So the people that have been reading this for a while know that I wanted this to be more than a repository for past workouts; I wanted to post about lifestyle type stuff, nutrition, rest, recovery, research, etc. Then I spent the past 18 months getting an MBA, so that kind of put me in a position where I was constantly buried with work. HOWEVER, I'm done! I finally have time again, and will be posting a lot of research I've been reading, links to an instagram if for whatever unconscionable reason you should want to see that, and possibly starting a youtube channel for talking about topics.
The biggest change for me personally is that after several years of talking about it, I'm going to finally switch to full-body workouts. It's kind of intimidating after doing the split I have for the past 7+ years at this point. But it's time to change; my goal has always been to be as athletic as possible, as efficiently as possible. My workouts have really morphed over the past year into pseudo-full-body sessions anyway....I hit the deadlift/snatch/carry/core in one session as is...all that's missing is an upper body pushing exercise, and a row/pullup variant to hit my already toasted lats from deadlifting.
I've also noticed the past few years that as I sprint more, during the summers I wear down; by July & August my weights are going down that I can push, and my speed drops, I just tire out. As it applies in a more useful sense for anyone reading this, I'm not entirely convinced that people can train hard more than 3 or 4 times per week. This article came out in a rather timely fashion, and seems to back up what I'm thinking. This would give me two extra recovery days per week, let me go real hard on the two full-body days, and go over a bit in calories.
But it's more than that as well; I've known for some time that after finishing grad school I'd be working at a job with longer hours probably. Maybe not insane, but just longer. I'm going to have a family soonish as well. I just don't have the same time as I did in my 20s, but I want the same results. Plus, there are so many things to enjoy in life, the gym should make those things better, not take a huge amount of time away from them, or be the focus of life, unless competing is your job or passion. I take about 3 minutes getting ready in the locker-room before I hit the weights, do it for 45 minutes, then shower & get dressed after which takes 10 minutes. Let's call that one hour, four times per week. I can get it to 2 sessions per week, and if I give myself 70 minutes, and just leave after and shower at home, that's 2.5 hours. Obviously the two sprinting sessions per week stay the same, but still every week I get 90 more minutes with people I care about, or doing other things I enjoy. Anyway, this is starting to ramble, so I'm going to wrap it up now.
The biggest change for me personally is that after several years of talking about it, I'm going to finally switch to full-body workouts. It's kind of intimidating after doing the split I have for the past 7+ years at this point. But it's time to change; my goal has always been to be as athletic as possible, as efficiently as possible. My workouts have really morphed over the past year into pseudo-full-body sessions anyway....I hit the deadlift/snatch/carry/core in one session as is...all that's missing is an upper body pushing exercise, and a row/pullup variant to hit my already toasted lats from deadlifting.
I've also noticed the past few years that as I sprint more, during the summers I wear down; by July & August my weights are going down that I can push, and my speed drops, I just tire out. As it applies in a more useful sense for anyone reading this, I'm not entirely convinced that people can train hard more than 3 or 4 times per week. This article came out in a rather timely fashion, and seems to back up what I'm thinking. This would give me two extra recovery days per week, let me go real hard on the two full-body days, and go over a bit in calories.
But it's more than that as well; I've known for some time that after finishing grad school I'd be working at a job with longer hours probably. Maybe not insane, but just longer. I'm going to have a family soonish as well. I just don't have the same time as I did in my 20s, but I want the same results. Plus, there are so many things to enjoy in life, the gym should make those things better, not take a huge amount of time away from them, or be the focus of life, unless competing is your job or passion. I take about 3 minutes getting ready in the locker-room before I hit the weights, do it for 45 minutes, then shower & get dressed after which takes 10 minutes. Let's call that one hour, four times per week. I can get it to 2 sessions per week, and if I give myself 70 minutes, and just leave after and shower at home, that's 2.5 hours. Obviously the two sprinting sessions per week stay the same, but still every week I get 90 more minutes with people I care about, or doing other things I enjoy. Anyway, this is starting to ramble, so I'm going to wrap it up now.
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