I’m going to start documenting fitness related activities as well as all the other miscellany. Not too worried about staying on topic frankly. So here is the first one.
I’ve been training with a personal trainer for the last 6 months, not super fit yet but I do feel a bit like superman compared to where I was, not a comment on how fit I am now, just how unfit I was then.
On Monday I attempted what he called the Spartacus 600. Which in short consists of doing 100 each of the following exercises:
- Squat (body weight only)
- Pushups
- Box Jumps (20” or so, didn’t measure – I think six of those plastic risers)
- Chin ups (wide grip)
- Dips
- Burpees ( full – including jump at end)
So the idea was to do 20 of each per set rest one minute between sets and do 5 sets!! Ha!
This is how I did:
- Squat: 4 sets of 20 = 80
- Pushups: 4 sets totalling 70
- Box Jumps: 4 sets of 20 = 80
- Chin ups: 4 sets totalling 22 (I knew there was no way I was doing 20 per set)
- Dips: 4 sets totalling 26 (this was a bit of a surprise but there are lot of pushups in there)
- Burpees: 3 sets of 10 = 30
So I did more of a Spartacus 308, which took 28 minutes including about 6-8 minutes of rest as the 1 min rest was not enough.
I plan to continue working this into the routine and see if I can one day finish it! This was a brutal test of fitness which I don’t entirely feel that I failed, maybe a D grade.