Zen and the lifting of heavy things.

db flies: 3×8@25.

Front raises:  3×8@25.

Bicep curls:  3×8@25.

kb lifts; 2×20@54

Push-num-dip-crunch: 40/25/30/30

So up a little from last time – the shoulder is still sore, but I think strengthening. I doubled my jogging distance yesterday!

db flies: 3×8@22.

Front raises:  8@32, 8@22.

Bicep curls:  3×8@22.

kb lifts; 2×20@54

Pushcrunchdips: 30/20/20/30 – pushups, numbers, dips, crunches. The crunches are done as slow as possible.

This, again, is maintenance on a dodgy shoulder. Trapeze tonight, also.

db rows: 2×8@54

db flies: 2×8@35.

Front raises:  2×8@35.

Bicep curls:  8/6@32.

kb lifts; 2×20@54

Pushcrunchdips: 30/24/20

And I jogged first, of course. And in 2 hours I have silkls, and after work, trapeze. Wheeee….

So this jogging thing seems to be working. In ten days, I have lost 1.5 kilos. I rarely weigh myself, because it’s not a terribly meaningful thing – I weigh the same as Vitaly, one of our catchers, because I am well padded with fat, and he is built like a brick shithouse. So weight itself is not something I obsess about. But every now and then, it’s a nice indicator that I am doing the right thing.

db rows: 2×8@54

db flies: 2×8@35.

Front raises:  8/7@35.

Bicep curls:  7/5@32.

kb lifts; 2×20@54

Pushcrunchdips: 30/24/25

Nearly back to where I was when I stuffed the shoulder, and taking into account silks training yesterday, I’m pretty happy! And, of course, I jogged this morning.

db flies: 2×8@32.

Front raises:  2×8@32.

Bicep curls:  8/5@32.

kb lifts; 2×20@54

Pushcrunchdips: I dunno, I forgot to count. One set, 20s for everything.

And I’m jogging 5 days a week. Trying to work out if lifting 3 days a week will make me weaker for trapeze or stronger. I think I’ll keep it up – lift in the morning on the usual days, and trapeze in the evenings.

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!