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