Sunday, August 24, 2014

8/23/14 Saturday August 23, 2014 (sprints, pistols, pullups and pushups)

Writing this Sunday afternoon.  Got down to the lake late pm yesterday, about 7:15pm, and banged out a very quick but effective training session.   Sprints, pistols, pullups, pushups. More powerful sprints this week, and held them for about 3-5 seconds longer, about 25 seconds each.  Nice.

I hit a pistol on each leg for 5 rounds, after each sprint.  For the last 2 rounds, I did doubles, first time I have tried multiple reps. That was cool, it was an additional challenge to stay tight and get the 2nd reps.  I liked that quite a bit.  Just going to work on doing a set of doubles here and there for now.

5 rounds of pull-ups and push-ups after rounds of sprint/pistols.  Pull ups were 6,6,5,4,3 - Fighter pull up style.  Using rings.  A total of 24 pull ups, up one from last week as planned.  Honestly it was tough on the second set of 6, and the set of 5, not bad on the set of 4 and the 3.  I was not using much time at all for rest periods, and I snatched the 24kg yesterday so was likely not 100% recovered.  Was a good challenge though to try and maintain form and keep the pull-ups strict, and really pull hard with the lats, keeping the glutes tight.

Push-ups were 3,4,5,6,6 - opposite rep scheme of the pull-ups.  Up one rep from last week as planned.  Technique improving, felt strong.  I did a couple sets of 3-5 Lizard Push-ups at the very end of the training session as well.  Like those, they are a challenge, really feel those in various muscle groups, triceps, biceps, lats.  Good move to practice.