Thursday Night Home Paining

nah, I meant 'training' not 'paining'.

I am shattered. Good things though. My FlexStraps arrived today, as I mentioned earlier, so I attached them to my PowerBar and got cracking with a workout based on exercises from the Gravity Advantage and the Elastic Steel books, here's what happened:

1) 10 x Horizontal Pullups, then 30 standard press ups. I did this 3 times round, 2nd time I did 20 pressups, 3rd time I did 15. Pressups particularly hard tonight maybe because of the elevated press ups I did yesterday.
2) Lunges to front and rear x 10 each leg (once front and back counts as one rep), then 10 x Hamstring curls on the straps. I did this 3 times round.
3) Pressup position Ab pike thingy (feet suspended on straps, hands on floor making pressup position then bring knees to chest) x 12, static press up stability hold (straps close to floor, hands on straps and just hold the position) for 30 seconds, this made be work hard ! I did this 3 times round.

Then 50 kick backs each leg
20 side plank raises each side
Static Conditioning: Horse Stance 1 minute then rest then another minute. OMG, was I hammered after this, HARD! Then 1 minute each leg on the lunge stange thingy. This did totally knacker me and totally tired my muscles out just as Paul Zaichik implies in the ES book.

Then I moved in to some deep stretches. I worked the Side Split routine in the Elastic Steel manual and I found that my back and sides are not very flexible, really quite tight actually. However, I have worked side splits a lot over the years I have done TKD am confident that it wont take too long to see improvements here. On the other hand it is gonna take a while to see improvements in front splits.

Still all is good.