Today I went to yoga in the morning (I’m becoming an addict… uh oh) then went and did some work until our strength/conditioning workout, which was tough. Yoga is nice; it brings me back to my ballet days, and it leaves me feeling SO much better afterwards. Anyway, for S+C, we were told to expect a really tough day since we don’t train hard on Saturdays. We did a jogging warmup, then we did strength:
Back squats, 5×5
(35lb bar warmup)
1×5– 55lbs
2×5–65lbs
3×5–85lbs
4×5–85lbs
5×5–85lbs
Pullups, 5×5
After strength, we went on to conditioning. We did two six-minute “metcon” workouts, which from what I can tell, is some kind of special S+C coach lingo for “try to make your athletes puke.”
First 6-min round:
2 air squats, 2 pullups
4 air squats, 4 pullups
6 air squats, 6 pullups
[and so on]
I got to midway through my set of twelve pullups.
After this, we got a 2 minute break, then we went outside where we ran sprints/jogged back to the line (20 sec jog) for six minutes. It was tough. I thought I was going to throw up. Yayyy?
I needed a mental break today so J and I went down to Balboa Park to see the Instruments of Torture exhibit at the Museum of Man. That may not sound like much of a mental break, but it was nice to spend some time with him because he’s as nerdy as I am in his own way. Not a single discussion of BJJ was had, which was absolutely awesome. We did, however, see some (real!) Egyptian mummies, Iron Maidens, stocks, guillotines, two racks, a pear of anguish, a head crusher, chastity belts, Mayan stellae, and a Japanese friendship garden.
Those are not real skulls.
J discovers that the ancient indigenous Mexican who made this necklace was part of the rebel alliance and a traitor.
It was a really nice way to spend the afternoon but it was a little chilly. Now I’m pretty exhausted, so I may go to sleep early. I am such an old person, but I don’t even mind. Tomorrow I think I’m going to go wander in the canyon by myself… I’ve been quite introverted lately, I’m not sure what’s up. I’ve just needed to be inside my head, I guess, or maybe I’ve just been preferring to be around people that don’t demand a lot from me emotionally. I’ve been doing a lot of soul-searching, but I’ve not come to any conclusions at this point. Mostly I’m just going, hoping that something will click and start to make sense.
Ummm. Japanese friendship garden… I googled it for connections to “torture” and am coming up empty. I take it this was an adjunct attraction and not part of the torture exhibit?
haha yeah, there’s a Tea Garden in the park near the museum. Although the Japanese are just as likely to kill you with formality and friendship as they are to rip out your tongue with a red-hot pair of tongs. All the torture instruments were from the Middle Ages, mostly the Inquisition.