November 8, 2018

Occasionally I like to look back on the Beyondthewhiteboard calendar and find a particular week or day and replicate it to see how I compare to those results. Today, I found an interesting workout that fit with our week. It was November 25, 2015. I replicated that day exactly today.

3 years ago I was able to get 70 reps. Today, 68

3 years ago, 2 rounds + 5 reps. Today 2 rounds + 4 reps

3 years ago, 5 rounds even. Today, 5 rounds + 6 reps

I am constantly trying to improve but as I age, I am also happy to not be losing fitness. In 2 of these workouts I was 1 or 2 reps off my previous best 3 years ago. I surpassed this by 6 reps today.

Lots of work to do…holding steady

November 7

Today

run 5k + 8 Hill Sprints

do the sprints before after or some combo  

Tuesday

Roney

run 200

11 Thrusters @ 135

Run 200  

11 Push Press @ 135

Run 200

11 bench press @ 135

x 4 rounds

this one was super tough.  All of us had to drop weight. I finished at 95. Next time I’ll try at 115

Monday

November 1, 2018

1st day back in the garage with my friends and it was a great one

Morrison

50-40-30-20-10

Wall Balls

Step up/Box Jumps 24”

Kettlebell Swings 53 lbs

We had a good group and I was lucky enough to get a spot next to Justin. He killed it. He is so fast and strong on these movements. I finished 24:22 and he was right at 20 minutes.

Good work to everyone

Straight out of the truck from my drive from the Florida Keys and into the garage to hit this one that wade told me about

it was beautiful and took me 37:05

October 28, 2018

Deck of cards  

spades- kettlebell swings

clubs - pushups

diamonds - 45 lb sandbag squats

hearts - situps

This trip has been slightly challenging to maintain my everyday Fitness. It has also been challenging to maintain my mental focus on positivity.  

mindset is everything  

whether it is getting up 2 hours earlier or hitting it before dinner, it is incredibly important for me to stay on the path to maintain both mental and physical standards.  

sometimes I have to remind myself that doing something is far better than doing nothing.  Even if I am not getting the type of workout that I get when surrounded by my group or find myself in a swarm of negativity, remembering that veering off the path slightly is better than not walking it at all  

deep thoughts from the Florida Keys  

see you soon

Oct 26,2018

Loooooooooong dayz filming the Saltwater Experience show on this trip. The weather is really nice and we are getting some great stuff. 

Days start with Wim Hof Breathing of at least 5 rounds and then push-ups. I have followed that up with a body weight workout or a yoga session to get everything moving.  

I love getting things done but I also miss the garage and the routine of hitting it hard. Be back soon

October 25, 2018

traveling again. It has been a busy Fall

back at the garage Birthday wishes go to Reggie. I’m sure that Alan has something planned for you.  

On the road workouts have been  

5 mile run

deck of cards

and

50 mountain climbers  

20 v ups  

10 Bear Complex with Sandbag

x 5

on this trip I brought a 53 lb kb, a 45 lb sandbag, jump rope and some bands. I’ll get a little more creative in the days to come.  

Mom the way down I listened to a book called The Power of Habit- why we do what we do in business and life. It was interesting and different than I thought it would be. I learned alot

i also listened to a great podcast. James Altucher has a fantastic podcast and his interview with Henry Winkler is my favorite yet.  

Henry Winkler was The Fonz. Possibly the most iconic character ever on TV. He was incredibly popular and smooth. Yet, he is severely dislecsic. He has overcome this major issue his whole life.  

This podcast is really good and spot on to the theme I often discuss of “weakness is strength “ 

check it out and also check out my latest podcast w 9 x UFC Weilterweight Champion, Matt Hughes. tomrowlandpodcast.com

Oct 18, 19, 2018

Oct 18

This was a great format. I really liked it and I think I could create many others like it with this format and different exercises.

So one round, followed by 2 rounds followed by 3 rounds. Even thought the distance and reps shrink, the 2nd round was toughest as we did the most HPC.

I felt like I did pretty well on it. Kyle was right behind me at Rx.

Today was a day designed to ease into the weekend. It has been a tough week of training and I was sore and somewhat tired. I wanted to move today and clear some of the soreness but not go too crazy. I went back to a partner workout from a few years ago.

2 man team. Only one person works at a time.

For 2 minutes, complete as many reps as possible. Use strategy to see how your team can be the most efficient. For Alan and me, we switched at 10 swings, 5 dips, 10 sbgu, 10 row, 10 lunge and 10 situp.

Once you have worked for 2 minutes on the first exercise, then write your score down and rest 1 minute before starting next one.

Here are our scores from today

October 17,2018

With a rare rain storm this morning at our training time, I decided to stay dry and get on the Assault Bike. Once the workout started, we all wished we were running in the rain.

Assault Bike

1:30 max effort followed by 1:30 rest

x 10 rounds

I was getting between 20-25 calories each time with a high of 31 for the first one. Alan and Michael maintained 450 watts each time which had them around 30 calories for each round.

Good one to start this rainy morning

Oct 10-16, 2018

Jelly Legs + Krispy Kreme = Alan’s 51st Birthday

I have been on a shoot for Into the Blue in the Florida Keys until yesterday

The guys have been killing it in the garage while I am gone. I managed to get in a workout everyday while I was gone. Some of the highlights include:

Deck of Cards

Deck of cards using only core exercises

5 miles 500 pushups

25 sets of 50 flutter kicks/25 sets of 20 pushups

Run 5 miles in the Florida Mid Day sun

Yesterday was Alan’s Birthday and he wanted to do his favorite workout

Jelly Legs

20 burpees/1 Squat

19 burpees/2 squats

18 burpees/3 squats…

all the way to 1 burpee/20 squats

Alan did this in a 20 lb vest as tradition requires

I finished slightly behind Josh at 19:42 which is 20 seconds off my best time ever

Today, we went back to the weights

Jack

10 Push Press at 115

10 KB Swing at 53

10 Box Jump/Step Up at 24”

AMRAP 20 min

I looked on the whiteboard and saw that my previous score was 8 rounds even. I cruised past 8 rounds easily while I was trying to keep up with Justin. Justin finished with 13+ rounds! I got 11 rounds + 8 push press and was astonished. How could I beat my time so badly? Was I sick, injured? A closer look showed me why

ok, that makes WAY more sense. A 20 lb vest + Murph and Coe before doing this workout would easily cut 3 + rounds off. Maybe I should have done better today!

Oct 9, 2018

Oct 9

Bubbles

1 mi Runs

25 Burpee Pull-ups

750 m Rows

1 mi Runs

22:13

Oct 2-7, 2018

Its been a little busy at work, but I am really trying to write here every day. I am doing so much writing and producing new content on my business pages, that it has been hard to even get the workout down on this page. Sorry about that.

Check out www.saltwaterexperience.com or www.tomrowlandpodcast.com to see all the new shows, articles, and podcasts that are going up each week.

As for the workout, nothing has slowed down. As work gets crazy or stressful, my peace is found in long runs, long walks, and close to death workouts. Funny how it makes me feel so much better…immediately.

Oct 2

For time:

20 Deadlifts, 225 lbs

40 Wall Balls, 20 lbs, 10 ft

20 Hang Power Cleans, 135 lbs

40 Wall Balls, 20 lbs, 10 ft

20 Push Press, 135 lbs

40 Wall Balls, 20 lbs, 10 ft

Oct 3

We did community service work this morning in lieu of the workout. However, it was a workout.

Redistribute a mountain of mulch at a local school. As much work as possible in 1:15:00. We did this at 5 am. It was fun

Oct 4

Feeling tight and sore, we did Yoga and mobility today

Julia Jarvis lead us through the Yoga portion with significant time spent on hips and hamstrings

Then, Shoulder openers, banded couch stretch, calves and Frog.

Oct 5

Deck of Cards at the beach

Burpees, Situps, Squats, Pushups, Jokers=run

Oct 6

Deck of cards

Oct 7

Rest

Oct 8 today

Row, 500 m

-- then --

3 rounds of:

Run, 200 m

10 Pull-ups

50 Double Unders

-- then --

10 Clean & Jerks, 135 lbs

Trevor beat me pretty badly on the rower, then I caught up and passed him on the DU but did not get enough of a lead as he caught me and passed me on the CJ. Good fun this morning

Oct 1, 2018

Went to a Games workout today

14.4

AMReps in 14 mins:

60 Row (calories)s

50 Toes-to-bars

40 Wall Balls, 20 lbs, 10 ft

30 Cleans, 135 lbs

20 Muscle-ups

I have a score of 182 on this one which means I finished the cleans and got 2 Muscle ups before time ran out. I looked through my notes and thought I would try to break things up a little and see if I was able to do better. I did, in fact make a difference in my performance by breaking things into more manageable chunks.

I rowed 60 as fast as possible, then did sets of 10 on T2B, then 20, 10, 10 on Wall Balls and 5,5,5,5,3,2,3,2 on Cleans. At this point I had almost a minute and a half left to do 3 muscle ups to beat my previous score. I was smoked and made 3-4 attempts and failed on all of them.

So, while I did improve my performance on the bulk of the workout, I still came up short of my previous score. In this one, those muscle ups are incredibly important as a lot of people can do the workout but have never done a muscle up. Others, like me will fail. Getting 1 muscle up can move you up the leaderboard 1000 places, easy. Not today

We finished with 10 minutes of Gratitude which is a great way to start a MONDAY.

Go get it!

Sept 30, 2018

Lots to catch up on today. I have been in Venice, LA all week. It was pretty busy so I neglected to post here, but I was active…every day.

On Sunday, I left and drove 8 hours to Venice. In that time I had an opportunity to finish a book I have been interested in reading. Endure by Alex Hutchinson. It is about the elastic limits of Human performance. Particularly interested in endurance and running, Alex goes deep on the limits or perceived limits that we impose on ourselves and what is being done to try and break through those limits. Using lots of studies and science, Alex does a great job with this book. Particularly interesting to me were the chapters on nutrition, hydration and how our mind works. Highly recommended if you are into this stuff.

Workouts:

Monday

Deck of Cards- My go to on trips like this. Pushups, Burpees, Squats and Situps with 100 Double Unders for each Joker. I can be done in 20 min. Finished with Durante Core x 5

Tuesday

Deck of cards - A twist to this one. I brought a kettlebell. Pushups for Clubs, Kettlebell single arm snatches for Spades, Side squats for Diamonds, Hearts were flutter kicks x 5

Wednesday

Again with the deck of cards - I did KB Swings for clubs, KB Snatch for spades, Burpees for Hearts and Squats for Diamonds. 100 Double Unders for jokers. This one was tough

Thursday

I only had a very short window on this day.

21-15-9

Kettlebells swings

Burpees

finish with Durante Core

Friday

Run 5 miles

finish with 200 pushups

I drove home and listened to Joe Rogan with my friend BioLayne, Layne Norton on his show. This was a very good podcast that discussed Keto vs higher carb diets. Lots of great information

I brought back roughly 200 lbs of fresh, organic, line caught, perfectly treated swordfish, yellowfin tuna, snapper, cob and mahi. I had it all vacuum sealed professionally and it is in the freezer. Im set for a couple of months!

Back in the garage tomorrow morning.

Sept 21, 2018

I pulled a gem from the archive today

From Ross Enamait

Interval Challenge

12 Burpees

24 Pushups

36 Squats

Run 400

x 4

We did this one on the hill today instead of the track. I will say that accounts for the 1:47 that I was slower than last time. 16:18 today

Ill be filming Into the Blue in LA next week. I will plan on taking some gear and doing workouts everyday. Maybe I can come up with some good travel ones

Have a good weekend!

September 18,19,20, 2018

This has been a weird week. On my first back squat on Monday, I felt something in my back. I stopped immediately, but the damage was done. It was significant, but I did get on it quickly. I got in the ice immediately which helped. I followed that with a very hot shower. I felt pretty decent at that point but made the mistake of hanging from a bar, stretching and rolling. It was too early and I really aggravated it.

Acupuncture followed and then just laying on my back. then more ice and more heat.

The next day I started in the ice then super hot shower and I could tell a 95% improvement. I took it easy all day with no more stretching, no sitting and just moving gently.

In the afternoon I tried some assault bike which felt good and some Ski erg which was also good. I did 30-20-10 of both of those with calories and felt pretty good. I finished off with some ice and heat.

Wednesday I avoided the 5 mile run that others did and I did 30-20-20 calories on Assault, Ski and Row with a 1 min plank at the end. I did that am rap for 35 minutes. It felt good

Today, the workout was 3 partner workouts

1. P1 Bar hang, P2 max pushup.  Amrap 8 min,  switch when someone comes off bar.  Score = total pushups

2. P1 15 burpees, P2 Max cal assault or row, switch when done w burpees.  Score = total calories

3. P1 run 400, P2 Max squats.   Switch when return from run.  Score = max squats

Good one!

Sept 17, 2018

Today, we did a going away party workout for Winston who is heading to the Air Force or possibly the Space Force.

How could we do anything other than

Air Force

20 Thrusters

20 Sumo Deadlift Highpull

20 Overhead Squat

20 Front Squat

All of these at 95 lbs. Doesn’t sound too bad…oh wait, you have to start with 4 burpees and then do 4 burpees at the top of every minute. Complete all of the 20 reps of one exercise before moving on.

Trevor crushed at 6:33 and probably could have gone under 6 minutes. I did my best to keep up but just couldn’t quite keep pace with Trevor. I finished at 7:55.

After that we hit the Density Training

Back Squat

EMOM 3x8 @ 85% 1RM

I tweaked something in my back so I did not finish the back squats

Sept 14, 2018

Great end to the week with a partner workout.

For the first time, I partnered with Michael Lebovitz and for the first time, he won a workout. I LOVE the leapfrog format and we added some new exercises to it today

10 Pullups

10 Sumo Deadlift Highpull @ 95 lbs

15 Assault Bike Calories

AMRAP 15 min

then

Front Squat

2x8 EMOM @85% 1RM

Then, this afternoon Josh showed back up for a second one. I worked on some handstand walks and Jody, Will and Steen did this mornings workout. Melissa stopped by and didn’t have a partner so she did Kelly

Run 400

30 Wall Balls

30 Box Jumps

x 5 rounds

Sept 13, 2018

Following my new routine, I slept in this morning and will get after it this afternoon.

Today’s workout

Run 400

15 KB Snatch with 53lb Left arm

15 KB Snatch with 53lb Right arm

x 5 rounds for time

then

Deadlift

2x8 EMOM @ 85% 1RM

Sept 12, 2018

Wednesday is run day

Today:

6 mile run.

I decided to do the same course as last week to see if we could improve our times. I think everyone improved across the board. My time was 2:47 faster than last week. Making progress.

Afternoon workout was a Density day

Power Clean

2x8 EMOM @ 85% 1RM

What that gibberish means is every minute on the minute do 2 power cleans every minute on the minute for 8 minutes at 85% of your best recorded Power Clean.