Month: May 2011

Mixing this schedule right off the bat may not be the best idea so I am going to only count the IA days and not the RKC days so I don’t get lost. As it happens I am on day 6 which is a return to Speed and Agility. This was a weird week, I have had family in from out of the country, I had a gymnastics competition to do for 3 days and I have been trying to keep up with the workout. No need to tell you that things have not gone well. For one day I did a hybrid of RKC with some rope practice which was a good 40 minute workout. The next day I was able to do the warmup but a fridge emergency cancelled that workout short leaving me frustrated. So I managed to muddle through the speed and agility in pieces and the next workout will be back to strength. That will have to be tomorrow and hopefully I will be back on track. 2 weeks until the next competition so I have a good window of opportunity here to get to work. I keep meaning to do a walkthrough of the workouts to give an idea of what you are required to do but knowing that this will all be redundant and useless in short order as others with more time will get it done I don’t think I will bother.

My parents being here has been great but it does tend to curb my own enthusiasm for working out, not that I am not committed but when you only get to see your parents  a few weeks a year you tend to make a meal of it! It’s now tuesday and I am going to do strength today and then hopefully tomorrow something before gym. The ‘rents go home tomorrow evening so I hope to be able to squeeze something in if I have time. If not, I am keeping my unnecessarily obsessive beast at bay and not going to worry about it. That is another benefit of the Paleo lifestyle, if I skip a day or two of workouts I don’t end up several pounds heavier and feeling like garbage.

 

Back to core is a weird little workout. I did RKC the day before (5 ladders, 34543 on the rungs) and that seemed to fit in well. Day 4 was back to core and I had expected a core workout similar to core synergistics but was surprised by a workout that attempted to work the back and the core. It was a little bit like stretch X meets Yoga X, it really didn’t know where it was coming from and for an extreme workout for the back and core not to use the chin up bar was, well, bizarre.  There were some effective and inventive moves involving bands that no matter how effective they may be only manage to make you feel like a home gym failure who can’t use dumbbells or chin up bars. It was not a difficult workout and I think I would find it a little short on the challenging scale after a few rounds. Vertical Plyo however was a rude awakening. It was like P90X plyo meets Insanity on steroids. The workout was fierce, varied, challenging and interesting. I was toasted by the rope jumps again but all in all this was an enjoyable workout. I have been critical of PlyoX in the past and admit that I was far more fond of Insanity Plyo Cardio and this was a fitting evolution of the concept. There is plenty to challenge even the most determined grasshopper out there and for me, there is much to be achieved.