Day 93 (Osaka) : Man, that's physical

I started working out in earnest tonight. It's been a long time since I worked out for more than ten or fifteen minutes with my super sets. Tonight I did a full upper body work out, tons of stretching, and a new ab super set that I pulled from a training video last night. I was able to keep a hand stand for about thirty seconds using the wall for support, which isn't too impressive but I was already pretty worn out when I tried it. The frog squat is still crazy difficult for me to maintain because my balance is bad.

The funny thing is when I kick my legs out to keep from smashing my face on the floor it's semi-sorta planche like for a second. The strain on the muscle is crazy though because it builds up from my wrist to my upper thighs in less than a second and after I'm totally drained. I guess that's why gymnasts have to train all the time to do the crazy stuff they do.

School is pretty much the same Mondays and Fridays. The other three days of the week we split our two hours after lunch for elective classes. I'll be reviewing JLPT study guides on Wednesday and Thursday with conversation drills on Thursdays. Hopefully that will help fill the gap that's killing me in the interview portion of the placement exams. It should be interesting, so I'm going to start scoring coffee and energy drinks to get through the day a little more awake.

Frog Stand Static Test: ~3 seconds

This is technically my first day working on this progression so I guess any seconds at all is a good sign. My wrists hurt a lot so I'm going to take a break for the day. From here I'm going to focus on my wall stands until my arms and wrists get used to supporting the weight just to be on the safe side. I'll see where I stand next Monday. For clarity I yoinked this picture from the Cross Fit forums, credit goes to the old guy for pulling it off. The main point here is that the legs rest behind the elbow so it doesn't require as much core strength to tuck the legs. Still hella hard though.