Dodging a bullet

New York City dodged a bullet named Hurricane Irene. A worst case scenario predicted blown out windows and flying debris acting like shrapnel. My family was prepared to sit out the tempest in our building's stairwell, the only space shielded on 4 sides by concrete. As it turned out, the winds never reached hurricane proportions. We spent the weekend parked in front of the television watching a stack of dvd's which we expected would be interrupted by a power outage that never came. Letters from Iwo Jima, Jennifer's Body were two standout films. Less well received were Old Dogs and Kandahar. We also caught up on past episodes of the TV series Bones. No, I did not work-out.

8-29-11
-10x10 bw pull-ups w/ off-set negs

Because the Rock Rings cause my body to hang so low from the pull-up bar, I have to do these pull-ups with my knees raised into what looks like a bad L-sit. It ends up being somewhat of a core workout.

8-30-11
-140 kb swings
-2x10 heavy, 2x10 light presses

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PUP:
420 bw
68 weighted (24 kgs)
30 weighted (40.8 kgs)

Shut-up and pull

In the back of my mind is the goal of the one-armed chin(pull) up, in the front is pulling for Judo, Sambo, rowing, you name it. On Friday I did six singles of weighted pull-ups (90 lbs.) and two additional weighted negatives.

7-30-11
-100 kb swings
-2x10 db c&p (2x50 lbs)
-10 kneeling to standing rollouts

7-31-11
-wrist levers with shinai and iato

8-1-11
-100 kb swings
-3x3 1.5 weighted pull-ups, 24kgs, (click on the title for the link)
-Tabata row

The wrist is getting ever so broken down. The db C&P's hurt like hell. KB swings and pulling, hardly any pain at all. The T-Nation article referenced above is very interesting. I tried the 1.5 pull-ups, and liked them. The 1.5 consists of a pull-up, descend half-way, pull-up again and descend fully for one rep.

mojo

I'm starting to feel almost like my old self, at least my old self from a month or two ago. My wrist is still weak-doing a proper push-up strains the tricep of the other arm, but I was able to talk myself through 100 burpees and 50 pull-ups.

5-2-11
-100 burpees and 50 pull-ups (9'32"13)
-sledgehammer swipes and swings

Not a record time on the burpee/pull-up routine, but I finished it. I feared that I had lost the mental fortitude to see it through, maybe I just misplaced it.

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Burpees + pull-ups

It's an overcast Saturday morning, more snow is expected but so far nothing. Everybody is still in their pajamas and it looks like a slow start to the day. . . except for me.

2-5-11

-VB100 + 50 pull-ups (12'29)

-db shrugs w/heel-raises (4x15)

This is how it went. I started with 20 burpees followed by 10 L-sit pull-ups. After that first set I realized that the L-sit pull-ups would give me problems, so I broke it down to sets of 10 burpees and 5 L sit pull-ups till I completed 100 burpees and 50 L-sit pu's. Weeeeell, the plan got modified at the 25 rep mark on the L-sit pu's where I switched to regular pu's.

If it weren't for those first 25 L-sit pu's I probably could have chopped 2 minutes off this exercise. It's very difficult to perform an isometric exercise like an L-sit when you're in oxygen debt from burpees. Switching to regular pu's allowed me to catch my breath between sets of burpees. At this point, 5 pull-ups became welcome, albeit short, rest periods.

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