I don't like Mondays

Soooooooo, yesterday then. MMMM, what happened. I did some joint rotations and a few squats and light stretches in the morning, when to work (all day, which is unusual for me) then came home and got the unmistakable vibe of "There's no way you are going out to TKD tonight James, there's just no way"

So, of course I try to get ready to get out the house but I am made late and I hate being late so I didn't go, BUT I didn't let her off that easily. I trained at home instead.

Up goes the Pull up bar and the suspension training straps and it went like this:

Horizontal rows to max 3 sets with 30 seconds rest. (I am weak) 15, 10, 10
Press Ups to max 3 sets with 3 seconds rest. 25, 20, 15
Wide squats. 50
Reverse crunches 3 sets of 25

Then I moved in to Extended Length Conditiong (ELC) and used the green band but I was short for time and the TV wasn't even on to distract her so rather than go for 3 different exercies for inside, outside and back of leg I went for the circular motions to work all sides in one go.

Then I moved in to deep stretching for the front splits routine. My hip flexors are getting more flexible, slightly, my hams are calf muscles are getting stretchy too - i can definitely feel progess here.

Years ago I had a book called Stretching, by (I think) Bob Anderson (Mr. Anderson!) and I gound that his advice of relaxing in to a stretch really helped me get really quite flexible back then. So I have modifed the front splits routine slightly in that I use supports either side of me. I can use my hand on these props to take weight and allow my legs and hips to relax in to their new position. I am finding this gives me a better result than not using the props.

It is about time I took some more photos, perhaps later this week.

(I am going to have to think hard about next Mondays message title, I am running out of songs I know)