RB34
August 14, 2010, 1:42pm
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Good luck bro. I’m trying to gain weight because I feel like a skinny turd. I found when prepping for my summer season the sweet spot for me was 330-360 with the speed. Are you gonna bump your tempo volume?
With my job I have to adjust my training, gpp will work around a 3 day rotation - sun speed mon wts tue tempo repeat. Primary strength lifts will stay btw 6-12 and ol’s 6-12x2-3. Speed 180-300, tempo 3000.
Since I have decent weather I will start spec end in spp 150-300, starting with 2x300 working down to 1x150 b4 indoor comp.
Thanks for the support. But the trip to that meet would’ve cost me too much. So I decided to end my season here. Looking back at this season, although I didnt set a pb, I did a lot of things right. I started the season off with the best season openers ever. I came into the season with the attitude that this was a test so that I get things right in my indoor season.
Given that I came into the season with a bad 60m indoor season, I knew that I didnt have the pre-requisite speed required for a big pb in the 100. With that being said I think things went extremely well.
Bobsled preparations and camp put a damper on my season. I was able to go and impress at the camp, coming out as the #1 recruit. With less volume than the previous years my strength improved greatly. My weight was out of control after that bobsled camp, coming home at 205lbs. Given that I was at 10.8 shape at 200lbs, I think there is huge room for improvement by cutting weight. Nothing drastic, but just by cleaning up my diet I think I could easily be low 180lbs. Yeah, I’m a little fat now. Given that my pb was run at 189lbs, this could help a little.
The plan for now is 2 weeks off. 1 complete week off, 1 week active recovery (upper body, jogs, sports). Then back to the grind.
I’ve got my indoors planned out, and have started on a healthy diet already. I’m looking to get down to 6-7% body fat at 180-185.
GPP will be grass 40m and sleds. I’m looking to bump my Spec end up to 300m to see if I can maybe compete at that distance with the lowered body weight, it might not be as painful as it is now. I think this indoor could be very successful if everything pans out.
This season the main areas of focus for me was my weekly setup and how much volume I could handle. For speed I found that 400-500m/session of pure speed work worked best for me. Accels drain me for speed, so doing them after speed, or focusing on it on my Spec End day is probably most ideal. I’ll take this in to my indoor and see how it goes.