Wow. I just had my butt kicked from my first session of Foundation One.
As I mentioned before, I’ve been doing barbell training for the past year so I’ve felt like I’ve known what “pushing myself” feels like but pushing myself on Foundation One has shown me I had no idea what the hell I was talking about.
Humbled.
There’s no better word for it. I knew this wasn’t meant to be easy but I thought it’d take a month or so before it truly became challenging.
Nope.
The strength training aspects were horrendous — my shoulder blades were burning in the second exercise — and while I never expected to have great mobility, it was so much worse than I expected. It feels like I’m learning to walk all over again.
By default, the workout creator places you on the “Week 5” progressions. You can, of course, skip back to “Week 1” but I didn’t think that would be necessary. I’m not an athlete, I thought, but I do have some strength.
At this point though, I’m wondering if I should actually skip back and maybe start doing the training from the very beginning. I’m thinking this because:
- My form was not great across all the exercises. I feel I did everything correctly at one point or another but not consistently during the session.
- I’d like to train four days a week but, at this rate, I don’t think I’ll recover fast enough. I’ve jumped too far into the deep end. (Maybe.)
Also, after asking folks about poor posture on the forums, it was suggested that I also do the Handstand One course because it should help in that regard. As such, I bit the bullet this morning and purchased Handstand One. This course:
- Trains the handstand with the similar method of slow progression.
- Integrates with Foundation One. They’re designed to be done together.
- Has already started to intimidate me based on the “Week 1” exercises.
But since it will add a decent amount of training to my workload — two days a week — it’s all the more reason to be careful and start from the very beginning.
Back to Basics
I really do feel like a child at the moment. Barbell training made sense to me from the beginning. I didn’t have perfect form but I felt like I knew what was I doing and progress seemed inevitable.
This training’s going to take so much out of me though and I already feel like such a wimp. But I suppose that means it’s working.
Strong Dave 