Continues sets for the the lunges and sit ups (and plank obviously) but push ups have always been a bug bear for me, so I did them in sets - 10, 9, 8, 7 and 7 again, with about 10/12 seconds rest between each. Travess
Do you take rest periods between the 2min sections? ie bash out your pressups then stop timer rest 60secs and start the timer for the next exercise or do you run each 2min section back to back in one long set?
Nice one buddy, I will try it tomorrow! I'm not expecting great things because although bodyweight exercises focusing on strength endurance used to be my absolute strong suit, I've not done much of that nature outside of class for ages and it always wrecks me. I'll be really interested to see where I measure up on that little test.
Yep, it does sound like a fun 2 minute challenge! I am kind of tempted to try, too. Did ou do the 2 minutes with breaks in between or one exercise after another?
Oh... there was another page! Sorry for the needless question (and I still haven't figured how to edit my post...)
You're not alone! I think that there a few profiles that are missing that function - Mitch has kindly volunteere to look in to it for me at present. Travess
Oh really? :O I thought I overlooked it, but I looked hard a few times now (which doesn't necessarily mean I haven't overlooked it after all, but...)
I think I'll join in the "test" on my deload week next week. I expect I'll fall short considerably this week.
Yay, a challenge! I have one more question for Travess, though: Considering how I struggle to do push-ups with good form, what standard for a push-ups do you use (to make it fair )? Do you for example touch chest to the ground? Do you keep your hands a shoulderwidth apart or do you "tolerate" thm further apart for example?
Excellent - Looking forward to it... If you have standard Push Up, that is accepted in both Crossfit and Karate, then I'd say stick with that, as that what you are used to. (Unless they are on your knees! ) For me, my hands (knuckles) are just slightly over shoulder width apart, I lower my chest to the floor, looking forward (not down) and do not allow my elbows to separate out from my sides (as in Hikite) Travess
Ok, thanks I can hardly do the push-ups as my sensei would like me to do them (elbows by body, chest down, looking forward if he wants to push-us). Like that, if I do one, I consider myself lucky Crossfit allows women to be on the knees (such push-ups are at least in the Czech Republic referred to as "girl" or "female" push-ups ), but I avoid doing that. The requirement is to touch chest to the floor, but allows for hands quite far apart, which is easier for me, so I'd stick with that probably Otherwise it might very well be me trying to peel myself off the floor for two minutes XD
Just as it was for one of the 1st Kyu students I was working with last night - No shame there... Travess
Tuesday (16/01/18) AM: Nothing strenuous this morning, just 10 minutes of Stretching, still working towards my new (refusing to acknowledge it as a new years resolution!!!) Box Split goal of hitting the a full split within 3 months. (End of March) Start height: 18 inches (pretty inflexible) Current height: 11.5 inches 16 day progress: -6.5 inches PM: Decided to head out for another Interval Running session today, this time running flat out for 2 minutes, then walking for 30 seconds, and repeating for the duration of the run. Duration: 57m 36s Distance: 11km Av Pace: 5m 14s per/km Starting HR: 78 bpm Max HR: 181 bpm Average HR: 171 bpm Recovery HR: 50 bpm (whilst still walking back to my house) Travess
50 bpm HR whilst walking that's very good. Did you have records of your HR from before doing Tabata? I found my recovery HR was a lot lower when I regularly did HIIT (although never that low)
Thats a drop of 50 bpm, down to 118 from 168, not an actual HR of 50 bpm - If that's what you meant? I may need to word that better in future logs! Travess
Wednesday (17/01/18) Rest Day Thursday (18/01/18) AM: We had a very relaxed start to the day today, starting off with a nice little family 'swim'* which mostly consisted of me playing in the splash pool with our 2 year old, whilst my Wife got her laps in. (*I put swim in inverted commas, because I have the Buoyancy of a brick, and all the water confidence of a sand snake!) **Edit - Inspired by my wife's efforts, I attempted some actual swimming myself, in the form of 4 x 25m lengths (done in isolation of each other) which was an achievement in and of itself** PM: Kids Krotty @ 60 minutes - Following their warm-up, we had them looking a various range techniques, primarily concentrating on short range - Elbows and long(er) range - Front Kick, which were drilled firstly as Kihon, then on the BoBs and Kickshields, and finally as Partner Drills. Karate @ 90 minutes - I missed the warm-up tonight, as I was working with my two 1st Kyu wards, as I looked at their base cardio levels. (Basic Beep Test) When we joined the rest of the class, they were running thru Pad Drills, working on Stripping away limbs/obstacles, and countering with Multiple Striking Options. This drill was then repeated, with an additional pad holder, to simulate Multiples. The remainder of the session was then spent looking at the Fence, Verbal Skills (both posturing and de-escalation) Controlling the Space and Pre-emptive Striking (as well as being able to justify it) Travess
