After reading it again Hell Day, not hell week, is three days long but has three sessions per day. When I think about it I plan on doing one in a morning, one mid-day and one at the end of the day. The Max one's would fit nicely into a lunch break and the morning session I figured would just be a case of getting up half an hour earlier and skip my "cuppa tea and ponder about life" 15 mins before I start work. Which should give me enough time to fit in a 30 min session and a quick shower afterwards.
One of my all time favorite sayings is "If you want to be successful at work just get up a little earlier and work a little harder, it all adds up" I'll be living testament to that this week!
Session 1 (Tuesday)
Hades 33:50
HS Max 11 PB
Zeus 35:20 PB
Decided to start this weeks on a Tuesday, mainly because my chest hurt quite a bit after the correct pull-ups in Sunday's session. That and a bad night sleep on Sunday night. Mind you, I planned on getting up an hour earlier and doing this mornings session before breakfast but that never happened. It's now ten past nine so I had better get a wriggle on so i'm not too late starting work today!
No surprise that I was about 4 minutes over on Hades this morning considering that I have been doing pull-ups properly this time. Still having to jump up to the bar and lower myself down but the first few of a session are proper pull-ups so I am feeling the change.
HS Pushup max and Zeus are all evening ones. I have done the Max session half an hour before the Zeus session because Zeus has HS Push-ups in it and I figured I would not be able to do them if I had already done a full session of them to the point of failure.
Session 2 (Thursday)
Aphrodite 28:52*PB
Pull-up Max 6*PB
Artemis 36:08 PB
Feeling pretty sore from the last session so wasn't expecting what I just managed to push out! It's currently 8:52am, still not quite organised enough in a morning but I couldn't risk leaving it all until later as Artemis I guess would be a total fail later.
I'm now doing everything in Aphrodite in the un-modified form and not stopping to catch my breath between exercises or reps so it's all down to keeping in good form and getting faster on the reps now. I feel like I have come a very long way in a short space of time!
Pull-up MAX I managed to do 6 proper ones, again very surprised, and I did do some modified ones too but didn't count them as I wanted to put a star against at least one Pull-up exercise!
Artemis... now that's a real test right there!
50 Burpees, slow and controlled, no problem. 50 Pullup's, 3 slow and controlled in proper form and the rest were towel pullup's from a door in a very slow motion. By the end of these my forearms were burning! Onto 100 push-ups which I had to do in sets of around 10 a time with a few seconds break because my muscles would just fail. 150 squats, slow and controlled but with another small breather after each 50. However by the time I got to the second set of 50 Burpees I was well and truly shattered, I struggled getting through them. Kinda reminded me of the first time I had tried them.
Looking forward to a bath and a rest tomorrow too!
Session 3 (Monday)
Artemis 31:30 PB
Aphrodite 26:10 * PB
Squat MAX
This morning's Artemis was not a pleasant exercise, really felt out of synch and just not with it at all. Last night I had a doner kebab for tea and a slab of chocolate cake, which considering how good I have eaten all week I didn't think would affect me but I didn't feel as alert and on-the-ball as usual when I started.
I have decided to do Aphrodite and Squat MAX one after the other as I quite like the squats and I think I could smash through those pretty easily (or that's how it feels at the moment).
Aphrodite done in a PB and also beat a client's time, 20 years younger than me so am feeling pretty damn good right now, albeit very very out of breath and sweaty.
Squat done and managed to get a PB too. Glad this week is over, I don't mind doing a workout every day but fitting three into a day in separate intervals was not an easy task.
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