There's a mixed martial arts cardio class that I've been meaning to check out at Elite Fitness and today was the only day I could do go. It kinda sucks because Thursday is usually our rest day for Crossfit and if I know Bumper, he'll have an evil workout planned for tomorrow.
But I got this website now so every day I don't write something I feel like I'm cheating the 3 people who read it. And I can't write something if I don't workout. So no recovery time for me today.
Anyway, I head over to Elite and Ernest is there setting up the stations for the class. Ernest is about six feet tall and maybe 235 pounds. He's got a tattoos all over his back and shoulders and his arms look like he could rip out a Banyan tree if he wanted to.
I ask him about the cardio class and he shows me how it works. There's seven stations and at each station you workout for 30 seconds then go to the next one. This goes on for 3 rounds. The workout goes like this: elevated pushups, box jumps, flipping a very large tire across the floor, jumping sideways over three stretched out ropes, deadlifts, hitting another tire with a sledgehammer, then MMA burpees.
What are MMA burpees you ask? Well, as you know a regular burpee is basically dropping into a push up then jumping back up. The MMA burpees have you dropping into a push up then springing back up and giving the heavy bag a 1, 2 punch (jab, cross combo).
You get the picture. Long story short, it was a f---ing tough workout. Also I have to point out that the Crossfit training I did saved my life. I would have been dead on the floor after the first round instead of just winded and sweating after three rounds. Also what helped was a cane spider that jumped out of the tire while I was flipping it. I was so intent on smashing the damn thing with the tire that I didn't realize I had flipped all the way across the gym. And for some reason the spider didn't run away, it was there every time I went back to the station. For all I know it was in training too. It does live in an MMA gym after all.
Anyway, after those three rounds we had three rounds of "light" weight training. Bench, shoulder press, shoulder laterals, bicep curls and pulldowns for 12 to 15 reps. The whole workout was about half an hour but I was drenched with sweat afterwards. And I can't believe I'm going to say this but I hope to God we run at Raw Fitness tomorrow. My body has no more strength to lift any more weights this week.
