I did a bad thing! Deadlift w/ an off plan run.

06-21-09 (Local)



So I’m at lunch today with a friend who is in phenomenal shape. Does he not get up from the table and get a huge bowl of fatty-ass desert and come back singing the “I’m in a bad mood, I need comfort food” song. Little did I know later that day I too would be having a bad day. Something was on my mind and my trainers plan to go light today and just do dead lifts to give me 1.5 days off in order to get adequate recovery time for an intense upcoming metcon was just not getting the anger out of me. So….in my pissed offness....instead of turning to “comfort food” as my chiseled genetic tyrannosaurus of a friend did earlier at lunch, I turned to my “comfort workout” and after a brief stretch and walk I made the decision to go for a run after completing the dead lifts. The run sucked but it gave me time to think, I kept an even pace for as long as I wanted too but it was clear to me that I was running through pains that will most likely manifest themselves in worse ways in days to come. I did a bad thing, but it could have been worse and in the end I probably burned as many calories during my “comfort workout” as my buddy took in with his “comfort food!”


WOD:
5x5 Dead lifts (1st set was 132lbs and the rest were 176lbs.)

***It should be noted that I spent more than an exorbitant amount of time testing the weight to find what was appropriate because this was my first time ever trying this exercise. I look for this to be a much smoother process in the future but at least I know where I am right now. ***

Off the workout routine
3 Mile Run (at a 6.0mph average pace for 30 minutes)
Time: 29:54