Ok !!! I’ll see how things go this week…
Tuesday, Feb. 15h, 2011
Today was raining all day. I’ve never experienced a more slippery track on rainy days, than the one I use here in Milan. I’m scared to do drills…
Anyhow, I have many niggles … maybe it’s part of the ‘transition’. But I’m having trouble finding myself. Not only am I not ‘springy’, but my shin bothers me, and like I said yesterday, I feel ‘out of equilibrium’.
But no rush 
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15min bike
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3 laps warm up
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3 x 200m skips (the ‘girly’ kind) with 100m jogs inbetween (sometimes I substitute these skips with jogging, when jogging hurts. Plus I find the surface on this track so hard, that skips are better, plus it was too muddy/puddy to run on the dirt). Anyhow, silly details…
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10min dynamic stretching
at the bleachers: (covered, so no rain there =) )
- 2 x 13 upward lunges (doubles - these stairs are much higher than my stairs in Thessaloniki)
- 16 x 26 stairs (singles - too scared to do doubles! Not springy enough yet for this kind of height). Walk down recoveries
- 3 x 13 upward lunges
Gym:
- Leg press machine (no rack for free back-squats, but I don’t want to do those anyway, because I think I have a back issue when i do those) : 3 x 8 @ 50, 60, 70 kg (I honestly think I shouldn’t go heavy/crazy with this… I think I have a low back defect (it’s almost in the butt area) - it just doesn’t feel ‘right’, but it doesn’t hurt, per say… I just feel that it could ‘break’ any minute, if I went much heavier.
I still haven’t followed Jamirok’s advice to get it MRI’ed… life gets so much in the way :rolleyes:
(too much rambling and not much reporting… so here we go: ) - Bench Press: 3 x 8 @ 16, 27, 36, 40 kg
- Swiss Ball Glute bridges: 3 x 12 reps
- Bent Rows: 3 x 8 (w/ dumbbells) @ 12, 12, 16kg (total weight) This exercise also feels strange in my ‘tail’ area.
- Lat. Pull Downs: 2 x 8 @ 40, 45kg
- Seated Front presses (w/bar): 3 x 8 @ 16, 20, 26 kg
- Seated Rows: 2 x 8 @ 30, 35 kg
(abs in the beginning, in between and after)
- 15min biking