Workout Recap - Week of December 24, 2017
I was feeling rather sore in my legs this week, particularly in my calves, so I only did four workouts. I didn't think that I'd been pushing myself excessively hard lately on the fitness front, but I suppose there were enough other things going on for me that it all kind of piled together into one big blob of fatigue.
Sunday
Type: Pass/Fail
Shoulder-width Handstand Push Ups - 2 sets of 9 (pass)
T&A Pull Ups - 2 sets of 7, each side (pass)
Close Squats - 2 sets of 20 (pass)
Bonus: 2 sets of 5 breath one-armed dead hangs (each side)
On account of the aforementioned leg soreness, I opted to go for a (much) easier squat variant on this day. Nothing else was too terribly remarkable about this workout, though I suppose it does justify last week's explanation for what "T&A pull ups" actually are.
Tuesday
Type: As Fast As Possible
10 sets of:
5 Pull Ups
10 Push Ups
15 Prisoner Squats
Time = 10:45
Bonus: 10 breath one-armed dead hangs (each side)
The time was a step back from how I'd done before on this workout. At the risk of sounding like a broken record, I'm going to attribute that to my legs feeling less than stellar.
Friday
Type: As Fast As Possible
5 sets of:
15 Jump Squats
15 Push Ups
15 Straight Leg Raises
Time = 8:30
Bonus: 11 pull ups
This was mostly about checking if I was on the right track with saying that I should've done five sets of this workout, after the last time that I did it. That dropped by average time per set from 1:34 to 1:42, so fatigue did start to play more of a factor, but I think that's still too little of an impact. I'll have to consider bumping it up to six sets, if I do this workout again.
Saturday
Type: As Fast As Possible
7 sets of:
7 Burpees
7 Bridges
Time = 7:30
Bonus: 1 burpee, 1 bridge, 10 pull ups
When I was doing this, I'd thought that I was going slow, so it was a pleasant surprise that I ended up tying my personal record. More importantly, perhaps, I also threw in some attempts at one-armed flex hangs afterwards, and I was able to hold myself in place for a second or two on each arm before gravity took over. I think that's a huge step forward in my pull up progress. Exciting!
