As much as the thought of "Monkey Bar Relay's" made me bust a gut when I pictured it, I'm glad it was changed to a functional day. I know we can't do them often, but I think these days are the most under-appreciated. The big leaps and bounds that are made are really significant. I did my first attempt at handstand pushups against the wall, worked on pullups (I swear, I got to eye level on one of my kippers!!), and played on the monkey bars. Far more impressive was Patty. She took on mental challenges all night - took them on, and dealt with them. The monkey bars:I showed her my "vision" of how the races would turn out, (AKA I had her balancing on my back as she was going bar to bar). She decided that wasn't so bad, after that - the foot assisted monkey bar, was no problem. Even the doing the pull ups monkey bar style, wasn't an issue. The biggest fear she faced was the handstand. It was stressful, she was shaky, nervous, on the verge of losing it - but she did it and the big kicker - not a tear was shed. It was close for a while - could have gone either way...but no tears. Without this functional day - these are things that she wouldn't have done - eventually the monkey bars, but with Patty's upside down phobia - no way would she have tried a handstand, at least not for a REALLY long time.
So, YAY for functional day and double YAY to Patty for going way outside your comfort zone - with no tears!
Today was bench press 5/5/5/5/5. I did ok - not my best day, not my worst. It's a bit hard to gauge since these are mixed up alot between 5/4/3/2/1 and 3's. I did 5-125, 5-135, 2-145, 3-140, 4-135. Like I said - not sure if that's good or bad. My max is 1 at 155 - but I've never gotten more than 2 at 145, so ???? Hard to say whether I did good, bad or ugly.
Thanks El!!
ReplyDeleteI think you did great on BP!