Cold Start

The holidays are freshly over and an old new years resolution has been completely demolished, and I have a few NEW resolutions that I would like to start chipping away at. One being blowing last years training out of the water with more focused and intense workouts. I woke up from a nap, silly with Chinese food and cookies, knowing I had scheduled a few workouts for the day... dreading actually doing them. After a few minutes of fighting with myself, I put on my new cold-proof workout gear and headed out into the chilly night. Last year my 30 minute jogs were exactly that... 30 minute jogs. Today I decided that just wasn't good enough. I once read something that said if you weren't nervous before a workout, you weren't working hard enough... I decided to do interval sprinting throughout the 2.5 mile course. I know I did well, because I felt like puking 4 times during the "jog". I dreaded coming home and finding out what Alex had planned for us... which was a good thing. What he had in store was this:

21-15-9 reps of
45# Sandbag Shoulder (alt. shoulders each rep)+
Push Up+
15# Medicine Ball Sit-Up, Stand-Up, Slam (touch ball to mat behind head on extension of sit-up)

(The reps are 21-15-9 which means you pick up the 45 lb sandbag and shoulder it 21 times, do 21 push ups, do 21 sit and stands then you pick up the sandbag 15 times, do 15 push ups and 15 sit and stands... then 9 on all)

H's time 15:56
A's time 13:06

Alex kicked my ass at almost three minutes faster, but that's why he is so fun to work out with... he motivates me to do better. I was throwing up cookie fragments (my body completely telling me, "Look, it's one or the other... not both") and he was yelling, "You can do this!"
It was brutal. The sit up/stand ups had me literally yelling during every "stand up". Although I was disappointed with how out of shape the holidays have left me, this is an awesome start. Good things are sure to come...