Week twelve, Workout #36

Friday signaled the end of the penultimate week of Project 42. It was a great day weather-wise too.

My achilles continues to improve and is likely 92-95% now. We started with our normal stretching and run then the active warm up. No medicine balls, no weights today it was all about muscle endurance.

We started on the goal line and did 10 push ups and then did jump squats to the 10 yard line. Dropping for 10 more push ups we continued this routine to the 50. Then we changed push ups to close handed push ups to work the triceps and lunges for 10 yards. After the first 100 yards we did 50 yards or side shuffles switched directions and finished the last 50.

Starting our second set we replaced push ups with sit ups and jump squats with single leg squats but instead of standing between squats we stayed low to increase muscle engagement. After 50 yards we swapped sit ups for modified push ups; some full body, some pulsing. Side shuffles back from the far to near goal line. One more set of those and we were off to do pull ups.

We did a super set of pull ups and triceps extensions. Without stopping for any of it we did 10 pull ups, 10 tri extensions, 8 and 8, 6, 4, 2! Tough but great for muscle endurance.

We finished the day with some good stretching and started the weekend.

One more week to go for Project 42! Cannot wait for Monday's weight-in to see if 50 lbs is viable.

Until then.

T