Two Times One26 March 2010, 3:29 pmI feel like I'm well and truly back into the flow of training. I've hit three Beastmaker sessions in a row this week and it seems to have woken my body up. The difference between the first and third session was staggering. During my first session things felt ludicrously hard, my joints ached and my skin wailed. I failed miserably on sets of front 2 and back 2 repeaters on the small pockets, things I could piss before. There was worry in my mind there is no doubt about it, have I lost it I thought? But I stuck with it and the next day there was a marked improvement. By yesterday, my third day in a row, I was back up to completing full sets of front 2 and back 2 encores and repeaters on the small pockets.
It felt good to be back.
I've also added some other basic excercises which I haven't used before: delving into the world of the one arm encore. Now this isn't a place I've frequented before, but now I feel it's time. I've discovered pretty quickly that it is a brutal world, where there is absolutely no hiding. Unfortunately the only way of using assistance on the Beastmaker at the wall is through a pinky on the crimps, not ideal. I'm easing myself in gently by doing sets on the big rungs and so far I've had to stick a pinky on when I get to the 90 deg lock on the way back down, I'm going to be a happy man when I start getting through a full set.
I've also gone back to doing sets of basic pull ups on the same rungs. I haven't really done pull ups for a while, feeling that campusing and encores was enough of a work out but a quick test before I went to font shocked me into it. Before I went away I did a few basic strength tests to see where I had got to, during this I found that I was actually not particularly strong at pull ups. One armers were fine, I managed 4 on the big rung on the Beastmaker on my right and 3 on my left, but with two arms I could only do 10. I was pretty shocked that there was only a relatively small difference between the two. The power was undoubtedly there, but the power stamina was lacking. So I'm now hitting 4 sets of 10 at the end of every Beastmaker session.
I'm also well and truly back into the swing of work, I'm up to 17 shifts this month, but it's a run of flip flopping between days and nights, which is brutal on the body clock. It kicked off last night with my first overnight shift since I got back. No amount of caffeine can prepare you for that feeling. Currently the city feels a little bit like this to me...
from
David Hubert on
Vimeo.
Over 3000 stills were used in that vid, no video whatsoever, serious patience needed to produce something like that so hats off to them. Suffice to say after just 3 hours sleep this morning my level of patience is probably at the other end of the spectrum to theirs.
Source: increasing the calibre