Training Log: Entry 3386

AM WORKOUT (0400 wake up via alarm)

Roll out on LAX ball

85x320 reverse hyper

3.5 mile/60 minute treadmill walk at 4.0 incline

2:30 timed hold w/pull up every 30 seconds (12 second PR, realized I logged previous PR incorrectly)

BREAKFAST

Short walk w/dogs

Notes:

* My back is feeling a lot better.  Still not 100%, but a very significant return.  I imagine I merely strained it yesterday vs re-triggered my nerve issue.  Rolling it out and reverse hypers go a long way toward restoring it, and moving around last night in Tang Soo Do was good as well.  Movement is the medicine.  However, on that note, I wasn’t as mobile as yesterday, so I couldn’t pull off my Andy Hug axe kicks during sparring.  I managed to still beat one of the black belts in a close match wherein they fouled out due to kicking me in the back during a spin kick after we went into overtime, but on my second round I lost by points against one of the other black belts in another close match.  Got one more class tonight, and a bonus class on Saturday.

* My instinct to push the conditioning harder earlier in the week so I could use today as a recovery day was well founded.  Keeping this easy was exactly what I needed, and I could feel myself unlocking as time went on.

* Realized I’d misreported my previous PR on the time holds: it was 2:18 vs 2:48.  Today was the first time I crossed into the 2:30 realm, which is still awesome.  

* Work schedule should finally lighten up after today, which can mean a bit more time to walk the dogs after breakfast.