Saturday, August 2, 2008

Tabata, Turkish fun!

Much to the chagrin of my friend Patty - one of my favorites took place - the Turkish Kettlebell Joy....basically:
Kettlebell Swings/Turkish Get-ups

Complete as many reps as necessary at the weight of your choice to reach your assigned total weight in each exercise:
Women:
Swings - 1600 kg; TGU - 160 kg

I love this one - I only wish there were more Turkish Get ups....not sure why I like them -but I do! I completed this one in 9:50 ish.....basically about 3 minutes faster than last time - but I did the TGU's with 12 kg, so increased that a bit.

Today - Tabata - whatever that means:

Tabata Intervals ( 20 seconds of work followed by 10 seconds of rest repeated 8 times) is applied in turn to the Pullup, Pushup, Situp, and Squat. Each exercise is scored by the number of reps in each of the eight intervals. The score is the total of the scores from the four stations.

Again - this one is HARD - but I really like it - I think it's because it is old school exercises with a twist. If I'm remembering correctly last time I did this, I ended up with rugburns on both knees from doing pushups, which is what made me swear off knee push ups forever more.....so, I was happy to be within 2 on my score of last time - although my pushups were weak - I gotta start working on them...I should be able to crank out at least 10 in a row no problemo...but it wasn't so easy.....so...must work on all things stinky - PU's - get it?? I crack myself up sometimes!

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