Fitness - Kettle Bell Windmill's - Tabata Tuesday - 10/20

I woke up this morning pretty groggy and still a little sore from Saturday's Level 2 class (so insane). I was happy to see another static movement with the kettle bell that is a great way to stretch out and warm up the entire body. I'm talking of course, about windmill's. We did one rep per side starting light and working up gradually after a few reps at each weight.

Focus: Kettle bell windmills, work up in weight to as heavy as possible
Windmill's - 32 Kg bell

This felt GREAT! I felt really loose and ready to rock after this warm up.

WOD: Tabata Tuesday
Tabata Box Jumps - 24"
Tabata Ring Push Ups
Tabata Dumbbell Front Squats - 50# dumbbells
Tabata Wall Ball Sit Ups - 20# med ball

Score: 42
Calories burned (Focus and WOD): 535

The score was the lowest amount reps of any round on each exercise added together. I feel good about my effort today, although it was a really hard combination. We did full Tabata's (eight rounds of 20 seconds on, 10 seconds off, for a total of 4 minutes of work) on each exercise before moving on to the next.

The wall ball sit up was done by performing a sit up holding the med ball over head, sitting with your feet butted up to a wall. You sit up, throw the ball against the wall, catch it, then go back down. We had to touch the ball to the ground over our head for the rep to count.

I decided to step it up on the box jumps and the push ups. The Rx on box jumps was 20 inches and the workout called for regular push ups but I stepped it up to the ring push ups. I was going to use the vest on this one but decided against it. Tabata's are hard enough as it is and I just didn't want to make it any harder on myself. Hopefully tomorrow's WOD will give me an opportunity to use the weighted vest.