2006 Workout #10: Boy, you’re going to carry that weight; Carry that weight a long time…

Tonight was made very hard due to an experiment in torture that my own father devised. We decided to get to karate early to work on kata again, but he had planned to bring his weight vest and hand weights to help me with my Sochin.

It took me 35 minutes to get through five Sochin with the weight gear on. And let me tell you what, I was about ready to be done after that. I’ve never had my legs burn like that before. Right before class went on, I took the weight gear off and did a Sochin without it and it really felt different. My center remained tight and my limbs felt much stronger and more free.

Then it was time for class! We did many basics during the first class, which I was still mostly numb for. In between classes, we went and weighed the weight vest and hand/foot weights: 51 pounds.

The second class remained somewhat of an open swim time, which featured me doing Sochin for with the weight vest on. Then we passed the weight vest off one at a time to the rest of the dojo and let everyone have a turn at it.

Not being one to stop at only 7 kata, I went off to the side and knocked out another 8 of them to bring my total for the night to 15. I rounded out the night by helping a few of the lower ranked students with their kata and I was DONE. As I type this, my legs are starting to knot up, so I think I’m going to go and stretch out for a bit.

Thanks Dad. 🙂