Waking the Dragon (Ninja Warrior 2014)

Yup!  Audition video is live!  Sorry I haven't been posting training blogs lately, but I'm still keeping at it =D

5x7 Pullups 5x7 Bodyweight Rows 5x5 Chinups Notes:  Yeesh, not a great day.  Muscles felt like lead, joints weren't happy either.  I think the shoveling yesterday took more out of me than I thought, my back/arms definitely weren't recovered.  Oh well, better than nothing.

Day 52: Moving a pool table up three floors with two and a half other people. Notes: Holy shit.  I think this thing weighed like 800 lbs, literally.  My god. Why did I do leg day before this beast? Day 53: 5x10 Pushups w/40 lb backpack 5x5 Dumbbell Overhead Press (49 lbs) 5x5 Butterfly Curls (36 lbs) 5x5 Wall Dips 5x10 Tricep Pushup 5x5 Side Lateral Raises (26 lbs) 5x20 Bicycle Crunches 5x15 Second Pike Hangs Notes: Hangover workout, wheeeee...happy new year!

5x10 Pushups w/40 lb backpack 5x5 Overhead Dumbbell Presses (49 lbs) 3x5 Bodyweight Dips 3x5 Butterfly Curls (36 lbs) Notes: Blegh.  Started out tired for this workout (long day at work), so my form wasn't really the best.  Got it done, though.  Tomorrow is legs.

Notes: Got a new gripper for christmas!  Not able to get the full close on it yet, but I'm relatively close.  Also working my way up to 5x8 pullups (I will admit, my form on the last set kind of sucked...)  Also adding my straight-leg deadlifts to my pull day, instead of my leg day, so I can start alternating front squats and regular deadlifts as my main compound lift on leg day.

Notes: Workout with my son and wife again, kept it a little more regimented this time.  Good stuff.

Notes: Working my way up to fifty of each in a workout.  Once we get there, we start introducing variations.  Was a late workout, kind of slow getting started, but I felt strong about halfway through, and no pain from my neck/shoulder.  Good stuff.

43: 3x10 Pushups (w/30 lb backpack) 3x5 Shoulder presses (49 lb dumbbell) 3x5 Dips Notes:  Teeny weeny workout, but better than nothing. 44: 4 minutes tabata intervals(assorted) Notes:  Did this with my five year old son, so I had to shake up the exercises so he didn't get bored. Festivities included running in place, mountain climbers, bicycle crunches, jumping jacks, calf bounces, continuous punching, and tuck jumps. 45: Snow shoveling Running a bounce house birthday party Car pushing More snow shoveling Notes:  It counts.  Shut up. 

Notes: Just a small introductory workout.  I left out my straight and bent-arm hangs for this one, because I feel like they contributed to the neck injury in the first place.  We'll add them back in slowly.  I also didn't want to do too much volume or extra weight at first, so I stuck with three nice compound exercises with bodyweight only.  The run felt fantastic.  I haven't done any long form cardio recently (just sprints and tabata work), so I was very pleased with the outcome and my performance.  I'm working on shedding some weight so I'm not hauling as much around when I'm hanging/climbing, so I'm probably going to incorporate more cardio (HIIT and long form) in addition to cutting down on my diet.

Day 41: 1x10 hill sprints 5x10 tuck jumps Notes: Holy crap my legs hate me after this.  X__X

5x6 Pullups 5x6 Chinups 5x10 Bodyweight Rows 3x5 Dumbbell bicep curls (39 lbs) 3x5 Dumbbell rows (56 lbs) 3x20 second flexed pullup hang. 5x5 #1 captain of crush squeezes Notes: Upped the reps on my pulls and chins by one, upped the weight on my dumbbell rows, upped the time on my flex hang.  Overall felt pretty good!