Day 26: Frankenstein

 The Email: 

  Set you timer to 5 minutes:

Complete the following exercises as fast as possible (AFAP).

The faster you finish the more rest you get.... 10 rounds total.

12 pushups

12 bench jumps

12 hanging leg raises

12 Burpees

12 walking lunges (each leg)

12 frog jumps

Sprint to the end of walkway #2 garden and back to the bench at park

The Equipment: 

 

Before we start: Not sure if anyone noticed, but apparently these workouts are so tedious that I forget how to add. I was off by 2 whole workouts!

Now back to your regularly scheduled readings...

GEOFF HAS CREATED A MONSTER!!!

OMG, what is happening to me! I woke up 15 minutes before my alarm today (which was a good thing because I left it in the living room last night) and headed out to the playground before even thinking of texting anyone to see if they were chickening out and what have you. I then ripped through my workout, which was a pain in the butt because of how tired my muscles were from yesterday's beatdown. On round 7, my Burpees became "Stumblees" almost face planting several times becausemy legs would not get themselves under my body to push up. They went back into union mode, claiming unsafe working conditions...we worked it out though through their union rep and everyone happy with each other.

When I finish these routines, I still feel like this:

Yeah, Like a single compression sock goon, dead to the world around him. BUT...

Today I had time after my workout while the rest of the team trudged through their reps, and what did I do??? I tried to find new variations in my exercises to make them harder! ARGHHH!!! I just drank the Kool aide and it feels AWESOME!

Here is what I got so far.
1.Swing pushups. I'm getting the burn in my chest, back and arms, and want it to tear up the core more, so I moved my feet onto separate swings and spread them as I go down into the pushup:

It worked. My core was BURNING after just 3 pushups! I then got giggly and walked around the area looking for more. Oh, hey stairs!

I'm thinking of eventually doing a pushup on each stair as I go down, then moving into a push up and off the stair forward onto the next and so on. Maybe a push up onto the first railing and back don to the next stair??? We'll figure something out.

Then box jumps (note: these still kill me as is, but this variation will be for after the 60th email)

This one, I'm thinking box jump up into a frog squat then big jump onto the other side at first, but eventually over everything.

So what does this mean? Its the epiphany stage of the program. Like a light switch being turned on, I just realized that I'll be fine once 60 days have passed and can create and engineer new routines to keep it fresh. I became the kid in the candy store Sully displayed when this challenge came to be. I just became hooked and am loving working out an exercise with the team and having them say" What the Hell? That's insane!" Yeah, that's a great feeling and yeah we're going to do it.

Continuum (theory): anything that goes through a gradual transition from one condition, to a different condition, without any abrupt changes. I'm not sure about the abruptness part, but I have changed, albeit gradual, into a different mentality and into a different person.

Tomorrow is an off day, and I may return in the morning to see how I can adapt these exercises even further...

BOOM

P.S. Be sure to take special note of Sully's expressions and demeanor today if you are to see him. Having been his friend for as long as I have, I know him reading this and seeing the development of the exercises is like porn to him. He may have an lightened step about him today...