Week 56
I love Thursdays because when I make time for it, I can spend all night training. I like to go to the gym in the evening, condition for the first hour and then stay for the next two hours for parkour class. It's THE BEST. I'm either exhausted afterwards or I'm crazy energized because I feel so good after my workout. This week it was the latter.
I love Thursdays because when I make time for it, I can spend all night training. I like to go to the gym in the evening, condition for the first hour and then stay for the next two hours for parkour class. It's THE BEST. I'm either exhausted afterwards or I'm crazy energized because I feel so good after my workout. This week it was the latter.
I was a little late to conditioning, but I still got a good session in. I always do some kind of warm up, my individual training, and then I finish up with more conditioning--usually a circuit that T came up with for us, some more painful than others. For my individual conditioning, I've been working on band-assisted muscle-ups and weighted skater squats. I love the conditioning class because it's based on your own personal training needs and goals. Jumping strength, climbing strength, power, mobility, whatever it is you need/want to work on, your training program will focus on those things.
I also did some pull-ups this week after my individual training. I'm trying to increase the number of (dead hang) pull-ups I can do in a row. I started at three (which was a major struggle at first) but I made it to four this week! I probably could have pushed to five but I was tired after my initial workout. I've been doing sets of three until I'm too tired to keep going. It's such a small number but a year ago, I couldn't even do one. Every time I can do another one, it feels like a huge accomplishment.
It's funny to me that I can run up a wall and climb over it but doing pull-ups is difficult... anyways...
It's funny to me that I can run up a wall and climb over it but doing pull-ups is difficult... anyways...
After conditioning, I decided to stick around for class. We worked on lazy vaults at different heights on the vault boxes and then over the bars.
From there we set up a course and did some different challenges. As quiet as you can, as fast as you can, don't touch bar x, go under bar y, etc.
There's a box by the door of the gym that's maybe chest high on me (?) I'm not sure but it's definitely taller than my box jump height. It was part of the course and P declared the sides of it untouchable. Excuse me? How am I supposed to get on top of it? For a minute there, I blanked. I ran toward it and got stuck, using my feet against the side of it without thinking.
NO TOUCHY!!!! P started yelling.
I'M SORRY!! I yelled, trying not to laugh as I went back to the starting line to try again. I ran toward the box and tried to use a technique that would work the next time around but I didn't put enough power into it the first time. I was convinced it would work if I tried harder so I went back to the starting line a third time, ran towards the box and threw my legs and hips up using a similar technique as the lazy vault, and then turned to plant my feet on top of the box.... Then I stopped because I was so surprised I made it on top of the box. I looked up with a shocked smile on my face. I did it! I really didn't know how it would be possible when the challenge was first presented to me. But as I'm learning, anything is possible. You just have to think outside of the box (couldn't help myself) and keep trying.
I was feeling great after my box triumph and did a few more runs, making the swing-up-on-box smoother each time. When we tired of the course, we worked on some cats and other fun stuff before cooling down and stretching out. All in all a good night.
From there we set up a course and did some different challenges. As quiet as you can, as fast as you can, don't touch bar x, go under bar y, etc.
There's a box by the door of the gym that's maybe chest high on me (?) I'm not sure but it's definitely taller than my box jump height. It was part of the course and P declared the sides of it untouchable. Excuse me? How am I supposed to get on top of it? For a minute there, I blanked. I ran toward it and got stuck, using my feet against the side of it without thinking.
NO TOUCHY!!!! P started yelling.
I'M SORRY!! I yelled, trying not to laugh as I went back to the starting line to try again. I ran toward the box and tried to use a technique that would work the next time around but I didn't put enough power into it the first time. I was convinced it would work if I tried harder so I went back to the starting line a third time, ran towards the box and threw my legs and hips up using a similar technique as the lazy vault, and then turned to plant my feet on top of the box.... Then I stopped because I was so surprised I made it on top of the box. I looked up with a shocked smile on my face. I did it! I really didn't know how it would be possible when the challenge was first presented to me. But as I'm learning, anything is possible. You just have to think outside of the box (couldn't help myself) and keep trying.
I was feeling great after my box triumph and did a few more runs, making the swing-up-on-box smoother each time. When we tired of the course, we worked on some cats and other fun stuff before cooling down and stretching out. All in all a good night.
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