Jacob's Ladder

Today’s workout consisted partly of Jacob’s ladder.  For those of you not familiar with Jacob’s ladder in Perth it is a series of stairs that you are meant to run down and up for time.  From the top looking down, it doesn’t look all that bad and everyone tends to set off down the stairs with blistering pace (well as fast as you can without falling flat on your face anyway!).  Unfortunately though lactic acid kicks in on the way back up.  You are willing your feeble little legs to step up the stairs and keep climbing, but for some reason your legs have a mind of their own and you can barely lift your leg 30cm onto the next step.   You basically try everything in your power not to fall flat on your face.  It is one thing falling down stairs, but up stairs...really??!!!

So all in all, I finished with a time of 1:58, that would be 1minute 58 seconds (not 1 hour for those smart alecs out there).  A really short sharp workout, sure to burn the legs and chest.  I will definitely be making my way back to Jacob’s ladder again to do multiple sets to see if I can reduce my time even more and to get my chicken legs used to that awful feeling called burn!  Bring it!

Later on in the afternoon I also decided to brave my poor hands to some pull-ups.  I wasn’t really in the mood for tearing them open with too many so I set myself the following workout for time:

3 X the following:

·         15 clean and jerks @ 40kg weight

·         15 pullups

Time: 10:58