Sandbags Be Heavy

I went to Boost again on Wednesday (and Monday, btw) evening. Jess was coaching. This workout was tough, but I think it was made tougher by the fact that I overdid it the first round through. Let's see if I can remember the workout....

20 min AMRAP

200m sandbag carry (45lbs)
20 air squats
5 hand release pushups
20 single unders
:20 bar hang

Yep, I think that's it.

Anyway, for whatever reason, my brain did not understand that carrying a 45lb sandbag was going to be really hard for me? I think it's because I can barely pick up the 65lb sandbag, so 45lb seemed light?

So, I hoisted the 45lb sandbag onto my left shoulder and started walking. I made it about 50m before I realized it was really too heavy for me. The problem was that I couldn't move the weight once I got it on my shoulder without putting it all the way down. The other athletes could move it from shoulder to shoulder, or maneuver it onto their backs, but I couldn't seem to do that. At the 100m mark, I had to put the bag down. Then it took me forever to be able to pick it back up. By the time I made it back inside, I was pretty much spent! The rest of the round did not go all that well, and then the thought of carrying the sandbag another 200m just about made me cry. Jess got me a 20lb medicine ball and I carried that for the rest of the time. I was just so tired that we skipped the 30lb ball entirely!

I kept going for the entire 20 minutes, but I wasn't particularly happy about it. I was pretty miserable, actually. Trent asked me why I do things to myself that make me miserable. I had a hard time explaining it at the time. But, the thing is, the workouts rarely make me feel miserable. In fact, I usually feel fairly proud of myself after a workout, especially if I make it through a really difficult one!

And in retrospect, I suppose I'm still somewhat proud of myself for going the whole 20 minutes of this workout. I just wish I could get to the point where a 45lb sandbag is actually doable. Where it's not a foreboding amount of weight. I just feel pretty weak sometimes and that does make me sad.

5 Times

Last night was actually the 5th time I've been to the gym since my last blog post. I've just sucked at posting anything!

So, last night's workout was kinda cool because I was the only one there for Boost. So I had Jess all to myself. I liked it! She even let me pick the music, lol. I chose, of course, Needtobreathe. Some of the other Boost regulars say they wouldn't want to be the only one there, but I really did enjoy it. Not that I don't enjoy the company of the other athletes as well....

The workout last night was a tabata work out, which I really liked. It was difficult, but the fun thing about tabatas is you know exactly what you're going to do and how long it's going to take. A tabata is 8 rounds of 20 seconds of work, 10 seconds rest... so 4 minutes total of one exercise. The first tabata was sit-ups, followed by rowing, hammer curls, and wall sits. I kept having to go down in weight on the hammer curls because they got so difficult! And the wall sits were pretty hard, too -- my legs were absolutely burning!

My arms a bit sore today from the curls, but I'm fine aside from that!