Wednesday, April 27, 2011

EXTREMELY frustrated.  Made it into a set of BW squats and then side lunges and my leg tweaked out completely.  No chance to even get started.  Very Very Very unhappy about this.

Saturday, April 23, 2011

Finally.

Finally got a good workout in.  Tabata, straight through, no rest between exercises (just the ten after every twenty)
Back Lunges
Side Plank Curls (Side plank, curl your torso and hips to bring your free arm through the triangle you make with the ground, then bring it back to vertical)
Pushups
BW Squats
V-sits
Tricep dips

Overview:The back lunges made my hip flexors tweak.  I'm getting afraid I've done some longer-term damage (more than a week for full recovery).  Advil will be employed.  The side planks felt good, but tough.  I've really backslid over the past month.  Hopefully I can get it back quickly.  I'll start refocusing on my eating habits.  The work takes up a lot of my time, but I still have enough to do this thing right.  The pushups got hard by, I think, the third set, but overall my results weren't that high.  I should have counted each set.  It's hard with the watch.  Still thinking of getting a tabata timer.  The bw squats made my hips twinge again but it was only twinging and didn't really slow me down that much.  The v-sits also got hard by the third set.  The tricep dips were only about six inches so focus was on quick drives and stopping myself quickly at the bottom.

Back to doin' work.
~#28

ETA: New goal- increase finger/hand strength for flick hucking.

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Again, long time.  Life is hectic.  Still looking for a gym.  Friday was pickup- meh.  Saturday was pickup- awful. Sunday was the same pickup group as Saturday- I wisely chose to watch the Celtics with Rob.

Friday I tweaked my hip flexors/groin.  They twinged badly enough that I had to stop on Saturday.  I assumed they'd be better by today, so I went out to sprint with Andy.  Poor choice.

3x[100m, 30s, 100m] with a long rest between sets.  A simple workout, but it's early season and it turned out to be too hard anyway.  Dammit.  now BOTH my hip flexors AND my groin AND my back near the pelvis are twinging.  The next few days will be lots of advil.  In the meantime, I will try to roll them until they're less angry.  I'm afraid to tiger balm that area.  Maybe the back?

Doin' poorly chosen work,
~#28

Monday, April 4, 2011

It's been a while since I last posted.  In that time, I've done essentially nothing in the gym.  Instead, I moved halfway across the country.  I have to find a new gym, and new time and get a house and everything.  It's been a monumental change in my life, but hopefully for the better.  I reflect on what has changed in the last year and I think about how subtly yet significantly my life changed even while I was trying to keep it all the same.  I took a huge step and I hope I can turn this into something really valuable.

I'll do some work, for sure.
~#28