Today’s Colin Timberlake Training Inspiration is a woman who is presently representing Team Canada at the 2010 Winter Olympics as the skip (leader and captain) of the women’s curling team.

While not known as the most physically demanding sport in terms of exertion, speed or power (curlers don’t historically lead Olympic athletes in VO2max, bench press or resting heart rate) it is a highly demanding sport in terms of mental focus, strategy and intricate practice where the slightest mistake can yield an enormous disadvantage on the scoreboard.

In addition, despite being one of the oldest Olympians at the games at the age of 43, she may well have the most impressive fitness readings of any participant in her sport, male or female.

She has appeared four times at the Scott Tournament of Hearts (1992, 1996, 2007 and 2009), representing her home province of Alberta.

She was the Canadian Women’s Curling Tour Champion in 2004, made it to the Player’s Championship final in 2006, and won the 2009 Canadian Olympic Curling Trials (as a heavy underdog and with a stellar run of victories against the top seeds in the trials).

In the Olympics, as of today, Cheryl Bernard and her team are leading the entire women’s tournament with a 5-0 record in the round robin phase of the competition.

TODAY: BACK (Fast Tempo, 90 Second Rests)
and CARDIO

WIDE GRIP FRONT PULL-UPS (5 sets)
Body x 15
Body x 10
Body x 12
Body x 10
Body x 8

CLOSE PARALLEL GRIP PULL-UPS (5 sets)
Body x 10
Body x 7
Body x 7
Body x 7
Body x 7

SUPINE ROWS (3 sets)
Body x 10
Body x 10
Body x 8

CLOSE GRIP CABLE ROWS (3 sets)
50 kg x 15
60 kg x 10
70 kg x 10

BACK EXTENSIONS (3 sets)
Torso x 20
Torso x 30
Torso x 25

TREADMILL TABATA
- Speed 10.0 mph, Incline 5.0
1 Tabata / 4 Minutes

TRAINING NOTES

Total Sets (Back): 19

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