You Gotta Fight The Pain
First mission objective accomplished! I completed today’s challenge in 19 minutes 46 seconds. Oh my gosh the last set of pullups were hard. I was a gasping mess with 5 pullups to go, looked at my watch and saw 19:30. With my arms screaming at me to stop, I managed to fight through the pain and got there just in time.
Every day has been strange, and today was no different. I don’t understand this, but for some reason I had extreme difficulty pushing through the pain barrier (except on the last 5 pullups and that was different). I wasn’t even hitting total positive failure and still just couldn’t keep going. If I were a beginner, it would make sense, but I’ve been lifting for years and never had a problem going to positive failure. Perhaps it was because the temperature was around 30 degrees celcius…
Yesterday’s time was really good, and I knew that to beat it I’d have to get quicker on the floor wipers. The hardest part about the floor wipers is that it’s hard to breathe when you’re doing them. The way the exercise works, both your ribcage and diaphragm are constricted. Sure the exercise is difficult, but being oxygen deprived makes it a lot more so.
I struggled to string a decent set of pushups together, only managing 5-7 after the first 10. On other days, I’ve gotten to 20 or 30 before the first rest. I caned it on the box jumps, though, racing to 30, taking a few seconds to catch my breath, then finishing off the rest. I picked up a minute there, I think.
Now that I’m getting stronger, this challenge is turning more into a fitness challenge, rather than a muscle challenge. Interesting…
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