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« Reply #30 on: February 28, 2008, 03:52:05 PM » |
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Hey thanks Paddy! I am definitely enjoying myself along the way. Warm up: did 3 rounds of 5 squats, 5 pushups, and 10 air pullups, then some butt kicks and high knees. Workout: Did the http://www.americanparkour.com/content/view/1936/322/In 15:49 did 5 rounds of: Burpee x 5 7' Precision Jump x 5 Underbar x 1 and Monkey Vault x 1 Pull-Up x 5 This was the first time I have really practice precisions. I marked two spots on the sidewalk 7 feet apart and tried to hit the spots precisely. 7 feet turned out to be a good distance because I had to put effort into it but not too much effort so I could concentrate on controlling my landing. I usually bounce out of landings to release the stress on my legs, but when I was trying to stick the precision landing I hand to control that bouncing so that I stayed on the same spot.
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« Reply #31 on: February 29, 2008, 11:27:21 AM » |
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Warm up: 3 rounds of 5 squats, 5 pushups, and 10 air pullups Workout: Variation of WOD http://www.americanparkour.com/content/view/1940/322/ . My legs were sore from the last few days so I modified the workout 6 rounds of the following in 15 minutes: up and down the stairs x 2 assisted muscle ups (feet half way up the barrier I was pulling up on) x 5 Squats x 10
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« Reply #32 on: March 03, 2008, 11:37:56 AM » |
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I went Cross Country skiing for an hour or so. Part of the time I was pulling my kids uphill in a sled. It was a good time, and an awesome full body workout.
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« Reply #33 on: March 06, 2008, 07:18:00 AM » |
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I had to go to the dentist today and I hate the dentist. It is like being tortured. I stayed up late sunday night and was really tired when I got home from work so I didn't do much today. I practiced a few vaults in my backyard while playing with my kids. It was so nice to be able to go outside.
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« Reply #34 on: March 06, 2008, 07:21:28 AM » |
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In the morning I did the WOD from monday http://www.americanparkour.com/content/view/1955/322/Warmup: 3 rounds of 5 squats, 5 pushups, 10 air pullups Workout: 4 rounds for time: QM 10m up and back 5 Knees to Elbows QM 10m up and back 10 Tuck Jumps I did each round in about 3:30. The QM movement was a lot harder than I thought it would be. It got easier though the more rounds I did.
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« Reply #35 on: March 06, 2008, 07:33:13 AM » |
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Sort of did WOD http://www.americanparkour.com/content/view/1964/322/ . I worked on being able to hand stands for quite a while, while playing Wii with my little boy. I think I have built up enough strength that I can actually do one, now I am just working on the balance. I can hold it for a about 2 seconds, I just haven't figured out how to correct myself if I get a little off balance. I found one thing that helps me a lot is to not look down but to look forward. I also started to build a mechanism to practice backflips in my backyard. Right now it is just two ropes tied to my 70 foot maple tree and I hold on to the ropes and do backflips, but I planning on making it into a full gymnastics type harness so I can practice all types of tricks. I also did a total of 16 pullups in sets of 4 through out the day. One set I did with a ~10 lbs backpack on. I also did 5 pushups with my 40 lbs little boy on my back.
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« Reply #36 on: March 06, 2008, 04:34:49 PM » |
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It's good that you're doing the WODs. Enjoy the process, and have fun with your son!
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« Reply #37 on: March 08, 2008, 06:45:26 AM » |
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I did 41 pullups over the course of the day. Usually 4 in each set
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« Reply #38 on: March 12, 2008, 08:29:56 AM » |
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Went to a climbing gym with the wife and kids. Had a good time. There was a bouldering structure about 10-11 feet high that you could climb up on top off. After climbing it a bunch of times, I thought I would try doing a wall run up it. The top edge was rounded so it was it was too hard for me grab the edge. There was a nice hold right at the top, so I tried grabbing that. I tried several times and I could get enough height but I kept missing the hold. I think I could have got it, but then one of the gym employees asked me to stop because "kids might try to do it". I didn't really understand that reasonings as they let little kids (including my 4 year old) climb to the top of the bouldering structure all the time, but I was polite and didn't try it anymore.
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« Reply #39 on: March 12, 2008, 09:06:50 AM » |
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I practiced handstands a little bit in my backyard. The longest I did was about three seconds In the evening I did the WOD http://www.americanparkour.com/content/view/1983/322/Warm up : 3 rounds of 5 squats, 5 push ups, 10 air pullups Workout: L-Sit - total of 2:00 (:30,:30,:30,:30) Pushup position with feet at shoulder level and hands at stomach level - total of 2:00 (:30,:30,:30,:30) Front Tuck - total of 2:00 (:30,:30,:15,:15,:15,:15) Handstand with feet on the wall - total of 2:00 (:30,:30,:20,:20,:20) My L-Sit is really more of an h sit because my hamstrings are so tight I have a really hard time hold my legs out straight even with my body at a 90 degree angle to my thighs. I really need to work on that.
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« Reply #40 on: March 13, 2008, 07:19:27 AM » |
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Did the WOD http://www.americanparkour.com/content/view/1987/322/ . My kids were asleep and my wife was out, so I couldn't leave my house, so I ran laps in my backyard. I estimate 1 lap was 50 meters and my times seems to indicate that that is pretty close to right. I was really happy to realize that this added up to 2 miles of sprints. Though the times are much slower than what I could do "back in the day", it is nice to know I am making progress towards the kind of workouts I used to be able to do. Warm up: 3 rounds of 5 squats, 5 pushups, 4 pullups 4x400m 2:00 rest between sprints (1:36,1:37,1:35,1:29) 5x200m 1:00 rest between intervals (:42,:43,:41,:42,:39) 6x100m :30 rest between intervals (:19,:21,:19,:19,:19,:18)
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« Reply #41 on: March 19, 2008, 02:15:08 PM » |
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No real workout, just played on a jungle gym for a couple hours with my son and nephews. I practiced some pretty fun moves. One was jumping from a balance beam about a foot off the ground to a pole about 4 feet away, swinging around the pole and then landing back on the balance beam. Another was jumping from the balance beam and grabbing a bar about 6 feet away and 7 feet high and swinging onto a 4 ft high platform about 10 ft from the balance beam.
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« Reply #42 on: March 19, 2008, 02:19:53 PM » |
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Warmup: 3 rounds of 5 squats, 5 pushups, and 5 pullups Workout: WOD from last thursday http://www.americanparkour.com/content/view/1989/322/3 rounds of the following for time: 15 Push-Ups with feet on 36-inch high cupboard 15 Jumps up 4 stairs at a time 5 Pull-ups It took me 20 minutes. In the middle set of push-ups I was barely able to eek out 15, but then recouped and was fine for the last set.
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« Reply #43 on: March 20, 2008, 07:46:05 AM » |
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I did a total of 20 pullups in sets of 4 throughout the day. In the evening I did the WOD http://www.americanparkour.com/content/view/2007/322/Warmup: 3 round of 5 squats and 5 pushups butt kicks, high knees Workout: Run a 5k for time I was kind of afraid of doing this workout, because I haven't run for more than a half mile straight for a few years. Plus, I haven't done any real aerobic work since I stopped riding my bike to work when the weather turned cold in October. I didn't have any doubts I could run a 5k but I was really afraid of seeing how awful my 5k time would be. I also didn't want to injury myself by pushing too hard. So I decided I would take the first half casual and then push a little bit harder the second half. My time was 27:41 (14:47 first half, 12:54 second half, approx 8:55 minute miles). Sadly, that is closer to my 10k PR time than my 5k PR time, though at the same time it isn't as bad as I thought it might be, I was worried it might take me over 30 minutes and that would have been truly sad. I guess it is hard for me because with all the workouts I am developing more strength than I have ever had and in running I am far far away from what I know I can do. I guess I will have to decide if I want to sacrifice more time to get in better running shape.
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« Reply #44 on: March 20, 2008, 12:18:23 PM » |
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I'm going through the same thing... Conditioning's got me stronger, but my running had gone to pot. You're lucky. My first timed run was over 30:00. My excuses: hilly 3.5+ mile course, very bad footing [sand, cinder and rock], hot day. It was demoralizing. Closer to my old 5 mile time than 5K.
I got my time down a bit. I decided to concentrate on conditioning and parkour, not running. When I go out for a few miles, I throw in some parkour, or Methode Naturelle stuff [MN = walk, run, climb, jump, quadrupedal movement, lift, carry, throw, swim, combat]. It totally kills my time. I enjoy it much more than plain old running, tho.
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