Art history huh? I had that class this semester… All over with now… Finally!
mostly because for a couple weeks after my surgery i had to try to lessen the impact stuff, and also because it’s a good time to give my shin a rest and let it recover a bit from all the pounding.
i haven’t had time yet to set up a sprint program schedule for myself, so i am cross-training in the meantime rather than doing random sprint sessions that won’t serve a larger purpose… the elliptical is pretty boring, i would rather be doing something with strength and flexibility like yoga, but there aren’t a ton of alternatives besides bike and ellip now that the pool at school is closed for the summer.
what a day- studied looong into the night, slept from 3:30-7am, studied more, aced my exam, ran around taking care of 10000 things that needed to get done before i can escape this campus on saturday.
wasn’t going to go to the gym, but dragged my butt down there and did 20 min. steady bike, 15 min. core circuit 50s on+10s off, then 2x8 lunges paired w/2x8 glute-hams. Since I was already down there I was planning on doing more, because usually even if i’m tired I will perk up once i start a workout, but not today… still felt pretty exhausted, so i came back to study study study and hopefully get some decent sleep instead. I have never had so much caffeine in a 48-hour period… actually more like averaging 4-6 cups a day for the past week and a half :eek: i just need to sustain it for another 3 days…
diet-wise i have gone to hell, or at least it seems that way. I am eating cleanly for the most part as i always have, but i think the AMOUNT i am eating is more in line with in-season training. It’s to the point that i will actually eat when i’m not all that hungry because i am used to eating at the same times every day during the season. It is very easy for me to give up chips, soda, fries, bread and pasta, cake, pretty much everything except for cookies and sometimes chocolate. and high-stress finals when i’m up late, guess what’s around? :rolleyes: i have taken to smuggling raw veggies out of the dining hall, but still… i need to get away from this food.
what i REALLY need is to get someone to write me program because i am a lot more likely to follow what someone else tells me to do (as long as i understand the why’s of everything) rather than something i make myself, because anything i write is going to be biased towards getting skinny. what to do 
RIP one of my kitties 
Hard studying needs some good food, too! Don’t be surprised about this; it takes a lot out of your system…
I am sure someone over here will have some good advice about your training!
Three left!
i think you obviously need to start with speed work, which has been lacking all the way.
in another 2 days when i can stop studying, i will post an example of what a typical training week would have been last year when i was running well. for the most part i did 200/400 training and got short speedwork done in hurdle practice.
speed definitely is lacking, i blame it partly on my freshman 7-10 and partly on being thrown into a cookie cutter program.
35 min. ellip today, had no time for anything else. appetite was raging and i barely even did anything! but it’s been a caffeine-free evening.
caffenine is an appettite suppressant, and a good one at that.
Good Luck!
Sorry about my ingnorance in English expressions, but what is “freshman 7-10” and what is a “cookie cutter” program??
Maybe this can solve my question: why does 80% of my team say that they used to run a lot better in high school? Is this often the case?
im not sure about ‘freshman 7-10’ but cookie cutter means something generic. a cookie cutter program would be a generic program, or a ‘one size fits all’ program.
kra, i think a sprinters program should always revolve around speed work, but it also depends on the events you want to plan on for next year. post your program soon so we can take a look at it though.
yes precisely. The freshman expression is actually ‘freshman 15’ and refers to the weight gain a lot of frosh run into when they come to school. In my case it was more like 8 or 9… hence the 7-10.
and ya cocky of course i agree, i suppose the difference is that with more specialization in college i was trained as a multi/jumper and not a sprinter… i don’t think it took very well. I got much better multi scores in HS when i combined the training.
two finals tommorow, then going home… too much stuff to deal with today to get any workout in. I am picking up fletcher’s summer lifting program tommorow, we’ll see if it seems like something that would be helpful. I have doubts.
appetite still crazy
HOME HOME HOME
My finals went great, I came through in true Kra fashion, even in econ!
the year in review…I:
-had my reputation ruined by a bunch of jock guys and catty girls
-gained a little weight, ran the same times i was running as a frosh and soph in HS
-made my head coach hate me
-had surgery after my captain attacked me
all in all pretty awesome… i’m thinking there is nowhere to go but up, so I am looking ahead to better things this summer and next year.
no sleep last night+ testing and driving all day= no workout and lots of sleep for me tonight!
Kra,
Get some rest and relaxation, for once, would ya babe?
You’ve had a tough year.
Try not to dwell on the negative, no matter how looming.
-BG
Easy does it!
Recharge!
trying… trying…
i have never slept so well as i did last night, in my own bed 
12 hours straight without waking up once until my phone started ringing close to 1pm.
the lifting program from fletcher for the summer has a lot of stuff, i am still going through all it. it is basically four 4-week cycles, accumulation+ intensification x2. each cycle has one lower, one upper, and one core lift on a 3x per week schedule. there is an “alternative” program for people who aren’t going to be around a weight room. i suppose it is a place to start.
still recovering from the year… slept nearly 15 hours and laid around in bed a lot of the rest of the time. still also a raging appetite.
i actually was watching competition video of myself from last year and i got sooo motivated to run again and work really hard to get back there. i really really miss training, not because i’m compulsive about exercise, but because i love to just RUN… and i would give up pretty much anything for it.
God I love that feeling…
My hair on fire, but I can’t feel a thing,
simultaneously silent, yet aware the crowd is roaring…
tunnel vision and spidey sense,
nothing else matters, nothing at all matters.
this must be what drugs are like.
LOL, Brian! Lost in space… 
Kras, relax and let it come; you need this for re-charging and motivation!
3rd straight day of 15+ hours of sleep… I pretty much have been waking up after 12-13 hours of sleep around 1pm, get up to eat, lie around either on the couch/my bed for a few hours, sleep for another 4 hours around 4 or 5, eat again, then lie around until i fall asleep. I have not set foot outside the house in two days, plus it is shit weather outside. In the 40’s and raining! damn new england.
I’m hoping to actually revive a little bit tommorow and maybe get some stuff done.
And yes, track is the perfect drug I scandalized an ultra-religious training partner by telling him that i found god on the track, so i don’t need to go to church… he coaxed me into going a couple times after my “accident,”- can’t say it was quite the same.
ah it is so nice to work out again. I finally came out of hibernation and decided that since i only slept 10-11 hours last night and didn’t take a nap, that I must be recuperated enough to get some things done.
fletcher has given me a fairly complicated summer lift, which im supposed to start as soon as possible… so i started today. i can attach the files if anyone is interested, but otherwise i won’t copy it all out. The basic outline is a 4-phase program, Accumulation 1, Intensification 1, Accum. 2 and Intens. 2. Each phase is 4 weeks. There are 3 lifts a week, alternating upper and lower, plus a core building lift to be done on the same day as the lower. During the last phase (intens. 2) the core is replaced with a power building lift. There is an alternative program for people who can’t get to a gym, including pushups, chins, dips, SL squats, a mini leg circuit, etc. I have wondered about doing that stuff for lower, or doing that stuff in place of the lifting program for part of the summer. I’m not sure if i really need to be building a lot of mass right now, so I am waiting for some input. Now that I have an outline of a lifting program, I need to figure out what kind of running to do that will fit in with this. The tough thing is that the lower lifting day will be shifting around since the lifts alternate 3 days a week.
for today-
-20 min. bike, 10 min. core circuit
-close-grip parallel chins 2x4, 2x3, 90s btw
-lats 2x8 @80, 6x90, 6x100, tripled with
-top half incline press 6x50, 3x6 @60, tripled with
-1+1/4 DB bench w/rotation: 50x8, 3x6 @60
-incline prone lat raises: 8x10, 2x10 @8, paired with
-cuban press: 12x35, 2x10 @40
shake, came home and collapsed. It’s nice to be working out again but it’s been about a month since I was on a solid program… i’m pretty tired.