Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Two Hard Workouts

Yesterday I had two hard workouts!

Quick, but tough workouts.

They followed in the frame of my In and Out Workouts.

Each lasted just under 15 minutes.

The first, was the Challenge at the studio around 1pm... the first attempt at it.. took me 8:42. But it was 8:42 of hell! You can see a sneak peek of the challenge by clicking here.

Or viewing below:


The second, was my DelMonte inspired workout I'm following about 5pm.

Here's what I did:

DB Incline Press x 4 reps
Single Leg Front Squat x 4 reps
One Arm DB Row x 4 reps

It was great.

I did 5 sets of the above exercises.

I really dig front squats and single leg squats over back squats with a traditional barbell... especially since I've suffered traumatic back injuries in my mid-teens and early twenties.

If I had a safety squat bar I'd probably do them more, but I do just fine with unilateral training. Besides, we walk and run on one leg at a time, why not train on one leg at a time?

Today's workouts have been consisting of lots of foam rolling and dynamic stretching to loosen everything back up.

If you're not paying attention to your soft tissue quality, I'd advise you do so soon. It's highly important, especially if you want to recover faster from your training sessions.

Keep your head up, and don't forget to nail it in your own sessions ;)


Rob


PS - I'm very proud of Gail at the studio! She had a great first month of losing a number of inches at the studio :) Very proud of her!