The Spartan workout

Vicky: Joanne is gone this week on vacation, but she left Jason in charge and gave us some homework. We are to show up at the gym on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday to do the 300 workout, named after the movie 300 because it is supposedly the workout they did to get in such good shape. Sometime before Monday, when she gets back, we have to run up Mt. Bonnell and back down, and, also, show proof that we burned 500 calories on a machine or working out on our own.

Today was the first 300 workout with Jason. We did 50 each of 6 exercise, including kettlebell swings, push-ups, dips, bear crawls, etc. He suggested we do 5 rounds of 10 of each, which made it manageable. I got done in 14:32, and most everyone got done in 10-20 minutes as well. Since we went through it pretty quick, Jason had us head out the door to do the almost-1-mile loop we did last week 2X, so nearly 2 miles. What is with the humidity lately? This is Austin, right, not Houston or Miami? Anyways, I felt good after. I think we'll attempt to tackle Mt. Bonnell tomorrow since we have the day off from the gym.

Roman: Joann takes her vacation and we soldier on.  Today we did a workout aptly named “300”, a compilation of a variety of exercises that the repetitions add up to  . . . 300. Included in the exercises were kettle bell swings, push ups, bow to the queen (a variation on a lunge), TRX stuff (ab and core work), and bear crawls just to name a few. It was rough. Then, after all that we head out the door to run two loops. Which it turns out is about a mile and a half total and not the 2 mile total we were lead to believe. Thank you Google pedometer. All in all though, it was a good way to start the week.