50-50-50-FAIL, getting ready

Last night it was relatively cool because of overcast skies and some rain that went through.  I thought it might be a good opportunity to try one last 50-50-50 attempt since the rest of the week will be filled with trip prep. It didn’t go well.

After I did my first set of 5 pull ups I realized that I forgot to start the stop watch so those 5 reps wouldn’t count.  After resetting the watch I started another attempt.  After I did the very first rep of my initial box jump set I felt a nasty pull in my abs.  It didn’t get any better by the 5th rep so I stopped.  I think I have strained something in my ab’s from all of these static core holds I’ve been doing.   

I tried to come up with something else I COULD do.  I came up with some explosive reversing pull ups, the type where you switch grips mid air at the top of the movement.  Well those hurt my abs as well so I just bagged it, oh well.

I actually contacted the gym yesterday to see if they had the footage from my L Sit near death accident on Monday.  They said that the camera in that area doesn’t catch the squat rack unfortunately.

On Monday night Ali made an apple crisp with apples from our apple tree.  We picked a bunch of large, blemish free fruit from the tree.  Even though the apples were all still totally green they taste great once Ali is done with them.

We also wrapped the apple tree, the lemon tree and the blueberry plants in netting to hopefully protect our fruit from hungry birds while we are away.

The next couple evenings will be jam packed with trip prep.