2/19 Saturday
Mobilty for shoulder, bicep and neck
40 min. rucking w/ 50lbs 4.5 miles
handstand work ~ was able to hold it freestanding for about 15 seconds, making slow but sure progress on my freestanding handstand goal of 30 seconds.
Some 1 arm pushup 2 x 2 each arm basically
That is it, my random do whatever take it easier on your body day 
I’m not there with the freestanding handstands yet - am just about at the stage where I can kick up to a wall, but not very consistently. Considering I couldn’t do any kind of gymnastic move before September, I’m cool with that, though. How long did it take you to freestand it?
I’m curious about this too. I just tried kicking up to a wall right now, and I could do it, but I was a few feet out, so not completely vertical. It also felt like hell on my wrists, like they couldn’t support me if I tried a handstand. Do you get stronger wrists if you do this stuff regularly?
Glad your son is doing well. Impressive training as always. Can’t imagine what you’ll be capable of when you’re fully rested and running on all cylinders.
Cal- I am not sure how long it has taken me to get to freestanding… I am very very wobbly at it though. I guess I have been working on & off on the handstands for about a year. But I have not been very dedicated to it, I start real good and regular and then just stop for a while for some reason.
I have given myself a deadline though - By April I am going to be doing em in the middle of my front room floor for 30 seconds.
Check out gymnasticwod.com - they have some good tips for the handstand and other things too.
Alisa - yea if you keep at it they will get stronger, but I would suggest some fist/knuckle pushups, frog stands, l-sits to help strengthen them up. If these are proving difficult just do some planks on the fist and keep working at the others. Also will require some flexibilty in the wrist.
Nadia- I can’t wait to be running on all cylinders again. UGH, glad that calving season is only about 2 months long. Not sure if I could take much more. Thanks 
n8tive,
Rarely post here (coz I think it’s nice if this forum left mostly to you ladies) but I do read your log consistently. Again, motivating to read about you battling away at your training with all you’ve had on your plate recently. And great to hear things worked out well with your son.
Cheers,
Rob
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n8tive,
Rarely post here (coz I think it’s nice if this forum left mostly to you ladies) but I do read your log consistently. Again, motivating to read about you battling away at your training with all you’ve had on your plate recently. And great to hear things worked out well with your son.
Cheers,
Rob[/quote]
Rob ~ glad that you stopped in and said Hi, do it again sometime. It’s nice to know that you enjoy my log. Thanks for you kind words, they made my day
one armed push-up (drools)… do you have any suggestions for progressing from regular push-ups to these that you wouldn’t mind sharing?
I do…do them on an incline to start. GI Jane push-ups will be yours.
Thanks for the line, n8tive!
I sometimes do a calisthenics routine that involves a lot of pushups, and I think that probably helps. (200 pushups, in blocks of 50 interspersed with other stuff.) Just now I tried a one-armed pushup for the first time and I can do a pretty nice one! On my right arm, though; my left wrist has been weaker and prone to hate me since middle school.
Alexus - Go to beastskills.com and they have some awesome tutorials (on the left side of the page, click on tutorials)on there for one arm pushups and other BW moves. I mostly did a ton of Levers with a basketball, foam roller & my suspension strap. It took me about 3-4 months to get it done with each arm. It took a lot of patience and work…but the accomplishment tasted really sweet
Cal- anytime!!
Alisa - Good work on the oapushups. Feels good dont it. ON the wrist, just do em on your fist and do some stuff thru out the day to help stengthen it - little things done thru out the day will make a big difference.
2/20 Sunday
Club swinging
mobility stuff
30 pullups (last night, in about a 5 minute time frame, 10 at a time)
A1. CG bench press
130 x 3
135 x 3
140 x 3
145 x 3
A2. Pullups
bw x 3
+15 x 3
+20 x 3
+25 x 3
B1. BB incline press
115 x 6
120 x 6
125 x 6
B2. BB row
115 x 10
120 x 10
125 x 10
C1. BW Dips
x 10
x 10
x 10
C2. Suspension Outward rotation
x 10
x 10
x 10
Actaully go to sleep in today, a full 8 hours of sleep - holy bananas!! I ventured leisurely down to my cave and got my workout in with no sense of rush or sense of what I have to do next. A beautifully snowy lazy sunday - not sure when it last happened but I do know that it dont happen nearly enough. My CG bench was a P.R. today - felt pretty good See what happens with a full nights sleep, good things! I love dips, they are great…
Whoa mama! Those CGBP are making my head spin… Nice job. Sleep is like magic. Yay for dips, I x2 that.
congrats on that PR! sleep does a body good
thanks for the help people. i’m a long way off getting one… but i’ll try every saturday
congrats on your sleep and wonderful workout.
Awesome pull-ups and congrats on the bench. That’s some strong lifting.
I think that I was more stoked about the sleep than the workout - although the workout is such a nice bonus, I find myself much much happier and ready for the day after i get my workout in.
2/21 Monday
mobility for hips & t-spine
A1. Front squats
145 x 3
155 x 3
160 x 3
165 x 3
160 x 3
B1. speed deads
150 x 2
155 x 2
160 x 2
170 x 2
170 x 2
175 x 2
C1. BB rev lunge
75lb x 8
80lb x 8
75lb x 8
C2. Russian twist iso hold
3 x failure
D1. med throws
3 x 10
D2. med slams
3 x 10
i wish i could do med throws / slams but my gym insists on getting the kind of medicine ball that isn’t supposed to be thrown (the plastic outer will crack if you throw them hard enough). i think they do it on purpose… they would rather have about 5 lat pulldown machines than leave a little bit of wall / floor space free…
the virtues of having your own gym. one day…
2/21 P.M
neural charged bb workout
pushpress
snatch jump
clean jump
snatch high pull
clean high pull
speed squat
x 3 rounds - did 3 reps of each
these are pretty cool workouts, leave me feeling a better person and totally ready for the rest of the day. Sounds weird, right but yea they just pep me up and get me pysched for the rest of the day. Good to do at the 3:00 slump if ya can