Back home after Thanksgiving vacation... and facing the music on the scale.
Holiday weight always seems to come off easy enough, but at the same it, it's like hitting the reset button on any progress made before the holiday.
11/25 08:00
750yd swim
Very impressed with my daughter's swimming today, her stamina seems to have gone up a bunch.
11/26 06:00
5min treadmill walk
EYFS+
Have decided to replace the goblet squats with Cossack squats - seems like a logical progression in terms of mobility. Will start off the first couple weeks unloaded, see if any interesting aches/pains show up before I try to load them.
I spent some time yesterday watching videos by the Flexible Steel folks, particularly the series of blog posts about the Cossack squat (
Cossack Squat - Strength, Mobility and Flexibility all in one - PART 1 - Flexible Steel). Those guys are just impressive... I figure mobility/flexibility is just like any other quality; some folks are born with it, some folks work hard at it, and a rare few fall into both categories. I'm definitely not in the born-with-it bucket...
11/26 13:30
Static stretching sequence x1
Some soreness in the left hip - don't know if that's the Cossack squats, or just the fact that I didn't do much stretching last week.
11/26 21:00
GSQT 3x5 40,48,24 with curl
Halo 3x5 16,16,20
- The 16 felt like a toy for these today
Bridge 3x5
KB1HS 10x10 40,48,40,48,40
TGU 5x1 x side 40,48,40,48,40
Circuit L3 x 5
- KB BU press 20
- Pullups
Bench T-spine extensions (from
Top Five Thoracic Mobility Drills to Improve Your Overhead Pressing)
I need to start incorporating some more regular T-spine extension work - I'm not sure I'm able to wring it out of my hindu pushups or downward dog stretches as of yet, maybe calf flexibility is a limiting factor right now. Doing extensions off the box seems to hit the right area... maybe should add those to my stretching sequence. Just worried that the longer it gets, the less likely I'll do it every day...