thebatdojo: Triangle of Doom Part 2

The Dude emailed me at work asking what we were doing today (actually 2 Sep). My simple reply was, "That's classified information." Mostly because I didn't know yet. Although I had an idea...a big fat repeat of last workout because I f'd up by not getting any data! The other part is my theory that states, "Every workout should be unknown and random." It's a little tricky for me as I develop the workouts, but I still do not know the outcomes. I'm uncertain if anyone will survive or whether it will be taxing enough to reap some sort of benefit. A few years ago, The Dude and I literally had a sheet of exercises and we would click on a random number generator on the internet in order to build our task list. Sometimes the internet would be mean and lump a bunch of nasty things together. Pushups, then pullups, then squat thrusts/pushups...etc.. There was no emotional leveling humans do to make the workout fair and reasonable. The cold heart of the computer decided our fate and sometimes it was brutal. We will be back to that intensity in about 4 weeks based on the 2 minute increase per week rule.

Jump back to last week to check out the task list. We executed an exact repeat, with Martian going first to make it home before the wife poisons his lasagna. Second up is a special guest star Kaveman. He brought up a great idea. Try a different exercise philosophy per week and compare the biometric output. For example, a week of P90x, then Crossfit, Yoga, The 300 etc... This is a fantastic idea and I'll be planning that as soon as possible!

The data this time was fascinating, exhibiting all sorts of crazy shit.

0:30 Psychosomatic lump...repeatable in nearly every workout.
Work out starts at the 1:00 mark and ends at the 15:00 min mark.

The 10 second breaks(in light gray) certainly mark the demarcation between exercises.
The grappling dummy guard exercises were a massive active-rest period. Yet it was taxing as hell. This was almost certainly a strength/anaerobic task. The waveforms were weird, all lumpy and crazy looking. Usually starting with a higher BPM then reducing to a 2nd sub peak. Must be some sort of 2nd wind from the aerobic rest.

The second time through the rings, shows a break due to the prior ToD and general beatdown. A couple ring hops in, then a fatigue induced break kicked in. The funky waveform shows this. The ring hops certainly wore everyone out!

The second time through the bean bag was a train wreck as compared to the first time. Cardio was breaking down, strength was practically gone. At the 30 second mark, I pretty much fell apart.

Both guillotines showed a solid grip for about 30 seconds. Then a BPM breakdown, although...the waveform shows it looks bad, the guillotine hang is really an anaerobic task and heartrate decreases significantly after the first grip failure at the 30 second mark. The successive times clamping on were actually quite solid and long lasting for all of us. BPM vs power output does not always a correlate!