CrossFit Day 66
Today’s workout was very simple: 400 m walking lunges (for time and lunge count). Okay, that shouldn’t be too big of a deal, right? That’s what I thought when I started my heart rate monitor (and left it on basic, instead of switching it to hard).
For this exercise, there is, like practically every other exercise we CrossFitters do, a video on the Exercise Demos page. I watched it a few times, made mental notes about how to do the lunges correctly, and marched over to the track near my house. According to gmap pedometer, the distance around the outside of the track is 448.4 m. That’s about the distance I covered. Today’s workout was also the first workout I’ve done in quite a long time that I started before sunset.
I had to remind myself not to take giant lunges, but to keep it sane. I found myself out of breath a lot. Despite the simple looking instruction, this was a brutal workout that literally handed my ass to me. I had to stop for a break every 20 lunges. So, it took me almost as long to lunge-walk the 450 m as it to run the 13 laps a couple of weeks ago. All told, I completed 451 lunges from my water bottle back to my water bottle, attracting the strange looks of the other users of the track. Yeah, folks, I look funny. Go ahead and join me, though, before you laugh too hard.
My results: 27:29, 1:03 zone (basic); HR: 170 avg, 184 max; 410 cal
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