Here's the thing:
I think I've created a mental block in regards to the way I jump rope. I've always kept track of my jumps by sets of 100 - putting a small rock (14 of them now) into a pile until there aren't any left. By now, I feel that I should have the stamina to jump more than 100x in a row (tripping notwithstanding). And I have - 165 or so is my record, I think. But mostly, I can't seem to just...keep...jumping. Whenever I get to 100 - 120 jumps from wherever I began, I stop - to catch my breath, because my arms/legs are aching, because I don't believe I can jump anymore without stopping first. And then it's at least a minute of recovery before I get back on the horse. 1400 jumps has taken me exactly 20 minutes the last 2 days. This feels a little long, no?
It's a mental thing, I'm convinced. So what can I do to bust through this block? Maybe I should use the timer on my watch that I use during exercises and only give myself 20 secs of rest whenever I stop? Or is what I'm doing fine for now and I should just (as Patrick says) CHILLAX??
Even with the 20 min jumping, I finished the workout today (a long, hard one) in exactly one hour. So that feels pretty good.
Oh, and the minute we lost our dinner bananas, I went to the store and bought the BIGGEST apples I could find: Crispins - tart, juicy and delicious. And HUGE. With an emphasis on ENORMOUS. They are good. That is all. :)
XOXO
Ed: Now I'm curious - how do you guys keep track of all of these hundreds of jumps? What's your counting mechanism?
Yum! Apples are my favorite. Crispins are super good.
ReplyDeleteYou can totally jump more than 100 in go! I know you can. Maybe try having 12 stones so for two of them you have to jump to 200 before you put them in the pile and then build up from there?
Ooh, that's a good idea, Haley - maybe I'll just put half the number of stones out and work up to sets of 200. Then I'll have no reason to stop at 100. Will try that tomorrow.
ReplyDeleteMy way to break a mental block is to focus on adiferent counting. The jump is much rutine, so you can almost count without being counting real jumps, to break the mental barier try to also count something diferent, like the numbers you trip, the numer of times blink. In Aikido we done this think many years ago counting how many times we moved right sholder and left knee....
ReplyDeleteThis problem will go away in a few weeks!
ReplyDeleteI used to stop every 100 jumps before. I believed that I can only jump up to 100.
ReplyDeleteBut you know what? As Patrick says "in a few weeks" you will see. That's the time Patrick said "You are underestimating your ability".
Yes, I did sets of 100 for a while. But then when we got up to 1500 or so, it started to feel silly and it was taking forever. So I just started dividing up the total into bigger sets. Maybe 5 sets of 300, for example. I still trip a lot so even though I reset and restart as soon as I can, I get some teeny tiny breaks in there. So a set of 300 is really not much different from a set of 100. It's been really interesting to constantly see that I can do more than I think I can do.
ReplyDeletei hear ya sarah. i used to have a mental block and would ALWAYS trip at 100 even if my legs weren't tired and i wasn't out of breath.
ReplyDeletei found that counting backwards can help the 100 hurdle. I was at the gym and didn't have any markers to keep count so i would countdown multiples of 10 (1-2-3...9, 90; 1-2-3...9, 80) and each time i got to the next hundred (1400-1300-1200-1100, etc) i would call out the number in my head (or out loud if no one was near me)and keep going. it helped me keep track and get pass 100 jump mark