Great last session here, went hard to make sure the tank was empty. Hamstring still hurts, hopefully, a week in hot-springs up in Iceland helps out. I'll be doing some light hiking, but nothing I anticipate that would stress my legs so much. I'm really looking forward to the week off.
I started using glycine a couple months ago, it's the part of collagen supplements that helps your joints, so I just take that directly. My joints, not that they were in pain before, felt better. I didn't have as much 'spring' in them as several years ago. Which makes sense considering I'm in my late 30s. The glycine really helped with that though, not like a placebo effect, I had a realization one day "hey my joints have felt great the past couple weeks" and it lined up with when I started taking the glycine. Then paired with the Newton North track, my legs feel great. I've been going hard for so long though without a break, my CNS could definitely use it. I'm looking forward to a relaxing week.
TONS of energy for this one, going light last week helped a lot here. Really ripped stuff off the floor. PLUS on hanging power snatches I made a realization that I've been gripping the bar too narrow, I moved my pointer fingers outside of the bands on the bar and the movement felt much more natural. Going to do a ton of reps like that when I get back from vacation.
ALSO I know I've posted a bit over the last year about having really sore achille's tendons, etc. and that was part of the reason I started doing tibia exercises. I figured it was from my calves being too strong. I think they're actually just too tight because over the past year I've been working them directly for the two full-body sessions, and then sprinting 2+ times per week as well. Larger muscle groups like quads or hamstrings can probably handle that, but my calves have been chronically tight, which is probably stressing my achilles out. I did notice that this past winter (when sprinting volume goes down, I just realized) that my achilles were feeling better. I think during the spring/summer I'm not going to do direct calf work and see how that goes.
- BB DL: 315*1 365*1 405*1 445*1 465*1 485*1
- HPS: 115*3, 3 135*3
- BB Incline: 205*3 225*3 245*1 255*1 265*1
- LM Rows: 250*5 270*5, 5, 5
- Mixed-Grip Carries: 65*100
- DB Standing Press: 55*10
- NS Paloffs: 60*10, 10
- DB Incline Curls: 30*10
2nd to last session before vacation, got some good runs in...
Last sprint day before vacation....I went hard on the sprinting yesterday so my legs are pretty much toast at this point. Going to ease into vacation, at least with this stuff and come back to my next sprint session in a couple weeks hopefully refreshed.
- Olympic Squats: 315*1, 1, 1, 1
- Front Squats: 225*1
- Tibia: 20*15, 15
- Front Squats: 245*1
- BB Snatch-Grip RDL: 285*5 315*5 335*5
- BB Flat: 225*5 250*3, 3, 3
- Standing Calves: 240*12, 12, 12
- 1.5 Sternum Pullups: 3, 2, 2
- FS WSARC: 35*10, 10
Good session, hamstring thing still lingering, even with the stretching. I'm actually looking forward to this week off, I haven't taken a full week off from all exercising in yeeeears, maybe 5+. I've had weeks where I don't sprint, or weeks where I don't go to the gym, but never both. Even those versions where I just do one thing or the other are like once every 18 months over the past 6 years or so.
A bit of a deload here, I have the vacation coming up in 2 weeks, this is the 2nd to last Deadlift / Hanging Power Snatch session so I want to not be tapped for the last one before I go.
- BB DL: 315*1 365*1 405*1 435*1 455*1
- HPS: 105*3 125*3 145*2
- BB Incline: 185*5 205*5, 5, 5, 5
- Chest-Supported Rows: 90*5 135*5, 5, 4
- Seated Calves: 100*12, 17
- DB Suitcase Carries: 80*100
- Reverse Cable Laterals: 15*10
- Hammer Curls: 50*6
- Dead Bugs: 10, 10
Led off with some benching here, hadn't done a cluster there in a while, so I threw that in. Really liking the effect of the snatch-grip RDLs, I've managed to keep my back mass while cutting here, and I think it's because of them.
- BB Flat: 225*3 250*3,3, 2, 1, 1, 1 -cluster
- Squats: 315*1 340*1 365*1 385*1
- Front Squats: 225*1 250*1 275*1
- Snatch-Grip RDL: 285*5 315*5 345*5
- Pullups: 25*5, 4, 4
- Pull-Throughs: 150*10, 10
- Standing Calves: 240*12, 12
- Tibia: 20*15, 15
- Waiter Walks: 75*100
- FS NS Paloffs: 35*10, 10
- Seated Press: 135*8, 6
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Of course I still went after the beach.
Did a bonus day of sprinting here, going to the beach tomorrow, not sure if I'll sprint when I get home.
