A level up in fitness

A little while ago, I decided I was fitter than I believed so I decided to accept that I could do much more. That has happened. I did 30 very hard minutes on the bag in 4 rounds – 10/10/4/6 – then I did 20 minutes in two 10’s and today I did 24 minutes without a break other than a few seconds one time between songs. I could have gone on but I’d mentally set myself for about 20 minutes. The same is true with the weight sled: I’ve been doing 320lbs for 4 pushes – about 22-23 yards per trip – and 4 pulls and then doing one trip hand over hand on the rope, which takes 3.5 rope lengths. I then take off a plate and do the return trip. This after boxing. And then I do more because, bluntly, my fitness has counted up a level. The only negative is that it’s stressing my digestive system. One thing that’s happened with the bag work is that I’ve started to compress more into the crouch and then pop up out of it so there’s more explosion to drive my hands and arms forward. It’s very hard to do repeatedly – hurts a lot after – but it adds a lot of power and speed. It’s not just crouching but contraction into the crouch in a hollow body hold and then springing out of it to generate the core rotation. I’ve also achieved the ability to hold with either lead leg so I torque off either leg about equally now. That took work. This include another achievement: I can roll myself out all over with the steel bar, meaning I can lie with my full weight across a raised steel bar even on the front of my thighs – that took some willpower the first few times. My muscles are much looser and I have no pain to speak of in my hips, shoulders or knees other than when I do really deep knee bend rotations, of the kind I never see anyone do.