Over my four-day weekend... Day 1: FMA training, two hours I guess, with my training partner. My homework (that I unfortunately did not do as much of as I should have) is basically true lines, true lines, true lines, true lines, true lines, true lines, true lines. Did I say true lines? (As opposed to playing patty cake and making pretty stick noises.) Also some wrist and arm strengthening exercises, 8s, some drills, deflections, you know, Guro Dan's stuff. My ultimate goal is to see if I can maybe be like 5% as good as my instructor one day, and since he's half-Jedi and half Morpheus, it may take me a lifetime to get to that point.
Day two, long hike (4 miles but it took a couple hours because I just had to stop and talk about every single plant we saw.)
Day three I was off.
Day four was just the same ol' gym routine, 3 sets of the following exercises (except decided to mix it up a bit by increasing weight and decreasing reps on the 2nd and 3rd set).
seated leg press
seated leg curl
leg extension
hip abduction 1
hip abduction 2
rotary calf
torso rotation
chest press
pull down
incline press
row/rear delt
fly
overhead press
arm extension
arm curl
I can actually do the fly thing now, which is good, at first I could only do like two reps... lol
And then after the weights I did the whole 20 minute interval thingy on the elliptical. I pushed myself harder this time and it kicked my ass again, but I wasn't as sore the next day (today) so that's good.
Am gonna try to increase my distance during those 20 min.
Day 5 today I'm gonna practice true lines true lines true lines true lines on my own tonight, Day 6 tomorrow I'll do pilates and after that the same gym routine over again. I'll start tracking numbers so I'll have something to post when I improve in time/distance, instead of making everyone read the same "I did three strength circuits and twenty minutes of interval elliptical" routine over and over again .
Tom's exercises seem much cooler and more varied.