Tabata This!

No strength workout today since everyone was so sore from the leg workout yesterday. We started off with a nice 400m jog and about 15 minutes of stretching.

WOD: Tabata This!
Row (for calories)
rest 1 minute
Squats
rest 1 minute
Pullups
rest 1 minute
Abmat Situps
rest 1 minute
Pushups

You have 20 seconds of work followed by 10 seconds of rest 8 times. To calculate you score, you take the lowest total rep for the 8 set increment.

We began on the row and I did a great job. I have grown to love the rower and it has consistently been one of my better exercises. I was able to maintain a 9 calorie pace through all 8 sets. I then moved to the squats which were hard for me after the rower, and with my legs being sore from yesterday. I was able to get 15 reps for all 8 sets, but it was very difficult and really wore me out. After the next one minute rest (which is not nearly as much as you think) I started the pullups. I recently discovered how to do butterfly pullups, so I tried to incorporate these in my workout. The pullups were my worst score of the Tabata. I started with 2 rounds of 8, but quickly fell off to 4 reps on the final set. The last two were situps and pushups. I expected to do around 12 on each, but was to exhausted and got a score of 8 on each of them. My final total was 44, which was a little lower than my goal of 50, but I do not see where I could have made up any reps today. Next time I feel like I can do better. I am going to start incorporating some tabata into my normal workouts with bench, deadlifts, and box jumps. This is something that I need to work on, and something that will help me improve my endurance.

After the WOD me and Tiffany did another 400m run to loosen up some more. I wanted to work on some technical exercises and Tiffany wanted to learn the squat snatch. She learned the form very quickly and will do well when she does it in a workout. I could not get my form down for a while, but Tiffany helped me to get it right. Once I got the form right I decided to add some weight and worked up to 135# which is a 20# PR. I can snatch 185# but that is without doing a full squat. The squat is tough for me since I am not as flexible as I would like. My goal is to get 185# by the end of February as I continue to work on my form.

Here is a video of my 135# snatch (If you have any suggestions, by all means)