Dunk Wobbles

I've now gone two consecutive workouts (Saturday and Monday) using the "death machine", a.k.a. an arc trainer, a.k.a. an elliptical with variable incline and resistance. Twenty-five and thirty minutes, respectively, and Monday I followed the half-hour session with step-ups, or whatever it's called when you hoist a straight bar across your back and step up on a two-foot tall bench, raise your other leg to your waist, then step down again. Twenty of those (ten on each leg) and twenty calf raises. While my lunge-balance has improved to only being shaky on perhaps one of ten lunges, the goofy wiggling I did during these step-ups demonstrated my stabilizer muscles were still very weak.

My legs, especially my thighs, were sore and cramping a little after that last workout. I was mainly interested in how my hip would react though. I could feel the joint getting a little inflamed but it wasn't serious. I made myself take Tuesday off, which in retrospect was a mistake because now it is 4:30 am on a school night and I have slept maybe three hours. Yet all day I felt low on energy and almost passed out in the office after school. I suppose the 24 hot wings I threw down this evening could be a contributing factor to my insomnia. I'll certainly be paying that back today.

As far as the leaping goes, I have noticed a definite increase in density and mass of my legs. All the attention I've been heaping on them in the weight room is starting to show some physical results, but I have yet to get an accurate measure of my vertical. My bedroom has ten-foot ceilings and this week I plan on marking off an open spot by the wall for home measurements! I will post that information as soon as I record it.