Adam’s Challenge: PSOTFED (Pull Sh** Off The Floor Every Day) – Week 2
We’re already halfway through the month! Geez it’s going by fast.
To my great pleasure, the last week has been heavier than the first. Nothing extravagant but I’m getting back at ease with my regular training.
The last few days I’ve been giving a lot of thought about something that’s been nagging at me for some time: the fact that I can’t seem to focus on a limited number of things for a given time, in order to see faster progress on those. Something always seems to be in the way of that, plus the fact that I got so many different goals. I’m getting closer to selecting no more than 3 families of movement which are going to be my focus for some weeks, before I switch it up. I’m curious where it’ll take me.
May 9th
Olympic Clean
155lbs with 5 sets for 12 reps
May 10th
Deadlift Behind Back
275 lbs with 1 set for 1 rep
May 11th
Power Clean & Jerk Read more
Adam’s New Challenge: PSOTFED (Pull Sh** Off The Floor Every Day) – Week 1
So Adam reiterated very quickly with a new challenge for the month of May: to pull something off the floor every day of the month. As much as possible, to publish videos.
So far so good for the first 8 days! Except that yesterday I completely forgot about it; at least I saved the day by pulling a half-dozen BIXI bikes from their racks because they were all either locked down, or broken.
So this week’s lifts have been rather light all week; I believe the reasons for this are two-fold. First, I came back from vacation a week ago. Life routine has been different, and it seems my body kinda feels the need to “get back into it” to recover from the break. Secondly, I was practicing plyometric jumps (for parkour) and had a bad landing, which has triggered substantial pain in my hip in the last 5 days. Sometimes it fades a bit, but then it comes back. Will probably visit my osteopath to help me fix myself up.
Here’s the breakdown since May 1st until today:
May 1st
Pull-up behind the head
-75lbs with 3 sets for 38 reps in 4:10
May 2nd (Rest day)
Double Kettlebell 1-hand Deadlift
40kg with 1 set for 1 rep
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May 3rd
Barbell Snatch
115lbs with 1 set for 1rep Read more
Weekly Progress Report: 2012-04-02
End of term, quick update, no time, blah blah blah.
Challenge #8: Iron Cross
Intensity PR on the Muscle-Up! I was able to use the -50lbs deloading band for the first time this week. Here’s me doing 2 of them:
I started exploring my options to improve my keeping close to the bar as I come up. It turns out I have the flexibility, but lacking the strength to pull while closer. As I’m working up the load, I’ll also be working smaller movements with the bigger band (-75lbs) to increase strength in weaker areas of the muscle-up.
Varia
The technical constraint I was talking about in my previous report, was that this website’s server went down. Since I had no control over it and/or contact information, I realized I was really vulnerable to that kind of event. Of course I make regular backups, but it still had been a while.
Now I have transferred the site over a hosting service with which I have full management control, and paying for my own account. Uptime should be pretty decent in the future.
Weekly Progress Report: 2012-01-23
I finally recovered from my bout of less frequent training. Friday and Saturday I got a lot of volume in; it felt much better.
Challenge #11: Origami!
I bought some origami paper! Now I won’t have to cut a letter-size sheet every time.
2 more are done. It probably took me less time to do these 2 than to do my first one. That is of course a good thing, because as you know I got a friggin’ thousand to do. Just out of curiosity, maybe I should time myself doing one.
I would say the hardest part, especially with that small paper, Read more
Weekly Progress Report: 2012-01-16
Hola fellas!
Challenge #6: Straddle Press to Handstand
Since last week, most of my physical training was turned away from my main goals. Thus I made progress, but nothing worth showing up here. In the meantime I will let my body rest more than usual and do stuff that is different for a bit.
Keep ya posted!
Challenge #11: Origami!
Add that to the fact that I currently got no imagination for new PicLetters, this progress report was not bound to go very well. No matter, I say! Let us start something else!
After all, I DO have a friggin’ THOUSAND pieces of paper to fold up and string together.
Before I can do 1000 of them, I had to learn to make one first. The first one. Yeah. Typically the very one that looks the most awful while taking you the most amount of time to complete.
Took me more than an hour. I wonder if it was 2.
Weekly Progress Report: 2012-01-09
My Vacation of the Year™ is already over. Back to Work and Stuff™ !
Challenge #6 : Straddle Press to Handstand
Elbow Planche: I got it! 67 seconds max hold, effectively adding 9 seconds to my last record and blasting the goal away. On to the next step of learning hand balanding: trying it out as much as possible!
Tuck Planche: 11 seconds! Steady progress. I’ve been experimenting with movements and variations based on Darryl’s work, but Read more
Weekly Progress Report: 2012-01-03
They’re back! Welcome to 2012!
Challenge #6: Straddle Press to Handstand
10 seconds on the Tuck Planche. I’m working on application of the latest hints Darryl has given me; one that’s proving tricky is attempting to bend more forward. I’ve also Read more
Weekly Progress Report: 2011-11-23
Aloha!
Challenge #6: Straddle Press to Handstand
A couple of things. First, it’s unfortunate as I was unable to catch it on video, but last Thursday I successfully stood my Tuck Planche for 5 seconds, thus adding another second to my latest max PR.
I’m at 15 seconds for the Tuck Front Lever;
And also 15 seconds for a satisfyingly straight Elbow Planche. Read more
Weekly Progress Report: 2011-11-08
This guy knows how to move. Seriously.
Challenge #6: Straddle Press to Handstand
On the same day I succeeded in doing my very first Kong Vaults, out of the blue I also decided I would try my Elbow Planche directly on the ground. I had tried it last summer, and I acutely remember failing miserably to even appear to have a semblance of position.
Well, it’s a wee bit different nowadays:
You know what? Balancing is the shit.
Challenge #10: The PicLetters
New letter! It’s a Pirate-related letter. Read more
Weekly Progress Report: 2011-10-24
Muppets are cool. Admit it.
Challenge #6: Straddle Press to Handstand
I can now hold a Tuck Planche for 2 seconds!
Remaining time to reach target: 58 seconds. And this position is much more about strength than balance. When I can get about 10 seconds I’ll start testing movements with the legs in that position, to add variety to the training.
