Formosa Fitness

Don't tell my wife. Haha. Actually, her English name is Cindy so she wouldn't mind. But I'm referring to the Crossfit workout by the name of Cindy:

5 pullups

10 pushups

15 bodyweight squats

As many reps of this circuit as you can do in 20 minutes.

Yesterday was the first time I did this workout and I'm proud to say that I made it the whole time with no rest breaks. I did 15 reps of the circuit: 75 pullups, 150 pushups, and 225 squats. My form was pretty good except I started losing the form on the pullups at around 11-12th round, pushups I lost it near 14, and squats were consistent. From now on, I'll work on making form better and going faster.

BTW, the video shows kipping pullups but I recommend that you keep strict form. I don't care for Crossfit "slop" as it's called. Don't just focus on sloppy reps done at speed. Get all you can out of the reps!

I fell in love with this workout for many reasons.

First, I love bodyweight training and circuits in general so i was predisposed to like this one.

Second, I've never in my life done so many pullups in one workout and this one got me to do 75 in 20 minutes!! I've been wanting to improve my pullups but I've been stagnating with sets. Cindy got me to do much more with better form than ever before.

Third, it breathed new life in pushups and squats, which I rarely do any more because I find them boring. When I can do high reps of an exercise, I move on to something else because doing long sets of squats, for example, is boring. But I never really felt that I had mastered the pushup and squat in the ways that I wanted to. I think Cindy can get me where I want to be.

Fourth, that's a tremendous volume of work in a very short aqmount of time.

I think Cindy's a keeper for my Tuesday and Thursday workout. Try it out and let me know what you think!