Today's Training - New Experiences

Thought I'd share my training today because I learned some very nice stuff and had new experiences.

The day started early at 5.45 with some Little Nine Heaven Qigong, after that I went to a friend who is a physical therapist in Vienna, helped him with a couple of clients and learned A LOT. Actually, I'm going to do this every week from now on as it is something I'm quite interested in.

After that we did some brutal core workout that he created which hit every single muscle and of course function of the core. Most of the exercises demanded loads of stability and balance and were extremely challenging as I haven't done them before. SAID at its best!!!

After that we played around with some difficult push up variations and a slackline which was great fun and very different from what I do in my normal training. If you have the equipment I challenge you to try: One leg on the slackline, one leg in the air, the two hands on two gym balls that are not allowed to touch. Now do a push up *g*
Another cool variation we did: Close grip fist push ups, feet on a soccer ball, fists on a bosu ball. Much easier than the first one but still quite challenging.

After that he did some myofascial release therapy on my thighs, I screamed my heart out ;)

In the afternoon I did my own training, started with 10 minutes of joint mobility and a few double c&j with the 16s to warm up.

After that I did 6 min of jerks with 2x24 and got 45 reps, not too bad considering my lack of GS focus.

Then I did 15/15 1A jerks with 32, followed by 15/15 with the 24 and finished with 25/25 swings to relax my back after the jerks (IMO very important, I'd never do jerks as the last exercise)

I also added a couple of sets of leg raises, headstand leg raises and played around with handstands.

In the end I did a joint mobility exercise that is quite fun and VERY fundamental: Getting up from the ground without using your hands. I tried lots of different variations and tried to get up from every possible angle. This ended up very similar to some of Scott Sonnon's stuff but I just improvised and did whatever I felt like to do. This exercise is really dandy for the hips and great fun too, I encourage everyone to try it! Btw, the follwing (excellent!) blog post inspired me to do it: http://www.sukiebaxter.com/?p=1