wednesday active rest

mainsite rest day and after the total yesterday i knew i should stay away from anything heavy.
little active recovery for me today. head a little stuffy this am. had a sinus headache or something. yuck. weather doesn't help. shit rain and wet snow. blah.

got a weight vest from a friend and figured i would try it out. it cam loaded at 80# so i scaled it back to 40# for its first adventure.

warm up
run 2 miles
nice endurance pace run. just get the blood flowing.

strength/recovery wod

heavy cindy
so i figured i would use the weight vest and the cindy routine. go thru a few rounds and see how it felt.

40#vest
5 pull ups
10 push ups
15 squats

10 rounds 14 minutes
cindy is usually amrap 20 mins but i wanted to see how long it would take to do 10 and wasnt really wanting to push super hard this am. active recovery you know......lazy.....um yeah...
if i had run the 20 minute limit probably would have had 14 or 15 rounds. not so bad.

this was a cool change of pace. kept the pull ups strict. used a few different hand positions on the push ups. squats always are the worst. by the time you get into them you start to get a little anaerobic. moved from exercise to exercise clean with no breaks. took 20-30 seconds in between some of the last rounds to catch my breath.

all in all a good am work out. will be doing this again and will definitely be using the weight vest some more. dig it!