About 50 minutes today. Could have done it quicker if I was smarter about setting up my equipment, next time.
Not certain about the straight bar dips, I think I’ll keep them for this cycle and see if I can get them to feel right. Going to use more weight for the pullups, maybe ramping each set.
Hit the climbing gym today for a really excellent session. Led a bunch of 5.8s and 5.9s, felt really comfortable on them but my grip endurance is certainly lacking. Worked a .10a on lead for a while and took a few nice falls. Burned myself out top roping .10d and called it. Will be hitting the same place next weekend and going to up the intensity a bit.
Inverted row (pronated):
5x10 - pausing at top until needing to do straight reps
Reverse crunches:
5x10 - realizing these are some kind of crunch/pike/dragon flag bastardization
Pushups:
15,10,10,10,5
Stationary bike:
10 minutes, moderate pace
All done in a bit over 40 minutes. I can really cruise this session, the giant sets flow nice and there’s not much weight changing. Also the weights on my press are minuscule so that helps haha.
All done in a little under 50 minutes. Broke the giant sets into supersets and was able to keep a similar pace without seeing stars so that’s a plus. Was fighting red sauce acid backlash throughout, fun fun. Hit a brick wall on chinups after that 5th set but no biggie.
Hopped on the bike to do a little easy conditioning and was like fuck this shit. Couldn’t get my head in it to sit stationary for that long. I don’t feel bad about it.
Holy sweat Batman! I was equal parts enjoying and hating this workout. Kept hitting the rope off my floor joists and fucking up my rhythm - didn’t have this problem last week. I may need to mark my floor where to stand.
The punch combos I drew up did me no favors as far as improving footwork. I need to dial it back and keep it super basic. A couple felt good eventually but I tried some odd sequencing that I just couldn’t dig. @Irishman92 any tips for a brother?
I’m unsure of what to do about the bike sprints. 60 seconds is a bit too long for a repeatable all out effort, but I feel like 30s will start cutting the session a bit short. I suppose I could try and have a more paced effort at 60-90s as well. Maybe I’ll change it up week to week?
I knew I had ~2 or so minutes at the end based on music tracks and Surviving the Times by Nas came on. Excellent song and a good one to push through the end of a workout, except the intro is like 45 seconds of silence. Doing me no favors!
Agreed. You don’t go into the gym the 1st day and try to back squat, front squat, Goblet squat, Frankenstein squat and zercher squat. If you continued to do that you wouldn’t get very good at any of the variations. Same with punching combos.
To keep footwork as a focus on the bag, try a 3 straight punch combo to get the bag to swing than quickly move to the opposite side of the bag and do the same punch combo as the bag is at the top of its swing AWAY from you. As you hit it, the bag should be pausing at the top of its swing, than move around it and do the same. You than only have the time of a 1swing to get in position and steadied enough to deliver the punches.
If that doesn’t make sense, I don’t blame you
The punches should be connecting at an almost fully extended arm. They also need to be strong and quick to keep the bag swinging back at you before the combo is over. Once you can handle 3 jabs, go to 4. Also you will find that it’s easier to slip past the bag on one side than the other, you can try to move past the bag on the other side to make more difficult (although you may need to alter which arm your last punch comes off).
Nice little session, done in just under 40 minutes. Was going to do a bit of conditioning at the end but said fuck it. Hit the floor joist on 3 consecutive tries to get the jump rope started and came back upstairs. Low ceilings FTL.
About 55 minutes, felt faster. Good morning/goblet squat superset had my midsection asking what it did wrong for the punishment it was receiving.
Still not sure about these straight bar dips although they felt a bit better today. I think the unstable nature of a barbell in j-hooks is main cause of their oddness. Would be fine if I was looking for the extra core challenge, but not the case. Might try them off the safety pins next time to see if that is doable.
Got a pretty short but intense session in yesterday. My little bro and GF joined my climbing crew for this one so while it took a hit on how much work we could do it was totally worth it, they had a blast. Worked two 5.10as and a 5.10b on lead. Smashed the first 10a, took a fall on the 10b shook out for a minute and finished it strong, then took a couple falls on the last 10a and called it. I didn’t really eat much yesterday and the climbs were more strength than technique driven. Good thing is that I had each move comfortably just not enough juice so string them together.
Good session again today. Part of me feels like I’m missing out on the 5/3/1 experience by not going for PR sets each week, but I get 5s pro - leader/anchor rationale for different templates.
Cruised through this one today, not sure how the hardest of the three weeks became the fastest but maybe this constant motion thing really works! Top set took some effort but moved with decent speed, pretty much what I expected.
Opted out of conditioning completely, was fighting the urge to vomit (maybe moving too fast/banana not a good pre-workout lol) and there’s plenty of snow to shovel.
Did the jumps between rounds of bag drills for the most part. Certain ones (endurance and speed) I just kept the gloves on as the rest periods were pretty short. Thanks for the tip last week @Irishman92, definitely helped!
Wasn’t feeling very alive today so did super sets instead of giant sets. Worked out nicely. So technically that was a rep PR today, never benched 165 more than 3 times, but considering it’s fairly sub-max not all that exciting to me. Set felt good though! Glad I could cap it at 5 but certainly had some more left.
Shoulders are sore from the bag workout yesterday, was surprised they weren’t the last couple times. That’s something I remember from boxing years ago so must’ve been a much better workout than I thought.
In just to say I’ve been “reading” mr.v3lv3t as mr. volt volt. Don’t ask me why… probably because have never taken a proper look at the username or this log.
