Did some morning birdwatching, hiking around a local spot....afternoon was a full body workout. Wasn't too fatigued from the hiking.
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Going well here, felt strong...front squats were decent....IT band on the left is still hurting a bit, need to experiment with foot positioning on it, and making sure I'm pushing off evenly on both legs from the bottom.
Not terrible....
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Felt really tired, flat for some reason....no pop really at all...
It was gorgeous out today, almost 80, not a cloud in the sky....did track work early then went birdwatching up at Crane Beach later on, it was tough sledding, about 3 hours in sandy terrain.
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The weather was gorgeous, decided to do some broad jumping at the end of this session...I'm still a bit heavy for that though, jumps weren't very good, and I lacked explosiveness. Still fun to do them though.
Again, felt pretty flat here...It's not that the weights suffered; I just didn't have much pop on them. Also, I'm switching to my spring/summer/fall schedule of prioritizing sprinting. So Saturday & Tuesday will be sprint days, the full body workout goes from Saturday to Sunday, and my lower body day goes from Tuesday to Thursday. Upper body day stays on Wednesday. That'll start this coming Saturday. For this workout I ran out of steam on the split jerks, those are probably getting moved to lower body day...snatch grip pullups I dropped reps from the full-body workout; all the back/chest work before them obviously fatigues me, so the reps shouldn't be as high as they are during my other workout where I employ them.
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Week 2 of front squats / 1/4 pin squats....so far so good. did more warmup this time and my legs felt great. Also taking a wider stance on front squats seems to work better for my knees / IT bands.
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I felt oddly week on incline benching, even my warmups felt heavier than they should...just one of those days I guess. Snatch-Grip pullups I got 7 & 7; I've added them in recently to switch things up a bit and make for a more challenging pullup variant.
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Felt good here, a bit flat on benching, but otherwise good, got 175 for 10 on both sets of guillotining for the first time. I think the extended incline walking in the morning saps me just a little bit. Not enough to ruin the workouts, but enough to make it more difficult. My strategy this year is to use the incline walking during the early part of the cut, but once I hit my goal I'm not going to keep doing them. I did that last summer and I think I cut off too much. Maybe I'll do it like twice per week for a half hour or something, or once per week, but definitely not with the intensity I was last summer.
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Starting this front squat experiment, went decent...did a cluster at 225 in the middle there. I went into working sets too quick I think; I'm used to doing front squats in the middle of my workouts, so I need to be mindful of that. Also doing 1/4 squats from pins, it's probably more like 1/3 squats, but whatever. I'm focusing on an explosive burst off the pins. I'm going to keep up with this for the next ~8 weeks and see how it goes.
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Good session here; moving front squats to my lower body day, which shortens up this session a bit..overall numbers look good. Still able to pull good weight on deadlifting even with the hanging power snatches done ahead of them. The snatches also have gone up a bit on account of their lead-off position.
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Decent weather...I love these spikes...can't wait to see how they perform in the later spring / summer
Not too bad...
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I think next week I'm going to start a cycle of doing front squats instead of squats here, and also throwing in 1/4 pin squats. I asked around, and that probably makes sense since I can obviously handle more weight on the 1/4 pin squats. Plus that'll translate more to sprinting and general explosiveness. Emphasizing front squats lets me focus on my quads as well, which should balance out all the posterior chain work I do a bit better.....I'm going to try it for a month and evaluate from there.
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Felt good, decent weather for some sprinting as well....used to the new spikes too!
Not bad, felt a tad off this morning though.
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Not a bad day....may do a cluster set at the end of benching next time, or maybe build up one...
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Getting into the swing here back with lower reps on squatting....not sure what happened on the 365. I think I may need to add some more volume on this day, or switch things up. Also wondering about doing front squats here instead. With sprinting season heating up in the next few weeks I want to keep my posterior chain fresher. I've repeatedly written about it, but the more I think about it I'm not sure I neccesarily need the squatting. I deadlift, do snatch-grip romanian deadlifts, I sprint, I do front squats. That's a lot of volume for my lower body. Maybe doing a variation like pin squats during the spring & summer may make more sense. I'll have to think about it.
Loving the new spikes...again feel super fast in them, we'll see in a couple months where I'm at for speed.
Might've been a bit close to breakfast here...the hanging power snatches were tough. Still, did well on incline benching, moving weights up across the board next week. Didn't do a ton of volume here but still took me 58 minutes somehow....
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Got new spikes, Nike Zoom Superfly Elite 2....I can't believe how light they are. I actually feel faster in them already. There's practically nothing to them; I can see why they're not for distances further than 200. I'm actually keeping my old spikes as well, if I ever do 400s again, I'll need to use them. Even 200s when I'm not timing myself I may still use them. My feet were a bit sore after the 50s here, not tons of support in the new spikes, they're really for speed and that's it, which is all I need them for. Also, I tried to get the black ones with the irridescent purple finish but couldn't find them, got his Miami Vice colored pair instead. Even the spikes have that fade on them.
