I find interesting symmetry in the fact that we all were injured around the same time, and have all reached a point of healing simultaneously. Cool.
As I wrote in some of the responses, my ankle is feeling awesome! There's still some scar tissue and a bump around my right lateral malleolus, a bit tender to the touch, but I can walk around without a limp. Whoopdeedoo!
Today, I woke up at 9:53, did some meditation with breathing exercises. Almost passed out on one of them: all exercises were timed to my heart beat. After initial relaxing stages, I inhaled and exhaled for 9 heart beats each way. First, expanding the diaphragm on inhalation for 9 breaths, then contracting for 9 breaths. On the last exhale, I held the "no-breath" for 70 heart beats. Remember when we used to do underwater training? When your body tingles with the decrease in blood pH? This effect occurred at 30 beats. Not even half way done, fighting for air, eyes open so I could focus on staying conscious. The whole body started "buzzing" (that's how I describe the pH feeling), and at 60 beats my vision started fading in and out. At 61, my lungs screaming for air, I exhaled even more to resist temptation to breathe. 65, another fade. 66, exhale. 68, another fade. 69, AHHHHH! 70! I think I took a big enough gulp of air to cause a negative pressure system in the room. The windows imploded and I inhaled glass.
Not really, but once the pH normalized, my mind was completely still. It was awesome! The ninja meditation pushes the body so far past the limit that the mind HAS to become stronger.
With this state of stillness and confidence, I decided to jump right into PT.
Started with the BIG Situp Workout. It was a piece of cake! I even did extra reps of 10 on some sets because it felt good and I lost track of counting.
Then, I did 4x50 pushups. Lots of weakness leaving. The first set was great. So I only rested a minute, then did it again. At about 35, my arms failed, so I took a 2 second break, then finshed out. This time, rested 2 minutes in between. Failed at 24. Kept going and failing until I hit 50. Another 2 minute break. Came back and struggled until I hit 50. Pshew!
The tough part was switching positions: In each set, first 10 were regular, then 10 diamond, 10 regular, 10 wide, 10 regular.
Followed by alternating neck and fire haulers. Did 2x40 each neck, and 2x90 fire haulers. Lots of weakness leaving again. The first set hurt, so I put on "Down with the Sickness," for the second set. This made me feel like a badass, and although I failed once at 65, I picked back up and pushed through.
Good day for PT!
Totals:
660+ situps
200 Pushups
80 ea. neck
180 Fire Haulers
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Even though you two are the only ones who read this, I'll write out the Big Situps Workout for the off chance that someone views it and wants to try it.
40 regular situps
40 of each crunch (regular, reverse, left, right)
40 leg levers
50 "4-count" flutter kicks
40 half-situps
stretch abs for 1 minute
Repeat
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4 comments:
Damn, you are an allstar! You are getting that BIG PYRAMID done like it's ELEMENTARY ART HOMEWORK!
Hmm...why the no breath stuff? Why did it have to be 70 seconds? Clarify?
Glad that you had a good workout. I can't wait until you come home...let's plan some sweet, hard workouts. I hope that I will vomit during one of them.
I like how you do 10 reg, then 10 diamond, 10 reg, 10 wide, 10 reg. That one is fun...I try to get some of those in too.
I can't wait either man!
We should do stuff that we can't finish. Vomiting sounds fun. ;-)
We should go until our hearts are bruised.
I agree with The Duke, you wrote about this sit-ups like they were nothin'. That's hard core.
Anton, I like the idea of pushing ourselves to the limit. Although, going until our hearts are bruised is a job left to the women in our lives. That's what they are trained to do.
Good question Charles. Why 70? Is it 70 heart beats or seconds? Is your heart rate faster or slower than one second per beat?
Your description of the ninja breathing exercise is absolutely mad. Be careful man. That is just insane. It was great reading it. Felt like I was there observing you go through it. I also liked your description of the big inhale. So strong that you imploded the windows.
This might sound bad, but I'm really happy you pushed yourself until you failed. To know that your arms wouldn't let you go anymore and to read that you got right back into it and finished. That is inspiring.
The music, "Down with the Sickness," good choice. Good thinking finding a way to keep yourself motivated. Once again, pushing until you failed. Absolutely love it.
Yes, an excellent PT day for you.
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