As you should know by now, I am a man of numbers. Binary for work. Repetition for work-out. Calories for diet.
0 and 1. Simple.
To help me in the next phase, improving my overall mid section and helping to relieve my hip flexors, I spent the last couple of days to push it a little and grab some numbers about my core training. As a reference, for later.
In fact, I did it partially in early September. Numbers do not LIE.
Early September:
Sit-up: 20
Push-up: 20
Pull-up: 5
Plank: 90s
Side plank: 60s
Could not run more than 30 min, Kite or surf more than 45min without limping.
I do not do my sit-ups very high.
2 Months and half after, Here are my numbers:
Sit-up: 80
Push-up: 35
Pull-up: 15
Plank: 180s
Side plank: 120s
Not bad, right ?
After my PT evaluation, I am still really weak on my obliques and my glutes.
Obliques (on a ball) : 30
Obliques (Flat): 10 (small ones)
Glutes (Kick back 5s hold): 25
Bridge (20s hold): 5
Obliques: Double crunch
As this is where I need to work I will focus on those the next couple of months.
What about the other training ?
Well, it is going better:
45min of Kite, 60min of Surf, 30min of slow running (5km), 30 min of swimming (1km and half) are usually alright, with a "discomfort" on the right hip. The good news is I begin to feel it in the left hip as well, meaning my body is re-balancing itself a little.
This is the first time I am glad to feel a new pain ;)
Good to smiles again ;)
Still a long way to go for me to the Big Island Ultraman.
The Ultraman World Championship is a three-day, 320 mile (515-km) annual endurance race held on the Big Island of Hawaii
I would have to train like him..
David Googins, The human machine.
His schedule:
3:45am -- 15-20 mile run followed by biking to work (25 miles)
8am -- begin work day
Lunch -- brief 4-5 mile run if time allows
6pm -- bike home from work (25 miles) - weight training (with his wife)
Midnight -- bedtime
Well, nice transition for the post of tomorrow where I will give you MY Schedule:
The Vdoubie machine.
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