Left for Portland on Friday, back late afternoon Sunday and I made it out for some quick training. Tons and tons of sitting the last several days in the car and otherwise. Yuck. Body actually feels surprisingly good despite all the sitting. Mobility work this week will be in important.
After warming up a bit I felt good enough to try some sprinting again this week. I decided to head to the track at Greenlake and ultimately did the sprints on the turf on the soccer field, which actually was nice and soft and felt great.
Sprints were much shorter in duration than before. About 22-23 seconds each, the length of the soccer field. I tried to make them very powerful given the short duration.
This is how it went down. Sprint, rest, sprint, SL DLs, walk to pull-up bar, pull-ups, push-ups, walk back to sprint again. 5 rounds.
Pull ups were 5,5,4,3,2 - Fighter pull up style. Using rings. A total of 19 pull ups, up one from last week as planned.
Push-ups were 2,3,4,5,5 - opposite rep scheme of the pull-ups. Up one rep from last week as planned.
Reps on the SL DLs were 3 each time. Why did a drop to 3? Because I GOT BW PISTOLS ON BOTH LEGS. Totally out of the blue. I have not been practicing a pistol at all because I didn't think I could do it. However I have been squatting a ton, doing SL DLs, and have gain a lot of stability and size in my legs. My ability to generate tension is much better, in the glutes, lats, static stomp with the foot etc. So before doing the SL DLs I thought what the hell I will try to see if I could do pistols. Nailed it. Yes the technique could be better, they can definitely get deeper, but still, I felt pretty damn good with what I did and from no practice whatsoever, not even starting with simpler progressions. Talk about a What The Hell effect from training smart with good movements. Great day, it sure is cool to get a PR. A bodyweight PR is almost cooler than lifting a heavier kettlebell, doing more reps with a KB etc. because you realize you got your body to do something it had never done before. Pretty awesome stuff. I know this is nothing for tons of people but for me to get a BW pistol and now realize I can keep going, is a great accomplishment.
