Damn, nice to finally need to make a post on my training blog here. So just over two weeks ago I threw my back out really, really, badly. It was a combination of my original injury never healing, and apparently tweaking it doing toes-to-bars. I could barely get out of bed for a few days, I'm still having trouble sleeping through the night, and all around my back was just f-ed.
Saw a Chiropractor on Monday which went well. He didn't do much for my back, work a lot on psoas stuff, I'm stupid tight there, cracked my neck which was amazing. Felt good immediately after, but those effects haven't really carried over much, except for my hips which are in considerably better shape.
This past Wednesday it had been 12 days without doing anything, so Wednesday day 13 I had to do something. My chest has always been a week point so I decided I would start doing some daily push-ups, and keep building on them. Wednesday started with 10 sets of 10 reps, good clean push-ups. These were scattered throughout the day. Every day I'm bumping up the sets by a rep, so today was 10 sets of 12 reps. Yesterday I decided to do the same with sit-ups using the ab-mat to see how my back responded. My back responded with a likening to the ab-mat. The sit-ups are going to increase by 2 reps a day, so today was 10 sets of 14 reps.
Last night I put the Burlington Rugby team through a workout for the second time. This went really well, there was a smaller group then last time but still great regardless. We started the workout off with a buy-in of a 1 mile run (actually turned out to be a .9 mile loop) and then an AMRAP the remaining amount of time. I hadn't done anything in weeks and I was itching to know how fast I could run a mile, so I decided to run the mile, or .9 mile with the team to start. I was pumped, considering I haven't been training in 2 weeks, and before that I haven't trained how I'd really like to, and the fact that I'm not a runner, I busted out .9 miles in 5:22. I certainly could have kept the pace for another .1 mile, so that would put me at a 5:58 mile. I'm incredibly pumped to see that, so awesome. I think that is pretty good for a for me out of shape non-runner.
Today I finally decided beside my push-up and sit-up sets that I need to do some training. My back is feeling decent so I decided to take it easy. Training for today is below.
WOD:
Skill:
100 Double-unders
Superset:
Deadlift: 95x15, 95x15, 95x15
Air Squat: 15, 15, 15
Double-unders were awful, haven't touched them in weeks. I think I got one set of 8 or so, a lot of 1's and 2's though. Deadlifts and Air Squats were done in a very slow and controlled fashion, really focusing on keep my core/lumber strong. Things felt pretty good. A couple times I felt a little hint of pain but otherwise all good. Feel great right now. Hopefully I can continue some light work tomorrow, back is finally starting to feel better.
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