Topic: Chronicles of M2

[Mark Toorock]

41.136 (yesterday)
Did APK Academy Boot Camp Level 1 at Primal Fitness - We did underbars and catleaps, with some box chin-ups and top-outs for conditioning.

Spent some time on reverse underbars.

[Mark Toorock]

41.137

no stairs today

free training time - worked on fly-aways, wallspins, kip-ups, rolling backwards off 8 foot box. Few dumbbell squats with 190#.

[Mark Toorock]

41.138 (yesterday)
APK Academy On Ramp L 1 - 7th class.

Worked on cat-leaps to top out, 7-8 kinds of qm, a course for both speed and fluidity - lots of fun!

[Mark Toorock]

41.139

Stairs! 16 took 3:55 this time but I lasted through 20 reps, double steps, on the Primal stairs. was bale to move continuously for 4:57.

Off to train with Sammich - one of the early adopters in the US!

[Mark Toorock]

41.145 - where does the time go?

So it's Tuesday - apart from doing far too many pushups (I say negative things sometimes) - most of my exercise has been in the form of manual labor

Thursday (139)- workout with Sam
Friday - freerunning class
Saturday - rip up the lounge area 3 layers of hardwood floor
Sunday - lay down 2 layers of subfloor and paint room
Monday - Move large obstacles from storage to Primal fitness (see video tomorrow on APK academy facebook)
Tuesday - sit and be lazy.

[Mark Toorock]

41.151 - Yesterday

On 41.145 - Injury to my hand while playing in the woods. 9 Stitches in left wrist.

Last night - 1st night of bootcamp 2 - obviously had to stay off left wrist - but all else was good - striding into vaults felt good

Flexibility is at an all time low

[Mark Toorock]

41.156

Level 2 bootcamp - rail precisions then an obstacle course using various balance and precisions - completed the course - GF did too!

 Indoor climbing at Sportrock Sterling -did a 5.9 really well - wrist held up very well, seem to have pulled 1-2 stitches.

[Mark Toorock]

41.157

Indoor climbing - did a 5.9 pretty well, 5.7 with no hands
three laps on a medium 5.7 40'
miserable fail on a 5.10 but it was fun.
Hand felt pretty good

41.158

Level II Boot camp - Burpee / Breathing Ladder 1-7-1
Balance mirror game
rolling through obstacles
Removed stitches, hand seems ok, big loss of flexor mobility which I will not push (too hard)  for a while until I'm sure it won't split open

[Mark Toorock]

41.160 yesterday -
climbed two 5.9's - Mouse something, and one yet to be named  - did terrible on one 5.9 due to mistaking the route and getting stuck, took about 5 tries.
No laps - lazy!

41.161
Trained rolls, websters, reverse palmspins, palmspins
need to swing less on websters, dip more and drive more

[Mark Toorock]

41.163

Parkour Bootcamp / photosession - did long lap X2 (.8 miles) etc. warmup then did cats & tic-tacs for photo session

Hiked Billy Goat trail (great falls MD side) plus climbed the island at the end barefoot - fricken cold after crossing the water! Winnie was a beast!

 

[Mark Toorock]

41.185 - just over 41 and a half years old.

Yesterday (technically 41.183 - server offset and such) Hiked 9 miles, did last two miles of the uphill barefoot - it hurt but was worth it, feel like I accomplished something and like my feet are alive - plus those few sweet steps in moss and leaves and sand and loamy dirt

Today - APK Academy parkour class - figuring out what "level one" requirements are for the basics. Worked on
Safety Vaults
Front, back, and side falls
Rail balance
forward rolls
backward rolls off 8' box (needs help, was back to square 1)
lache to rail precision (1st successful ones just three days ago)
running felt good in the warm up

[Mark Toorock]

41.186 well, yesterday as it's 1:20 local

Indoor climbing

did a short 5.6 up and down
did a medium difficulty 5.7
did a medium difficulty 5.8 (flashed)
did a difficult 5.8 (apparently I had done it before and don't remember)
Failed on the new dark green 5.8 in "the corner" - couldn't get over the ledge - need to get feet up and right hand on yellow
Failed on the white 5.8 on the flat wall - was just tired and sucking at that point.

[Mark Toorock]

41.189 - Friday - Went to GCA Parkour and played on a tramploine - tried wall tramp for my first time - what a blast!! did a few attempts at back tucks. at this point I am just disgusted with myself for not having them yet. The reason? I don't practice - go figure!!!

41.190 - Saturday at the Hubbable Jam - was pretty tired form the drive and didn't do much, did achieve a few goals I had set, worked on running precisions, rail balance, a nice tic-tact to crane off a railing and some strides.

41-191 - Sunday at Hubbable Jam - sick location at MIT - did some conditioning with Travis, got to teach some peeps jumping and landing, and did a cool qm up stairs backwards with my legs on a railing thing.

41.192 - APK Academy Parkour Class at Primal - warmup was great:
2X:
Run 1 lap
5 wall walks (walk up a wall into handstand, facing the wall)
Walking lunges up and back
side lunges up and back
8 inch work QM pushups

Class was a circuit of vaults - any type, practiced for fluidity and continuity of movement. Over a 4 section vault, low rail, high rail, low rail, high rail, low vault box, on high box to finish X10

30 minutes stretching and rolling

[Mark Toorock]

41.194
Forgot to mention some pushups. "Forbidden Fruit" - Aptly named by Travis Graves

Friday 40
Saturday 60
Sunday 70 debit 100
Today (so far) 180 out of 210. Debit 30 to be cleared in the next 10 minutes - have done 50 in the previous 10 minutes. Arms hurt. Will think about what I am saying.

[Mark Toorock]

41.192 Yesterday (not sure where 194 came from in last post??)

Secret Ninja Warrior Training

[Mark Toorock]

41.208 yes, 16 days - man what a slacker!! I have been doing some training and eating well - going gluten free for a while.

Monday - Parkour class - falling, then Climbing

Tonight (wednesday) parkour - killer warm up with Travis, then some precisions inspired by old school PK vids.

CLimbing - 6-7-8 warmup then did some 8's not clean at all, a 9 I think clean, and a 7 pretty fast - overall I tired very quickly and need to condition.
Then did 3 muscle ups and then a set of 5 which I was pretty happy with, would like to work back up to my max of 8 then push it to 10.

[Mark Toorock]

41.209
Super sore from yesterday's qm and a lot of pushups
did over 100 today between forbidden fruit and class.

Tonight's class went outside - did some running precisions that were probably better than what I've done before - kept my feet up and got to almost decent landings. Overall pretty happy with how it went.

[Mark Toorock]

41.229

Last week in Vegas - tested ANW course with Mike Bernardo and Ryan Stratis!

Then climbed / scrambled at Red Rocks with Elet Hall.

Jam in LV but didn't really do much.

Today - indoor climbing - 6,7,7 was going to do all 7's but got sidetracked with bouldering and pullups / rope climbing

First time bouldering - E4,5,6, V0, V0 (failed several times till someone determined missing tape) then got it.

Want to boulder more.

[Mark Toorock]

41.235

Yesterday, 5.6 5.8 (with take), 5.9 on slant, 5.9 clean, 5.8

Today - parkoru class was awesome!! warm up was beast, then

balance on a rail walking forward
walking backwards
balance on a rail and turn around
balance sideways on a rail 15 seconds
10 squats in a row (9,9,4,6,13)
squat, go to side and qm to extended pushup, back to center squat, other side qm and extended pushup, back to center squat (got it on my 4th attempt)

Stretching with a focus on hip mobility

[Ian William]

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