My week thus far, physically

I've been taking it relatively easy the past two weeks or so.

Monday -- 1 1/2 hours assorted jujutsu drills, stretching, ukemi at the dojo.

Tuesday -- road and grass run. 15 minutes easy. 10 minutes at moderate to hard effort. 15 minutes easy. This is the first harder effort I've tried with running in many months. I felt quite good if not a little toast.

Wednesday-- pushups. 20 regular
5 triceps
20 regular
5 triceps
20 regular
5 triceps
10 regular
5 triceps
10 regular
These were done right before bed at 1am and clearly I should have hit this earlier and got some more variety.

today's workout

Yeah, so I was able to hit the gym this morning, which is a damn sight rare these days.

3 x 2 min skipping with 1 min. recovery between sets.

3 x 50 crunches on incline bench

5 x pullups wide (outward) grip. 5 x pullups close (inward) grip. 1 x pullup wide (outward) grip.

3 x 25-30 medicine ball neck crunches.

That's it for the warmup.

I am not all that much of a heavy lifter and I haven't done it much in ages and have no spotter but I will relate the rest of my workout. I am trying to switch from a bodybuilder's routine to a power routine and have lots of "feeling out" and experimenting ahead of me.

Bench press machine: 5 x 150 lbs. 8 x 135 lbs 1 x 150 lbs.


squats: these went poorly today. I didn't get low enough and was nervous in the rack.
5 x 235 5 x 235

finger curls with Olympic Bar (45 lbs) 20 or 30 reps, a single set.

Then my time was up and I was kicked out of the gym along with the other morning cheap-time people.

I am pretty psyched on www.crossfit.com lately, as well as www.gymjones.com and www.rossboxing.com. I am no animal like some of those folks (yet) but I am working on it.