rj thanks for your interest and input it is much appreciated and not in any way taken as a put down especially as there is a lot of justification to what you put. Funny you mention the cleans as I was thinking (lamenting) just yesterday about how I was consistently cleaning 75kg (all my weights are in shown kg) x 3 a few years ago, probably not long before I started my journals here. And you are right where I am now is a hell of a way from that although I don’t recall squatting 3s x 5r x 110 before as I was pre Christmas. There are a few factors that have influenced things, I am now about 8.5kg (nearly 19lbs) lighter than ‘before’ @ a current weight of about 76.5kgs (168lbs) @ 5’7.5" (171cm) tall, a heap ‘fitter’ and by extension a lot healthier which at 47 is an important consideration.
Below is an excerpt I sent a friend in an email yesterday
[i]Apart from training things are actually going pretty well and if I didn’t have races in the mix that wouldn’t be an issue either really.
My Achilles isn’t THAT bad just not right and I don’t want to make it a major. I’m sure a few weeks focus and management will see it come right.
It is 99% certain I won’t race again this season and I’m thinking I’ll change things a bit and do a 13 week ‘block’ that will incorporate GPP & SPP over 12 weeks with week 13 being a recovery week as per CF recovery & rest DVD.
I think in the past I have got too far away from things over GPP and am playing catch up rather than adding to what is established. I’ll probably do some longer SE sessions on hills for time rather than distance as hills seem to help with my leg issues. I’ll probably do a few different things like 30 min (or longer runs) and I’ll reintroduce squats but probably only once per week and keep all weights at a low volume.
Part of me actually wonders if my Achilles issues may have been influenced by me getting fixed by the Chiro. Apparently I have been out of whack for a long time so naturally I would have adapted to things and now it is closer to ‘normal’ I need to get used to that.[/i]
The last few years I’ve used Joe Kenn’s Tier as the basis of my weights (gee that’s worked a treat :rolleyes: ) but the past few weeks was using Jim Wendlers 5/3/1
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which was a nice change. I have a recovery week next week but was going to put a leg day back in from then on and thought of doing cleans singles as now, squats (as ME) then SLDL and lunges as accessory work. Not squatting for a while has highlighted just how tired my legs were from 3 or even 2 times pw so I’ll give 1 time a go and see how that works.
Once again thanks for the effort you went to, it is appreciated. In closing I’ll add the first line to that email I sent
I understand it is pretty hard to keep up with some of my thought processes, even I can’t !
