Insanely Absurd

This morning I had quite a hard time getting up and out of bed, and ended up being a bit late to work, all because I was so damn sore. I was/am still sore from my Martial Arts class on Thursday. Normally we usually go for about an hour or so. Yesterday, we took it to two hours instead. It wasn’t the length of time that has made me so sore, it’s what we had to do.

For those of you who don’t know what a Pyramid push-up is, it is when you do sets of push-ups. For instance, you do 1 push-up, then you do a set of 2, then 3, etc all the way up to 12. Once you’ve reached 12, you go back down to 1 again. Overall, it’s roughly 150 push-ups in total. My instructor decided we were going to do Pyramid “Everything” which steps it up just a little. First, you do 1 push-up, then 1 squat, then 1 sit-up, then 10 combination’s on one side, then turn and do 10 the other way. The combination’s varied, such as jabs then a round house kick, or a knee, etc. After that, you’d do 2 push-ups, then 2 squats, then 2 sit-ups, and then 10 combo’s for each side. We did this all the way to 12, then back down to 1 which is equals out to something like roughly 150 push-ups, 150 squats, 150 sit-ups, and somewhere around 230 kicks(we did all different kinds, we didn’t just do the same one’s over and over) on each leg since each combination always had a knee or kick movement at the end of some sort. One of the other “students” happened to lose his lunch(oatmeal, Mmm!) right afterward.

We took a 5 minute water break after all that, then we were back up and doing bag work. My instructor has two bags that we use for just beating on. One of them happens to be a huge bag, that takes a lot of the impact out of the blow, the other, erm, doesn’t so much. It’s lighter and thinner. There was four of us out there so my instructor decided me and him would pair up, and gave me the “lighter” bag. It’s funny, I think he enjoys kicking me almost as much as I enjoy being kicked. I can still feel the area where I took the blows, it’s pretty damn sensitive now. After the bag work, we moved onto light sparring. We sparred for roughly 20-30 minutes before I had to head back off to work.

All in all, it was one hell of work out, at least for me! My instructor says he plans on having us do this each time for now on, so I suppose I better get use to it real fast. If I were in shape, this series of work outs probably wouldn’t be so bad, but that’s not the case. I got a ways to go to be back in what I consider “good shape”. If anyone out there has any experiences of having done these Pyramid sets, or just having had to do a large amount of exercise for whatever shape you were in at the time, let me know how yours turned out, I’d love to here about it.