I treat circuit training as a sport. To me, it has set forms and standards of excellence. Currently, it seems to be a private sport, participant of one.
For me, alternating lifting and running is a perfect synthesis of exertion and form, asking for cardiovascular fitness, explosive speed, speed maintenance, and endurance, paired with the just-before or just-after intensity of having the quiet inner presence to execute full, injury-free, results-creating lifts.
When I first started circuit training, I did 5 machines in 1 hour. I progressed about 18 months ago to six machines in 1 hour.
While my trainer had a mental estimate of about 50 minutes for how long a session began to take me, I established a personal record for circuit training on May 14, 2010 of 43 minutes.
Determined to be fit enough to outmaneuver a shark in my tasty-seal-resembling wetsuit during my first ever ocean swim at the Urban Epic Sprint Triathlon ahead on July 10, I tried for another circuit training PR.
On July 3, 2010, I set a new circuit training personal record of 40 minutes. I cut 3 minutes off my previous record.
Catch me if you can, shark.
Photo courtesy of Justin Cook, The Roanoke Times
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