Despite the comm title, I don't think I've actually lifted anything heavy in the past week *g*.
I recently recovered from a virus, so exercise (apart from climbing) has been fairly informal and haphazard: mostly whatever I feel like playing around with at home and have the energy for.
I've been doing sets of push-ups at random intervals through the day on a "greasing the groove" basis (note: this is not a porno title, really -- it's a strategy for increasing reps by picking a number that's well below your limit, so you don't go anywhere near failure, and then practicing it a lot; I thought I'd experiment with it and see if it works for me).
Oh, and working on pull-ups: doing negatives at home, and practising the very bottom of the movement (from a deadhang, the bit where you have to engage your back muscles) at the climbing wall, where they have a nice metal pole you can hang off in the training area. I WILL GET MY PULL-UP BACK ONE DAY DAMMIT.
And a few bodyweight squats with a broomstick, because good squatting form was one of the big things I learnt from the workshop I attended, and I'm determined to engrave it in my muscle memory. There's a whole thing about sitting down between my legs rather than on top of them (yes, I know this makes no sense in words) that was a revelation to me.
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I recently recovered from a virus, so exercise (apart from climbing) has been fairly informal and haphazard: mostly whatever I feel like playing around with at home and have the energy for.
I've been doing sets of push-ups at random intervals through the day on a "greasing the groove" basis (note: this is not a porno title, really -- it's a strategy for increasing reps by picking a number that's well below your limit, so you don't go anywhere near failure, and then practicing it a lot; I thought I'd experiment with it and see if it works for me).
Oh, and working on pull-ups: doing negatives at home, and practising the very bottom of the movement (from a deadhang, the bit where you have to engage your back muscles) at the climbing wall, where they have a nice metal pole you can hang off in the training area. I WILL GET MY PULL-UP BACK ONE DAY DAMMIT.
And a few bodyweight squats with a broomstick, because good squatting form was one of the big things I learnt from the workshop I attended, and I'm determined to engrave it in my muscle memory. There's a whole thing about sitting down between my legs rather than on top of them (yes, I know this makes no sense in words) that was a revelation to me.