Saturday, December 19, 2009

Fitness-12/18-active rest

Thursday

I had a big day at the gym planned but when I woke up this morning, I knew it wasn't to be. My upper back and neck (from whatever I did when I felt a twinge on Tuesday jumping rope) were hurting good. I'd gone to sleep in pain, hoping I'd wake in the morning feeling good. Instead, I tossed and turned all night and woke up feeling worse. I spent most of the day on the couch resting up and then decided to go into the gym about 8pm and take myself through a thorough warm-up and some nice and light active rest work. I went through a ton of different, light-load movements. The only "work" I did (not timed) was:

-1k row
then, 5 rounds of:
-10 ghd hip extensions
-10 ghd situps
-200m row

I went through this nice and mellow, with no rests, but very slow and methodically. It felt good and really helped to loosen me up. I finished with some serious stretch and foam roll work.

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