Me Post Workout

Me Post Workout

Well we’re onto the fifth day of training.  I don’t know if its just in my head but I do feel better in some respects.  I’m not complaining either way!

Explosive Strength

  • Squat Jump: 8 reps
  • Single Clap Half-Pushups*: 6 reps
  • One-legged Ankle Hops: 20 reps
  • Push Jerk: 5 reps

I’m doing this circuit 4 times.

* I had to do half-pushups (where you put your knees to the floor) simply because I couldn’t explode high enough to do a clap with a normal push up position.  A half-pushup is a good one to do until I get better methinks.

One thing I noticed with the ankle hops is that as my legs tired the effort started to move into the quads from the calf.  It took some re-adjusting to get my calf to take the full brunt of the exercise.

Core

This is my third in the 6-day split and we’re back to the first one I did which goes like this:

  • Crunches: 10 (hold for 5 secs)
  • Lying Hip Swings: 20 reps
  • Plank: 30 secs (35 on second set)

I’ve started to notice a difference in my core already.  It feels a lot more….’solid’ – for want of a better word.  I can feel it move and shift with more force.  I don’t know if this is all in my head but this is the hardest workout regime I’ve dedicated to my core (pathetic I know!) so maybe I’m getting the newbie-accelerated benifit of it.

— UPDATE —

Forearm

I couldn’t help sneaking in a forearm killer later on.

3 sets and I did better than last time too with the reps being:

2 + 2 + 1.5