workout and headed for the changerooms to dunk my head under a tap before very self-conciously riding the bus home dripping with sweat.
I’m still pumped from the workout almost 2 hours later. I was searching for inspiration and I realise that for now I am my own inspiration. Right through the workout I was telling myself to just focus on the rep or step I was doing, the next one might be too hard but I wasn’t there yet and doing it was a lot easier than thinking about it. It goes to show me that the best workouts aren’t found on websites or other peoples blogs. By now I know how I should work and the best workouts are thosee I think are just out of your reach. This is just how I love to workout, strong, heavy and fast, and I can’t wait to hit the gym again tomorrow!
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