Training for American Ninja Warrior - Day 1

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Hello hello!
Welcome to Day 1 of training for my American Ninja Warrior application video. My video needs to be amazing... and thusly I need to be amazing in it... but I do have 365 days to get good enough to submit something decent.

Since it's the first of the month, that means:

Each month I'll test myself against a series of actions that I think will be needed for the course. This first one will be the baseline. As per my explanationing post, I want to fit the following areas:

• [x] Endurance
• [x] Speed
• [x] Core Strength
• [ ] Grip Strength
• [x] Jumping
• [x] Balance
• [x] Flexibility
• [x] Diet

I won't test myself on diet... although now that I think about it, there is a bod pod so I actually could get a monthly body composition test... I look into it on the weekend.

Grip strength isn't ticked above because of my Climber's Elbow, but hopefully that won't be an issue next month. Once it's sorted I'll add Chin Ups to the monthly tests as well.

Here is how I went today (results are in minutes, seconds, microseconds) :

Section	Activity	Jan Result	Feb Result
Endurance	3.8km hills	28:48.03	-
Speed	400m sprint	1:49.08	-
Core	Plank	1:06.48	-
Core	Pushups	20	-
Grip	Deadhang	00:42.21	-
Jumping Dist	Jump	191 cm	-
Jumping Vert	Jump	263 cm	-
Balance	Slackline	1 cross	-
Flexibility	Splits	45 cms	-

I've got a slackline set up in my Ninja Shed... so I thought a good test would be to see how many times I could go back and forth between the two beams. I haven't used it for months... I crossed once and I was honestly happy I made it that far. I was no chance on the return journey.

I'm not really sure how to test for flexibility, but I'll need to virtually do the side splits for the Spider Jump... so 45cms is how far away from the ground I am.

So, ah, overall not great... but so much room for improvement that I'm actually excited for next month!

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