Got going Saturday afternoon at Greenlake, first time in some time I have run at Greenlake - maybe almost a month due to scheduling. That was a lot of fun. I was struggling however with the L trap tightness which was also affecting my lat, right tricep, bicep etc. - everything has gotten tight and I think it is from playing softball and throwing the softball for the first time in a year, and swinging a bat. This sucks. I tried to do a lot of mobility and stretching work and also some yard work just to move around, hopefully get the blood flowing a bit, before I made down to the lake pretty late, 8:00pm, to do some interval work. I decided to try pull-ups and just see if it had any impact on things, but dropped push-ups as I think these are what brought on the onset of some of this stuff actually when I trained them for a couple of days in OKC when on the road for work.
In any event this is what I did today:
2 min run, SL DLs 5/5, 2 min run, Fighter Program pull-ups starting over (sets with reps 5/4/3/2/1
x 5
Total of 20 minutes running, 25/25 SL DLs, 16 pull-ups
Interesting stuff. I was hard. I mean really hard for me, and moving quickly. That was pretty damn cool. I like this idea of shorter times, 2 minute intervals, and trying to make it as close to a sprint to cover that distance as I can do. Feels great to run like that. Pull-ups were strong, I did a lot of bar hangs first to try and stretch out my armpits, lats etc. Things are tight as hell in there. I need some serious soft tissue work this week.
