What have you been doing to get through the matrix? I found that what helped me was to break it into the sections and rest as needed -- get through 24 squats, rest, do 12 lunges, rest, do 12 jump lunges, rest, do 24 jump squats. And if you can't do an entire section in one go, rest in the middle of that too -- I started out being able to get through everything but the jump squats (with resting in between) and I'd break the jump squats into 10-10-4, and then 12-12. And then every time I did them, I tried to rest less. So I do the whole thing, it just takes a while. I needed a fair bit of rest when I started, but I was happy to discover that when I started stage 5, I managed to get through almost the entire thing without stopping more than a second or two to shake out my legs. Until I got to the jump squats, which continued to kick my ass and I still had to rest before starting them (I tried going straight in and died after two) and also still split them up and rested in the middle of them. But there was less resting, and some day I will be able to do 24 jump squats without resting in the middle. One of these days I'm going to have to see if I can do 24 jump squats in a row when I haven't been lifting weights for an hour and a half, because if I can't manage that when I'm not tired, I'm pretty doomed. ::g::
I think lat raises and things similar to lat raises are just really hard. When I was looking for YouTube videos of the YTWL exercise because I didn't have the NRoLfW book on hand, I kept finding videos of huge burly guys doing them with light weights. I can just barely manage with the 5lb weights. And I'm not sure how my form is, if the Swiss ball is lifting me too high and making this easier than it should be, or if I should be getting a greater range of motion and really should be lifting a bit less.
I don't remember what I was looking for that made me find people doing hip thrusts with weights, but they made me want to try them too. I tried doing the hip thrusts with the barbell today and I need to get bigger, heavier plates. Not because the weight was too light, though I could probably lift more than I'm doing, but because I want more space to get my hips under the bar -- the ten pound plates don't lift it high enough and I have to do uncomfortable contortions to get it in place.
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I think lat raises and things similar to lat raises are just really hard. When I was looking for YouTube videos of the YTWL exercise because I didn't have the NRoLfW book on hand, I kept finding videos of huge burly guys doing them with light weights. I can just barely manage with the 5lb weights. And I'm not sure how my form is, if the Swiss ball is lifting me too high and making this easier than it should be, or if I should be getting a greater range of motion and really should be lifting a bit less.
I don't remember what I was looking for that made me find people doing hip thrusts with weights, but they made me want to try them too. I tried doing the hip thrusts with the barbell today and I need to get bigger, heavier plates. Not because the weight was too light, though I could probably lift more than I'm doing, but because I want more space to get my hips under the bar -- the ten pound plates don't lift it high enough and I have to do uncomfortable contortions to get it in place.