PT 08FEB2010

Holy crap! That was a killer insane workout that we did for pt this morning. We did circuit training, which I hate more then any other workouts in the world because they just don't ever seem to be any good. Well this morning it was good. It ended up being an hour long session of intervals with basically no rest.
The idea of the workout was that we would do 1 minute of strength building exercises such as push ups, sit ups, froggers, flutter kicks, ect; and then we would do a 400m interval at our goal 2 mile pace plus 2 or 3 seconds per lap. So 1 min push ups, and a 400m interval, 1 min sit ups, and then another 400m interval... you get the idea.

After discussing what pace our group should be running - we had argued on whether we should either run 55 sec 200's or 57 sec 200's - Rodriguez and I decided to just run at a pace we felt good at. Our first interval was finished with 1:37, an outstanding pace of 12:30ish! We knew, especially with no rest between laps, that there was no way we could sustain this pace, but ... we did it anyway. In fact, I am pretty sure we got faster, because once we hit the 2.5 mile mark, we were clocking interval times of about 1:30 per 400m. That's flying!

All-in-all we ended up running 3 miles worth of intervals. Or thats what I did anyway. I even slacked a little bit beause everyone else did 3.5 worth of intervals. Damn good workout. Damn good interval training session. By God I will max out the APFT by the end of the semester. Oh, and I have more motivation now, COL Stuart agreed to taking me out to a dinner of my choice if I do max the APFT, and there is no limit on my price. As expensive as I want, or as inexpensive as I want, it is up to me.

Freakin' Sweet!