Further Conditioning Testing

So this morning I had a bit of time so I did some more benchmark testing on the basic conditioning exercises from the Elastic Steel manual.

I did the joint rotations, warm up, light stretches (which I am loving at the moment) and then moved in to the conditioning exercises where I did:

1. 50 Lunges on each side. The last 10 each side I found my balance was going, after checking I noticed I needed to tighten the abs. Legs certainly wobly afterwards. Also, with this exercise I tend to 'feel the burn' in the rear leg.
2. 50 Half Bridges on chair. The last 20 of these had my hams in trouble. Lots more work needed here.
3. 100 Side bends (50 each side). I notice that I am not that flexible on my sides.
4. 50 Adductor lifts. Yup, the burn was there from about rep 20.
5. 50 Abductor lifts. Surprisingly weak here however we did something very similar at TKD training last night. I got to 25, then I had to do 5 reps and rest for 5 seconds until I got to 50.

I had to stop there to deal with breakfast time. At the time of writing my legs certainly know they have been worked. Despite many of these exercises being very familiar to me I am surprised how much I have neglected there worth over the years - I shall continue to work them hard.

Cheery Bye,

Mr Wobbily Legs