8:00am - belly breathing, Primal Move practice, lacrosse ball release, hamstring work - 45 minutes
8:45am - Kettlebell warm up
1/2K halos - 8kg, 4X each side / each leg (total 16X)
1/2K halos - 12kg, 4X each side / each leg (total 16X)
Arm bar 16kg, 1+1, x 2
Crooked Arm bar 24g with 3 presses and rotations, 1/1
9:00am- Training session - 24kg Kickstand DLs, 2H SW, TGUs
3x:
24kg kickstand DLs, 8/8
24kg 2H SW, 20
24kg full TGUs, 1/1
9:30am - Complete
10-11am - Acupuncture
Notes - Good day and absolutely making progress here which is very encouraging. Body felt better, did some very targeted hamstring work, and that is improving. Didn't want to push hard on the weights today, it doesn't feel quite right yet, so stuck with the 24kg and just did some kick stand DLs, 2H SW, and TGUs. Nothing seemed to bother anything, which is good. Right elbow I did notice a bit, it felt very good in the TGUs in all aspects of the movement with the except of the final lowering of the bell to the ground. Felt great in lockout. An interesting thing. I was able to see my longtime acupuncturist Dave later in the morning and he did some great releases using needles in my left knee and right ankle which are trigger points for the right elbow. He also did a manual release on the right elbow. Really, really helped. He also did some other work to release the hamstrings a bit, and my shoulders were dropped down into place nicely too, and the thoracic opening up. I have another session with him this Friday. This has really been helpful. I feel like I am headed back in in the right direction. I am going to just stick with the 24kg this week, no pressing yet until I feel really out of the woods on the right elbow. Will probably test some 1H SW, and possibly some cleans and squats, just to see how those feel, again staying light.
