NRoLfW Stage 2: Whining

[lyorn]

I am extremely frustrated right now, because I am still missing the fourth workout B (the one with the invervalls) to finish stage 2, but I'm just not managing to do it.

Seems like stage 2 is jinxed. Lots of little things stopped me from doing even as many as two workouts a week: A cold, friends visiting, relationship trouble, anxiety attacks, choir performances (= lots of extra practise), overtime at work... And now I am running into the great big wall that has loomed since Easter: Dental surgery to get my wisdom teeth out. Optimistically I'm expecting two weeks of recovery, however, might be four before I'm back to anything challenging. And then it's the middle of summer, which will make me run at 50% power and make any attempt to work out both unpleasant and inefficient.

I had planned to do that stupid final workout today, and what do I get? A bad attack of hay fever, with my eyes swollen shut and hurting. And to keep them company, all the joints on the right side of my body are hurting, too, what's up what that, anyway?

This sucks.

I wonder if I should pick up where I left off when I'm able to lift heavy things again, repeat stage 2, or start with stage 3? I have serious doubts if I can do the bodyweight matrix if I have too much of a pause before.


I'll still list the current weights/variants, even though it feels like cheating, but I want *something* to show before I drop out for weeks.

Front squat/Push press: 15 kg (33 lbs)
Step-up: 2*18 kg (40lbs) -- again, limited by grip strength.
Dumbbell 1-point row: 2*10 kg (22 lbs) -- serious balance issues, usually had to do it two times.
Static lunge: 2*10 kg (22 lbs)
Push-ups: Still on 40 cm (16 inches) -- progress only in reps.
Cable horizontal wood chop: 8 kg (17.5 lbs)
Plank: Slow count to 100.

Wide-grip deadlift from box: 35 kg (77 lbs)
Bulgarian split squats: 2*14 kg (31 lbs)
Underhand lat pulldown 45 kg (100 lbs)
Reverse lunge from box with forward reach: 2*10 kg (22 lbs) -- still not sure about form here.
Dumbbell prone Cuban snatch: 2*1 kg (2 lbs) -- my shoulder hates those.
Swiss ball crunches: arms stretched overhead, plus 3 kg (7 lbs) dumbbell.
Reverse crunches: bodyweight -- those feel to easy. Must be doing something wrong.
Lateral flexes: bodyweight, type 1+2
Prone cobra: Slow count to 130 -- ouch.

Intervals (treadmill): 1.64 km (1.02 miles) in 15 minutes

Notes to self:
- Get a higher step (again).
- Get a watch.

Comments

[daedala]

Aw, I'm sorry. That sucks.

I'd just move on. Stage 4 is the same as Stage 2, with 8 reps instead of 10 (and an extra set if you want it). If you can't do the whole bodyweight matrix, so what? I never felt I did ok at it. The point is to keep moving, I think.

If the reverse crunches are too easy, the next stage was an incline bench.

[telophase]

I ended up skipping the last week of workout 2 because I strained a muscle in my back at that point (which, yay, cleared up quickly), then was hit with a cold and a migraine in succession. I went ahead with 3 just because I needed the motivation of continuing (and the illusion of progress!).

I've only done the first workout so far and had to skip the bodyweight matrix because my head had the tension in it that often presages a migraine if I overheat or overexert myself. (I have doubts that I'll be able to do the jumping part of it anyway, but suspect that a half-assed workout is better than no workout!)