Got down to the lake late pm. about 7:15pm, and banged out a very quick but effective training session. Sprints, pistols, pullups, pushups. I bumped up the reps on the pullups back to the same level as two weeks ago as I was feeling good and that was the plan after last week's backoff week on the pull-ups.
Had a very tender left ankle after the first sprint. Dumb, dumb, dumb - I definitely went out too hard on the first sprint, didn't have that great of a warm-up, and had noticed the left ankle earlier today being oddly tender. So irritated with myself, I know I need to go relatively slow for the start on the first several sprints to get properly warmed up. Just.... dumb. Going to have to pay some attention to it this week.
I hit a pistol on each leg for 5 rounds, after each sprint. Did singles this week as planned, much better reps even including a very tender left ankle. Like the improvement.
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. Total of 24, up from 17 pull ups last week. Absolutely feel great that I backed off last week. The two sets of 6 were by far the easiest I have had yet, I was really pumped to see this improvement. Very strong reps, best yet on these. The sets of 5,4,3 were totally easy. Nice.
Push-ups were 3,4,5,6,6 - opposite rep scheme of the pull-ups. I added 2-3 Lizard Push-ups at the end of each regular push-up set. I have been getting some comments lately from some friends that I am looking like I added some mass and size. I have noticed some gains in my chest lately as well as arms and that is probably from training these push-ups a little bit more and doing them "right" after getting some advice from Kevin. Along with all of the other training too, it all seems to be headed in a very good direction, getting strong, body composition is improving too. I should weigh myself and see where I am coming in at these days. I don't have a scale at home and generally don't give a shit what I weigh, doesn't matter to me, I go by how I feel and how my clothes fit.
