Tuesday, 17 February 2009

Get on up there

Daily Joint Mobility Complex
35 reps each

Warm Up/Corrective Exercises
Shoulder Rotations
Trunk Rotations
Cook Hip Lift
X Band Walk
OH Squats with 0.75" heel lift
Pumps
Arm Bars @ 16kgs
1 x 10

Half Get Ups - 10 mins
24kgs x 10 e/a

Stretch Routine
Held for 30 secs

'O' Rating
Right shoulder - 2
Right Knee - 1
Lower Back - 1


Comments - Good session this. My right shoulder was feeling really weak compared to the left and I didn't think I was going to get past 4 before dropping weight. I concentrated on getting tight and pressing it from the floor strongly and was able to keep on going. I think it is some kind of PR actually, I'm pretty sure I never went past 5 e/a on Prog Minimum before. Would be cool if I could manage the 32 each side before I switch.

4 comments:

Martin Schap said...

Congrats on the PR! Good to see you back on the horse after your weekend of debauchery.

Franklin said...

Great job on the half-getups.

When doing a half-getup, at what position in the regular getup do you start to descend.

Also, just holding a 24kg under tension for 10 reps is awesome!

Colin said...

Thanks guys - nothing major but its just better than I ever remember doing before.

Franklin if you get the Power By Pavel Newsletter there is an article by Adam Glass on TGU. I go only as far as the second picture. I have nowhere to do it outside and pretty cramped conditions inside. So safety first.

To make up for this a bit, I strictly floor press it and then pause at various stages up and down. I'll probably be looking for multiple floor presses for each get up now as a progression.

Colin said...

Should also say that I do floor press for each rep of the arm bars I do as part of my warm up each night. So I'm sneaking in a bit of volume for my shoulders.

I must say that even though my right shoulder feels weaker than the left, the pain is all but gone now. Hurrah for the get up!!!