Zen and the lifting of heavy things.

I used to be pleased with a combined weight of about 100 pounds for Trap shrugs. One of the exercises my coach has me doing now is a double arm hang, and what is effectively a trap pullup. No elbows, minimal other shoulder movement, just trap shrugs, pulling up my whole bodyweight. Oiy.

A 1 hour session at the moment is basically 15 minutes on the trapeze and 45 minutes warming up/stretching/cooling down. And abs. And I need to work out what other exercises to work in with it – I hit some interesting failure modes where I reckon I could work the muscle groups I need more, just not on the trapeze or in that way.  But then I also don’t want to overwork the muscles. I dunno. I shall ask coach.

Fun, though. Much fun. Even if I can’t *do* anything yet….

So, there will be fewer lifting posts in future. Because the bulk of my upper body work, I hope, will now be done on my shiny new trapeze!

Had my first lesson today. Cirque Trapeze 101 apparently goes a little like this:

Coach: “Ok, let’s start with a hang. Jump up and grab the bar with both hands”.

…

Coach: “Ok. Come down, and we’ll fix that first.”

I’m fucking hanging by both arms of a trapeze, what can there be to fix!? But, of course, it’s never that easy. And the day went much like that. But fun!