Hell Workout and Rest Days

Luke has decided that we need a workout that we can judge our progress with, so he wrote Hell Workout. We did it last week for the first time to get our baseline. To make the torture complete, he told me about the workout 2 weeks in advance to that I could stress out about it for a while. The workout included: 1 mile run, 100 pull-ups, 200 push-ups, 300 body squats, 1 mile run. He is a sick, sick, sick man...did mention sick?? First of all, it started with running. You all know how I feel about that, if not, see previous post.  Pull-ups, I can't do a single unassisted pull up, so I am allowed to use the machine to assist me. As it is, I still am pulling about 1/2 my body weight...100 times! The push-ups weren't TOO bad. I had decided to do at least 100 of them from my toes and then finish from my knees. As it turned out, I managed all 200 from my toes. I can't help but be a little excited about that. Squats are squats. Squats alone don't bother me. I can DO squats. The problem lies in doing 300 and then trying to run again. About the 3rd stride, my quads were mush, and 1/2 way into the 2nd mile my hamstrings started screaming at me. I wanted to crawl the rest of the way in. If it weren't for my friend Beci doing the laps with me (she didn't want me to have to run alone), I probably would have crawled. I finished though. Took me an hour and 35 minutes to finish, but I did it. The guys only took 55 minutes. Good thing I started an hour before they did.

After Hell Workout, Luke decided to get in my face (he has been doing that a lot) about the amount of rest I haven't been getting. He isn't the first to say something. Kevin once told me to "take it easy" one weekend . See the post titled "Taking it Easy" to see how that worked for him. Austin once looked at me and said, "Are you over-training?". To which I said, "No...never...well, mabye...ok, yes." Luke, on the other hand, wouldn't leave me alone about it. The gym is closed on Sundays, so I always counted that as my rest day. APPARENTLY, I work too hard during the week to not take another one mid-week. I don't know what it is about Luke. He has a way of approaching subjects with me that other people have tried and met resistance. He just kinda tells me how it is going to be without giving me an option. I am still allowed to come to the gym on Wednesday, but he has written a "rest day workout" for me: 50 squats, 100 jump rope, 10 laps on the sport court, 100 jump rope, 50 squats, 40 pull-ups,  and 20 minutes on the treadmill at a 5% incline. Someone at worked asked me how that is a rest day. "I only have to do it once instead of 3 times, and there aren't 4 other sets of something to do after it." We will see how this goes.