Training Accountability: Week 7 - Walking Wounded Edition

Apologies for the late entry Mudders - 11 days to go, and it's time to learn a lesson from El Capitan himself. Now would probably be a good time to taper off your training, rest a bit, take care of yourself... that kind of smart stuff. Now would be a bad time to blow up your back doing risky lifts too fast with bad form. Takes a real idiot to do something like that. I should be ok by race day.

9/20 - 5 mile run.

9/21 - 10 sets for time of: 10 dead lifts @ 135lb, 15 push-ups. Made it through 5 rounds in about 6 minutes, got sloppy, destroyed back. Because I'm smart, I substituted pull-ups for the dead lifts and finished the work out. And then I hurt.

9/22 - 700 yard swim. Can't flip turn.

9/23 - 1500 yard swim. Can flip turn; feeling better. Then immediately WAY worse.

9/24 - Present: walking wounded. No training for another few days.

Be smarter than me.

Training Accountability: Week 6

9/13: 2,000 yard swim.

9/14: 5 rounds for time of: 50x jump rope, 20x burpees, 20x Abmat sit-ups, 1/2 mile run - 47 min.

9/15: 500 yard swim; 3 rounds for time of: 21x, 50 yard swim, 15x, 50 yard swim, 9x, 50 yard swim - K-Bell swings @45/35lb, push-ups, sit-ups, squats. 27 Min.

9/16: "J.T." - For time, 21x, 15x, 9x: handstand push-ups, ring dips, push-ups - 6:30 min.; 70x 8-count body builders. (Burpee with lateral leg extension after push-up, no jump to finish)

9/17: Horrifying Flaccidity.

9/18: Squat dance at Travis' wedding. Amazing. Not fitness inducing, but amazing.

9/19: 3 rounds of: 100x jump rope, 20x K-Bell sumo deadlifts (1 rd 35lb, 2 rds 50lb), 20x dumbbell push-ups, 20x K-bell swings (1 rd 35lb, 2 rds 50lb), 50x Abmat sit-ups.


Clock is ticking, amigos. Get after it!

Mid-Week Moto & WWP Fundraising

CNN with Wounded Warrior Jonathan Pruden from WWP Inc on Vimeo.

In just over three weeks, Team COBRA-SPLOSION will be unleashed on Tough Mudder NorCal! We've all been training hard, and we'll be ready for the challenge.

We've got another challenge on our hands though, and that's helping the good folks at the Wounded Warrior Project do what they do by raising some money for the cause! Please take some time to check them out - visit the COBRA-SPLOSION blog page for links, or if you're already up to speed, head on over to our high-speed, space age donation site and get generous! All donations go directly to WWP - neither COBRA-SPLOSION nor Tough Mudder have any financial stake in the fundraiser. Get some!

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Training Accountability: Week 5

9/6 - 4.5 mile run. EDIT - no run, did 5 rounds of: 10 body weight squats, 10 burpees, 20 push ups, 20 2-count flutter kicks.

9/7 -I think I did something today, but since I can't remember, we'll call it a weakness day. EDIT - 4.5 mile run.

9/8 - 1500 yard swim, 10x 10 wall-ups.

9/9 - 5 rounds for time of: 20 push-ups, 75 yard swim, 20 wall-ups, 75 yard swim. 27 min.

9/10 - Volleyball with JAGs. Actually counts as negative PT. Gym day - 14 pull-ups, 3x 10 bench press @155, 165, 175 lbs., 10 pull-ups, 3x 10 machine fly @120 lbs, 10 pull-ups, 3x 10 cross-ups @30 lbs., pull-ups to failure.

9/11 - Boot Camp with Travis. Lots of jumping, squats, running with a damn parachute on. Good times.

9/12 - I ate a burrito that made me fall asleep. Great success.