Backyard Plyos: It's Baaaack!

Weight. Vest. Is. Back.

I'm digging the strength that plyos are bringing. I need it for the VT100 coming up in less than a month. So I added the weight vest to the mix again. It adds 20 lbs to everything I do. It hurts most on the lunges and squats.

Here's what my sets look like. They're a truncated version to speed things along and focus me on the leg strength:
- 20x jump back and forth over a log
- 40x toe taps on a log
- 30x jumps with each leg forward for ten and both even for another ten
- 20x step-ups each leg
- lunge/squats - four lunges followed by two squats, then four more lunges and four squats... continue to increase until I'm doing 16 squats
- 3x run up and down deck stairs
- 10x puchups
- 20x plank knee-to-elbows

Each one takes a quick-but-painful 7-9 minutes. In contrast to the 15+ minutes of the sets we used to do.

It was hot out. Very hot. I did 4 sets on a few minutes of rest for a total workout time of 30 minutes. By the end I found myself at that lovely place where my legs were twitchy and virtually uncontrollable.

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