2008 Workout #23, Perfect Pushups #9: The Hardest Workout Yet

Today’s was quite possibly one of the most difficult workouts I have ever done. We did basics up and down the gym, taken directly from the Shodan and Nidan black belt exams. At one end of the gym, we did pushups, the other situps. had us do pushups and situps to failure and then each pass down the gym we took two off.

I was able to muster 20 perfect pushups the first pass and 60 crunches (three sets of 20 each). My grand totals for the day ended up being: 100 perfect pushups and 240 crunches. I even capped off the workout with 10 of the horrible Krav Maga style situps. Major kudos go to who was able to do five of them all on her own.

Before the Krav Maga death, we did relaxed katas… all three Tekki’s, the four basic black belt katas, and the three nidan test katas… all in a row, no breaks.

I have to say that I honestly left all of my previous limitations in the dust today. I’ve never done so many pushups, and was quite surprised to find that I probably had enough stamina to get more done above the 100 but I wanted to stop at a reasonable number.

Everybody did a phenomenal job today… made it through a real tough workout his first time back, and had a mile and a half run on top of our crazy workout today (I have no idea how they did it)! Gotta feel proud about that, everyone!