Legs were in it, lungs were a little shot though. Also, I had a nice cool breeze on the way out to the turn point, but a gross warm one on the way back. Not fun.
I’ll expand more tomorrow in one of my regular self-flagellating tirades, but I need to do more yoga. Mobility/flexibility has been sorely missed in my training breakdown and I’m feeling something fierce.
Me too. @kleinhound reminded me of this in his log a few weeks back, but I promptly forgot. Gonna have to figure out how to carve out some time for this. There was a time when Mrs. SvenG was into it, and even the kiddos. Maybe I can make it a family thing…
I love the combination of running and yoga — which I know makes me sound like a basic bitch. Both are extremely meditative and require a big focus on breathing. I always feel thoroughly thrashed in the best way after something like this.
Self-flagellation time: I want to shift my focus towards a greater chunk of my training being endurance. I like endurance work. I always have. But I’ve let the prevailing opinion of “Weights are best” get in the way. Who gives a shit! It’s my training. I want to be stronger than the runners, and faster than the lifters. So I’m gonna do that. I think I can drop my lifting down to just main and supplemental work for my “big 5”, followed by 1 assistance exercise for which ever lifts I’m focusing on for that block. The remainder of the lifting sessions will be those DB C&J or snatch conditioning sessions, because they torch both my lungs and muscles, especially if I start adding weight. The rest of my work will be running and sprinting, or rucking and indoor bike if the weather doesn’t allow running.
Now this, THIS is the kinda shit I like. Lifting was concise and to the point, and the conditioning on the tail end just roasted me. Muscles on fire, heart pounding out of my chest. Perfect.
Not my best showing. I kept getting interrupted by every little thing imaginable, so this workout took almost 90 minutes. I was supposed to do 5 rounds of DB snatches, but after round 4 my dog ripped his nail right off digging too hard, so that promptly ended things.
Decent session. I’m toying with putting the clean and strict press and heavy curls as main movements, and only have main/supplemental work, and just allow the various movements to benefit each other. At this point, I just don’t care about assistance work. I want to do my main movements and conditioning and that’s it.
Another good session. Clean & press and strict curls are 100% making their way into training, especially after I found out that it’s a contested “odd” lift in some powerlifting federations, which I think is just wonderfully hilarious.
Diet and training is very dialled in right now, which makes me happy. I’ve added in 30 minutes on the bike every morning, followed by a cold shower, which is a combination that has me raring to go every day. My 3 barbell sessions a week, plus evening aerobic work is the best it’s ever been. Diet-wise, training days are 1.5-2 lbs of meat, 5-8 servings of fruits and veggies, a protein shake, 1-1.5 litres of whole milk, as well as about 80-100g of nuts, 250ml of yogurt, and either oats and bone broth or unbleached rye bread. The only difference on days that I don’t train (meaning work), are that I fast until lunch, and the amount of meat gets cut in half and replaced with another protein shake. Having this aspect of life locked in is a good feeling, and something I haven’t had since… I don’t even know.
I love it. And yeah, another thing I saw was that some meets either replace the squat with the curl, or give the option of squatting or curling. So funny.
Probably shouldn’t have done this run, because the air right now is so smoky, the end of my block is slightly hazy. That, plus the heat and humidity, made this highly uncomfortable. My throat was a little raw by the time I was done.
Those standing barbell twists are hard as shit at that weight. Great way to get rotational strength through your core and hips, though.
We’ve been noticing it in South Dakota. But I think there’s some in Montana too, so it’s probably a combination. Could actually taste and smell the smoke the other day, can’t imagine what it’s like up there.
Same here. It’s not as bad as when I lived in BC, but Ontario is getting hit pretty hard right now due to lack of rain. BC is horrible every year, though. Much like California, the province is just on fire all through the summer and it rains ash. One thing I don’t miss from living there.
Trying something new with my supplemental work. Slow tempos, no lockouts, so that the muscle is being worked hard, but looong rests. Holy fuck, is it ever hard. Those squats were tough. It’s a pretty proven blueprint for muscle building though, so it works out by allowing me to continue sticking to just my main movements, but not miss out on what I would normally do with assistance work.
