A Lean and Hungry Look

50 min on the trainer while watching 24.  Back pain is definitely less than it was last week, but I still feel it when I sneeze.  I'll probably take the rest of this week off of running in hopes of putting the issue to rest.

60 minutes on the trainer while watching 24.  The hardest part of the workout was when Netflix went down about 45 minutes into the workout, which made the remaining 15 minutes seem like an extra hour.

I went to the chiro again today and he told me to lay off running for one more week. 

50 minutes on the trainer.  Jack Bauer is getting tortured right now.  Pretty rough.

Second kettle bell workout with Dave.  Today we focused on the mechanics of a kettle bell snatch.  To help me get the feel of it, we worked on dead lifts with a barbell (to establish my "hinge"), did a million kettle bell swings, tried some dumbbell snatches, and did several other things.  By the end, I was finally getting the feel of the snatch, which ends with the kettle bell resting against the forearm of the hand that is straight up.  I did it wrong so many times that my wrists were pretty bruised by the end (when it's done correctly, the kettle bell lands on the forearm very softly).  We finished off the session with the following quick workout:

15 swings (44-lb)

5 squats while holding a 26-lb kettlebell in each arm (can't remember what this exercise is called)

Repeated 4 times

It's amazing how tired these workouts can get me in 5 minutes or less.

First run in two weeks.  I took Maja on my standard U campus 5-mile route.  At around 3.5, I picked up the pace for half a mile or so due to a good song on the Shuffle (the Rocky IV training montage).  The SI joint was mildly painful during the run but didn't bother me the rest of the day.  Right achilles tendon felt somewhat better but is still giving me some concern as I contemplate Ogden training in a couple of months.