3/1/2010

Had second appointment with Demigoddess Cori. She is the schiznit. Now, all you great big Manly Men may point and laugh at the vision of dudes rolling around on a mat, perched on a hard foam roller, but I have to say that I walked into that appointment with a sore, unstable knee from yesterdays squatting, and I walked out with a knee that felt about 95% capacity.

I look at photos of Larry Brock and Mike Pockoski and Bruce Aitkin laid out in extended hammer position and I can't conceive of how I'll ever get there. Well, now I have a nifty stretch to ease up those lats and delts and increase flexibility in my shoulders. Not only that, but it uses one of those trendy latex balls, to annoy the Alpha Males . We talked over doing suitcase dead lifts instead of "regular" dead lifts and I did them for her and got the nod. I like 'em, she likes 'em so Suitcase Deads it is. I put the dumbells on the lowest plyo boxes (about 8 inches) and pull from there.

So I now have a T-Th routine through the end of March... AND...demigoddess Cori might come out on Sunday to our throws group and meet the guys and see what it's all about .

T-Th routine...light

exercise ball single/double delt/lat stretch

suitcase deads

bosu balance squats... I think I'm going to basically do light overhead squats on the bosu and go really slow to work calves

single-leg crossbody cable chops

spend a good 15 minutes with a foam roller on my inner leg adductors, glutes and pirriformis and quads. The 15-20 minutes we spent today worked flipping miracles on my right knee. I can commit to this!