Saturday, June 21, 2008

[20/06/08]

~Me/Aidan
~University

Mark joined in for a bit, was of no disturbance. Had only about 1.30hrs at hand, short session but good.

~Stretching (about 15-20mins)
~50 Catleaps (different locations because of tearing of hands)
~40+ Precisions (need to check on the technique)
~Small sets of 5-10 pushups

>Hurt the ball of my foot again, I think it's a problem of cushioning.

>Knee feels weird, but it does not hurt or feel 'bad'.

>Found a place where to do the roll, just in time.

>Need to experiment to see if there is some other catleap technique I can do, but for now it's comfy.

>MUST REP ALOT OF PULLUPS! Getting on a wall from a catleap + moving to the sides, is plain hell for me currently.

>More quadrupedal inclusions.

Monday, June 16, 2008

[16/06/08]

~Me/Aidan/Benjamin
~University

Unlike [13/06/08] I woke up quite energetic, and ate before --which made a great difference on the mental state I was in. Will keep to this pattern, as it is the most logical to have a good outcome.

The session was full of people, Aidan(redhead), Hannah & Gabby. With a newcomer, Benjamin, which seems keen to start, but wasn't in the position to train well on the day (had ninjitsu training after, and was dressed in jeans etc). Session started off slowly, with an immediate minor but discomfort creating injury from my part.

~Stretching (about 20-30mins, more organized, starting from neck and going down)
~50 Catleaps (random injury to the ball of my left foot, had to perform much of the landings in a weird way, slowed me down alot and ruined my mental state)
~Randoms (knee-to-chests+landings, precisions & wall climbs)

Session was a bit too easy-going, but the mental state is there. Will definitly have a better session next time, this time minimizing distractions if I get no injuries (I seem prone to them).

> Bruise on ball of left foot, inner-right on the outside. Hurt quite alot, happened to me before, definitly must have been a bad landing.

>Achilles tendon of right foot hurts, must be a muscle strain. Already healing slowly, had to use it more, because of left foot injury.

> Not sure but knee feels weird, but not uncomfortable in anyway, I'll have to check about it.

Friday, June 13, 2008

[13/06/08]

~Me/Aidan
~University

Woke up lazy minded, which was evident throughout the whole session. Very unorganised in comparsion to [10/06/08], feeling lack of motivation from my side (most probably because tidyness/organisation is lacking often).

Muscle sores from previous session were still present, but on a very low scale, did affect the whole thing on a very mininal scale, but did not create any discomfort.

~Stretching (about 20mins)
~Warmup: 1x Jog Around University. (30secs walk about half way through it, slowly gaining more endurance/cardio. Need to teach myself again breathing methods for running)
~Rested + Jogged to spot mentioned below. (5mins, increasing stamina slowly.)
~About 40 Vaults + landings. (Varied techniques, only about 3 landings felt uncomfortable.)
~ Over 50 precisions (Performed throughout the whole session, found a track with 4" to 5" gaps for balance/precision training.)
~Over 20 dips, 20 pushups (varied), 2 reps of upside-down wall things, 15 hanging push-ups, small set of about 10 sit ups.

Learned how to do an effective tic-tac > catleap> wall climb. (Need to build more upper-body strenght.) Wall was a bit too high for my current strenght, so was very hard to overcome.

Maybe should start planning sessions before we actually go out, and then modify depending on weather and mental situation on the day. I'll think about something soon.

> Toe-landings are near to perfection. Felt only discomfort for, maybe, just 4 landings. Should start pracisting roll seriously soon.

> Need to regain confidence between my mind and body(synch), wasn't sure about my body's ability even after I did perform jumps perfectly.

> Most probably I'll start going for sessions alone to practise more mentally inclined exercises, like technique for vaults, precisions, balance and rolls.

Thursday, June 12, 2008

[12/06/08]

~Me/Randoms/Oldschool buddies
~University 5-a-side grounds.

5-a-side football match between buddies, thought it would be good training to add up on my endurance/cardio. (Must have gone on for about an hour and a half)

Light game, started feeling lack of breath immediately, but I thought it was normal --as we did no warm-up or stretching. After the starting minutes mentioned above, I did not feel any discomfort or heavy breathing, may have been because I was playing in a quite relaxed manner, considering fatigue and muscle sores (qtuh ta' laham) from [10/06/08] training.

Obviously, sprinted, jogged & walked throughout the whole game.

Should work well for my performance, rounding up the efforts of the week with more cardio/endurance exercises.

~Muscle sores relieved alot, must be because of the warm blood flow during the match.

~No discomfort in right knee after injury.

~No dicomfort in right shin bone/muscle after [10/06/08].

Will try to still lessen impact on it as I randomly feel very very thin little weird pains, although hardly noticble. (Developing a higher sensitivity of body through exercise? Good.)

[10/06/08]

~Me/Aidan
~University

Unlike the other times, this session has been quite organised and had a routine and 'program' of what we were going to train. Hopefully all the others will have a similar layout and will be more organised and persistent, so maybe we get good results off the whole thing and progress further on.

In order:

~Stretching (about 20mins)
~Warm up: 1x Jog around the whole university, with some variations in the run similar to soccer warm ups. (Almost died without breath, need to cut smoking off completely and work more on breath/cardio)
~
Stretching (light, about 5mins)
~
50 catleaps & freeze (approx 4secs. each, no particular landing focus)
~
Stretching (very light & rested. 10mins)
~
50 wallclimbs + 50 landings (about 40 wallclimbs: wall kick and pull up with rail, the rest were performed on a normal ledged wall with varied height)

After that, Aidan(redhead) and Adrian arrived, and we mostly chilled out. I practised some precisions (one of which I almost fell, need to focus more) on different type of lenghts and form (rocks & smooth ledges mostly).

We also tried to understand how the quadripedal exercise works, but by then we were long exhausted.