"I know that it's going to make it suck 20 pounds more, but, I'm not convinced that's too absurd. I guess we'll find out..."We sure as hell found out. I went for the first mile run and was tired. I found myself huffing and puffing out a 7:30 mile, just to be faced with what would be one of the hardest 50 minutes of working out I've ever done. I broke the reps into 20 sets again. I pushed out 3 sets relatively quickly. However, I wanted to die after the 4th. I walked into my room, dropped my bag off of my back and said, "I quit."
15-seconds later I grabbed my bag and was back on the pullup bar. While I was doing my pushups it felt like my pectoral muscles were going to rip off of my chest. Not in the way that I've worked them too hard, but because they were being strained in a way they shouldn't because of the shoulder straps on my bag. The solution there was to change my pushup style and clip the chest strap on the bag so it wasn't so far back on my shoulders.
I finished 100 pullups, 200 pushups, and 300 squats after about the 45th minute. I got right out to hit the last mile. My body was now tired. After wondering whether it was my legs or lungs that were slowing me down on this run, I realized it was both of them and the 20 pound bag. I finished the run in about 10 and a half minutes. This made my final time 55:30.
Today I feel pretty good. Obviously, I'm very sore but I could do another intense workout again. What should it be?
Compel me.
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