So I've had my 5.10s for a few months now. So I thought I'd write up another review on them. How they've held up to my training.
The 5.10s are still just as grippy as they were when I first got them. The sole has worn down considerably at the front where I land from arm-jumps, but I guess that can be expected with this sort of training.
The 5.10s are still comfy and have moulded well to my foot. I've actually found that the inside sole has moulded to shape of my foot and toes.
One thing I was worried about with the 5.10s when I first got them was that my toes rubbed against the inside top of the shoe. I've now found that this had gone away, as I got more comfortable with them.
In regards to the durability, the 5.10s have stoof up to everything that I've thrown at them so far. The sole has a few minor cracks in the worn areas, but nothing serious. The support is still there, as well as the grip.
I'm definately happy with them and highly recommend them for any experienced traceur. The reason I say experienced is because the huge amount of grip can give people the false belief that they have good climbups, when they really don't. The will have them doing things that they wouldn't be able to do in other shoes, which can lead to bad technique. An experienced traceur should already know the technique, so the 5.10s are good in that they can take the experienced traceurs capabilities that one bit further.
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Muscle Up Training
Did a short 45 minute session today, focussing on muscle up training and running training.
Ran down to an outdoor training area. Was about a 1 to 2 km run. Downhill though.
Here is the program:
5 dips
2 pull ups
5 negatives
300m sprint
I did 5 sets of that program. I was pretty tired by the end of it. I found that my negatives need work. I'm not controlling them enough, ending up dropping out of them too quickly. My pullups need work like always. My sprints are getting better though. I felt like I was getting a lot of push out of it.
After that I ran back home, this time it was uphill. It was a pretty slow run, as I was already tired from the training.
Before training, I was having second thoughts, but I'm glad I went out. So far I'm sticking to my plan of doing some sort of training everyday.
Ran down to an outdoor training area. Was about a 1 to 2 km run. Downhill though.
Here is the program:
5 dips
2 pull ups
5 negatives
300m sprint
I did 5 sets of that program. I was pretty tired by the end of it. I found that my negatives need work. I'm not controlling them enough, ending up dropping out of them too quickly. My pullups need work like always. My sprints are getting better though. I felt like I was getting a lot of push out of it.
After that I ran back home, this time it was uphill. It was a pretty slow run, as I was already tired from the training.
Before training, I was having second thoughts, but I'm glad I went out. So far I'm sticking to my plan of doing some sort of training everyday.
Sunday, June 15, 2008
Extreme Training Weekend Day 3
DAY 3 - Sun 15 Jun 08
PARTICIPANTS:
Myself
Eliot
Larkin
Connor
Civic Training
1200 - 1530
The session started at 10am, but I arrived late as there was a chruch service I had to go to in the morning.
I met the guys near the block run.
We moved up to the trees where i did a bit of a warmup, then for some reason did a few wall spins with Eliot. I was still feeling sore from FNC tha was two days ago. It really shows how hard Ive made the new FNC, which is good as I know that my body will slowly adapt to recovery and that it will help my progression dramatically.
From there we decided to make our way to the Fisheries, but it took us about 2 hours to get there.
I found a fountain at the Hall of Justice. The fountain had small pillars, about 1 ft high and 7cms in diameter. They were spread about 1 metre apart in a five meter square area. They really helped in balance training. I know that Eliot and myself had an awesome time on there. Larkin and Connor did look like they were having as much fun though, I think they got bored of it pretty quickly. With experience they will soon come to learn about the simpler things, and how much they can help inprogression.
From there we moved down to the ramp where Ruz did the cat to arm for Stateline. Eliot decided to give it a go. At first I wasn't that keen, but after watching Eliot try it, I decided to join in. As soon as i started training, I found that my stiffness was starting to go away. I got the cat to arm on my second attempt. I foudn that the more speed I had coming into the cat, the more distance and force I could get into the wall, which I found greatly assisted making the arm. My plan is to work towards getting the cat to precision in the same spot. I'll have to work really hard in getting a lot of power into the height and distance out of the cat pass.
From there we moved to put our stuff in my car, but found another spot, which was really good for practicing arm jumps off a small ledge onto a pretty grippy wall. i was able to make it standing, which then lead me to finding out that I have pretty good climbups when I have good grip with my feet. When the wall is slippery I tend to slip down it, losing a lot of my momentum. I ahve to practice the pendulum movement that Chippa taught me to help with climbups. I also got a good running arm jump, where I got a lot of height out of to greatly assist in the smooth transition into the climbup, landing straight into the dip position as opposed to the pull up position.
From there we put the stuff in the car, then found a sloped wall that we practiced running up. Trying to use as little steps as possible.
Form there I foudn another arm jump, that involved climbing up onto a wall with a pretty big drop behind it. I used Connor to keep my balance. The wall that i was arm jumping to was made of smooth polished marble, so I of course slipped straight down it when I feet made contact.
From there we found a tree that we thought had potential, but in the end it bark was too crumbly and the branches were too thick.
We finally made it to the fisheries. Walked around a bit. Eliot showed me a good cat to arm, but I wasn't too keen on it as the wall that you had to cat off was really dusty and slippery. Eliot then showed me a good cat to precision, that you could slowly progress in distance. From there we found an alley type thing, that had a really good arm to arm area. It had potential for a cat to arm, but I found the wall was too low for me to properly cat off. I thing that I may be able to reverse to arm it though, so I'll have to go back later on and check it out. I could do a reverse to arm to arm to climb up to precision for my video. Have some solid movement type footage, which should look good.
From there we finished up, heading into the city to grab some late lunch. After that we all went our separate ways.
In the end I had a really good session. I DOMS aren't feeling that bad anymore, and I feel like I've done some really good training.
This intense training weekend has been great. There wasn't as much interest as I thought there would be, but I know that I had fun. I finally got to properly test out my program for FNC, and have settled on something that I am happy with. I plan on doing it every friday night, as I know that it will definately help my progression in a big way.
The training sessions on saturday and sunday were good. They were just like the old days where we would walk around looking for places to training. Finding heaps of things to do in even the smallest areas.
For the next 5 weeks, I have a pretty small stress load from work and uni, in that I can have a lot of spare time. Starting with last FNC, I plan on training in some form everyday. This will mainly involve parkour training, but will sometimes involve basketball training and games. If I stick to my plan I know that I will progress greatly in my fitness, strength and skill in general. Now its the test of sticking to my plan. Lets see how it goes.
PARTICIPANTS:
Myself
Eliot
Larkin
Connor
Civic Training
1200 - 1530
The session started at 10am, but I arrived late as there was a chruch service I had to go to in the morning.
I met the guys near the block run.
We moved up to the trees where i did a bit of a warmup, then for some reason did a few wall spins with Eliot. I was still feeling sore from FNC tha was two days ago. It really shows how hard Ive made the new FNC, which is good as I know that my body will slowly adapt to recovery and that it will help my progression dramatically.
From there we decided to make our way to the Fisheries, but it took us about 2 hours to get there.
I found a fountain at the Hall of Justice. The fountain had small pillars, about 1 ft high and 7cms in diameter. They were spread about 1 metre apart in a five meter square area. They really helped in balance training. I know that Eliot and myself had an awesome time on there. Larkin and Connor did look like they were having as much fun though, I think they got bored of it pretty quickly. With experience they will soon come to learn about the simpler things, and how much they can help inprogression.
From there we moved down to the ramp where Ruz did the cat to arm for Stateline. Eliot decided to give it a go. At first I wasn't that keen, but after watching Eliot try it, I decided to join in. As soon as i started training, I found that my stiffness was starting to go away. I got the cat to arm on my second attempt. I foudn that the more speed I had coming into the cat, the more distance and force I could get into the wall, which I found greatly assisted making the arm. My plan is to work towards getting the cat to precision in the same spot. I'll have to work really hard in getting a lot of power into the height and distance out of the cat pass.
From there we moved to put our stuff in my car, but found another spot, which was really good for practicing arm jumps off a small ledge onto a pretty grippy wall. i was able to make it standing, which then lead me to finding out that I have pretty good climbups when I have good grip with my feet. When the wall is slippery I tend to slip down it, losing a lot of my momentum. I ahve to practice the pendulum movement that Chippa taught me to help with climbups. I also got a good running arm jump, where I got a lot of height out of to greatly assist in the smooth transition into the climbup, landing straight into the dip position as opposed to the pull up position.
From there we put the stuff in the car, then found a sloped wall that we practiced running up. Trying to use as little steps as possible.
Form there I foudn another arm jump, that involved climbing up onto a wall with a pretty big drop behind it. I used Connor to keep my balance. The wall that i was arm jumping to was made of smooth polished marble, so I of course slipped straight down it when I feet made contact.
From there we found a tree that we thought had potential, but in the end it bark was too crumbly and the branches were too thick.
We finally made it to the fisheries. Walked around a bit. Eliot showed me a good cat to arm, but I wasn't too keen on it as the wall that you had to cat off was really dusty and slippery. Eliot then showed me a good cat to precision, that you could slowly progress in distance. From there we found an alley type thing, that had a really good arm to arm area. It had potential for a cat to arm, but I found the wall was too low for me to properly cat off. I thing that I may be able to reverse to arm it though, so I'll have to go back later on and check it out. I could do a reverse to arm to arm to climb up to precision for my video. Have some solid movement type footage, which should look good.
From there we finished up, heading into the city to grab some late lunch. After that we all went our separate ways.
In the end I had a really good session. I DOMS aren't feeling that bad anymore, and I feel like I've done some really good training.
This intense training weekend has been great. There wasn't as much interest as I thought there would be, but I know that I had fun. I finally got to properly test out my program for FNC, and have settled on something that I am happy with. I plan on doing it every friday night, as I know that it will definately help my progression in a big way.
The training sessions on saturday and sunday were good. They were just like the old days where we would walk around looking for places to training. Finding heaps of things to do in even the smallest areas.
For the next 5 weeks, I have a pretty small stress load from work and uni, in that I can have a lot of spare time. Starting with last FNC, I plan on training in some form everyday. This will mainly involve parkour training, but will sometimes involve basketball training and games. If I stick to my plan I know that I will progress greatly in my fitness, strength and skill in general. Now its the test of sticking to my plan. Lets see how it goes.
Extreme Training Weekend Day 2
DAY 2 - Sat 14 Jun 08
PARTICIPANTS:
Myself
Eliot
Larkin
Travis
WODEN TRAINING
1100 - 1500
The session actually started at 10am, but I slept in so arrived late. I made the mistake of going out after FNC last night, so I was pretty tired.
I was really sore from FNC the night before. I now realised how hard I had actually trained.
Met up with Eliot and Larkin at the silver statue. Did a bit of balancing on the ledges, having close ground on one side, with a reasonably big drop on the other side. I took this idea from Shaun's blog, putting yourself in scary situations to make your mind freak out, but keeping your concentration and focus. This was to try and help me in not panicking in situations, this time was having a potential big drop that I could have fell down, but balancing on something that I would have little trouble balancing on at a smaller height. It was about training me to have the same confidence to move in any environment, no matter the situation. This one being an extreme height and drop.
Moving on from there we went down to the red block. Before the session, Eliot promised himself that he would do the arm jump, so after looking at it for a while, he finally did it. I filmed it for him, using some different angles, with different bits of environment in the way, such as a rail or wall. I thought that this added a good kind of urban style to it. he eventually had a pretty close bail, where he fell off backwards. Luckily his feet hit the ground first before he fell on his ass. It looked really funny when watched backwards in slow motion.
From there we moved down to the big rail and barbecue area. I managed top balance the legnth of the big rail. It helped that it was flat and not curved. From there3 I foudn a good precision with a reasonable drop beneath it. I didn't give it a go though, because I was pretty sore and I didn't think my knee would be able to take the landing. Eliot gave it a try, made it, but banged his knee in the process.
From there we went to lunch, where Travis met up with us.
After that we went to the black ramps, where i found a good cat to precision, and looked more at the cat to arm. I didn't give it a try but saw a 100m long rail in the car park that was close by. So i ran over to it, balanced the whole thing, with some falls but I just got back on then kept on going. Then I balanced it backwards. i found that balancing it backwards takes a lot longer than forwards, as you can't see where you are going and have to concentrate a lot more.
From there we played a bit on the rails, but eventually went our separate ways.
I took Eliot back to my place so that we could buy the domain name for the new Canberra Parkour forum that we've been making. It's still in the making, I'm leaving a lot of the work to Eliot. The reason that we're making our own forum, and not sticking with PKAUS or APA, is that we want something that can be more organised. Something that can have different sections for different things, where with APA and PKAUS, we only have one section for everything. I'm hoping that the whole Canberra community will move away from PKAUS and use this new site. We'll leave links to the new forum within the PKAUS forum. It will just be like when we made the jump from the Urban Freeflow forum to the PKAUS forum. I will still be using the APA forums though, posting up all major information.
Overall the day was pretty good, I didn't do too much serious training, as I was still feeling really sore from FNC the night before.
PARTICIPANTS:
Myself
Eliot
Larkin
Travis
WODEN TRAINING
1100 - 1500
The session actually started at 10am, but I slept in so arrived late. I made the mistake of going out after FNC last night, so I was pretty tired.
I was really sore from FNC the night before. I now realised how hard I had actually trained.
Met up with Eliot and Larkin at the silver statue. Did a bit of balancing on the ledges, having close ground on one side, with a reasonably big drop on the other side. I took this idea from Shaun's blog, putting yourself in scary situations to make your mind freak out, but keeping your concentration and focus. This was to try and help me in not panicking in situations, this time was having a potential big drop that I could have fell down, but balancing on something that I would have little trouble balancing on at a smaller height. It was about training me to have the same confidence to move in any environment, no matter the situation. This one being an extreme height and drop.
Moving on from there we went down to the red block. Before the session, Eliot promised himself that he would do the arm jump, so after looking at it for a while, he finally did it. I filmed it for him, using some different angles, with different bits of environment in the way, such as a rail or wall. I thought that this added a good kind of urban style to it. he eventually had a pretty close bail, where he fell off backwards. Luckily his feet hit the ground first before he fell on his ass. It looked really funny when watched backwards in slow motion.
From there we moved down to the big rail and barbecue area. I managed top balance the legnth of the big rail. It helped that it was flat and not curved. From there3 I foudn a good precision with a reasonable drop beneath it. I didn't give it a go though, because I was pretty sore and I didn't think my knee would be able to take the landing. Eliot gave it a try, made it, but banged his knee in the process.
From there we went to lunch, where Travis met up with us.
After that we went to the black ramps, where i found a good cat to precision, and looked more at the cat to arm. I didn't give it a try but saw a 100m long rail in the car park that was close by. So i ran over to it, balanced the whole thing, with some falls but I just got back on then kept on going. Then I balanced it backwards. i found that balancing it backwards takes a lot longer than forwards, as you can't see where you are going and have to concentrate a lot more.
From there we played a bit on the rails, but eventually went our separate ways.
I took Eliot back to my place so that we could buy the domain name for the new Canberra Parkour forum that we've been making. It's still in the making, I'm leaving a lot of the work to Eliot. The reason that we're making our own forum, and not sticking with PKAUS or APA, is that we want something that can be more organised. Something that can have different sections for different things, where with APA and PKAUS, we only have one section for everything. I'm hoping that the whole Canberra community will move away from PKAUS and use this new site. We'll leave links to the new forum within the PKAUS forum. It will just be like when we made the jump from the Urban Freeflow forum to the PKAUS forum. I will still be using the APA forums though, posting up all major information.
Overall the day was pretty good, I didn't do too much serious training, as I was still feeling really sore from FNC the night before.
Extreme Training Weekend Day 1
DAY 1 - Fri 13 Jun 08
PARTICIPANTS:
Solo
FNC
1830 - 2230
This was the second session of my new FNC. I was originally thinking that I wouldn't be tooo much, due to my knee injury. I found that starting out though, my knee was giving me too much trouble, so I did the proper training session. I had previously made a program for FNCs, something to start with as a basis then improve on it from there. I've found that after testing it out, I've cut down a bit of the strength conditioning, as those areas have already been focussed on to a great extent. Below is the program that I did, and will most likely stick to for future FNCs.
Warmup
Noise Wall:
- dynamic stretches
Techniques Conditioning
Noise Wall:
- 40 lazy vaults (10 each side, each take off foot)
- 40 speed vaults (10 each side, each take off foot)
- 40 cat passes (20 each take off foot)
Glebe Park:
- 100 rolls (50 each side) (2 pulls up & 5 dips / 10 rolls)
Toast:
- 100 precisions
Customs:
- 40 arm jumps + climbup
- 40 turn vaults (20 each side)
- (ie. arm jump - climb up - turn vault down)
Bus Depot:
- 600 m balance
- 150 m cat balance
Strength Conditioning
Stairs:
Core
- quadrupedal walking down backwards
- quadrupedal walking up forwards
- quadrupedal walking down forwards
- quadrupedal walking up backwards
- quadrupedal walking down pushup style
Lower + Upper Body
- 20 dips at bottom
- 2 foot (up 3 down 2)
- 20 situps at top
- 20 pushups at bottom
- left foot only (up 2 down 1)
- 20 leg raise sets at top
- 20 diamonds at bottom
- right foot only (up 2 down 1)
- 20 crunches at top
- 20 double width pushups at bottom
- 20 reverse push ups
Upper Body (if partner available)
- wheelbarrow walking
- fireman carry
- wheelbarrow pushups
Warmdown
Stairs:
- static stretching
At the end of this session I was so exhausted. I definately found it hard to motivate and push myself. The conditions were the main factor. It was cold, I was tired, and I was training by myself. I found that it was a real test of my character and self-discipline.
It will be interesting if people start coming, I'm expecting some people to give it a go. It will be ever more interesting to see if people who do give it a try will keep coming. It will be interesting to see if people can pass the test of training to exhaustion in poor conditions, as it cold and wet weather.
By the end of the session, I had been training for about 4 hours, 4 hours solo training. I know that I learnt a lot from that session. Especially about pushing yourself, keep on going and not letting yourself take the easy way out and give up.
I found that cat balance the hardest. Cat balance is just hard in general, but add the cold of the rail biting into your hands, as well as exhaustion eating into you! That was the hardest time, just being able to make myself get back onto the rail and keep on going, when I was hurting and exhausted.
PARTICIPANTS:
Solo
FNC
1830 - 2230
This was the second session of my new FNC. I was originally thinking that I wouldn't be tooo much, due to my knee injury. I found that starting out though, my knee was giving me too much trouble, so I did the proper training session. I had previously made a program for FNCs, something to start with as a basis then improve on it from there. I've found that after testing it out, I've cut down a bit of the strength conditioning, as those areas have already been focussed on to a great extent. Below is the program that I did, and will most likely stick to for future FNCs.
Warmup
Noise Wall:
- dynamic stretches
Techniques Conditioning
Noise Wall:
- 40 lazy vaults (10 each side, each take off foot)
- 40 speed vaults (10 each side, each take off foot)
- 40 cat passes (20 each take off foot)
Glebe Park:
- 100 rolls (50 each side) (2 pulls up & 5 dips / 10 rolls)
Toast:
- 100 precisions
Customs:
- 40 arm jumps + climbup
- 40 turn vaults (20 each side)
- (ie. arm jump - climb up - turn vault down)
Bus Depot:
- 600 m balance
- 150 m cat balance
Strength Conditioning
Stairs:
Core
- quadrupedal walking down backwards
- quadrupedal walking up forwards
- quadrupedal walking down forwards
- quadrupedal walking up backwards
- quadrupedal walking down pushup style
Lower + Upper Body
- 20 dips at bottom
- 2 foot (up 3 down 2)
- 20 situps at top
- 20 pushups at bottom
- left foot only (up 2 down 1)
- 20 leg raise sets at top
- 20 diamonds at bottom
- right foot only (up 2 down 1)
- 20 crunches at top
- 20 double width pushups at bottom
- 20 reverse push ups
Upper Body (if partner available)
- wheelbarrow walking
- fireman carry
- wheelbarrow pushups
Warmdown
Stairs:
- static stretching
At the end of this session I was so exhausted. I definately found it hard to motivate and push myself. The conditions were the main factor. It was cold, I was tired, and I was training by myself. I found that it was a real test of my character and self-discipline.
It will be interesting if people start coming, I'm expecting some people to give it a go. It will be ever more interesting to see if people who do give it a try will keep coming. It will be interesting to see if people can pass the test of training to exhaustion in poor conditions, as it cold and wet weather.
By the end of the session, I had been training for about 4 hours, 4 hours solo training. I know that I learnt a lot from that session. Especially about pushing yourself, keep on going and not letting yourself take the easy way out and give up.
I found that cat balance the hardest. Cat balance is just hard in general, but add the cold of the rail biting into your hands, as well as exhaustion eating into you! That was the hardest time, just being able to make myself get back onto the rail and keep on going, when I was hurting and exhausted.
Sunday, June 8, 2008
APA Belco Class
Today we had class at belco once again.
23 Participants. Only 3 were new, which really shows that our retention has definately improved.
We had an injury before the class had even started. One of the guys was doing flipos and landed sideways, twisting his ankle. It swelled up pretty quickly.
So I took him to hospital. After some xrays we found out that he had fractured his ankle. Not good. I stayed with him a bit while we waited to see a doctor, but later I had to leave to get back before the class finished.
Only Conan, Eliot and Trav were left top run the class. I think they did a really good job, as the class was running pretty smoothly when I got back.
They told me that one of the kdis had gotten injured during the class. Clipped a cat pass and feel off a small wall or something.
Why do people not think when training!?
At the end of the class, we brought the group together to tell them about how parkour can be dangerous when not done properly. We stressed how you have to train smartly and safely.
In other things, my knee is still hurting a bit. Not when I'm doing nothing, jkust when I apply force to it. I think that i've just bruised it and that the swelling is pushing the knee cap, providing discomfort when I move my joint. There isn't any serious pain, just discomfort when I move it.
This means that I've had to cancel my filming session with Eliot, that was planned for tomorrow. Hopefully it all gets sorted out so that I can train next weekend, when the Mega Training Weekend is on.
23 Participants. Only 3 were new, which really shows that our retention has definately improved.
We had an injury before the class had even started. One of the guys was doing flipos and landed sideways, twisting his ankle. It swelled up pretty quickly.
So I took him to hospital. After some xrays we found out that he had fractured his ankle. Not good. I stayed with him a bit while we waited to see a doctor, but later I had to leave to get back before the class finished.
Only Conan, Eliot and Trav were left top run the class. I think they did a really good job, as the class was running pretty smoothly when I got back.
They told me that one of the kdis had gotten injured during the class. Clipped a cat pass and feel off a small wall or something.
Why do people not think when training!?
At the end of the class, we brought the group together to tell them about how parkour can be dangerous when not done properly. We stressed how you have to train smartly and safely.
In other things, my knee is still hurting a bit. Not when I'm doing nothing, jkust when I apply force to it. I think that i've just bruised it and that the swelling is pushing the knee cap, providing discomfort when I move my joint. There isn't any serious pain, just discomfort when I move it.
This means that I've had to cancel my filming session with Eliot, that was planned for tomorrow. Hopefully it all gets sorted out so that I can train next weekend, when the Mega Training Weekend is on.
Friday, June 6, 2008
FNC
Tonight was going to be the night that I had tried out the plan for the new and intense FNC.
Turned up at noise wall, to find that nobody had come. So I trained by myself.
Started with the normal dynamic stretches warmup. Then moved into speed vaults. On about the 15th speed vault, I hit my left knee pretty hard into the concrete. it hurt a fair amount, and still hurts now after icing it. Hopefully it will be better in the morning. From there I tried to push through the discomfort, finishing the speed vaults and cat passes.
From there I ran to Glebe Park, where I tried doing rolls, but found that my newly sustained knee injury was preventing me from doing them.
Looking through the rest of my program, I realised that this injury was going to prevent me from doing most of the techniques and strength conditioning.
While at Glebe Park, I did the lower and upper body part of the strength conditioning.
Having this injury, as well as training by myself, I realised that I was losing a lot of motivation to train. I felt like giving up and just going home. I managed to get through 2 set sof the lower and upper body strength conditioning, but then stretched and went home.
This is waht I ended up getting done.
- 40 speed vaults (10 on each arm off each foot)
- 40 cat passes (20 off each foot)
- 40 sit ups
- 40 pushups
- 40 leg raises
- 40 diamonds
- 40 crunches
- 40 wide pushups
- 30 sitting dips
- 10 bar dips
- 8 pull ups
- 5 pistols (right leg)
- 20 reverse pushups
I'm disappointed at myself for not pushing further through the training. I'm also annoyed that I let myself get injured. I wasn't concentrating and paid for it pretty quickly.
So in the end, I only did about a quarter of the training I was planning on doing. The session lasted for about one and a half hours, but I'm not happy with that.
Next week, I'm going to make sure that I concentrate when training, so that I don't make stupid mistakes at the very beginning of the session that prevent me from continuing further into the session.
Turned up at noise wall, to find that nobody had come. So I trained by myself.
Started with the normal dynamic stretches warmup. Then moved into speed vaults. On about the 15th speed vault, I hit my left knee pretty hard into the concrete. it hurt a fair amount, and still hurts now after icing it. Hopefully it will be better in the morning. From there I tried to push through the discomfort, finishing the speed vaults and cat passes.
From there I ran to Glebe Park, where I tried doing rolls, but found that my newly sustained knee injury was preventing me from doing them.
Looking through the rest of my program, I realised that this injury was going to prevent me from doing most of the techniques and strength conditioning.
While at Glebe Park, I did the lower and upper body part of the strength conditioning.
Having this injury, as well as training by myself, I realised that I was losing a lot of motivation to train. I felt like giving up and just going home. I managed to get through 2 set sof the lower and upper body strength conditioning, but then stretched and went home.
This is waht I ended up getting done.
- 40 speed vaults (10 on each arm off each foot)
- 40 cat passes (20 off each foot)
- 40 sit ups
- 40 pushups
- 40 leg raises
- 40 diamonds
- 40 crunches
- 40 wide pushups
- 30 sitting dips
- 10 bar dips
- 8 pull ups
- 5 pistols (right leg)
- 20 reverse pushups
I'm disappointed at myself for not pushing further through the training. I'm also annoyed that I let myself get injured. I wasn't concentrating and paid for it pretty quickly.
So in the end, I only did about a quarter of the training I was planning on doing. The session lasted for about one and a half hours, but I'm not happy with that.
Next week, I'm going to make sure that I concentrate when training, so that I don't make stupid mistakes at the very beginning of the session that prevent me from continuing further into the session.
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