Day 258: A Mile and 30 Burpees for Time
Though it was only an additional 45 minutes, it was nice getting to sleep in since I worked from home today.
It was another day of non-stop meetings, bringing my total for this week to 30 meetings.
It was actually a fairly normal week for the number of meetings that I had but with our conference coming up, meetings popped up leaving limited time to get other work done.
By the end of my last meeting I hit a productivity wall so I gave myself a bit of time to recover by going for a workout.
Today’s workout was fairly simple but extremely hard:
Warm-up:
- Jump Rope – 3 minutes
- 10 Isometric Wipers
- 10 Double Leg Butt Kicks
Main-set: For Time
- Run 1 mile
- 30 burpees
- Recover 1 minute
The main set took me approximately 11:15 minutes to complete. This is probably off by +/- 15 seconds because of issues I had with the timer on my phone.
I was able to complete the mile run in 8:30 minutes, including completing a portion of the run at around 7:30 minutes/mile.
Though the main workout was only 11 minutes long, I was completely wrecked by the end of it since I never sprint for time like that.
When I came back home I finished off a few more things for work and then jumped into another book that I started this week, “And the Good News Is…” by Dana Perino, a former White House press secretary.
I enjoy books that take a look into the inner workings of the other areas or industries.
I enjoy taking learnings from outside of my primary industries (tech/marketing/social media) and applying them to what my career.
Tonight we ordered pizza, picked up beer and settled in to catch up on a few of our favorite shows.