Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Hit the (fit)deck!

So I got home from a shitty shitty day and what was waiting for me but my Navy Seal FitDeck. For those not familiar with FitDeck and their products- http://fitdeck.com/catalog.php

Now the Navy Seal is a booster deck that is supposed to be used in with their larger body weight deck. I don't need all that. I wanted the Navy Seal deck b/c

1. It says it's a Navy Seal workout and those guys are monsters
2. The product description read "Designed for highly-motivated intermediate to advanced users. Contains illustrations for over 20 challenging Navy SEAL-inspired exercises. Buy FitDeck Bodyweight for more middle & lower body exercises. Pull up bar required. (includes plastic cardholder)"- I like to think of myself as being 'highly-motivated'.
3. It sounded hard.

Well folks- it was hard. I am not a Navy Seal. Apparently Navy Seals do LOTS and LOTS of pull ups of all kinds. When I did hit a push up card it was amazing. I have never been more happy to do all sorts of complicated push ups in my life.

That being said, I chose the beginner rep range on all the excercises, even the ones I was comfortable with. For the first 3-4 pull up excercises, I hit the rep range fine. After that it got ugly. When it called for 6 I would have to give it 3, wait 5 seconds, do 2 more, wait 5 seconds do 1 more, wait 5 seconds, and do the last. When it called for 4 I'd have to do 2-3 and bang out the rest, usually, in singles or maybe if I was lucky, doubles.

It was hard. I am seriously sore. It was awesome. I would recommend buying it. I am going to do it twice a week and see how long it takes to break my hymen in.

After the FitDeck, I was still really bummed, which was suprising considering how awesome the workout was. So I went inside and killed Nazi's on my xbox360- that didn't help. So I walked to the grocery stora and picked up our Christmas tree and carried it home. I walked it back in an overhead rack walk, switching arms about every 1/2 block to full block depending. From the store back to the house is about .70 miles. I'll take it. I'm not sure how heavy the tree was. I dont think it weighed more than my 24KG bell but I'm not sure. Either way it made me feel manly but alas did not break me from my funk.

1 comment:

leslie said...

We're very in sync, as I just got a couple of Fit Decks (the office one as a gift, the firefighter one for our fire dept, and the kettlebell one for me) on Friday. Hope your emotional funk passes soon, but it's sure fueling some kick-ass workouts!