Wod

Intervals on my concept 2 rower.

-5k warmup, easy ~ 20:45
-6x500m negative split; 1:54,1:53,1:51,1:48,145,1:42

-push ups 3x15 (I’ve been meaning to do more of these, I’m really lazy about this particular exercise for some reason so I have a goal to just do them consistently, since I don’t do them I sort of suck at them).

-walking dogs ~ 3 miles, wore my go ruck pack with 35lbs in it.
 
Full Body Day 4
Saturday, Jan 17, 2026 at 9:51am

Leg Press Horizontal (Machine)
Set 1: 270 lbs x 22
Set 2: 460 lbs x 10
Set 3: 460 lbs x 10
Set 4: 460 lbs x 10

Incline Bench Press (Barbell)
Set 1: 185 lbs x 15
Set 2: 225 lbs x 8
Set 3: 225 lbs x 8
Set 4: 225 lbs x 8

Pull Up (Weighted)
Set 1: 15 lbs x 12
Set 2: 15 lbs x 12
Set 3: 15 lbs x 10

Front Raise (Dumbbell)
Set 1: 35 lbs x 12
Set 2: 35 lbs x 12
Set 3: 35 lbs x 12

Overhead Triceps Extension (Cable)
Set 1: 110 lbs x 12
Set 2: 110 lbs x 12
Set 3: 110 lbs x 12

Bicep Curl (Barbell)
Set 1: 80 lbs x 10
Set 2: 80 lbs x 10
Set 3: 80 lbs x 10

Standing Calf Raise (Machine)
Set 1: 243 lbs x 12
Set 2: 243 lbs x 14
Set 3: 243 lbs x 12

Treadmill 30 min
 
Sunday:

Kettlebell: 70lb (32kg)
-10x10 one hand swing
-10 Turkish getups
-5x10 goblet squats
-10x6 pull-ups (dead hang)
-3x12 bicep curl (all for show) 35lb dumbell
-5x10 pushups

I’m determined to get better at pushups, it sounds so stupid I just never liked doing them so I just skipped them or did them on/off/randomly over the years. At work Friday, I got challenged to a push up contest and I won but it was really hard and it shouldn’t have been, I also noticed my face was super red, I was probably holding my breath while I did them. Anyways, new goal is 100 pushups a day for a month.
 
Full Body Day 1
Sunday, Jan 18, 2026 at 9:20am

Squat
Set 1: 135 lbs x 14
Set 2: 225 lbs x 12
Set 3: 225 lbs x 12
Set 4: 225 lbs x 12

Bench Press (Barbell)
Set 1: 235 lbs x 12
Set 2: 235 lbs x 12
Set 3: 235 lbs x 9

T Bar Row
Set 1: 90 lbs x 15
Set 2: 135 lbs x 11
Set 3: 135 lbs x 11
Set 4: 135 lbs x 11

Lateral Raise (Dumbbell)
Set 1: 35 lbs x 11
Set 2: 35 lbs x 12
Set 3: 35 lbs x 12

Skullcrusher (Barbell)
Set 1: 90 lbs x 10
Set 2: 90 lbs x 11
Set 3: 90 lbs x 8

Seated Incline Curl (Dumbbell)
"Slow-3-1-3"
Set 1: 30 lbs x 14
Set 2: 30 lbs x 12
Set 3: 30 lbs x 10

Cable Crunch
Set 1: 210 lbs x 12
Set 2: 210 lbs x 12
Set 3: 210 lbs x 12

Treadmill 30 mins
 
8 miles. I was not feeling great today and cut the run short (and walked a good bit).

I think that NOT stopping and slowing down is what really cut my cycling race “career” short. I remember heading out for 120 mile rides and having dead legs from the beginning. I’d power through those rides and just push myself deeper into the fatigue hole when I’d have been better served just soft pedaling for an hour and going home and recovering.

I always look back at those years and realize how dumb I trained. I remember so many times I’d be heading out for an easy 30 minute recovery run only to bump into the Tuesday evening “fun run” which was well known to be an easy warmup over to this golf course then turned into an all out race for 2x2 mile laps before jogging home as a group. My 30 minute recovery run would turn into a 7 miles race with 4 of those miles at all out race pace….more fatigue.

Then it would happen again at the Thursday evening reaper ride, a 30 mile bike ride that was an all out 100% effort. We’d meet at the edge of the city and head up this valley that was fairly flat, it was a full pace effort, the deal was that the first one to get to this small town would turn around at the stop sign and head back to the city, whenever that person passed you on the way back, that’s where you turned around. I’d plan to hang back with slower riders but last minute decide to try to either win the workout or at least not let the local pro get out of my sight.

I wish I’d had the mindset to go easy back then, I think I never really recovered from workouts and as a result I was never primed for peak all out efforts because I was in a deep state of fatigue all the time. I’ve learned joe to adjust expectations and plans when needed. Better late than never I suppose.
 
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