Saturday, November 1, 2014

11/1/14 Saturday November 1, 2014 (walking, pull-ups, planks)

My body is in a much different place a week later - which is a good thing.  The body work and chiro this week are definitely helping re-set some things.  Woke up this morning feeling good despite the hard snatch training session that I had just completed the previous afternoon.  Good sign.  I did notice the L shoulder as a bit tight as I got down to the lake around 5pm.  I did quite a bit of hanging from the rings to stretch the lats and shoulders, really helped tremendously.  Man I would love to have a pair of rings to hang from at home.  Would really be useful.

Based on Kevin's instructions, I am dropping pistols and push-ups in favor of walking, and keeping pull-ups.  So this is what I did:

Walking
5 pull-ups
Plank (hold for about 60-90 seconds)

Walking
4 pull-ups
Plank

Walking
4 pull-ups
Plank

Walking
3 pull-ups
Plank

Walking
2 pull-ups
Plank

I ended up walking over an hour, which was great.  When I was dealing with nagging health / body issues back in June, I used long walks around Greenlake to keep up my conditioning and help me get things back together, and those walks were really tremendous.  I continued to use them in July and August with nice weather, but in September and October I didn't get much walking in at all due to working, start of school for the kids, coaching soccer, and poor weather.  I was thinking about it and realized that simply adding in more walking is the best thing I can probably do right now.  So this was perfect.  The first set of 5 pull-ups definitely reminded me that I had just snatched 24 hrs earlier, but I banged those out ok, and things got progressively easier from there.  Came home, did some foam roll and a few mobility exercises on the shoulders, things are feeling good.

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