On Tuesday* I did a hero workout called the Fran, which is as follows:
-21 Thrusters
-21 pull-ups
-15 thrusters
-15 pull-ups
-9 thrusters
-9 pull-ups
This was not my first tangle with this particular beast of a workout, but it was my first time ever re-doing a hero workout to see how far I've come. I am still unable to do this workout as prescribed, the question at this point is just how should I scale it. I considered doing it with exactly the same scale (45 pounds on the thrusters and ring rows), to get a good idea of my improvement, but instead I decided to be a little feisty. I upped the weight on my bar to 65 lbs, and I went with an honest to god pull-up (with the help of some resistance bands.) My pull-up form wasn't pretty. I was basically jumping off the floor and getting an unnatural boost from super strong rubber bands stretched to their breaking point. To get a good idea, it looked kind of like that scene in Flubber where Robin Williams is bouncing all around the gym with no control. Still, I was proud to make the leap.
I ended up completing the workout in 9:02. This is a longer time than it took me the first time through, but I did something much harder, so I'm pretty happy.
*Sorry it took me so long to write about it.
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