Doldrums

Mixed bag today: some plyo and some upper body....

Warmed up with a five minute row.

Plyos:
Picked seven plyo exercises* and did each for 30 seconds (30 per side for things that did each leg separately or went in both directions). Repeat, for a total of 11:30 min of fairly continuous hopping/squatting.

Upper:
3 sets of 10 bench dips, feet on the ball
3 sets of 3 supported chin-ups**, feet on the ball (hands on the barbell in the squat rack)
3 sets of 12 ball transfer crunches

* Jump squats, swing kicks, split squats, circle run, leapfrog squats (very wide leg jump squats), run-stance switch jumps, twist jump combo. Look here for more.

**Wow, my chin-ups have gone to shit. Must focus!

Then, backpack hike with some playtime in the park where I did some more push-uppy and pull-uppy things on the rope climber to keep warm. You should see Tim whiz around on that thing, even with his boots and mittens. He's going to be insane on the climbers this summer.

Also, feeling unmotivated by the basement (though less so after today's workout). Toying with the idea of joining a gym. This may just be the February blahs.

Vicissitudes of winter

It was such a warm day I was tempted to do a run, but discovered while backpacking Tim to school that the streets were deceptively slippery (jeez, I hate to think which of us would get more injured in THAT accident!)

So, down to the basement:

5 min warm-up row

22 min plyos and air-boxing. Details:
Three rounds. Each round = 2 sets (4 plyo exercises/20 reps each)  + 100 reps jabs/cross-cuts/uppercuts with 2 lb dbs in each hand.

(Plyo exercise is something like jump squats, jump split squats, tuck jumps, jack squats, swing kicks, etc. 12 different moves in total.)

Napped this afternoon.

Also enjoyed an unexpected workout on Wednesday. Beautiful winter day, so Tim and I went for a walk in the woods. I pulled him in the sled twice around a 1.3 km loop, but had to "do" the 100m hill about 6 times. This involved running as fast as I could alongside the sled (half pulling, half guiding it) down the not-quite-steep-enough-for-tobogganning hill, while Tim giggled maniacally (which is better than Eminem for making you go fast). Then haul the sled back to the top to do it again. So, that's about 6 x 100m at a fast run/slow sprint pace, plus pulling the kid back up the hill. :-)

plyo

Getting nervous for 4 x 4 frisbee starting in a couple weeks. So, I started my plyo training "regimen". I'm hoping to do this (hopefully more) at least one other time between now and January 8. It's loosely (or should I say, lightly) based on the p90x plyo workout.

In a nutshell:

12 different exercises x 2 sets of each x 20 reps/set = 480 reps of mostly squatty-type thingies.
(Eg: jump squats, squat jacks, laundry jumps, jumping split squats, swing kicks, and so on.)

Which isn't actually a lot -- my workout was only about 15 minutes long (plus easy 500 m rows for warm-up and cool-down). I had a very limited workout window: finished up by eating lunch at 3:30, swallowing the last bite as Tim woke whining from his very-short nap.