Hi! At last I opened a training log. This is the place where I'll keep track of my personal records, my goals, my failures and my school marks  . I will not, however, post a message for every calory I consume, simply because I do not keep track of that. Most of my diet consists of bread, eggs and fruit anyway.

I have stopped playing the computer 10 hours a day a year ago or so and became a little interested in sports, and took knowledgde of the world around my desk in general. Ever since I found out about crossfit and parkour and the American parkour WOD I have been very interested in fitness, maybe almost to the point of obsession  . No just kidding but these WOD's did seriously change my life (positively, that is).

Soooo, first my goals:

-After the holiday I will achieve a 10 for every subject (that equals a straight A in the American school system, did I tell I'm Dutch?)
-Being fit as a beast

That includes:
-12 seconds on 100 m Dash (currently 15 seconds)
-1:00 on 400 m run (currently 1:20 or so)
-Planche (I've been stuck on the tuck planche for months)
-Front lever (now doing the advanced front lever)
-Free standing HSPU (I can manage 4 or 5 wall assisted HSPU's)
-L-sit of one minute on the floor (Can do 30 seconds with tucked legs on the floor)
-One handed handstad (Can hardly do it against the wall)
-Become a lot more agile
-Unassisted pistols (I'm close)
-Teaching myself a proper front crawl
-Improved flexibility (i'm about as flexible as my pullup bar)

Yep, those are many strength goals. That is however the area I lack on, and I seek to improve it. I grease the groove on one handed pushups, and will from now on GTG on pistols as well. I'm usually doing some handstand work throughout the day (mainly lowering and walking), running with the dog (barefeeted), climbing trees, tennissing, playing with a soccer ball, kayaking,  etc etc. Oh yes I occasionally see a friend as well, for those that think I'm socially inhibited.
Now that my summer holidays have started I will really, truly try to practice parkour at least once a week, and I will learn the front and backflip, and I will educate myself a lot further.


Sooooo, the workout I did today (25-06-06)
Warmup (including pushups, pullups, situps, bridge, L-sit, handstand, stretches, bar muscle ups)
Front lever + Planche training (tuck lever, one leg straight other tucked for 30 seconds total, tuck planche 30 seconds total)
APK WOD Wednesday 21-06-06
Run 5K for time.
It was raining hard and thundering above my head making it quite exciting 
Anyway, time was 20 minutes, as usual. I won't get faster without specific training, but I first want to improve some other aspects of fitness .

Did some handstand training afterwards, then went inside, soaked.

No cold shower today, there was no need to


That's the end of my very first post  . My summer holidays have started so I will try hard to achieve my goals, and I will get some friends to follow the APK WOD too, although most are just lazy, dubbeldee excluded (he's started the APK WOD's)!

Today was a great day for me! I woke up a little too tired at 7:00, had to do my last test at school till 11:00 or so. Back home I walked the dog, but it was raining and I didn't want wet feet, so instead of running barefeet I ran a mile with a 10 kg (22 lbs), occasionally stopping for some pushups, QM, and to balance on the one 'rail' in the 'neighbourhood' (I live in a rather rural area). Back in the garage I added another 10kg, for a total of 20 kg (44 lbs) and did some pullups with that (+ 1/3 of my bodyweight).

Ate some eggs and waited an hour to start the WOD of 06-22-06:
Workout-For time:
Run 800m
11 Burpees
Run 400m
21 Burpees
Run 200m
33 Burpees
Run 100m
47 Burpees

Post time to comments. Compare to 11-25-06

It was a very tough workout, but totally awesome. My goal was 22 minutes, but I did the entire workout as RX'ed in 17:48 !

My cold shower afterwards didn't feel cold at all, then had 15 minutes to refresh myself for 2 hours of a great tennis training, till 19:30.

Gonna have dinner now, at 20:30

Yesterday was my rest day. I built myself paralette's and played around with them, did some L-sits and planches. Also played tennis for a few hours with my father 

17/07/06

Soo, I have returned from my two week sailing holiday in Greece. It was totally awesome and I want to go back hehe. As for fitness on this holiday, the sailing in itself did require some strength and a little coordination from time to time did also turn out to be useful. Other than that it was physically not very demanding. However, I went for a run from time to time, and during those runs (usually barefooted) I practiced bridges, handstands, pushups, one handed pushups, pistols and an occasional pullup on an olive tree  .

I also said I would teach myself a proper front crawl and in my opinion I succeeded reasonably. I studied my father when he went swimming and after a few days of practicing I got the breathing right, still had some difficulties keeping the proper direction though. However, after 2 weeks I also got this quite right, and now I should just try to swim longer and longer. Unfortunately I do not have many chances to swim  . I should also keep in mind that I've been doing this all in salt water, and therefore is easier due to the better buoyancy.

I now only feel fitter than before my holiday, which is likely because I think I was severely overtrained and I had sustained a few injuries in my lower body. That's all good now though, so I'm fresh for the remaining part of the holiday 


P.S. Seeing the above pictures, my skin has also browned a lot hehe 

Tuesday 7-18-06

Done a 1.5 mile barefoot run after I got up, and I've also been to a friend. I'm not sure if I remember correctly, but I think I hit this workout up after dinner:
WOD Tuesday 7-18-06       PDF        Print        E-mail
Written by Jesse Woody   
Tuesday, 18 July 2006
"The follies which a man regrets most, in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity." --Helen Rowland--

APK Warmup

Workout- 10 Rounds For Time:

10 Squats

10 Push-Ups

10 Sit-Ups

10 Back Extensions

Post time to comments.

My time was 13 minutes, and I'm satisfied. I thought I'd need some broken sets on the pushups, but the opposite was the case. No broken sets in the entire workout . Frosti beat me though, with 11:45. He's executed the exercises faster, obviously. I will have to work on that