Has been a loooooong time since I last posted, but I'm starting to get much more serious about my training. In all honesty, a recent binge of video watching has pounded it into my skull that I have a very long way to go toward reaching my full potential (the main video that has inspired me recently was Oleg's crazy-rail-work video).
these last two weeks I have gotten much more serious and have begun training everything.
Two weeks ago, after seeing Oleg's video I went out at midnight to do the COPK gauntlet, during which I came up with three new subsections. I could definitely feel how long it had been since the last gauntlet workout but was by no means discouraged.
Two days later was my typical wednesday: Helping Demon, Monkey, and Kanagasai teach PK to kids for 1.5 hours. After this went to CATS to do some gymnastic training. Have begun working on several new things in the gym:
-Palm flips (very excited to get this when I didn't ever plan on even trying them),
-front fulls off trampoline onto matt (scary as I have a 3 foot landing area outside of which are high beams that would hurt alot to land on),
-J-step backflips (much easier than I previously thought)
-Back fulls off hight (still scared to fully comit, but am getting about 270 degrees around and am close to landing it)
-Front pikes off hight (easy)
Saturday did about an hour and a half of climbing (mostly 5.10s and 11s, my endurance still sucks right now as I'm still going very sporadically), after this helped instruct intermediate PK class. Then 2 hours of PK outside at CU:
-Did my first front Pike off hight outside and felt very good about it.
-Worked on kongs, which still need alot of work
-also got a nice speed to cat.
-Got a wallrun I've been unable to get for a very long time. Unable to repeat it though, will have to go back.
Monday: Gauntlet again, felt easier this time, still not as easy as when I was doing them every other week
Wednesday: Typical wednesday, nothing very new to report
Saturday: Climbing with Sat: I have a feeling I'm going to start getting back to where I was soon as I've taught Sat to lead belay so I can finally start really pushing myself mentally and physically
PK Intermediate class: Hard-ass workout. I participated in the entire intermediate class while helping to instruct. Workout: 3 minute stations of: climbing underneath 20 feet of rails, drop down and army crawl back; basic QM; rowing. In between each 3 minute station run about 300m in 2 minutes. repeat. I pushed myself very hard during this and was proud of myself and the whole class. Everyone worked hard, and not one person complained or made an excuse to skip on something.
-After this we worked on rolls, handstands, etc.
-After this I and a few others went to 29th street to have some fun.
-After this I went swimming, damn it has been a long time. My shoulders were burning after only a few hundred meters. Felt good to be back in the water again though.
This monday: Gauntlet, felt better, did it faster, I'll need to up reps and such soon I think.
Tuesday: CU PK training: worked on steps for kongs, worked rolls (felt wierd for some reason, I kept hitting my hip when rolling on my right, and my elbow when rolling on my left) Tried longer speeds and some flow between the walls at the entrance to the Enineering courtyard.
Tonight: Climbing, more 10's and 11s, didn't train this too hard, very tired from all the trainign I've been doing lately
-CATS, worked reverses (may have finally gotten a better feel for them), back flips (getting better and much more consistant), pressing up into a handstand (still having problems but getting closer), muscle-ups (8 in a row dead hang, my new record), pull overs, etc.
I'm tired everywhere and loving it. After only two weeks of intense training I am actually starting to see results everywhere. I'm very excited for the future . . .
