Today was one of those surprisingly hard workouts; the kind where you feel the burn but keep going for some odd reason, and at the end have to focus on every normal movement like walking. Mentally telling your knees and thighs to move and balance and hold your body up to walk across the room to fill your water bottle, fearing you’ll make an ass of yourself in the gym when your legs just buckle and you collapse.
I didn’t collapse, but it took every bit of willpower to learn how to walk again for the first five minutes after the workout was over. And I mentioned how surprised I was, because I had looked at the workout prescribed and thought “sure, this will be good, a little cardio mixed with mostly lower body work.” Nothing about it really phased me. I had no idea what I was in for.
20 minute AMRAP (as many rounds as possible)
15 stationary lunges on each leg, with opposite arm holding a dumbbell overhead (bicep to ear). I used 20 lbs.
15 kettle bell swings. I didn’t have a kettle bell so I used a 30 lb dumbbell, which worked just fine.
15 box jumps. My box was around 15 inches.
I got through six full rounds and a seventh of the lunges. And then almost fell over.
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