How was week 1 everyone? Have you been super squatting, hitting it hard, crunching like a cap’n?
If you weren’t here last week, these are the nuts and bolts of our Challenge. Please join our little journey! I’ll explain the shorts but OGs may remember them from our first meeting.
To recap, my goals were to:
Up to it, down to it, fuck bitches that don’t do it, we do it cause we use to it, now lift motherfucker, lift. In lifting as in drinking, mantras help. Now chug that wheatgrass shot like a real woman and lift wit yo legs, gurl.
I’m assuming you’re now drunk on anti-oxidants? Which doesn’t mesh with the pain in your thighs and have got you feeling ornery? Good, I’ll get some honest dirt out of you!
Welcome to the Super Squats Club. Your weekly corner to track your (non) workouts, bitch about Becky from Boot Camp, and share the latest (safe) dieting dirt with the snarkiest fools around. Might as well enjoy workout hell. The latest Harvard Business Weekly reports that 70% of winning the interwebz is looking good. We’re on a mission critical assignment here.
One rule to remember, people get sensitive bout their fitness –ish so be nice! It’s like discussing my momma…I may call her Sloppy Cunt but it’s Ms. Jackson to you.
You in? And with that, we’re off. I may bring friends next week if you’re good!
Well.
For all of my best intentions, I made it to the pool twice.
Hit me with your results and I’ll add them to this post.
| Name | What you did | How you feel |
|---|---|---|
| SWC | 2x Swim | Feeling okay, but unimpressed |
| MOL | 3xYoga; 2xWalk/Elliptical; some other |
I’m not going to make any excuses for myself, so I’ll give you one of my favorite one mile swim workouts. It’s a broken mile. It’s easy, but you do have to keep track of things in your head – AND you have to pick up speed as you go. Take about 10 seconds in between each.
1×275 (11 lengths of the pool) – warm up
1×250 (10) – moderate
1×225 (9) – moderate
1×200 (8) – faster
1×175 (7) – faster
1×150 (6) – faster
1×125 (5) – faster
1×100 (4) – sprint
1×75 (3) – sprint
1×50 (2) – sprint
1×25 (1) – sprint
Then do a 100-200 cool down.
Who doesn’t want to be 1,000 pounds and featured on Gawker’s homepage? We don’t!
I’ll try to make this a weekly post where we can check in, ass kick each other, and brag about how tough we are. In convening our first meeting, this is the agenda (and, since I’m initiating it, my philosophy).
1. In general, I think exercise leads you to eat/take care of yourself a bit better, so this ain’t about dieting or calories.
2. Start where you are and be reasonable in your goals.
3. Help me name our exercise group.
4. Tell us what you plan to do/want to accomplish.
5. Keep track of the number of miles run, biked, swam, etc.
I like data, so I am going to be tracking my swimming and biking on Map My Ride, which also has Android and iOS applications (the Android one is free right now, just FYI). The cool thing about the mobile apps is that you can start the GPS at the start of your ride and it will track you automatically.
So that’s it – tell us how you want to report your results, I figure we can do some group tracking and whatnot and let’s exercise more than our fingers!