I enjoy training twice per day and feel pretty good doing so four days in a row. By day 5, however, I am drained. I was taking a rest day on Friday and training on Saturday, but it dawned on me recently that I might be better off not wearing myself down so far.

My schedule this past week was to train twice on Monday, once on Tuesday, twice on Wednesday, and once on Thursday. I meant to train once on Friday, but slept poorly on Thursday night, so skipped training altogether. I enjoyed the day of rest and then really enjoyed myself on Saturday by testing a new program. Here is what I did:

2 x 10 halos – 12 kg kettlebell

2 x 5 goblet squats – 20 kg kettlebell

5 x 10 stick-up stretches before, during, and after the halos and goblet squats

2 x 10 dead bugs

10 short bridges

10 egg rolls

2 x 10 Original Strength rocking

4 x 10 head nods

10 get-ups – 20 kg kettlebell

5 x 10 standing cross crawls onto a 20-inch box

5 x 5 push ups

I am really serious about training Turkish get-ups consistently, so do 10 almost every day I train. I trained with a 24 kg bell when the weather was cold, but have been taking it easy during the summer because I don’t feel as strong in the heat.

I performed 4 x 5 front squats with a single 20 kg bell on both Monday and Wednesday as leg work, so decided to try something new… standing cross crawls stepping up onto a 20-inch box and raising my knee to touch my opposite elbow. I alternated left and right to complete a set of 10 and then immediately dropped to the ground and completed five strict, slow push-ups. I was done after completing 50 standing cross crawls and 25 push-ups.

The entire session took me 43 minutes.

The standing cross crawls onto a box raised my heart rate and got me breathing hard similar to sprinting 30-40 yards.

I perform 5-8 push-ups before taking a shower, but don’t usually include them in my training. I was surprised that performing 25 push-ups in sets of 5 felt so easy. I will probably go for sets of 6 next time I do this program.