Tuesday's Workout
PM training:
Competition Team for Submission wrestling ~2 hr
For 30 minutes Non Stop with no rest in-between:
25 push-ups
25 sit-ups
15 squats
5 minute break
20 Human cleans (a person roughly your size)
25 minute Grind (I'll explain what that is)
Suicides: back and forth 4 times on the fifth you had to pick up a medicine ball and run it back. The first two that one out of a group of 4 were allowed to have a small cup of water.
Drilling for about 15 minutes.
24 minute Grind
1 minute break
24 squats
24 lunges
24 jumping lunges
12 jumping squats
20 burpees
DONE!
OVERVIEW
I'm in so much pain right now it's not even funny. The two coaches that were running it pretty much said "You can quit at any time, it's OK. This is not for everybody. We will not look down on you or anything because this is not going to be easy. If you do quit you are not allowed back on the team and you will train with the regular members." That was all the motivation I needed.
As for the first 30 minutes, like I said, I lost track about about my 7th round of exercises. If we do that again, I'll try to keep better track. Then we did the human cleans which is just grabbing a guy and trying to do cleans with his body weight, my guy was about 215. We only did that one set because we were just waiting for a bigger room to clear so we could do The Grind.
The Grind is sparring NON Stop for a set amount of time. The only rest you get is going from one person to the next. If they saw you stalling, everybody had to run afterwards, thank god no one stalled. It was me and 3 other guys in my group, all about my size, we went about 2-3 minutes with each person and rotated. There was not one person resting and it was very brutal. Right at the end I was about to sink in a triangle choke in and my calf cramped up real bad. I stopped for a minute and they said keep going. Well I didn't want to get kicked out or run so I kept going.
Then the wind sprints. This was one of the time we could rest because they could only do one group of 4 at a time and we had 4 groups. I tied with one of my guys for second so they said we could split the water. Then we found out that if we wanted we could share the water with anyone in our group, so that is what we did to help our team. Some other did to but I didn't pay too much attention since I was savoring the water. Drilling was next which was at a moderate pace. Then another grind this time it seemed like 3-4 minute rounds. Then when we all thought we were done, they said one more workout. We all did the leg exercises together to keep the team on one page.
The coaches told us that this was a weaning out process and not every class was going to be this hard but we were going to be training very similar every time. One guy did quit but he showed up late, which pissed off the coaches and after 10 minutes of the exercises he got up and said, "F' this, I don't need this." and walked out.. All I could think was, if you showed up late then you probably didn't really want to be here or you would have cared enough to be on time.
This was by far the hardest workout I've ever done and definitely tested my muscle and my mental endurance. I feel great and I can't wait to get back in there and train knowing what I've accomplished with the group.
Strength Endurance soon to come, as soon as I heal up.
