Day 320 & First Standing to Bridge Wall Walkdown!

Day 320 Record Keeping
Day 289 Fixed Meditation 
Day 235 Bodyweight Exercise  (First full standing to bridge wall walkdown!)
Day 162 Writing (248 words, work writing)
Day 335 Eating = 69
Day 92 Work = 57
Great sleep, great wakeup.

First Standing to Bridge Wall Walkdown!I feel really pumped because of this -it’s something I’ve been working on for a long time. The other day I did my first *almost* bridge to standing wall walk UP. I’m sure I could have done it earlier but I didn’t have the confidence or the spotter to watch me go down. Today I just went for it.

Mind you, it wasn’t pretty. I did a bit of sliding down the wall rather than controlled walking. I had a full extension the first time, and then kind of slumped into it when I did a second time in front of Lydia, then collapsed without fully holding it.

The hardest part is transitioning from the wall to the floor - that transition takes muscles in my upper back that I didn’t know I had…and I’m still squirming a bit trying to stretch them out.

I was telling a friend of my accomplishment, and realized that I don’t think I’ve ever done that. Not even when I could do bridges all the time as a kid in gymnastics - I just never practiced it. I’ve never done this move before. That’s pretty heartening considering I’m about to turn 36.

I can’t wait to stabilize it and start working on wall-less standing to floor bridging!

Day 316 and First Bridge to Standing Walkup!

Day 316 Record Keeping
Day 285 Fixed Meditation 
Day 231 Bodyweight Exercise  (bridge wall walkdowns and walkups)
Day 158 Writing (69 words, difficult)
Day 331 Eating = 71
Day 88 Work = 61
Ok sleep, great wakeup.

First Bridge to Standing Walkup!
I’ve been trying to improve my bridges because I feel like I’ve hit a wall. So I’ve been trying to focus on standing to bridge wall walkdowns. These have been going well, I think it’s more of a hesitancy and fear to go fully down without a spotter.

So today I tried doing a bridge (ground up) by holding the wall about head level (if I was doing the bridge on the ground). I had the strength to do it, which I was pleased about because attempts of changing it up by doing it on a chair just didn’t work. 

Then I thought to myself…hmm…how bout walking up? And I could do it! It was really exciting, and I consider it a big step in my bridge progression.

I can’t completely do it from a bridge. But it’s close. I tried doing it (I probably shouldn’t have done that today) from a floor bridge - but transitioning from that to grabbing the wall was just a little too difficult.

I spent a lot of time afterwards looking up walkover progressions. It’s exciting! I think I really need to focus on progressing - having books or chairs that are smaller to focus on the progress….I’ve been just mindlessly doing ground bridges for a while now - it’s good, it has developed my arms, but I need to make sure I know the next step to force progress.

First Full Bridge!

It’s definitely not perfect, but it still counts! It’s a great progression forward. I’m looking over the videos here at GymansticsWOD - they have a great series on how to scale bridges along with pointers to improve form (heels flat!). 

The other thing I’m working towards is being able to go from standing to a bridge to standing again. That to me would signify true mastery over the bridge - but hey, it’s all within reach.

I don’t think I’ve done a bridge in 20 years…..this is awesome.