25,000 lbs

It's Tuesday. But first, let's back up.

Monday's Soldierfit class actually made my legs sore! It was Scott's 1 year anniversary so he gave us a special anniversary workout. There was alot of jumping and speedwork, and I pushed alot of sleds. So hats off to Scott for burning my legs, it doesn't usually happen from class.

For the next 2-3 weeks I'm deloading, so today's thing was a barbell complex. I did this before with just a bar, but because my gym has light bars, I was able to load it up with some plates to do #55. Now this might not seem like alot of weight but let's do some quick math.

There are 7 lifts

Deadlift
Straight leg deadlift
Romanian deadlift
Row
Front squat
Push Press
Back squat
Good morning

In pyramids. So 6 reps of each, then 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.

For 3 sets.

So if you add the number of reps in each set together it becomes 21....

...x7 exercises. So in the first set you do 147 reps total.
....x3 is 441. So I moved the bar 441 times in about 45 minutes.

....

....441 x a 55lb bar is...

24,225 lbs lifted.

(I feel like I didn't do that math right? Like that doesn't sound possible.. but I've checked it a few times and it looks like I really did lift almost 25,000 lbs)

That's .... holy shit. I'm tired just thinking about it. And I was tired while doing it too! I wanted to quit early so bad, but I made myself push through it and finish the entire thing. I really started to run out of steam in the third group of sets, the last set of 6 was brutal. By the end I was taking things slow, deep heavy breaths, absolutely covered in sweat. All I could do was just gut it out. I could see the sweat on the damn barbell. It was so amazing though. I felt pretty damn awesome after getting through that.

I would have loved to stay and foam roll but I had to get the hell out of there in order to not be late for work. Now normally when I lift and even run, I get hungry maybe like 1-3 hours afterward. No. Today... I was hungry within 30 minutes. Like I wanted to wreck some food hungry. I had a sad assortment of snacks and protein bars, and just so happened to forget my yogurt today. But I held out, luckily we have some fitness nutrition stuff at work that I bought which helped. Then at 3:30 I shoved my face into some Chipotle.

Man, that complex was brutal. And I'll be doing another one with kettlebells on Thursday. Now here's hoping my legs aren't completely dead tomorrow so I can do some running!