D133: 12.15.21

Workout: Strength
Equipment Used: Bodyweight
Duration: ~25 min
Driver: N/A
Calories: ???

Quality Level: N/A
Observations/Intel: Finally, workout 100 for 2021. Both yesterday and Monday I was feeling well off, with some headache issues, which in turn caused some appetite issues and overall funk, but today was better, though appetite and stomach are still a bit screwy. I can always tell when it's a good idea for an OFF day when whatever I have in mind seems like an impossibly high hurdle, as it did the last couple of days. Fitness is a marathon, not sprint...

Here's how things shook out today:

Incline push-ups: BWX20, BWX20, BWX20
Flat push-ups: BWX15, BWX, BWX12
Decline push-ups: BWX10, BWX10, BWX10

Flat crunches: BWX40, BWX30, BWX40

Ok, so, again some improvement, even for being off. The Inclines today reminded me of how much I hate higher rep count exercising for strength, so I think I'm going to back everything off to sets of 15. As soon as I can get 3 full sets of 15 per set for all 3 of the push-up variations, then I will add a 4th (and possibly 5th) set into things. For crunches, those I will leave with the goal being 4 sets of 50 reps each. I will add the 4th set there as soon as I hit the 4th set for push-ups, I think...I considered taking a stab at a 4th set, to see how it would look, but it snowed last night, so I will be off to shovel in a couple hours and decided to not run myself that hard at muscle failure. 

Speaking of that, I did measure the actual blocks and came up with the following: 13 blocks X ~4' and 29 blocks at ~5' (I live in a very old neighborhood). This is 197 linear feet. This is give or take and there is a curved part around the corner, so I'm rounding to 200' for ease of calculation. The width is around 2', for the most part, so I'm just going to call it that part for ease of calculation. So, given 4" - 5" the other day, I moved somewhere between 133 and 167 cubic feet of snow. My neighbor has kindly blown around half of the walk out today and snowfall by the time I get to it this afternoon will be somewhere between 2" - 3". So, either way, maybe 1/4 to 1/3 of the previous time, though the plows might have gotten out by then, which means I will have to clear the end of the driveway, which is always wet, slushy, sometimes icy, and usually compacted. I am anticipating resuming the Air Dyne tomorrow anyway, however.

Revisiting this a few hours later, I misjudged the depth from behind the blinds...more like 6" - 15", which puts this probably more than last time and considering that a bunch of dipshits walked on part and compacted it, probably a lot more weight. It is a really good thing my neighbor did the other half or it would be way, way more than last time. Definitely a mess (and my garage door is frozen shut, so that's nice)...as it is, the plows drove over the corner curb (and buried it in icebergs), which took a while to clean, but have not done the residential streets as of yet, so I'm waiting for it to go by to attempt to unbury my driveway...this is probably going to ace out the Air Dyne tomorrow, though...my Legs are already pinging pretty good.

I'm debating doing the plank test next Wednesday, as that is the last day I really have in mind prior to my proposed OFF week, but may hold off until the 27th and instead start the OFF week on Wednesday the 29th or Tuesday the 28th, depending on how the mileage goal goes. I still need to at least attempt to hit the max-out speed on sprints as well prior to then...definitely looking at lot harder to at least take a stab at some of the goals I had in mind for this year now that we're this close to the end of it.