Road to American Ninja Warrior - Day 77

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I realized tonight that I think I've got my forearm tendonitis under control... it, ah, only took two years.

Tuesday I did a heap of pull ups and stuff, Wednesday I did a brutal ninja class and tonight I did another heap of pull ups... all without issue.

I'm sure it was only a month or so ago where I pretty much had to take a 2 day break from anything upper body after a ninja class.

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So that's exciting... I've had to keep a lid on my enthusiasm for training for so long... but I feel like maybe I can start to make small increases day by day and week by week until I start to become truly awesome at obstacles. There's so much to learn, and I need to be so much stronger to compete at any decent level, so this realization was really, really, really, really exciting. Really.

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Really.

Eventually I think I'll start to taper down my tendonitis strengthening exercises, but I'll keep going for a few weeks to make sure I really do have it under control... then I can start to spend my time doing harder things.

I'll create a post at some point about Tendonitis, and the various different methods to approach it. Overuse injuries are hard, but at least now I feel like I have some experience on the resolution side, instead of purely the affliction side.

Overuse injuries require strengthening and load balancing. It's super tough to work through, and consistency is key.

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Titan Games Trial Test

• 2 minutes jump rope
• 5 pull ups, 5 push ups
  4 pull ups, 4 push ups
  3 pull ups, 3 push ups
  2 pull ups, 2 push ups
  1 pull ups, 1 push ups
• 45 seconds plank

Tendonitis Strengthening

• 5 sets of 6 reps of slow pull ups
• 5 sets of 6 reps of slow push ups
• 5 sets of 6 reps of slow tricep dips
• 5 sets of 6 reps of squishy ball squishin'
• 5 sets of 6 reps of wrist extensions
• 5 sets of 10 reps of atomix ball grasping
• 5 sets of 10 reps of bar catching
• 5 sets of 40 second double hand lockoffs

Hands and forearms were real rough from Ninja Class, but I worked though it.

Yoga sessions (0/2 Completed)

100 Rep Challenge

• 32 Titan + 255 Tendonitis Strengthening = 287

@steemmatt's fitness challenge for Tuesday - 287 reps

Titan Games application due date - 14th April
UNAA Regional Qualifier - 5th May - Camp Rhino, Boise, Idaho.

Thanks heaps for reading... super super super appreciate it.

steemaroo divider and ninja upgoats drawn by the incredible @ryivhnn


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