Tuesday, October 12, 2010

"Tabata This!"

Tabata Row (subbed burpees) Rest 1 minute
Tabata Squat
Rest 1 minute
Tabata Pull-up
Rest 1 minute
Tabata Push-up
Rest 1 minute
Tabata Sit-up

The Tabata interval is 20 seconds of work followed by 10 seconds of rest for 8 intervals.
Tabata score is the least number of reps performed in any of the eight intervals. Unit for the row is "calories".

Burpees = 7 (8,7,7,7,7,7,7,7)
Squat = 20 (21, 21, 21, 21, 20, 20, 20, 20)
Pull-up = 10 (11, 11, 11, 11, 11, 11, 10, 10)
Push-ups = 15 (18, 15, 15, 15, 15, 15, 15, 15)
Sit-ups = 13 (14, 14, 14, 13, 13, 13, 13, 13)

Total = 65

I did not have anyone keeping count for me so I just kept track of my lowest rep and tried to remember the reps each set.  I am sure it is pretty close.

Back in February of this year I did:
SDHP14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 (112)
Squats21 21 20 19 19 19 19 19 (157)
Pull-ups11 11 11 10 10 8 8 8 (80)
Push-ups17 17 17 17 17 17 17 17 (136)
Sit-ups14 14 14 13 13 10 10 10 (98)
Total Score = 68

This time I subbed burpees instead of SDHP.  I used to think SDHP were always the sub for rows,  however, I have learned they are the sub when rowing for distance but burpees is a more accurate sub when rowing for calories.  I have learned how to fly through SDHP and if that were my sub, I am sure I could have got at least 22 pretty easy and that would bumped my total up to a big PR of 80.  Instead the burpees are much slower and my total dropped to 65 but I am OK with that considering most of the other exercises had higher numbers.  Push-ups were down but that could have been because the same muscles are used for burpees.  I could not see my time during butterfly kip pull-ups so I just guessed and did 11(actually I was going to do 10 but I through one more in) when I got off the bar I saw my time and said "I messed that up " because I had a lot of extra time.  However, it ended up being about the right amount.  I would like to get 11 all the way through next time.  Granton is not feeling very well after the surgery and I had to skip running and do the WOD in the morning.  I usually don't like to workout in the morning but I don't think it had any affect on me today.

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