Morning Workout
L and I woke up at 6:00 this morning to exercise. While L decided follow one of her awesome DVD workouts I decided to run through a couple of class drills instead.
I started out with trying to do 50 burpees as fast as I could. That took me a whopping 20 minutes which is pretty bad considering this guy can do 100 burpees in about 5 minutes. I’m thinking of it as a goal to work towards.
Next I ran through some stick drills including:
- 50 forehand diagonal strikes (#1 Strikes)with each hand
- 50 backhand diagonal strikes (#2 Strikes) with each hand
- 50 overhead horizontal fanning strikes (abanicos) with each hand
- 50 vertical fanning forehand strikes (Witik) with each hand
- 50 veritcal fanning backhand strikes (I think they are also called Witiks but I’ve heard them go by the name Flicks as well) with each hand
- 50 head level horizontal figure eight strikes with each hand
I need to work on my figure eights as they are noticeably slower than the rest of my stick work. The rest of the drills were pretty fast but I could always use a bit more speed. I do think I am consciously going a bit slower because there isn’t much room in this apartment to swing a stick around. L would kill me if I accidentally decapitated one of our new house plants!
All in all a pretty good morning workout.