08.01.15 am CONDITIONING
I got up at 5 with relative ease.
I really need to do a laundry day; I’ve seriously fallen behind here haha
On the gym floor for 6.00am.
There were four of us training.
This kettlebell session comprised of 5 exercises back to back.
This constituted one round.
I performed 5 rounds with double 20kg bells.
The core circuit was 4 exercises. 10 repetitions a station and 4 rotations.
Nice tidy little session, tough but enjoyable!
RPE:8
pm BOXING
I arrived at the boxing gym and there was another am club visiting for sparring.
I managed to get 3 rounds light sparring. I had to completely hold back, but by attenuating my weak points I exposed a few areas I need to work on badly.
Next were some defense drills and calisthenics.
Finally PJ, an old friend and good trainer took me for some padwork. I’ve been doing a lot of padwork with PJ lately and it is certainly helping.
We did about 8 x 3’s of easy technical pads- repeating isolated combinations or movements.
This was really enjoyable and was again beneficial. Another coach - Hughie, lent a critical eye.
They were much more complimentary than I would have been.
I sense some bad habits and mistakes that I must erase immediately.
RPE: 6
So it was 10.00 before I got home and 10.30 before I was washed, had my casein and glutamine in.
I ran out of ZMA so that is on the shopping list.
I went to bed and fell asleep just after 12.00 I think.
I know that I was having a really good sleep until I woke at 2.30. I heard a bang.
I thought I was dreaming at first, but then sure enough i heard it again and again.
I got up and I checked the front door, the back door and initially I couldn’t figure it out.
Our house is heated using a solid fuel furnace. It heats the LPHW for the radiators.
The ash door had come open and the furnace heat exploded. It heated the water system to 96 degrees celsius!
(100 celsius being boiling point!)
Released the pressure through the PRV and simply running off the hot water in the house.
It was pretty crazy.
Sleep ruined = morning off.