[training log] anti-dance thp, week 3
You have to love a week when you get to dance every night. I'm tired, but I feel good.
Monday I slept most of the day (coming back from vacation and resulting late Sunday night), then taught for two hours before finally coming home to friends that really missed me. The positive side of having training derailed by my peeps is that I discovered the delight of doing the component movements the morning after dancing.
Woke up in the morning to intu-flow followed by 2 sets of 5. I've been kinda stalled there, getting slightly stuck on one thing or another. Tuesday was still slightly stuck on the roll back from squatting - not getting my hips moving. But! I think the seal walk thing is progressing - that is, rolling weight on the hands more - and I'm feeling lighter & easier to move off the ground as a result.
RPE (am): 7
RPD (am): 3
RPT (am): 7
The problem with the hammer swing isn't just flexibility. I'm definitely trying to do it with my arms. And duh, I can't lift it with my arms - so, stuckness. Need help.
I did one set of 6 Tuesday night (thinking I was going to do 2, and then... um, going to bed). Gave me a nice ahhhh feeling throughout, as I slowed down quite a bit.
RPE: 5
RPD: 2
RPT: 7
After practice Wednesday night, I came home (and did not have to eat dinner, yay better meal scheduling) for 2 sets of 6, which turned out to be one set of 6 and one rather sloppy set of 6-ish.
Neglected to note my RP#s.
I'm waiting to go back to the hammer swings until after I get help, but I tried the rocket (I think that's its name) and lo - if I am not already zapped from squats, they do in fact make my shoulders all better. So, 5 of those.
Thursday morning I woke up and had a burning desire to do the Xtension circuit, which left me feeling fabulous most of the day. Yay, Xtension. Last time it was a regular part of my training plan, I think I had just started using the 10s, so it still felt like a weight training exercise. Now it's like holding soda bottles whilst moving - my guess is that was how it was supposed to feel.
Thursday night I came back from PURE - which almost always leaves me with just a generally screwy, unpleasant body by Friday morning, and DID NOT FEEL AWFUL FRIDAY.
RPE: 7 (and! I actually tried walking with the seal walk!)
RPD: 4
RPT: 5 (even going quite slowly, I find it particularly challenging to move my spine & hips after PURE - which is actually a different dance style than my other 3 nights a week. I may need to start with itty bitty spinal rocks or something)
Friday we had a dance performance. I did intu-flow as part of my warmup, but once again... social time cut into training time (and I'm not sure this is a bad thing, by the way, just something that I do) and I didn't work on the THP.
General thoughts on the week:
I didn't log food this week at all, but I'm starting to think I need to log a) when I eat and b) how much sleep I'm getting based on the hectic-ness of my weeks. What I eat is relatively stable and balanced, but eating and sleeping in general are things I struggle to make the right time for.
I am seeing visible differences in my laterality issues. Friday morning, for instance, I woke up with some discomfort (slightly in my lower back, a bit more like pain in my shins), but it was equal on both sides. And, did I mention, in my shins? That's unusual (and worked off mostly with a few repetitions of the shinbox switch kinetic chain I learned more than a year ago - that chain is my Old Best Friend). The performance Friday night hardly stuck around as discomfort in the morning. So yeah, training? Totally helping.
Monday I slept most of the day (coming back from vacation and resulting late Sunday night), then taught for two hours before finally coming home to friends that really missed me. The positive side of having training derailed by my peeps is that I discovered the delight of doing the component movements the morning after dancing.
Woke up in the morning to intu-flow followed by 2 sets of 5. I've been kinda stalled there, getting slightly stuck on one thing or another. Tuesday was still slightly stuck on the roll back from squatting - not getting my hips moving. But! I think the seal walk thing is progressing - that is, rolling weight on the hands more - and I'm feeling lighter & easier to move off the ground as a result.
RPE (am): 7
RPD (am): 3
RPT (am): 7
The problem with the hammer swing isn't just flexibility. I'm definitely trying to do it with my arms. And duh, I can't lift it with my arms - so, stuckness. Need help.
I did one set of 6 Tuesday night (thinking I was going to do 2, and then... um, going to bed). Gave me a nice ahhhh feeling throughout, as I slowed down quite a bit.
RPE: 5
RPD: 2
RPT: 7
After practice Wednesday night, I came home (and did not have to eat dinner, yay better meal scheduling) for 2 sets of 6, which turned out to be one set of 6 and one rather sloppy set of 6-ish.
Neglected to note my RP#s.
I'm waiting to go back to the hammer swings until after I get help, but I tried the rocket (I think that's its name) and lo - if I am not already zapped from squats, they do in fact make my shoulders all better. So, 5 of those.
Thursday morning I woke up and had a burning desire to do the Xtension circuit, which left me feeling fabulous most of the day. Yay, Xtension. Last time it was a regular part of my training plan, I think I had just started using the 10s, so it still felt like a weight training exercise. Now it's like holding soda bottles whilst moving - my guess is that was how it was supposed to feel.
Thursday night I came back from PURE - which almost always leaves me with just a generally screwy, unpleasant body by Friday morning, and DID NOT FEEL AWFUL FRIDAY.
RPE: 7 (and! I actually tried walking with the seal walk!)
RPD: 4
RPT: 5 (even going quite slowly, I find it particularly challenging to move my spine & hips after PURE - which is actually a different dance style than my other 3 nights a week. I may need to start with itty bitty spinal rocks or something)
Friday we had a dance performance. I did intu-flow as part of my warmup, but once again... social time cut into training time (and I'm not sure this is a bad thing, by the way, just something that I do) and I didn't work on the THP.
General thoughts on the week:
I didn't log food this week at all, but I'm starting to think I need to log a) when I eat and b) how much sleep I'm getting based on the hectic-ness of my weeks. What I eat is relatively stable and balanced, but eating and sleeping in general are things I struggle to make the right time for.
I am seeing visible differences in my laterality issues. Friday morning, for instance, I woke up with some discomfort (slightly in my lower back, a bit more like pain in my shins), but it was equal on both sides. And, did I mention, in my shins? That's unusual (and worked off mostly with a few repetitions of the shinbox switch kinetic chain I learned more than a year ago - that chain is my Old Best Friend). The performance Friday night hardly stuck around as discomfort in the morning. So yeah, training? Totally helping.