Wednesday, August 1, 2007

Insane in the P-Chain

The sun is shining bright over my first (official) day of the program designed by Mike. Starting ahora, I'll be logging gym sessions, practices/conditioning work, and noteworthy breakfasts mostly for my own reference, but would be grateful for any feedback or observations! My training goals for this phase are to "improve mobility and movement efficiency." This really means: wake up those glutes, get me some hula-skirt-swaying hip mobility and develop some speed/conditioning on the side.

I should mention that my workouts run about an hour in duration, but about 3/4 of that time is focused on soft tissue work, mobility drills and static stretching and activation work. Trust me, by 5:59am my glutes are more awake than a 6 year old on Festivus morning. (And they could probably crack those chestnuts roasting on the open fire, too!)

Day 1 - Lower body

3x10 (90s rest):

1)Static lunge w/ knee cave - bodyweight
2)Romanian deadlift - 130lbs (chest up, finish with glutes)
3)Spirited pelvic thrusts (aka Pull Throughs) - 50lbs
4)Single leg lowering - need to ask Mike about these

I won't log my prep work (foam rolling, MM drills, etc) in the interest of efficiency and also in consideration for Mike's efforts in designing programs.

For anyone suffering from breakfast boredom, I encourage you to pick up some high quality sprouted grain bread and let your imagination take over! My breakfast #2 was pretty rock and roll!

PWO meal:
1 slice Ezekiel cinnamon raisin toast (toasted) with a thin layer of almond butter and blueberries and strawberries all schmooshed on top. Protein source on the side :)
Taaastey!

Stoked for tonight's sprint work at the track in the haat haat heat. 5x4x4x100(50m walk)repeats - gah!

Have a lovely everyone!

1 comment:

plant lady said...

It is going to be fun reading your w/o. Looking forward to that carrot cake. :)
Diana