Haiku is too easy

[flexagon]

A rather boring cold October day.
I should have worn my jacket. Now I see.
I told the cats don't shed until Friday
But do not think they're listening to me.

At work, I didn't get much done today.
I'm lonely now that all my friends have quit.
A little progress would help to allay
this feeling that I'm sort of faking it.

Then yoga -- by a strange coincidence
we worked on straddle-ups in class. And though
I meant to post of something else for once
I'm working on them still, and now you know.

All day I loved and hated life, in turns.
I want to quiet my brain, but still it churns.

Comments

[nevers.livejournal.com]

see, i can only do about 8 pushups (if i'm doing 3 sets) before my arms and chest get too tired (and it's clearly them, not my abs, that are giving out) so i don't think i need anything harder. when i can do 3x12 i want to elevate my feet, toward the eventual handstand pushup goal.

the glute/ham natural thing looks amazing! i want to start doing ham curls for my heel hang on trapeze
http://impactartists.co.uk/images/Aerialists/ulali2.jpg
i am close to being able to support myself like that but not quite there.

doing curls for knee stability is smart. they are a backup for the acl and that's another reason i should probably do them.

squats don't do ANYTHING for jumps? hmmm. maybe i should just have a front handspring practice. sadly equinox's fitness classrooms both have wood floors (my old gym's was padded) so i don't feel comfortable tumbling there.

[flexagon]

the only way I can do glute/ham naturals at all is to hook my feet under something and then basically just sway forward until I feel I'm about to give out. theoretically I could eventually get all the way down.... hmm, wonder if I could assist this somehow with a cable machine, running the cable over my shoulders from behind me to make my upper body lighter? something to look into.

as for the handstand pushup goal, moving slowly from flat pushup to hs pushup will move the load from mostly-pecs to mostly-delts. this is actually a place where (I imagine) free weights might help a lot. sitting/standing up with weights, you could do the right arm/shoulder motion with weights you can handle, and slowly increase the weights. might make for more direct improvement than training one muscle group then shifting the load to another.

squats could do something for jumps if they're jump squats! to do them, just hold some light dumbbells against your hip creases. squat and jump and squat and jump. i never do these anymore. :)

I never knew my curls were helping back up my acl, just knew my knees started feeling more stable. thank you, that makes more sense now!

[nevers.livejournal.com]

ooh, the cable assist sounds very interesting!

are you saying that moving from flat pushup to hspu would be good because it would slowly shift the load from one muscle group to the other, or that it would be bad because suddenly my delts would have to do most of the work whereas i wasn't working them before?

there's this great list of plyo exercises for power:
http://www.performanceworkouts.com/exercise_guides_power_1.shtml
but i just don't know... i have never seen a "plyo box" at either of the gyms i've tried, and as i've mentioned before, making myself do this stuff is hard because it doesn't feel fun. this is why i need a training partner. but also, neither of the gyms i've tried has had a community bulletin board!

[flexagon]

I was saying it would be bad because you'd be training one group of muscles and then asking a different set of muscles to do the work. Weights seemed like a better approach... but so do the kickups we're working on now. Lower and lower, then kick less and less until it's a press... yeah. :)

Those plyo exercises look kick-ass. I don't see them doing anything with that "plyo box" that you couldn't do with an aerobics step though.