Writing this late Sunday evening after returning from a quick 24 hr trip to Portland and back to hang out with my family. Saturday was my 37th birthday. I feel great, and excited about the year ahead. I started out my 37th by heading down to Greenlake on a beautiful morning, and got back in the swing of sprints, and pistols. It was a lot of fine. I ended up doing about 7 sprints, half the soccer field, probably about 15-20 second sprints. Since I had not sprinted for a couple of weeks, I decided not to try and accelerate too fast, just take strong strides and hit max speed a little later into the sprint. It went very well and felt good.
I hit a pistol on each leg for 5 rounds, after each sprint. Those went well. Working on keeping my leg straight out, and trying very hard to keep tight all the way into the hole, which is challenging. I got some good reps in and I was pleasantly surprised really with the R leg because that ankle has been tight for a week after playing 3 games of kickball. Finally starting to loosen up though.
5 rounds of pull-ups and push-ups after rounds of sprint/pistols. Pull ups were 6,5,5,4,3 - Fighter pull up style. Using rings. A total of 23 pull ups, up one from last week as planned. Very strong. Really, really pleased with the pull-up work, really loving this.
Push-ups were 3,4,5,5,6 - opposite rep scheme of the pull-ups. Up one rep from last week as planned. Worked on technique, really trying to incorporate some of the suggestions from Kevin from our training session on Friday. At the top of each push really try to lock out the elbows and focus on pushing the area below my neck up and then on the descent, pulling myself to the ground and staying tight without winging my scaps. Going to practice some lizard push-ups as part of training, should be fun.
