Week One of 300 Training

I’m trying out something new and fun. A little something added to my normal off-season training. Once a week, I’m trying out the 300 Spartan Workout Training. The guys in the movie 300 looks good right? Well they’re for real, and the exercises they did was real too.

I want to try it out for myself

So far I’ve found six variation Workout for 300 Spartan Workout which I modified. Each of the upcoming six weeks will be different routine of Workout #1 to #6 per week. After six weeks I’ll revert back to Workout #1 again and so on. My main objective is to complete the workout faster than previous record time, but still achieving proper rest-time and maximum focus on the exercise

Let me give you some info on the 300 workout routine

As you can see the workout video above, it can get pretty tough and I expect it to be. I’ll probably gain some more lean muscle by the end of six weeks. The fact I’m not taking any supplements, so I’ll probably need to increase my intake of egg-white for more protein if I want more muscles

Workout #1

1 Jump Squat
2 Staggered Pushup
3 Split Squat Jump
4 Explosive Pushup
5 Prison Squat
6 Hindu Pushup
7 45degree Lat Pulldown Kneeling (Machine)
8 Burpees
9 Pullups
10 Double Crunch

Substitute the lat pulldown machine with resistance band

My workout remarks

For Workout #1, I find giving myself 4 minutes per exercise is ample. There’s 10 exercises and 4 minutes per exercise of 30 reps. So that makes a 40 minutes workout in total 300 repetitions. So now you know why it’s called 300 Workout

I found out the 4 minute time I set was too long, meaning after doing the required exercise which I can usually finished in less than a minute, I still have about 3 minute plus of idle time. By the 2nd minute, I’ve already recovered.

This shows, for next week I’ll try to reduce the recovery time. But this must be gradual, and I can’t reduce the recovery too short or I won’t get the maximum necessary optimum workout. I find from past experience, make your recovery beyond 1 minute and not lesser than 3 minutes

Out of the ten workout I did earlier, the hardest was the pullup and second hardest was between hindu pushup and jump squat. Hindu pushup as it was a new exercise to me, and jump squat because my ankle was still swollen. It kinda hurt when I jumped, even with the ankle guard strapped on

Week One looks solid, no injury, I learned a lot about the workout and will make slight modification