Progress is a wonderful thing and has revealed itself in two ways this week. I've crossed under the 170 pound mark! Next, I've conquered level 14 on the Elliptical! That was thoroughly exhausting, so thoroughly I was too tired to stretch for a good 10 minutes after finishing. Speaking of stretching, yesterday I achieved putting my palms on the ground in the standard toe-touch motion. Massive achievement for my flexibility. A bit of workout restructuring has gone into my workouts of late, too.
I mentioned a few posts ago about changing how I just work out. I've put together a few successful and a few unsuccessful workouts since then. The ineffective workout consisted of rounds of isolation exercises: fly, skull crushers, and shoulder raises...possibly one more.
Absurdly effective works mostly include some variation of pushup, pullup, squat, and situp. One of them was five rounds for time of each exercise, with a time limit of 25 minutes for the whole thing. I finished in 24 minutes after considerable prodding from my trainer. Another effective one was for reps pushups and pullups, again 5 rounds. I got 177 and could barely move after it. Generally speaking, before I start these rounds, I'll generally do some sort of power lift, squat clean or squat snatch. The jury is still out on yesterday's work: squat snatch, then rounds of bench press, pullups, and situps. I think it could have been more effective, but I'll have to play with it a bit more to get it right.
Running technique is still winning. My instructions were to essentially pick my legs up a bit like I was marching highstep and place my foot down, ball first then let the heel touch lightly afterward. Make sure not to keep calf flexed the whole time otherwise you'll end up with the same terribly sore calves that I keep earning myself when I screw up the technique. With all that in mind, I ran again only to have a leg cramp only 12 minutes in. Still, it's a work in progress and hopefully I'll get it figured soon.
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