LoneRider
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Pavel's How to Train Against a Virus came in handy these past two weeks. Recently someone at my office had tested positive for COVID and all of us were on fourteen days of quarantine. For my strength and conditioning work I was fortunate to have my kettlebell set (1x 40KG, 2x 32KG, 2x24KG, and 2x16KG) bells on hand and utilized @Fabio Zonin's Simple Strength Protocol Part One for aforementioned two weeks.
I took care of my conditioning via swings and the burpee from Pavel's Virus article. I wanted to try that concept out and figured my quarantine was the perfect time to do so. I ran three sessions of the aerobic burpee each in the afternoons offset from the strength work in the morning from Simple Strength, all of which were a half hour in duration whilst wearing a heart rate monitor.
For the 'session' itself I would do a single burpee, walk across my living room to my front door and back again and rinse and repeat until the thirty minute timer was up. The following are my initial impressions
I took care of my conditioning via swings and the burpee from Pavel's Virus article. I wanted to try that concept out and figured my quarantine was the perfect time to do so. I ran three sessions of the aerobic burpee each in the afternoons offset from the strength work in the morning from Simple Strength, all of which were a half hour in duration whilst wearing a heart rate monitor.
For the 'session' itself I would do a single burpee, walk across my living room to my front door and back again and rinse and repeat until the thirty minute timer was up. The following are my initial impressions
- My heart rate only went above my Maffetone threshold (143 BPM) on one session (the third and last session)
- Rate of perceived exertion was a 6 or maybe a 7 out of a 10.
- Jury is still out as to whether my two weeks of no long endurance runs/rucks was affected by the two weeks of quarantine. I shall see on Saturday which is my first long run since quarantine.
- The StrongFirst Burpee is definitely going into my kitbag in case I have to deal with quarantine, or I'm in a place where running/rucking for my LSD work isn't feasible.