Got going Saturday afternoon, headed to the turf soccer field at Greenlake again for sprinting. Body felt pretty darn good.
This is how it went down. Sprint, pistols, SL DLs, walk to pull-up bar, pull-ups, push-ups, walk back to sprint again. 5 rounds. Pretty much exact same approach as last week.
Pull ups were 6,5,4,3,3 - Fighter pull up style. Using rings. A total of 21 pull ups, up one from last week as planned.
Push-ups were 3,3,4,5,6 - opposite rep scheme of the pull-ups. Up one rep from last week as planned.
Sprinting felt good, powerful, about 18-19 second sprints. Focused on trying to get my knees up and long strides.
Pistols - got 1/1 each round, pretty solid, improving from last week. I had been reading the Naked Warrior and instead of kicking my leg out I kicked it straight ahead on the pistols, it definitely made things quite a bit harder to get all the way down and back up (less space in the hips). Still, I was able to do it and that was quite encouraging because I think these are going to make me stronger. One random thing I have noticed lately is that when playing soccer with my kids, I can juggle the ball like crazy, using both legs, knees, etc. I have never been able to juggle a soccer ball this well because my left leg was not that useful. Doing squats, SL DLs, and now pistols are really strength moves for me and also help improve coordination (the unilateral movements). This is cool.
Pull-ups were excellent, the first set of 6 was easier than my first set of 6 last week and in general if felt that way for each set. Push-ups were good, I need to get into the one-arm push-ups and start studying that part of Naked Warrior and see if I can start with a regression and build up to these.
