Well, when you're on the road, sometimes you gotta make do. I headed up to rural Maine for the 4th and a family visit and that was going to make getting in a workout a little challenging. Fortunately, I had planned ahead, brought a set of rings, and slung them over a tree in order to knock out one of my less favorite workouts - "Tabata Something Else." Tabata intervals - 20 seconds of work, followed by 10 seconds of rest for 8 repeats (total of four minutes) - for each of four separate exercises back-to-back. So, Tabata pullups, followed by pushups, then situps, then air squats, for a total of 16 minutes of lactate-threshold misery.
My numbers were not great, but sometimes, just getting in the work is enough. Mosquitoes were in full-force, as well, like a swarm of locusts around my head. Fortunately (I guess), I was never still for more than 10 seconds. My 6 year-old second cousin kept score for me from a distance - which produced two results: her screaming and running away from the mosquitoes while I yelled my scores, and some cute doodles in my workout logbook, along with backward 3's, 7's, and 4's, making my "13" appear (to my eye, anyway) like a much more robust "31" for some reason.
Pullups (rings)- 12/8/5/5/6/6/5/6 = 53
Pushups- 16/13/10/10/8/7/8/8 = 80
Situps (feet anchored on the base of the stairs)- 16/14/14/14/13/13/13/13 = 110
Squats- 16/15/14/14/14/13/15/14 = 115
Total Score = 358
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| The seemingly bucolic field of battle |
My numbers were not great, but sometimes, just getting in the work is enough. Mosquitoes were in full-force, as well, like a swarm of locusts around my head. Fortunately (I guess), I was never still for more than 10 seconds. My 6 year-old second cousin kept score for me from a distance - which produced two results: her screaming and running away from the mosquitoes while I yelled my scores, and some cute doodles in my workout logbook, along with backward 3's, 7's, and 4's, making my "13" appear (to my eye, anyway) like a much more robust "31" for some reason.
Pullups (rings)- 12/8/5/5/6/6/5/6 = 53
Pushups- 16/13/10/10/8/7/8/8 = 80
Situps (feet anchored on the base of the stairs)- 16/14/14/14/13/13/13/13 = 110
Squats- 16/15/14/14/14/13/15/14 = 115
Total Score = 358
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