Fitness 10/05

I had a pretty poor weekend nutrition wise but wasn't feeling the effects too bad this morning. Today was a long burner of only calisthenic exercises. Calisthenics are simple movements that increase strength and tone and use only one's body weight (Dips, sit ups, pull ups, push ups etc.)

Today's WOD was done in teams of 5. It didn't matter how we split it up or who was on which movement, we all worked together to achieve the required amount of reps for each exercise. I wrote the amount that each person was responsible for below, but we helped each other out where needed. For example, I'm good at pull ups and push ups so I took on a lot more of those to help out a woman on our team who was not as good. Stuff like that. She in turn did more sit ups and air squats, things that were easier for her.

WOD:
600 air squats (120 each)
500 sit ups (100 each)
400 push ups (80 each)
300 pull ups (60 each)
200 burpees (40 each)

Time: 25:52
Calories burned (WOD only): 449

This was a fun one, just put your head down and crank out reps. Once I got burned out on one exercise, switch to a different one. We just had to keep moving and keep the reps coming.

It got pretty hard super fast. Towards the end I could only get 10 pull ups at a time, 10 push ups at a time, a few burpees etc. Your endurance on calisthenics starts to decline surprisingly fast. It was nice to have a variety of exercises though, that way we could rest one group of muscles while still working on another.