O-Dark-Thirty

First day of "workouts" is in the books. And it went as well as could be expected.

Started with getting to bed before 10:00 pm, so I could actually get up at 5:00. I was working out by 5:45, thanks to two things: forcing myself to throw on the workout gear, so I was actually warm enough to even contemplate a warm-up jog; and downing my pre-workout beverage of eight ounces of iced coffee and two scoops of whey powder.

Here's the first day's workout:
1 mile warmup
Circuit (one set after the other, no rest in-between):

     20 Squat Jumps
     20 One-Arm Rope Rows
     20 Rowers
     20 Spiderman Pushups
     20 Bodyweight Squats
     20 Pullups
     20 Bicycle Crunches
     20 Pushups
1-mile run
Then repeat the circuit one more time

I was supposed to do a mile cooldown, but ran out of time before my duties as husband and daddy took over. Downed another serving of coffee-and-whey, though, and now I feel great.

The point of the workouts in this six-week First Stage isn't so much to train for specific ANW challenges, but to get myself in shape to train for those challenges. The exercises have some relation to ANW -- I'll do rope work and plyometrics of some kind in every workout. But my aim is to keep moving for forty minutes and to change things up every time, playing on the P90X idea that "muscle confusion" stimulates muscle growth and fat loss.