Half Volume workout
4xflying 60m @ 90%
2x5 vertical throws
3x5 hurdle hops
4x5 light cleans @ 155lbs
3x8 declined shoulder press
Long workout today:
hills
1x80m 4min
3x60m 2min/8min
4x50m
4x40m
Plyo circuit
2x20 ankle hops
2x14 tuck jumps
3x10 depth jumps from a low box
2x14 tuck forward jumps
2x14 alternating leg bounds
2x10 continuous vertical jumps
10x back throws with the shot
3x5 banded box squats
Thanksgiving turkey time
Last day of hills:
2x2x100m walkback recovery and 8 mins between sets
4x70m with 1.15min break
3x8 incline bench
3x8 declined shoulder press
Happy Birthday Charlie
Love Ange and James
Today:
6x60m, technical cues set up at certain intervals. First day we started to crank up the speed a little. Top end felt good.
The speed drained me more than I would have thought, first real speed day, and I attempted to test SLJ afterwards. It was a complete garbage lol. So I wont even post it. Reminder for next time, test jumps before starting practice.
10x vertical throws with 8kg
5x4 cleans working on good technique, worked up to 185.
Big testing day today:
3x touch pad 30m
3.89s, 3.86s, 3.82s (pb)
2x flying 30m
2.88s (pb), 2.94s
The way our facility is set up our straights come off a curve, so the way we run these is 25-30m run in on the curve, hit the straight and the timer for a pure 30m fly from the curve. So I’m confident these can be faster. I was also getting really tired after these, very taxing.
All round good testing day. Personal bests in both and its only October.My weight today was 189, post cheat day i’m always retaining and pumped up about 4-5lbs and it drops off quickly throughout the week. I’ve hit 184lbs, and can still lose a few. I plan on being at a race weight of 180lbs, so that alone should make some more of a difference.
Also timed a 200m, which was painful. No SE built up yet so died really hard at the end. 22.86s electric.
Plyo circuit
2x20 ankle hops
2x14 tuck jumps
2x10 depth jumps
2x14 tuck forwards
3x10 bounds
2x10 split squat jumps on each leg
3x5 banded box squats
Very fried today so the workout was fairly light on the CNS
1x150m @19s
6min
2x120m @ 14.5s with 1:45s rest
6min
1x120@14.5s 1:45 rest
1x100m@ 12.5s
8min
3x100m @12s with 1:45 rest
3x8 incline bench press
3x5 declined shoulder press
3x10 hanging leg raises
Thurs Oct. 21st
4x15m falling starts
3x20m 3pt starts
4x30m sleds with 25lbs
2x30m sleds with 20lbs
3x10 depth jumps measured contact time with jump mat, average was .22s. My reactive strength always has been low. Triple jumper on the team was at 0.18s consistently.
6x3 cleans, still working up from a light weight while working on form. Once I hit 225lbs with perfect form I will switch to snatch and work on it the same.
Sun. Oct 24th
6x flying 50’s
Electronically timed and done in sets of 2. Starting @ 90% then 95 then 98 by time. By the time 98 rolled around I was quite tired and was running them full out but was tired to the point that they were at 98%.
Plyo circuit (biggest one yet)
2x14 ankle hops
2x14 tuck jumps
3x12 split leg jumps
5x14 tuck forwards
3x16 bounds
4x8 bounds for distance
3x12 large amplitude jumps
3x5 banded box squats
Tues Oct 26th
3x3x100m @12.1s with 1:30 rest between reps and 8 mins between sets
3x8 incline bench
3x8 declined shoulder press
60s total hanging gymnastics exercise
Thurs Oct 28th.
3x15m falling starts
3x15m 3pt starts
2x30m with 25lb sled
2x30m with 20lb sled
4x25m block starts
First block session of the season, felt pretty good. Was coming out at a lower angle than usual. First was too high, second was too low, third and fourth was just right.
2x10 depth jumps
3x12 high knee bounds
2x12 single leg bounds on each leg
6x3 cleans
Still working on progressing my clean form from a low weight. Made my way back to 190lbs with good form. Once I hit 225 for 3 with the current form I’ll do the same with snatch.
Sun Oct 31st.
Flat as a pancake today. No drive, no CNS followed me to practice today. I started off fairly flat and the runs just got worst the more I got into it. Its probably a combination of a few things. Its the last day of the cycle before the recovery week. I went to bed late last night and ate and drank too much. Had some stressful emotional shit happen today which completely killed any willingness to train I had. So overall the makings for a terrible practice.
3x60m timed with touch pad
Terrible times and they only got worse so I called it quits after half the work.
Plyo circuit (also cut in half)
2x14 ankle hops
1x14 tuck jumps
1x16 high split jumps
2x14 tuck forward
2x16 high knee bounds
2x8 bounds for distance
1x3 squat after a couple warm up sets
This workout was depressing. Luckily, this is a down week and will take advantage of the extra recovery. I’ve got a testing session next sunday so hopefully the drop in volume this week will help me feel fresh for that day.
Tue. Nov 2nd
Taking a low volume week, and starting to feel much better already
1x250m @ 32s
10min
1x200m @ 24s
3x8 bench press
Started benching again and my shoulder feels so much better. Time to rebuild my bench press back to where it was when I initially was before I hurt it.
3x8 declined shoulder press
Ice tub
Tue. Nov 2nd
Taking a low volume week, and starting to feel much better already
1x250m @ 32s
10min
1x200m @ 24s
3x8 bench press
Started benching again and my shoulder feels so much better. Time to rebuild my bench press back to where it was when I initially was before I hurt it.
3x8 declined shoulder press
Ice tub
Thurs. Nov 4th
2x15m falling start
2x20m 3pt
2x30m with 25lbs sled
3x20m block starts
Blocks need some good technical work
2x14 tuck jumps
1x6 vertical jumps on the mat (got 36.5" without cheating and 38" by cheating and bending my legs on the way down)
2x10 high knee bounds
3x3 cleans, a little warm up and 1 set at 205.
Thurs. Nov 4th
2x15m falling start
2x20m 3pt
2x30m with 25lbs sled
3x20m block starts
Blocks need some good technical work
2x14 tuck jumps
1x6 vertical jumps on the mat (got 36.5" without cheating and 38" by cheating and bending my legs on the way down)
2x10 high knee bounds
3x3 cleans, a little warm up and 1 set at 205.
Sun. Nov 7th
Interesting testing day today
Hit a new low weight of 182lbs. Which marks the end of my calorie deficient eating and am now raising to maintenance levels. I think that my calorie intake has been hampering my recovery times, so hopefully this will help things out. I’m going to raise the weekly average by 300cals/day, but put 600 cals on training days and keep current cals the same on off days. I’ll switch to this for the next 2 weeks and see how my weight responds and how my recovery is affected.
3x30m touchpad
3.85, 3.86,3.89
Pretty close to my personal best, probably physically better just technically worse. I find that when I go from block starts back to standing 4pt starts I tend to stumble slightly more. Nothing to worry about here, my 35m is good.
3xflying 30m
missed the first one, someone crossed the beam as I ran through
2.94s, 3s
I was pissed that the first one wasnt timed, it felt really good. The thing with me during testing is that fatigue starts to hit me after 3-4 reps, and I can feel it during the run. The 2nd and 3rd runs did not feel nearly as good as the first flying run. Anyway, I can only speculate. Last testing session my drop off was 0.06s, so I was probably fairly close to my previous best.
Ran a 200m indoor again: 22.83s,0.03s faster than last time
Tested 8 bound performance from a 10m run in ( a weak area of mine previously, so its good that I’m working on it). Did about 6 of these until performance dropped. Hit 25.5m, about a .7m personal best.
Did a couple easy sets of squats, even though I was fried, just wanted to hit the movement to prevent soreness next time.
I’m glad I had this testing session today, my first meet is in 2 weeks and this will hopefully help me prepare a little better. My last hard session was 10 days ago and since then I’ve taken half volume workouts. What I’ve found, time and time again, is that I perform the best after a 3-5 day taper period. Charlie was so right about the taper periods of lower level athletes. It amazes me, no matter how loaded my body gets under stress, it really doesnt take as long as I think to bounce back. I think this speaks to the amazing capabilities of the human body. Although I dont push it too far down, I’ve got to keep this in mind.
Seeing as 2 thursdays ago was my last hard workout, had a bad workout on sunday and cut that volume in half and was feeling good by tuesday again, thats about the 5 day mark. Although I still felt good after that period, its probably getting out of the optimal range. Although its probably not awful to allow that to happen between training cycles, its an important consideration for performance.
-My calories are back to maintenance which will help overall adaptation
-3-5 day tapers are optimal for me depending on how loaded I am
Sun. Nov 7th
Interesting testing day today
Hit a new low weight of 182lbs. Which marks the end of my calorie deficient eating and am now raising to maintenance levels. I think that my calorie intake has been hampering my recovery times, so hopefully this will help things out. I’m going to raise the weekly average by 300cals/day, but put 600 cals on training days and keep current cals the same on off days. I’ll switch to this for the next 2 weeks and see how my weight responds and how my recovery is affected.
3x30m touchpad
3.85, 3.86,3.89
Pretty close to my personal best, probably physically better just technically worse. I find that when I go from block starts back to standing 4pt starts I tend to stumble slightly more. Nothing to worry about here, my 35m is good.
3xflying 30m
missed the first one, someone crossed the beam as I ran through
2.94s, 3s
I was pissed that the first one wasnt timed, it felt really good. The thing with me during testing is that fatigue starts to hit me after 3-4 reps, and I can feel it during the run. The 2nd and 3rd runs did not feel nearly as good as the first flying run. Anyway, I can only speculate. Last testing session my drop off was 0.06s, so I was probably fairly close to my previous best.
Ran a 200m indoor again: 22.83s,0.03s faster than last time
Tested 8 bound performance from a 10m run in ( a weak area of mine previously, so its good that I’m working on it). Did about 6 of these until performance dropped. Hit 25.5m, about a .7m personal best.
Did a couple easy sets of squats, even though I was fried, just wanted to hit the movement to prevent soreness next time.
I’m glad I had this testing session today, my first meet is in 2 weeks and this will hopefully help me prepare a little better. My last hard session was 10 days ago and since then I’ve taken half volume workouts. What I’ve found, time and time again, is that I perform the best after a 3-5 day taper period. Charlie was so right about the taper periods of lower level athletes. It amazes me, no matter how loaded my body gets under stress, it really doesnt take as long as I think to bounce back. I think this speaks to the amazing capabilities of the human body. Although I dont push it too far down, I’ve got to keep this in mind.
Seeing as 2 thursdays ago was my last hard workout, had a bad workout on sunday and cut that volume in half and was feeling good by tuesday again, thats about the 5 day mark. Although I still felt good after that period, its probably getting out of the optimal range. Although its probably not awful to allow that to happen between training cycles, its an important consideration for performance.
-My calories are back to maintenance which will help overall adaptation
-3-5 day tapers are optimal for me depending on how loaded I am
Tues. Nov 9th
Split runs
5x flying 70m 1.5min rest
8min rest
4xflying 70m 1.5 min rest
This kind of workout I really hate. I’ve tried to talk to my coach about these and he wont seem to budge. This type of work is more alactic/Lactic and sort of short changes the CP system. I find the transfer really sucks to the 200m with this sort of work vs running 150-250m at high quality. I’m not making a huge fuss about it for now, because I’m not too worried about running 200’s and this day serves its purpose as a lower CNS day.
3x8 bench press
3x6 declined bench press
Tues. Nov 9th
Split runs
5x flying 70m 1.5min rest
8min rest
4xflying 70m 1.5 min rest
This kind of workout I really hate. I’ve tried to talk to my coach about these and he wont seem to budge. This type of work is more alactic/Lactic and sort of short changes the CP system. I find the transfer really sucks to the 200m with this sort of work vs running 150-250m at high quality. I’m not making a huge fuss about it for now, because I’m not too worried about running 200’s and this day serves its purpose as a lower CNS day.
3x8 bench press
3x6 declined bench press