Day 9: 21 November 2014 Push/Pull Step 1

Last day of Step 1 Pushups and Pullups, and I'm looking forward to moving on. Did the progression set as usual. The first set of pushups were fingertip pushups. As I move to step 2, I'll have to decide how to continue doing fingertip work. I could continue to do my first set as fingertip, but as I progress, I may be pushing the fingers too hard. I suppose I'll play it by ear.

Krav Maga last night was fun. It was exactly what I was looking for, a different activity to do once a week to break up the routine. I had one small triumph there. An early warmup was a kind of paired pushup. When you reached the top of your pushup, you would reach out with one hand and slap the opposite hand of your partner. It's difficult to explain - I'll see if I can find a video. In any case, the job was to do 15 of them, which went off perfectly. They were very fast, and therefor much simpler than the CC equivalent would be. When I started trying to get back in shape this summer, I took a fitness test and could only do 15 pushups in a minute, and that was a real struggle. It was really nice to be able to knock out 15 without breaking a sweat. Reminded me of the good old days.

3x40 Vertical Pull-ups

1x50 Fingertip Wall Push-ups

2x50 Wall Push-ups