IF??? - You can't go backwards, and you don't strike me as someone who would quit, so let me just correct that for you! Travess
Alright, sorry, my bad. I am not planning on quitting anytime soon, of course, unless I am forced to due to health or something. The if which sneaked in there was if-I-ever-have-it-in-me-or-reach-the-level-where-I-should/can-try-going-for-Shodan type of if. Anyway, thank you for the correction
Tuesday 12.12.: Karate (2 hours): - Game of tag + game of tag only sliding our feet - Stretching - Partner "fight": One person lies down on the belly, the other has to turn him on the back. We changed partners three times. Actually, I wasn't able to turn anyone in the, 30 (last round 60) seconds long rounds, but nobody turned me, either. I was close once to being turned and to tur someone, but a few seconds saved me or my partner. And some body-weight exercises for the loser. Though except or one round I did them even when I won. - Most of the class was working with a partner - blocking one or two attacks and then finishing our way, joint locks/takedowns encouraged. I really am not very good with them and after practising for some time, I thought too much about stuff I haven't tried yet. - Final work-out Not a very physically engaging training. I tended to think too much during the combinations and worked with a total of 2 partners, who both tend to think and not try things with particular strenght, so they didn't sort of motivate me to go hard, either, and I am quite angry at myself as to how log I took or how I did some techniques in general. Sensei, though after we finished, told us we are at the level where we should finish the takedowns and have the partner fall, which is, of course, logical, but most of the time I was with a partner, who really hates falling down and tend to struggle not to, so I let her have her way. Basically I am too soft. Polar results: Time: 2:06 Average HR: 99 Max HR: 157 Training benefit: Basic training Kcal: 495 Fat burn: 52%
Wednesday 13.12. Karate at uni (1,5 hours): - At the beginning sensei appologized for his absence last week and asked me what it was that we did when the training was led by the two of us brown belts. I forgot for a moment, so I went: "Ehmmm.... Oh! Some combinations in pairs and a little bit of working-out." That was when the two girls sitting in seiza next to me turned: "A LITTLE bit?!" Somehow, things liek this make me rather happy - Warm-up in pairs - mostly techniques while walking forward. I was partnered with sensei for most of the time, it was nice. We always demonstrated the next exercise, which mostly worked, until sensei wanted us to squat down agains each other, one person showing a hand as a target to the other and while this person jump backwards and the attacked forward, he'd hit the hand with a punch. At the third jump sensei leaped backward before I had time to and just failed totally, we both immediately burst laughing and when we went the other direction, sensei again sort of pushed me and I ended up on my back and it was all awful I might take these exercises for tommorrow's children class. It looks liek both for the kids and adults tommorrow I may be there alone, maybe with a fellow brownbelt, if he decides he wants to push himself as he injured one of the toes of his already injured foot :/ - Stretching - 50 push-ups (sensei really lieks his push-ups as of late) - Main program today was Ude Tanren = Iron body conditioning. I demonstrated with sensei a few times (that were definitely more than enough usually) and went correct the others. Lol, there were three female pairs and two of them... I just couldn't not laugh. They were beating each other pretty hard when in came to body strikes or leg kicks I saw a leg kick where girl 1 kicked girl 2 in a slapping fashion, so the second one bent down in pain. Girls 1 let her get revenge by telling her to kick as hard as she wants. Which whe definitely did, but before she could check if it hurt the first one, it was the first one's turn and she didn't wait for anything and kicked just as hard before girl two had time to prepare and she went down again XD Later I could only see how they kicked each other so hard I was wandering how they're still standing. After yame, girl 1 was standing as if nothing happened, girl 2 bent in pain, massaging her legs. Lol. The lat exercise was practising striking with the head, it is a bit of a fun exercise too. You face the partnerand suddenly attack their belly with your head. It is actually quite strong as even I managed to push sensei backward like this. Though my scult tingled quite a bit I watched the other female pair. The shorter one was attacking the taller and somehow didn't strike the belly. The taller one told her: Dang, that was my leg! Aim higher! And she did. I kind of expected what would happen: The taller one clutching her groing, bending forward: Dammit! Not there? Does this looke like a belly?!!! And then I just saw them fighting to the ground. It's fair to say theey are friends, always beat each other hard and often end up beating the other on the ground... kind of a funny bunch - Finished with a slapping sparring game while sitting against each other in seiza. Around ten rounds. Polar results: Time: 1:33 Average HR: 121 Max HR: 163 Training benefit: Basic training, long Kcal: 602 Fat burn: 40%
Thursday 14.12. Kid's class (1 hour): My usual co-teacher couldn't come today, but I had another help in the end. Which was good becasue there are both beginner and more advanced kids and tommorrow is the dojo's grading, so in order to prepare them, it's best to divide them. The beginners need basically just techniques, the advanced ones need kata. So I took the beginners and did techniques with them right after warm-up and Junbi undo. And as many push-ups, squats and sit-ups as they need for their next grading regardless if it's going to be tommorrow or not. Obviously doing the techniques on the spot in a grading format isn't the greatest fun in the world, but I tried them to endure for once for the grading's sake. Adult karate (2 hours): Senseis are absent today, so it was agian the two of us teaching this class. Two people are grading tommorrow, so we also tried to work towards that. - Warm-up: This training was going to be more technical, so I tried the "Scotch five" again: 5x5 push-ups, bupees, V-ups, squats, sit-ups. I think I earned the hatred right away - Kihon (up to 8th kyu). Each person said a technique to be done 10x, There were 7 people and three rounds, so 21x10 techniques. - My co-teacher sort of took the class from kihon ido. We did only the basic stuff, according to syllabus mostly. - The rest, and most of the class was spent practising ippon kumite, which one of the grading students should know for grading, but apparently doesn't. - When we had like 10 mins left, the teaching brown belt turned to me, because, of course, it was time for a work-out! ....read: My time! We promised to one of the grading students today there won't be anything dificult, so I kept it in mind, but most of the training wasn't exactly exhausting, so... I went with one of our sensei's usual belly trainings. Including one minute plank and 30 s side plank for each side. I kind of played ignorant and tried to unconspicuously stop the side planks after a minute instead, but the fact that it lasts quite long was noticed like at the 32nd second So I only listened to protests for most of the remaining 28... And watched how some were or tried to cheat! And to have it all complete we did 1 minute back plank, or what it's called. Then 30 push-ups, squats and sit-ups. And they didn't like any of my other ideas, but tried to make me do one more Scotch five if I didn't have enough, they'd be happy to wait for me until I finish Damn them. I didn't of course. Instead I thought up other exercise, which was declined immediately, so we just did the final etiquette. Boring... Polar results: Time: 3:14 Average HR: 107 Max HR: 170 (During the Scotch five) Training benefit: Basic training, long Kcal: 937 Fat burn: 48%
Friday 15.12.17: CrossFit: - Warm-up: 4 mins of 30 double or (for me) 60 single unders (though the rope got caught in my feet ALL the time, which was really frustrating and o matter how I tried. There are ropes there which just don't work for me for some reason... and 15 glute bridges - Stretching and some "animal" exercises this instructor likes - Front squat practise: we were advised to take 60 % of our max. There was one rack less then people, so the instructor came asking for my max, which is 68 I think and happily said that would work and brought me a partner, who had similar max so we can share the rack and the barbell. We were to do 5 rounds: 5, 5, 4, 4, 3 reps. We started before the two of us knew it and we only loaded 35 kg for now. I proposed to add to 40 kg in the third round and 45 in the last for the 3 reps. My partner kept the 40, but it was no problem to quickly add it for me. - Split squats - never heard of it before, but it was just what it sounded like. I didn't know how the barbell there would work, but it was with kettlebells, of course. A 12 kg kettlebell in each hand and 3 rounds by 8 reps for each leg. - WOD: 15 min time cap: - 5 rounds of: - 8 deadlifts (40 kg for women) - 12 box jumps (50 cm) - 16 toes-to-bars (precisely the exercise that ruined in for me ) - But, I pushed myself to do all the toes to bars, no knees to chests. But that made me go by one at a time. Not because of the core musles but because of the grip and the strong pull in my forearms, which slowed it down for me. Deadlifts and box jumps were alright, except for my tired grip afte the toes-to-bars. I thought I won't be able to finish the last TTBs, but I did, in fact, on the second - so finish time 15:00 and theoretically RX. If it counts when I didn't do the kipping, but one rep at a time I sacrificed the time in favour of practise today, Finished last. There were some finishing at 7:30 or so, which is crazy. Though I never would have thought my HR was so high today! Polar results: Time: 1:11 Average HR: 136 Max HR: 186 Training benefit: Maximum training Kcal: 589 Fat burn: 27%
Saturday 16.12.: CrossFit: - usual Saturday partner work-out - 15 min stretching - Partner WOD: - 3 minutes? taking turns in L-sits (on a horizontal bar). If it's too hard (it is), its enough to have our knees raised, not the legs stretched out in front of us. - 5 minutes (?) to do 50 synchro burpees. My partner isn't good and going down and up, so she skipped all the jumps and since we were supposed to do them synchronized, I waited for her when down and then up just before the jump. In order to give us a few seconds break at least, the instructor asked how many we have and let us stop at 45. Because I didn't have to rush, this didn't tire me very much, unlike others who seemed pretty exhausted. Because they finished like twice as fast. So... energy preserved, good! - 5 minutes of strict pull-ups (with a rubber band) - taking turns with a partner, we didn't count. I started with 10, then maybe still 7, but the other rounds I only did 5 before asking partner to continue, as I needed to stop for a bit, so it's pointless if none of us works out - Probably 10 minutes or rowing. Not enough rowing machines, we had an air bike or what it's called. And we took turns after 6-10 kcal, altogether we burnt 80. - 5 minute wall climbs. This was ugly. I don't like them - starting lying on the floor, feet to the wall, climb the wall with your feet while you walk with your hands toward it, until you are in an (well, almost ) handstand position. It is really tiring and my shoulders hurt a bit form yesterday. As advised we were taking turns after each rep. - 10 min box climbs (not sure about the exact name). Basically stepping up on the 50 cm box, with a kettlebell in each hand. Women should have taken 12-16 kg. I thought I still have a bit energy left, so I could at least start with the heavier one. After like 5 climbs I realised not only that they are quite heavy, but most of all that my wrist, which I hurt a little while putting a barbell down (the weight pulling it down), and thought is already ok, hurts, as the kettlebell pulls it down in precisely the same way. I wanted to take 12 kg ones, but the guy next ot us also realised he needs less and took the last 12 kg pair. So... I used two 8 kg kettlebells only. Which wasn't still as easy as I'd like, but manageable. Maybe it was also the reason why I didn't need to collapsa to the ground or at least sit down like usual, while almost everyone did. So today's work out was technically hard, but... I probably didn't make it as hard on myself as I could? But on the other hand, I wouldn't like to irritate the wrist anymore. But... my shoulders hurt now. And it's not about sore muscles, but pain in certain positions, similar, if I remember to what I got when I used to play volleyball. I hope it goes away till Monday. Polar results: Time: 1:03 Average HR: 140 Max HR: 175 Training benefit: Tempo & Steady state training Kcal: 542 Fat burn: 27% And a walk with friends to Sapa - a Vietnamese community/town in Prague. We lunched a delicious Pho and went shopping for some small things or presents.
Sunday 16.12. I re-tried the Polar fitness test Saturday evening. The good news was it worked and showed me my VO2 max. The bad news, probably connected to the fact that the test didn't fail in the middle, was, that my heard rate when resting was around 70-75 bpm, which is like almost 25 or so bpm more than normally It kind of made me a bit uncomfortable. Maybe two crossfit trainings in a row like that aren't a good idea? I am not ill or anything. I tried again Sunday morning and the heart rate was a bit lower: 65-70, but, it started failing again. It got still down since then, close to normal, but the tests fail as usual, too. I had another person try the test and they passed with no problem. Also I noticed that the HR displayed throughout behaved in a different way - like one number (of heart beats) stayed displayed for several seconds most of the time, before changing up on down. While whenever I measure my HR, the numbers jump up and down like every single hearbeat usually, constantly changing. Not sure if it is related to why the test fails, but I think it likely. Still want to do the test properly! The VO2 max I measured during my only test was very bad, like 34... like a completely unfit person. Which I don't like at all Took it easy in Sunday then... well, except for tidying up my place in preparation for Christmas together with like an hour log walk in a freshly fallen snow... and I burned as many calories as I do on a training day.
Monday 18.12. CrossFit: - Warm-up: 1 burpee + 10 single-unders, 2 burpees + 20 single unders, 3+30, 4+40, 5+50, 6+60, 5+50, 4+40, 3+30, 2+20, 1+10 - Stretching got skipped somehow - 10 min EMOM: 1st minute: 20 s handstand hold (at a wall), 2nd minute: 10 pull-ups (black ruber band) - 6 rounds of 2 minutes - each couple of minutes do 3x hand power clean + jerk. I started with an empty bar, did 4 rounds with 25 kg (we wer supposed to focus on technique and all the 2,5 kg discs I'd need were taken and for technique, 35 kg seemed too much. I wanted to take it for the last round, but then! I saw two small 2,5 kg discs lying near a not used barbell at the moment, so I asked the nearby people if I can take them and so I did 30 kg for the last round. I am actually glad I found them since there are only a few and the Rx weight for the WoD was supposed to be 30 kg too. So I was the only girl who had the opportunity to take the precise weight - WoD: For time (12 mins time cap): - 80 air squats - 60 push-ups - 40 medicine ball sit-ups (6 kg one for women - 14 lbs to be precise) - 20 push presses (30 kg) - 10 jerks (30 kg) This WoD seemed nice! Lots of boyweight-ish exercises and a couple with a barbell but none of those terrible like thrusters, snatches or even front squats. I can do this! I started the squats fast and was determined to keep that pace and not stop for a second. Which I sort of managed and was probably actually to finish them. Which was good, I needed time for the push-ups! Wanted to go 10 at a time, which I did for the first portion, then I only did 5 at a time and from 40 or so only 2-3. But I didn't put my knees down and tried to keep my back straight. A lot of women actually do the push-ups on their knees and at a box or whatever, but I wanted to do the normal ones even if I finish last. But I actually finished a liiitle earlier then several people around me. It seemed like I took eternity to finish, so I was surprised only 4:30 minutes paseed since the beginning. The sit-ups were actually harder than I thought or hoped. We were advised to keep the ball close to the body instead of holding our arms too stretched out, which... I figured (quite late) was the opposite for me. Or maybe just those weird muslces in the arms were already tired. We were supposed to touch the ground with the ball above our head and then under our feet when we sit up. As for the push presses and jerks, I knew it will be a bit of a battle, but I didn't doubt I could do it. I took a break after each five. Especially when I noticed I was compromising my form a fair bit. I saw I still had more than enough time, so I took the breaks to gather strenght. Finished at 10:39. With RX, well, I only wrote down 1/2 RX as I am not sure my push-ups were good enough. I had trouble touching my chest to the floor, though I really tried to go low. Put my hadns a bit far apart and always touched the nose, but chest just almost. I later realised that not everyone finihsed it time, so I was quite happy I did, But there are things I need to improve. Like... everything Polar results: Time: 1:10 Average HR: 131 Max HR: 178 Training benefit: Tempo training Kcal: 531 Fat burn: 31%
Tuesday 19.12. Karate (2 hours): A bit of a Christmas class. Actually a last official dojo training this year What will I doooo? Luckily there still should be faculty tommorrow. Well, sensei was ill at the end of the last week so I hope he'll be ok. If not, I am already mentally preparing for a last-minute call to stand in. This Christmas class was christmas-y in that it was games and a circuit training on Christmasish songs. - Game of tag - Dodge ball (with a glove and sumo squats for being hit, having the glove caught, hitting a mirror, picture of any sensei, dojokun etc. I haven't played in a while - since this kind of dodgeball cost us a few mirrors, but it was a lot of fun - Circuit training - one station per one song: 1. mae ukemi practise 2. kongoken - pendulum and a steering wheel, handing the kongoken to the partner 3. Hands on a punching bag and hold in a back plank. I personally didn't find this too difficult, except that toward the end my hands started to feel a little numb, but my partner struggled to keep holding the position like that even for a while because her arms were supposedly weak. I have no idea how she uses arms... but, well, whatever She just kept her moans for most of the rounds. But a training without her moans is a training not worth it 4. Plank - we could do a normal and sidee ones. Our song lasted about 4 minutes. I kept in a plank for most of the times, listening to the familiar moas and my partner asking if it's enough, can we do the side plank now? I said she needn't wait for me. I did the side plank for maybe half a minute for each side and when I just returned to the normal plank, the song was over. I quite suprised myself I lasted in the plank that long! I found a good position 5. Chi-ishi. Again, only about in the middle of exercising the right arm did I realise my partner was doing the same exercises with me (because her moans got loud and shortly after she started begging me to do the other arm, lol ) I never told her she needs to do the same, but I always do 10x3 reps for an arm before switching. And she even held the chi-ishi in the easiest possible position, while me at the hardest at the end of the stick... 6. Jumping over a heavy bag or stepping on it. I started jumping but it was hard to jump sideways without stopping as I usually nearly lost balance, so I did the stepping with my partner. In the rhytm of the song, then adding arms, so we basically looked like of a march of and aerobic practitioner. - Running exercise in teams. Two people hold obi stretched from hand to the toes. Third person runs between them and doew one tsuki per side to one obi, runs to the other person and does one mae geri per side. Then two, three, up to eight. Losting team did some squats. It was a team of girls including sensei against team of guys. One girl had a broken or partly broken toe, one guy injured foot, he went last and didn't finish. But we finished already shortly after the start as we gained since the beginning. - Bunkai + techniqu in the same teams (Gekisai Dai Ichi) - Solo kata training - I practised Shisochin. I practised it more often before the grading and today I felt rusty again. And sensei gave me a lot of corrections. - Belly exercise Good training today, I enjoyed the fitness part, too Polar results: Time: 1:47 Average HR: 111 Max HR: 172 Training benefit: Basic training Kcal: 570 Fat burn: 44%
Wednesday 20.12. So, as I said, I was mentally preparing myself for a last-minute call. And becasue I was scared of last-minute calls, I texted sensei in advance. He was probably busy and never read it and I got a last-minute message Only that he has some speech though and will come late, so if I can do the warm-up and Junbi Undo. Well, that is not a problem. I came early and met one of the students in the changing room. We talked and I eventually said I was going to do today's warm-up. When she changed the topit tying to talk me into not doing anything too hard. I said I wasn't... really nothing too hard (clutching my phone where I'd just prepared the Tabata song for a squat Tabata). She eventually mentioned that I led one class so far and it was the most difficult, everyone had the most trouble with the physical part. What the...? I mean, sensei usually isn't going too easy on them either, so.. After I got the message from sensei, I texted him back that ok (not that he was giving me much choice then ), but if he could tell the teacher (I call a boss) there, who can unlock the training room for me as I don't have keys, but she usually doesn't make things easier for me and it could be troublesome if she wasn't informed by sensei. Sensei probably didn't read what I wrote, so I went looking for the boss to the gyms, but she was nowhere to be found. I then asked another lady who has keys from everything if she doesn't know where the boss is. Well, apparently she went skiing... So I tried to explain I am a temporary stand-in for the karate teacher (whom she didn't know as he's an externist, great), but I eventually talked her into lending me the key. I made sure it wasn't a problem (since I did this once before, but then the boss came around, found out, locked the room, took the keys back and I got a small talking to. But... since she's skiing... Karate at uni (1 .... and sort of half hours): - Warm-up with a game of tag - the usual one in this room + the 4 min Tabata, only squatting. Some peopel had trouble toward the end, but just across me was a girl, who obviously was copying my pace and lasted seemingly without problem. I forgot to praise her effort and squats, a pity. - Junbi Undo with a bigger focus on leg stretching - for side splits (a few exercises) and at the end I remembered it was some time since I tried Neko Undo! I showed it first and realised it is somewhat easier than it used to be (yay, CrossFit! ), but I also found out one of my shoulders hurts (yay, CrossFit ). As in the middle of exercising I realised at least the girls can't do it or sabotage it straight away, I only counted to five. - Sensei arrived at the end of Junbi Undo. With him we review the Gekisai Dai Ichi kata shortly and then did San Dan Gi Ichi. There was an odd number of students, so I participated when we worked in pairs. - Then, after our karate class, hte gym is used by Aikidoka, for several years now trying to convert some of the students to Aikido, without success so far Today, sensei arranged they'd come for our last 30 minutes and do a demo class of Aikido. I was a bit surprised the etiquette and part of the Junbi Undo and the principles were practically the same. It is to be expected, partly, but they were more similar than I'd expect. They did a short Junbi Undo and had us then do cartwheels (on both side, meh, but I was brave and tried once for each side on one hand only. Easy on the right side, harder for the left, but I somehow did it, though not in a very elegant way) and walk like various animals - hare (jump with feel in front of hands, shrimp (wriggling on the back and pushing forward - basically impossible in a tank top and the shoulders didn't slide on the mats. Crocodile - do a position like down in a push-up and walk (haha, yeah, sure ...but the only reason I couldn't do it was only my hurting shoulder... of course! ) and some strange jumping on a butt forward by wriggling arms and legs held en the air. It looked pretty funny and was impossible to do - Then they showed and had us practise Ikkyo and Kote Gaeshi - which somehow went quite alright, but when they specified the details once we got it roughly down, it was an "aha!" moment for me. The sensei also showed me how to do the final work. I rotated the wrist as we do in karate, but he said it is easier and better to just bend the fingers by bending my own. I couldn't understand well, until he demonstrated on me and it worked very nicely! For the final try I got a white belt Aikidoka who was meant to help me and said it was good ^^ The Aikidoka tried to lure us again to stay for the rest of the class, which I would actually like and always say I should one day but... I had already plans and work I needed to do. And they used a good deal of temptation - that they had the christmas sweets and champagne! Polar results: Time: 1:40 Average HR: 118 Max HR: 170 Training benefit: Basic training, long Kcal: 609 Fat burn: 40%
Thursday: Christmas party in the dojo -> no training. Friday 22.12. Last CrossFit before Christmas: - Warm-up: 3 mins of: Run 2 laps, 10 ground to overhead (with a 10 kg disc), 30 single-unders - Stretching - Since now it was a partner work-out like it is every Saturday. There were only three of us now - me, my friend who is usually my partner and probably a new guy. So we pair off and he remained single - Find 1 rep max for deadlift - last time, months ago when we went for 3 rep max I think I had 75. And didn't expect ot do much better. For one rep max in the end I lifted 95 kg. Which... isn't much. I would like to work on that. The instructor said I should be able to lift even a 100, but I would round my back too much. For the last lift, I could feel I was pulling with my back too much. I actually struggled before as my grip slipped as usual. Instructor advised on the weird grip where you hold your thumbs. Actually, I asked her about it. But I can't do it properly, so it basically slippd even before I moved the barbell off the ground. Not sure about the name but she mentioned the grip where you put each of your hands in opposite direction, though it isn't the best health-wise. I did try it and it really helped.Without it, my max would have been lower. .... ok, now on a second thought I googled some standart weights people should be able to lift according to experience. The instructor gave us and example that if i lifted let's say... 150 kg... I can now see that for women my weight, 150 kg is meant for the elite... What the hell does the instructor think of me? Or maybe she sets the standards by her achievements. But she's crazy strong ... like she tends to win the elite category comps in our country. Screw it, I'll just be happy for my 95 kg At least, maybe next time I'll be able to lift a bit more. - Partner WoD: - 20 min AMPRAP - take turns with a partner whenever you feel like it and do AMRAP of: 24 clean & jerk (Rx 25 kg) 12 pull-ups (with a rubber band for me) 24 thrusters 12 burpees jump over bar laterally 24wall balls (6 kg Rx) 12 Handstand push-ups (box push-ups for us) I took the Rx weights, but scaled down the pull-ups and handstand push-ups. Starting with the clean and jerk with 25 kg after hte deadlifting was awesome, the barbell was jumping up and down almost by itself. Until around the 10th rep at least. I always started, did 12-6 reps (depending of the number of reps wanted together and how tired I was getting). I tried as quickly as I could, then my partner took over. Sometimes... at the beginning she finished it, around the middle I finished it then, toward the end, I usually left hte last 4 for her. She didn't want me to do more reps anyway, but at times I did. She was slower, so I could get some rest, then go at it hard and rest again. We finished 3 rounds and just got to the burpees of the third when there wa like 30 s left. And of course instructor started encouraging me, my friednt then too. There was obviously no time to swithc to my partner then and I did about my fastest 9 burpees even. It was over, but I did part of the 10 - the falling down onto the floor part But not getting up anytime soon. Well, in the end I did, because now I very clearly felt how I was working on the oxygen debt and by lying down I just couldn't get enough in. It took several minutes before my breath calmed down a bit. The burpees were nasty. But... at the beginning I told my friend we needed to finish 2 rounds and do like half of the 3rd so we match the results of the pairs befoer us. And we actually did, so I am happy with that Polar showed my max HR 187, which is the highest I even got with the chest strap and I got it already like 3 times. (I had 188 once woth only the watch). I am thinking that around that number may actually be my real max HR. Polar results: Time: 1:07 Average HR: 139 Max HR: 187 Training benefit: Maximum & Tempo training Kcal: 572 Fat burn: 25 %
hook grip can take time to get used to, I lose the feeling in my thumbs on high rep stuff. For max lift I often go for switch grip, which isn't a problem for a max, but shouldn't be used for the majority of the time due to the change in structure. The other option is to change the switch grip between sets so that the overall volume is balanced. You can also look into straps, not tried them myself. the crossfit appears to have more Olympic lifts, so the hook grip is a good one to practise for that.
Yep, hook grip sounds like that terrible thing with the thumbs I only found out quite late that I was supposed to do that. But still can't wrap my head.... fingers... around it. And yes, swich grip was much better. I thought about straps, too, but I am not sure if I'd use them for anything other than the deadlift, which I did for max weight like a second time since going there, so... The biggest problem with my grip is with the horizontal bar. But... I guess I can't just tie myself up there XD Though if it didn't take too much time and my hands wouldn't go numb, I would probably think about that I need to learn the hook grip, that is true. I don't like it one bit, though
yeah, I really don't like it, I use a ton of chalk and only do it for sets with 1-3 reps when overhand grip starts failing.
Saturday 23.12.17: (Birwatching) walk: Close to 8 km, 492 kcal burnt (there was a hill!) Christmas Day: Afternoon walk: 6 km, probably a bit over 350 kcal Evening walk: 3 km, approx. 180 kcal No training other than that. As for diet, I just had to get some sweets, and... hot wine on Saturday, but eating fish soup we always make for Christas and a carp on Christmas Eve - a traditional Czech Christmas food. Merry Christmas everyone!
Love this - My day will look more like a few Lifting Drills (food and beer to face hole) Approx calories GAINED: 3000! Merry Christmas Nachi... Travess
Then at least you should get the biggest jug possible so you do your lifting properly! Hehe, that's to be counted with on Christmas, though! Merry Christmas to you, too, Travess.
Monday 25.12.17 I planned a last cycling trip of the year for today. Since there's no karate nor crossfit... but was talked out of it. I swear, tommorrow, nothing's gonna stop me! So just a walk today: 6,4 km and over 450 kcal (I started my Polar half a km late).
Tuesday 26.12. 17: So just as I decided, today was a bikeride day! And I even got a companion, who got swayed by the proposal to go with me It was a very nice trip, as planned the weather wasn't too harsh (around 4°C), but... still was chilly for the legs and toes and fingers and my three sensitive teeth. We rode by the Vltava River a bit outside of Prague (to Klecany - note to self) on a nice even bike road and flat terrain, so nothing incredibly difficult, rather, at least in summer not difficult at all, but as the cold air froze our legs, they were getting stiffer and stiffer, then it was hard to tell how much of it was tiredness and how much stiffness. I think a trip like this was just about enough, which was something we both agreed on. But I enjoyed it very much. Brought a hot tea with me to drink at the farthest destination which made for a very nice break. I took some time to stop feeling chilly when back home. Though I keep my home really warm. Hot shower fixed it in the end. Polar and tachometer results combined: Duration: 1:43 (2:26 breaks included) Average heart rate: 137 (130 breaks included) Max HR: 172 Training benefit: Steady State training+ Kcal: 1084 Fat burn: 33 % Avg speed approx. 18,5 km/h Distance: 32 km
