Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Taking it to the Park

Today was another tacfit recovery day, so we headed to the park while our oldest daughter was in gymnastics. We both did the same workout. Clark used a 53 pound kettlebell and Michelle used a 26 pound bell. We did the following routine four times through with shortest rest periouds possible.

90 seconds of around the world's or kettlebell slingshots
30 seconds of a static pushup hold
90 seconds of kettlebell figure eights
30 seconds of a static hold in dip position.

We were averaging about 60 tp 70 slingshots and 45 figure eights throughout the workout. The only down side to the workout was the results it had on our hands. Clark came away with 2 or 3 rips and another blister that is yet to pop. Michelle has 1 rip and 4 or 5 blisters waiting to pop. It seems that all the body weight work we have been doing in tacfit has softened our hands up since we haven't been using the kettlebells daily. It's all good, we will get it back!

Saturday, April 17, 2010

Another New Start

WOW...I can't believe how long it has been since I posted about our Madness. Just because we haven't posted recent workouts doesn't mean there hasn't been a lot of madness going on!

Life has been hectic and the computer has been down. Posting has been next to impossible. The school year is about to end and our schedule is slowing down so I hope to be on here more often posting workouts!

About 2 months ago Clark came across Tacfit Comando. A new program from Scott Sonnon. He started using it. I liked the results he was seeing so I jumped in feet first. The tactfit workouts are all done in under 30 minutes and are completely body weight.

Yesterday was a recovery day for Tacfit, so in true Mason form we pulled out the kettlebells and worked out in the gymnastics parking lot. I wasn't sure what I was going to do so I made something up on the spot (well, I made it up with Clark's help).

As many rounds of the following as possible in 20 minutes.

Sprint the length of the parking lot and back
20 hindu squats
10 hindu pushups
20 kettlebell swings

I got 6 rounds in for 120 squats, 60 pushups, and 120 swings.