Today for the hardest part of my core work out I decided to do full body ab wheel roll outs. I often do the variety where you stay on your knees instead of your toes. With my gorilla length arms, even doing that movement is very challenging. I normally don’t do them on my toes because, I can’t.
So today I decided the next best thing was to do negatives of the movement where I descend as far as I can into the hold before failure, which results in crashing to my knees. I did sets of three negatives at a time. It felt like I got down pretty far but I had no mirror in sight to confirm the depth.
When failure comes it originates from my lower back. It just feels like there is tremendous torque being generated across that area. I try to hold a hollow back position to off set the strain but I just can’t hold it. I’m hoping if I keep doing the negatives eventually what is now weak and failing will toughen up to hold me above the floor with only two points of contact roughly eight feet apart.
Today’s Workout
5 minutes cardio/stretching
Strict pull ups x 15
Push ups x 50
Hanging knee raise x 20
Ab wheel roll out negative x 3
Standing dowel oblique rotation x 20
Ab wheel roll out negative x 3
Standing dowel oblique rotation x 20
Ab wheel roll out negative x 3
Standing dowel oblique rotation x 20
Hanging knee raise x 20
Standing one arm oblique side raises – 45lbs x 10
Dip bar knee raise x 20
Standing one arm oblique side raises – 65lbs x 10
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