Author Topic: Charlie's Log (Read 1969 times)

cjgallagher · « **Reply #40 on:** December 12, 2011, 11:08:23 AM »

Woohoo 40th post! So... I did about 20 rolls on each side (going on the 10k rolls thread) but only counted 5 questionably good ones for each side. Does anyone know how to fix hitting your should every time? I guess that's a question for the movement thread. I do my rolls on carpet and still feel it on my spine after the 40 rolls. Not overly much, I'm fine now. But just for future reference I guess. Oh I found a good way to find how you're rolling! Aside from just feeling it.

1. Get tape
2. Lay the tape on the ground sticky side up
3. Roll over it
4. Look in a mirror or behind you and see results

cjgallagher · « **Reply #41 on:** December 14, 2011, 04:58:40 AM »

So yesterday I finally felt better after being sick (I'm sick again today though...) so I went to the playground next to my house and did some training. I didn't get too much time but sam (my twin) and I set up a sort of course. Really fun! We took cones that were marking off mud (cus it was a school's playground) and set them around the playground, set start and stop positions, and timed ourselves. We only got 1 run each until some kids came out to play and we stopped. We worked out some different moves too, so I was really happy with it. I did a few more rolls yesterday. Did some pullups too. I'll add those to the 100k threads. For rolls I only got 2 good rolls yesterday, out of like 15 on each side. So I guess with yesterdays rolls with todays make 70 total and 14 good ones... That's actually pretty close to my expectations!

Rolls: 70 (14)

cjgallagher · « **Reply #42 on:** December 15, 2011, 02:10:27 PM »

GOOD NEWS! I'M BETTER!

Okay this is a good post. So yesterday Sam (my twin) and I went to sugartown and trained for a while. I brought a camera and we shot a bunch of stuff and it was a ton of fun. First, here's our old video:

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fx7wl3r7YY8" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fx7wl3r7YY8</a>

It's horrible.

Now here's the new video!

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MY6MWxs94g" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MY6MWxs94g</a>
That's better...

In other news, I did a tiny tiny workout training today for handstands and pullups. I have just started with my handstand training again. Also I'm gonna do a few more rolls. And my pullups suck again...

Here's what I did:
30 sec handstand (assissted) x3
6-5-4-3-2-1 for pullups

cjgallagher · « **Reply #43 on:** December 15, 2011, 02:11:23 PM »

Oh and really quick, I'm about to hit 1500 views so I think that's really cool! Helps inspire me to keep going

THANKS!

cjgallagher · « **Reply #44 on:** December 16, 2011, 03:01:24 PM »

2 more views!

Awesome day today. To start from the beginning it went a little something like this:

Had fitness class 2nd period, ran for 10 minutes. Got a 1 1/4 miles which isn't too bad for a 30 degree day!
Got home from school, packed a camera (which I forgot was on low battery) and rode my back in a hilly area to this playground (featured in my videos above!)
I trained there for about 1 1/2 hours until it started getting dark. Did some cool new stuff! Which I got on camera :]
Rode my bike uphill a lot to get home, I was exhausted
Then I took a ride on my longboard with my stepdad
Now! I'm doing my 6-5-4-3-2 pull-ups and gonna do my handstands

SO recap, I did a lot of leg stuff today, and now gonna do upperbody stuff!

This is a monster of a post... Only a little more!
NEW GOALS:

10 Pull-ups
3 OAPU's each hand
10 dips
1 minute assisted handstand
5 second L-hang

cjgallagher · « **Reply #45 on:** December 16, 2011, 03:15:05 PM »

I just realized I have no real structured workout right now. So here it is!

APK warm-up
6-5-4-3-2 for pull-ups
2x10 pseudo pushups
30sec x 3 wall handstands
Total 1 min tuck planche(varied with tuck lever or L-hang/sit)
Assisted pistols (varied with one are push-ups)

These are really just my exercises. I may only do a section of the workout depending on my feeling, like an upper body day or a core day or running. Always the warm-up though! I can't do one workout over and over so I like to switch it up

cjgallagher · « **Reply #46 on:** December 17, 2011, 05:34:14 PM »

I had an awesome day today! Again I rode my bike over to Sugartown (the school) for the playground. This time my brother was with me! We always push each other further. I went over everything I've learned in the past few days and did a ton more! I'll get to that.

My friends little brother is starting to train parkour, he's 11, and doing with his friend. So we met up with them today and taught them a few things to train for. For being kind of young they really are kinda disciplined! They listened and adventured and it was awesome. We taught them how to kong vault.

I did this crazy kong vault! There was this bench, and we set it up and after building up to it I finally got across it! Which is the farthest I've ever konged on ground. I also did a bunchh of wall-ups, I'm now perfecting my technique, so it's exciting for me. I also did a precision in a tree

Then biked back and put a bunch of footage together. Oh and I learned a dash vault! Well correctly. Tomorrow I'm going to the gym so I'll work on my double kongs, which are the next vaults I really wanna get down. Woot! Big post

cjgallagher · « **Reply #47 on:** December 17, 2011, 05:51:55 PM »

Here's a video of my brother and me's (referring to us as a group for you grammar nazi's:)) dash vaults

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3c_rMSmKVb4" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3c_rMSmKVb4</a>

cjgallagher · « **Reply #48 on:** December 18, 2011, 04:56:40 PM »

Good day at the gym today, I worked a lot on my double kongs and I'll definitely be trying some next time I go to the park. Did more dash vaults and such, did a really big cool double kong haha it started on a lower block and finished on a higher one so it was tricky. My handstands are getting much better! I'm seeing real improvement today. Free I held a few handstands for as much as 15 seconds, and was pretty consistent. Lots of hand walking! It's a great way to learn.

We also got some good footage from today (keyword some), so I'll edit that and put up a video soon. Nothing as far as workouts go, but the gym was tiring. Tomorrow I'll work my core, and then tuesday I have fitness for athletes so we'll be doing a workout there as well.

cjgallagher · « **Reply #49 on:** December 20, 2011, 01:51:57 PM »

So I had fitness for athletes today, easy workout! Thank god, here it is:

50 jump rope
10 curl ups
50 jumps
9 curls
50 jumps
8 curls
50 jumps
7 curls
etc.
and finish with 50 jumps

I completed it in 7:30, but I think I did a double set somewhere... I kinda lost track haha and always do more rather than less!

cjgallagher · « **Reply #50 on:** December 23, 2011, 12:38:36 PM »

Had fitness again yesterday, today we had off. Here was the workout:
12 reps of-
squats
push-ups
jumping jacks
burpees
as many times as you can in 15 minutes

I got 8-9 rounds, I forget though. Good workout! I was beat after...

Today was a movement day. I went to sugartown and met up with those kids I've mentioned before. We taught them a few things which taught me a lot about my own technique. They are actually getting really good for being 11! After that we played a nice intense game of tag, which was exhausting but a lot of fun. Tomorrow we're meeting up again before christmas, were gonna do some QM games! Gotta chop wood later so that will add to the pain haha

cjgallagher · « **Reply #51 on:** December 27, 2011, 03:48:05 PM »

Did a lot of sugartowning over break, and had a great christmas! I got this book called the true art and science of handbalancing. I love it

I'm currently determined to be amazing at handstands and hand balancing! I did my best stand yet today, 50 secs with the assistance of a wall. It's been raining so I haven't been able to go outside to see how long I could hold one free.

In the way of fitness I've also had good improvement! I did an L-hang for 15 seconds today, and did 10 pull ups. So close to the other goal too! 10 more seconds of standing and I'll be doing well. I did some pseudo pushups today, also handstand pushups.

AND THE MOST EXCITING THING OF ALL, Sam and I are twins as you should know, and for christmas I also got an old book called teachers illustrated handbook of stunts. I dont think you can find it very easily... but I recommend checking it out if you can find it! They have these two person counterbalance moves that use some strength but more balance, and we just about went through the book yesterday and today. Sooo much fun, but exhausting! I've never been so active in a day... Just stunt after stunt after handstand after handstand... It's great

That's the update

cjgallagher · « **Reply #52 on:** December 28, 2011, 06:52:05 PM »

So it's late today... But I wanted to post anyway. I took a rest day today, sprinkled handstands and tuck planches to see where I'm at today. Tomorrow will be better obviously. On a different note! I played a lot of cello today :] I started at christmas and really love it

Well that's it

cjgallagher · « **Reply #53 on:** December 29, 2011, 10:26:24 AM »

I'm starting my planche progression today, tuck planche for a minute total... My least favorite, yet favorite exercise. I've found I always did it wrong. I never focused on getting my hips parallel to my shoulders, I always just focused on staying off the ground for as long as I could. So today I start right. Pulling my knees to my chest and keeping the arms straight. I know my core has gotten stronger so I hope to see some improvement.

cjgallagher · « **Reply #54 on:** December 30, 2011, 09:50:08 AM »

I'm sore today... I did a ton of handstands, just when I got bored and stuff. My brothers helping me perfect my form so that's good, and I did a handstand for 1 minute! I'm slowly crossing the items off my list. For today, lots of handstands again, of course. My core is pretty sore from yesterday so I'm gonna take a break from that... I did manage a 7 second L-sit though! So much harder than an L-hang... Since there's no room for your feet to drop. Wrists are feeling pretty good today, so let's see how it goes.

cjgallagher · « **Reply #55 on:** December 30, 2011, 01:04:24 PM »

Quick update, I'm too tired to actually do any work today, and my wrists are very weak. So I'm going to take today and tomorrow off to heal. I always work a lot better after rest. Consistent work doesn't do a lot for me...

CheltonJr · « **Reply #56 on:** December 30, 2011, 04:56:32 PM »

Quote from: cjgallagher on December 16, 2011, 03:01:24 PM

NEW GOALS:
10 Pull-ups
3 OAPU's each hand
10 dips
1 minute assisted handstand
5 second L-hang

Quote from: cjgallagher on December 16, 2011, 03:15:05 PM

I just realized I have no real structured workout right now. So here it is!

APK warm-up
6-5-4-3-2 for pull-ups
2x10 pseudo pushups
30sec x 3 wall handstands
Total 1 min tuck planche(varied with tuck lever or L-hang/sit)
Assisted pistols (varied with one are push-ups)

Hey man!
It would be better to add dips to the workout, as one of your goals is to achieve 10dips. And the pull-ups... I THINK (I'm not sure about it) that doing a more of a strength directed workout, like 3x5 pull-ups would give you a faster progression.
Make sure you that you REALLY lean forward when doing the pseudo pushups, your hand should be more or less on waist level. And if you're working until failure when doing 10reps, try adjusting to 3sets of 5-8reps.
And I don't know how you're assisting your pistols, but you should give a try on the weight assisted (just add some weight on your hands and out them straight in front of you without bending the arms),they're great, it's working pretty cool for me.
And just one more little thing

: If you want more accurate info about strength training, check out the general fitness sticky, there you'll find links to a lot of great articles. And check over at Eat Move Improve. And if you're looking to really "get into" bodyweight training and have the cash, buy Steven's "Overcoming Gravity" (you can find more more about it on the gen. fitness forum). I don't have it yet, but I bet it is GREAT. It's already on my watch list. But... on the mean time, the other articles I talked about will do the job!
Uff, finally finished my post. Well, not yet...

Keep it up! and happy training

cjgallagher · « **Reply #57 on:** January 01, 2012, 05:28:58 PM »

Chelton: Yeah I have that book on my list too! I really want it, and I should add dips... I've been thinking about it but haven't done much of a structured workout recently, I've been doing a lot of handstands and the like. I got this GREAT book called the true art and science of handbalancing and highly recommend it. I'm not working to failure at 10 though, I've started to try to do 2 sets of 10 a day.

Today: So today was a good day, I haven't been able to see... I ran outta contacts and because of new years the stores closed... But that didn't stop me from destroying some handstands today! I finally got my one true hand BALANCE. I've been setting down the law on my form and it's finally starting to have an effect! Got up and it felt amazing, so easy. I did a 10 second L-sit (my longest yet) to warm up my core after said handstand work. And then did tuck planche OFF THE GROUND THIS TIME for a total of 30 secs. I think I got like 7-8 sets total. Much better than last time. Tomorrow, repeat.

One more thing! So after being inspired by the 365/52 thread, I'm going to (attempt) to do my own. But I'm going to do it with handstands and planche. Do at least 1 handstand and 10 secs of planche a day (on the worste day). Here we go day 1.

cjgallagher · « **Reply #58 on:** January 02, 2012, 10:59:25 AM »

So I'm not starting a thread, however I am starting a blog with my brother to document everything! Having two people commit is a lot more encouraging than just one, check it out: http://365handbalancing.blogspot.com/

We're gonna try and post every day and post a video once a week (surprisingly that was our own idea, and later realized the last guy did the same thing!) So if I ever don't write, feel free to tear me down and complain

Today I'm just gonna do some handstands and planche again, I'm gonna devote myself to doing that I think... I guess that means new goals, ugh. Well I managed to cross off 3 of my other goals so that's good, but I'm disappointed about the other ones

But with more goal oriented training I can focus better. So here they are!

15 second tuck planche
15 second free handstand
15 second L-sit
12 pullups
1 head-to-ground handstand pushup

Again check out the blog!

cjgallagher · « **Reply #59 on:** January 08, 2012, 04:01:26 PM »

Hand balancing is going great! I find myself completely wanting to devote my time to handstands. Check the blog (above and below) for all progress reports. It's too much to update both everyday so I'll only be doing a little here now. Aside from hand balancing, I've been doing pull ups occasionally. Going okay, not too much improvement yet but I'm familiar with that feeling.

So again check the blog for all updates, see ya!

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Author Topic: Charlie's Log (Read 1969 times)