So when I looked at my calendar last Friday and saw I was pretty booked up during lunch today, I decided to do something I have never done for this gym: wake up early and hit a class before work. This is an issue because the latest morning class starts at 7:30, and it takes me about 45 minutes to get out to the gym from my apartment. So, I woke up at 6:15 this morning, neither bright eyed nor bushy tailed, and made the trudge out.
When I got to the gym, I started my warmup and realized I didn't feel right. Running my warm-up, usually not a big problem for me, left me dragging. I told the owner, Rob, I didn't feel as strong this morning as I usually do. That is when he hipped me to this fun fact: our bodies are not meant for peak physical performance that early. Apparently, our bodies are in peak performance mode somewhere between 8 and 10 hours after we wake up. According to Rob, no world record for either running or weight lifting has ever been broken before noon.
That fact was born out in my workout. the first part of the workout was 5 sets of 2 heavy deadlifts. Up to this point, my one rep maximum on the deadlift was 365 pounds. Today, my maximum double was 315, and when I tried for 335, I couldn't even get the bar off the ground the first time.
The second part of the workout was sprints. 5 sprints of 10 meters, 4 sprints of 20 meters, 3 sprints of 30 meters, 2 sprints of 40 meters, 1 sprint of 50 meters (notice a trend?) Of course, of the three people running this, I finished dead last in almost every sprint. What can I say? It is hard to get this much mass of a man moving (wow, alliteration is fun.)
In any case, I still did it. I did a workout when it would have been very easy to say screw it. For now, that is enough progress for me.
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