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Todays workout: 12 minutes, AMRAP
12x 8kg Wallball (Hitting High/Above Line, Ass-to-grass)
12x (Kipping) Pullups
12x 16kg Kettlebell Swings (full range, above head)
12x Push Up Burpees (chest and knee never touches ground, feet together during pushup and when jumping back/forth between pushup and top part of burpee)

5 reps from three full rounds!

Then some straddle training and kettlebell lunges..

I also bought a Heart Rate Monitor, specifically the Polar Heart Rate Monitor FT60F(emale), which I used to track some things. First off, it claims my VO2Max is 70, which is probably ludicrous, considering how I last week got 58 in a test which to me seemed more advanced (for the Polar Fitness Test you basically just answer some questions, then lie down for 5 minutes with the chest-strap on). Anyway you can read about the Fitness Test here:

http://www.polar.com/en/support/how_reliable_is_the_polar_fitness_test
http://www.polar.com/en/support/polar_fitness_test_and_ownindex
http://www.asep.org/asep/asep/JEPonlineOctober2011Esco.pdf

I also have data for the workout, which was 2 hours IN TOTAL, meaning from the moment I left my apartment until I took a shower, basically. During the workout I had a max heartrate of 174bmp, which is one heartbeat away from my alleged 90% max heart rate (220-26=194*0.9=174.6bmp). I also burned 900kcal, of which 30% were fat. Sounds a lot, doesn't it? Oh well, who knows.




One feature which I find interesting with the FT60 is that is has these heart rate zones and counts how long you've been in each during a workout/the day/week/etc. This is what it told me after my workout:

Zone 1 (60-70% of MAX heart rate) 72min
Zone 2 (70-80% of MAX heart rate) 12min
Zone 3 (80-90% of MAX heart rate) 14min

Guess we know at least where 12 of those minutes in zone 3 came from! :P I tried not getting below 160bmp during "the workout", but it was really hard toward the end, even if my heart rate didn't get higher as I got more tired.

Also, I started another "training session" which ran for the rest of the day and stopped when I came home. Tallying in those results, it would seem that I've been in zone 1 for 106min today! That's almost two hours of power walking! Hell, I don't want to know how much of that you have to do when you're trying to get ripped as a motherfucker...

Finally, I'm a bit worried about my resting heart rate. It would seem that either the Polar thingy doesn't do its job, or I'm crap at measuring my own heart beats, because the two methods give me two different results. According to Polar, my resting heart rate is all over the place, from 75bmp to 90bpm. When I counted my own heartbeats I got like 70ish. Well, it does seem normal at least to have a RHR (Resting Heart Rate) in those ranges...

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/01/really-the-claim-a-normal-heart-rate-is-60-to-100-beats-a-minute/