Dear Thomas, Not at all!! All information is good information in my book. I really do appreciate it.
I did the first 10 weeks of this training plan last year, before I got derailed by COVID. I was constantly frustrated with the time requirement on this exercise. I’m a bit of a perfectionist, and not making that time requirement felt like a little failure every time. I built enough strength and coordination with the SJS to knock them out consistently under the time constraint. However, no matter how I tried with the BSU I’d always be off by 5-7 seconds with perfect execution, and closer to 10 seconds over if I stumbled or lost balance at all during the set(which happens later in the workout, especially when I’m hyper-focused on speed). It wasn’t a big deal when the recovery time was set to 60 seconds. I’d set an interval timer, and whatever time I went over in performing the exercise just ate into my recovery. It got pretty brutal when the recovery time went down to 30 seconds.
After experimenting with a few different methods of doing the workout, I concluded that the way you described doing it– one leg at a time, that active leg’s foot never leaving the box the entire set– was the quickest way to go about it.
I thought it was interesting that @ryanpaul had similar struggles, and wanted to make sure I wasn’t missing something that might make me more efficient this time around.
Now I know that I am doing it in the most efficient way possible, and will continue forward with that method. Maybe this time through the plan, with no further experimentation on form happening along the way, I can get stronger and will be able to shave seconds off my time as I go.
Warmest regards,
Ally
