Good session, I guess doing farmers first really fatigued me. Had to dig deep for those last several jumps. In the future I should probably do the broad jumps first, and then carries after if I'm doing them that day.
Good session! No PRs on broad jumps but I didn't have a lot of pop today so that's not surprising. Did some weighted box jumping as well, I'm going to be incorporating more of this stuff as I get into the cut more.
Great jumping session. What really made the difference is not worrying about swinging my arms so much. You're supposed to swing them forward right as you're launching, but I was over-thinking it, and it came off more mechanical than fluid. I tried just sitting back deep and exploding up out of that; really focusing on that part. The arm swing felt more complementary, as it should, and was less of the focus than it was prior.
Alright, week 2 of smolov begins, we'll see how it goes. More importantly though, I for some reason got away from doing broad jumps, I think because I was so gassed after sprinting when I was setting my records in sep/oct that I never had the energy, and then they just faded from my repertoire. Kind of like landmine laterals (note to self: do these again). So today after inclining I decided to try some more. First few didn't feel that good, and I gave myself some shin splints from landing too heavy. I actually had no idea what my PR was, but as I entered them here I just realized I tied, and then broke it. Not too bad for a couple months off from them, and being about 203 lbs. I guess all the squatting has been paying off.
Morning workout before dodgeball in the evening. I have time now, since I left my job before business school starts next month. A bit disappointed in my broad jumps, I guess I haven't been doing them lately though so that's probably effecting things. I want to try and get lower before I jump too, I have a tendency to barely load up at the hips.
200m: 1, 1 (30.66) 1 oh man did I run too soon after eating
100m: 1, 1
Total: 800m
Broad Jump: 9' 1", 9' 1", 9' 1", 9' 1"
Ugh. I gotta start waiting at least 90 minutes after finishing a meal to go, or eat less before I head out. Was trying not to vomit on these, definitely slowed me down. Got a full 800 in at least. Tried broad jumping, legs were dead, but I got some consistent lengths there.
Again, more shoulders. Really focused on clamping down core and transferring power violently through the floor for maximum explosiveness here. Took a few jumps to really get going, but saw some great results. Let me put it this way; my PR is 9' 2", at 192 lbs. I weigh about 226 right now, so I'm 34 lbs. heavier and only missed it by an inch, then two jumps later by 2". I'm happy.
Quick conditioning and then some stretching. Also roasted in the sauna. I do that a few times per week in the winter but I never remember to post it. Same with stretching, I want to start recording it more though. It's like with my core work, I never recorded that for years, and then only started a couple years back. Hopefully I get diligent about it.
More broad jumps. I'm not going to do them every week when I'm at this weight. I'm probably about 25 lbs. heavier than I was over the summer, at this point. Nice quick session here though.
NO idea why I stopped doing broad jumps; just sort of forgot about them. Obviously I'm heavier now, so I'm happy here. Again, bracing core and transferring power from ground through the jump. Figured I'd keep it all lower-body here since my hand is healing still, or trying to anyway. Feels pretty good today actually, I can make a fist without it hurting, thought it's still slightly swollen.
Hadn't sprinted in a while, and the weather was mild so I headed out. Happy with the speed. I'm definitely faster when I hit mid foot on the ground, which I need to do anyway, lest my hamstring get that weird pain in it. Another note about sprinting: I set a goal of getting to sub 12 seconds, but then I realized that I'm not starting on blocks. In fact I'm not even starting from a crouch or leaning forward. My times are from a standing position, with a split stance. So I'm probably losing an entire second there. Plus I'm only sprinting once per week. Probably sub 13 is a more reasonable goal.
Also did some broad jumps, but I was pretty tired after the sprinting.
Well that went well. I've mentioned a few times that a trainer at my gym does challenges every few months. I've never actually tried one of them fresh, most of my numbers on them come at the tail end of workouts, or the day after I batter myself. This is the first time I ever tried one after a day off (or in this case a week). Current leader on this. It's longer than the last time, so you have to go further for each 'rep'. He also added in a 'halfway' mark so you could tack a .5 onto the end if you were running low on time.
I have never in my life felt a burning in my chest like when this was done. If I hadn't had a few days off beforehand I would not have gotten this score. I got that acetyline torch being shoved down my windpipe feeling after. The thing is that usually dissipates over the course of the day, I still felt like that the next morning. I tried doing some snatches after, I couldn't. I was done. Great feeling though. 1st place
So the broad jumping is hurting my knees at this point, I've just done a ton of it lately, and the gym floor even with the turf in the 'cross training' area is still tough to land on several dozen times in the space of a week. Did some parallel battling ropes, where you move your arms out to the side and then sort of clap them together...clap dem ropes. Finished with some rowing. Broke 100m up into a few bite sized chunks. I honestly don't know if I can get any better than 34 seconds on the 200m. That took every ounce I had, and I was pulling violently on every pull. We'll see.
Just a regular workout, nothing too exciting. Tried this ball-toss thing, where you have to hit the opposite wall of a basketball court with a softball, within a certain area. I was terrible, I kept gripping too tight and letting the ball go too low. Humiliating. I need to get better at that one, and retry. Also, tried starting with some broad jumps, nothing too exciting, low 8s, but wanted to see if it would prime me up a bit for the rest of the workout. I did feel a bit more energetic. I don't know if it was actually from that or not though.
For the competition at my gym the broad jumps are done on the field turf area they have set up for cross training stuff. Definitely nicer to land on. Did a practice row, one of the events is a 1000m row, going to see if I can win it.
Good session, getting up there on pullups. Did some plate transfer planks too. On the standing press my wrists were just exhausted. Traps & rhomboids sitll sore from deadlifting & o-lifting on Tuesday. Gym is doing the competition thing again, one of the events is the broad jump so I recorded some jumps in lieu of the usual last couple exercises in the session. I felt like switching things up a bit anyway.
F'ing left hamstring still has that weird tug/pressure in it. No idea why. Going to try taking next week off from sprinting, see if that helps. It was pretty annoying today, and got worse after the first sprint. The first 30m or so I'm fine, then after that it starts to hurt. Oddly it doesn't hurt on broad jumps. Or anything else really, just sprinting for some reason.
