New Year resolutions are silly. Everyone breaks them, but I do believe in planning my year ahead and setting goals – something I recommended in a previous post. Well I thought I’d put up my physical goals on here…
Skills
Learn fencing – Booked and starting on the 8th January.
Ju Jutsu – Attain green belt by December.
Iai [...]
Friday’s not gonna keep me down so Sat and Sun I did the following:
Strength Circuit (Sat)
(2 minutes rest between each set)
Pull Ups: 3 x 2 sets
Calf Raises (dumb bell and bucket): 10 x 3 sets
Decline Push Ups: 10 x 3 sets
Chin Ups: 3 (just for the hell of it!)
Core…
Sit Ups: 10 (5 sec hold)
Plank: 1:30
Strength [...]
I watched Ross Enamait’s conditioning DVD last week – well part of it. Up to the skipping part, but there’s a good reason for me not going any further: I’ve been skipping wrong all my life!!
My version of skipping involved me making a two-footed jump over the rope followed by a small two-footed hop for [...]
Well here we are into the 3rd split of my programme and it starts with a 20 minute ICT workout I adjusted from Ross’ books. I think it was No.9. Anyway it involved the following:
10 Burpees.
10 Chinnies
10 Squats
10 Push Ups
Repeat until 20 mins is up. My arms packed up part way through so my burpees [...]
Integrated Circuit Training. I don’t mind admitting that for most of the past 6 days I’d been dreading this workout. My first ICT workout almost made me throw the contents of my stomach all over the bathroom walls.
Having said that I’d started to notice a general feeling of well being, more agility and mobility. A [...]
Stands for Enhanced Interval Training and I went into this after doing 3-4 hours of weapons training when our Soke paid a visit from Japan. 3-4hrs of throwing a bo and bokto around made me realise how much conditioning my shoulders needed. The 70+ yr old Soke was fresh as a daisy throughout but I [...]
The first day of my new 50 day training programme. Spit, sweat, snot, agony and even blood!! I decided to do this for several reasons and this first day really tested my resolve. Having now got Ross Enamaits three training books and DVD I’m diving into this full whack.
So I start with the Integrated [...]
