#1: Cross-fit



I wore this shirt doing my workout today.  Talk about some motivation!



Did: 50 'wall-balls', 30 push ups, and 20 jump rope jumps. 

I got the workout from here, a fantastic cross-fit website I found today.  I discovered, however, after I worked out, that I did it wrong!  In the comments below, someone explained that the '50-35-20 reps' meant 50 of all of them, then 35, then 20!  I had thought it was rather easy....



The 35 push ups were seriously hard though.  As you can see, I only managed to eek out 30 - but in my defense, I did them all from my toes, and it's not like I've been doing many push ups lately!  I could hardly finish the last two... well, really more like the last 15.  On the final one, I was literally shaking: straining to get air into my lungs, pushing the muscles to their last effort, tensing my abdominals to their hardest rock form... only to collapse halfway up.  Sheer exhaustion kept me from my total 30.

Now that's what I call pushing it to the next level!

Unfortunately, the wall-balls and jumps weren't quite so rewarding.  I hardly lost any breath doing those, and could have used the extra 50 and 80 repetitions.  Oh well, me and my mom are planning on running tonight, and maybe I'll get some extra jump roping in then.

*(Update!  I ended up running 2 miles with my mom after I originally posted this.)