psytrak

I don’t got to the gym, for me it’s all about my two kettlebells, the floor, doorway, and my Swiss ball. Since I’ve moved the pull ups have not been easy, IE no pull up bar, so I use the ledge of the doorway–Ninja Worrier style. Since I’ve set the new goal of six pack by June I decided last night was going to be 85% abs on the Swiss ball. So I was watching the Ridge Line Fitness guy on youtube and took a few of the things he was doing and worked them myself. It wasn’t until I put more air in my ball that I realized it’s too big. It’s a great seat, AWESOME for SOCOM, but that’s not happening anymore, so, it could be used for other things…..

So, there I am, working out, and lost. I didn’t write down what I wanted to do, so I couldn’t remember what set I was on, and where to stop/start. Just the slow isolated moved that I was doing where enough to make me sweat like a fat man. I finally get to the second time around on my Swiss ball for my swimmers kicks, and circles, when my wife is like, that looks dangerous. As I went to say, what are you talking about, my body weight shifted and I went upside down, getting pinned between the ball and the wall. Without blinking she say, see, that’s what I was talking about, you need good balance to do that, or you’re going to end up looking like you do now.

Did she even try to get the ball off my back, no, shit, she didn’t even stop putting things away. I swear it’s like I just went from sitting up to leaning back in her eyes. Meanwhile I’m upside down, with my chin in my chest, legs flying all over the place, as I’m trying to walk my hands up the wall to get back on top of the ball. Finally I said to myself, screw it, and fell side ways. No sooner then my leg touched the floor did I pop up, looked at here, and said, gee, thanks for the help. I wasn’t too surprised when she giggled, an Oh, ma bad, thought you had it…. Dork… that was my response to her. Think that would stop me, nope, back on the ball and I finish my set.

Since I don’t have a pull up bar I’m doing this one armed pull up mod on the swiss ball, NIIIIIIIIIIIIICE!!! I felt that more this morning then I’ve ever felt any pull ups the next day, felt so gooood! I have a curse, I can workout to failure rest ten minutes and start all over again. That sucks for the abs because I need / want to feel that breaking point, and since I don’t have a gym at home and I don’t workout at a gym it’s a hard thing to do. If anyone knows a great way to do this please let me know, oh and planks kick ass when you do this series; came up with it last night.

Plank series:

tighten the abs, flex the hips to the chest and hold for five breaths

lift right hip up and flex the left obliques — hold for five breaths

switch sides and repeat, that’s one set. I did those until failure..