New kinds of tired

I'm thinking there must be some part of me that enjoys being "that" kind of tired. You know, the kind where you can't quite justify all the effort required to sit up straight. Or put another way, the kind where the personal trainer manager commends the trainer on a job well done. It sucks, as it should, but man was it a good workout.

Exercise demo

Power Snatch

The workout is as follows, as many rounds in 15 minutes of: 10 box jumps, 10 power snatch, 10 situps. I'd never done box jumps, literally jumping up on a box, so I was rather excited to try it out as an exercise. In general, I enjoy jumping and find it relatively easy to even repeatedly. The problem is that these easy things get you winded, then the power snatch goes from hard to worse. Of course, the 10 situps at the end of the round were a nice break before hitting up box jumps again.

I was doing the box jump onto a 20" box. I never really had a close call on the jumps. It was just a test of how quickly and safely I could jump on and off the box. Then the 65 lbs I was using for the power snatch started rather heavy. In fact, that's the heaviest I've ever used in any snatch. Adding the deadlift before the actual snatch move makes the lift a little easier because the weight is not stationary at the start. After three or four rounds, though, my favorite part of it was simply dropping the bar and watching it bounce away comically. It should be noted I was using rubber bumper weights designed such a thing.

I nearly finished 5 full rounds of this in the 15 minutes. Nearly means I'd just finished the 8th sit up. I finished the round outside the alloted time though because I wasn't about to stop with 2 to go. After that, my butt was successfully and sufficiently kicked.

It's a good workout for those days where you have very little time but want to barely walk out of the gym under your own power. I look forward to incorporating it into the rotation.

Speaking of that, it's now the middle of week 39 and I'm 3 pounds from my goal. Looks like I'm going to miss it by a few weeks. These last few pounds have really been crawling off slowly. It's likely a very similar rate that they started creeping on. 3 more pounds, just 3 more pounds.