Rest days, levelling up and ripples

Yesterday was a rest day - mainly imposed by the previous night's damn good party.

Today - last day of week two of the running program, I'm going to be repeating most of the weeks twice I think. Today was a 25min brisk walk, which was fine, there's going to be more walking this week as reconnaissance for the Asylum Justice walk continues. As for me it's looking like a 60mile-er over two days, maybe camping in the middle.

Morning sets also done with a little levelling up - I am now up to 7 full press-ups, which is good, I am on course for my target of 10 by the end of May. I also added 5 to my weights exercises - so that is now 15 bicep curls and 15 skullcrushers, which is the end of my range, so I'm happy with that. Just because I added 10 onto each of the shadow boxing drills, it makes that into a good warm down.


So - that's all good, what about these ripples. Well I was rambling about the good behaviour of my boxing club at a ball a few weeks ago and that seems to have turned into a discussion regarding an unarmed tournament at Fightcamp this year. Oops, I didn't really mean for that to happen. I sort of feel as if I should really take part, though I'm really not very good and will probably die. Another reason to keep training hard though :)

Level up

Today was level up day in running - I was going to run later but felt quite good and awake at 0610 this morning so thought I'd go for it.
Today was 4x 2mins run
3mins walk

(I have to say I think I'm running rather than jogging, though I'm not really sure of the difference between slow running and jogging)

I have also completed the extended morning sets (see previous entry as to what all of that entails).

The running is harder than it's meant to be in the book - the book says 50-60% effort and I think I was at 60-70%, up to 80% at the end (based on the 'talk test') which is not very good. I'm also a little down that it seems to take me two weeks to level up when all the programs go weekly. Oh well.

Rest Day and progress

Today is supposed to be a mostly rest day (but its really nice out so this may change).
I washed my swiming kit yesterday for this weekend so am not going for a swim.
However we did level up on the morning sets, so from now on it will be:
15 tricep dips (no change)
20 crunches (+5)
15 leg raises (+5)
6 real press-ups (+1)
9 girly press-ups (predictably...-1)

Yes this sounds like a RPG character sheet, but then I was once sold the idea of physical training as 'look if you don't train you're just min/maxing your stats, and you know what a bad idea that is'.

Plus the idea of 'level up' as little 8-bit fanfares in my head, so it's a good psychological trick.

If there is anyone reading this - keep your fingers crossed for surf!