LOL at the avi man. Thanks for the advice.
Read an article about how it is a bad idea to do workouts fasted as an athlete. Just a thought.
[quote]ChongLordUno wrote:
Bird mate, what the fuck is going on with your new av lol[/quote]
Its a new rule that I am trying to enforce in T-Nation. You avatar must have a picture of your physique in it. Im leading by example.
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[quote]jtownlax wrote:
LOL at the avi man. Thanks for the advice.
Read an article about how it is a bad idea to do workouts fasted as an athlete. Just a thought.[/quote]
Let me know how you go with your training. You should start a log aswell.
Where did you read that fasted training is bad? I do it twice a week to help with fat loss. And Im also thinking that if I can perform a specific skill or run a certain distance at a certain intensity, then it will be easier for me on game day when I am not in a fasted state. I don’t know if that last point makes sense.
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Friday, 13th July 2012.
TRAINING
AM
Went to the park for some skills and running. Done in a fasted state. Noticing I can do more volume, than compared to 3-4 weeks ago.
I warmed up with a few laps of the oval, dribbled between some cones, practiced some moves, and then did 10 x 10m sprints with the ball, and then I did some free-style stuff with the ball and wall. Finished off with 4 x 350m runs. This took me about 70 minutes to complete.
PM
I felt tired after work today. Its been a long week and I have a few things on my mind with work etc. But anyway, I soldiered on, had a flat white and proceeded to the gym.
Upper body at the gym.
Agile 8 and shoulder warm-up.
3 sets of 20 reps of squats with the bar only. i then did 5 reps of 50kg, and 2 sets of 5 reps at 60kg. Feeling good, but I still want to go slowly with the squats, as I have a history of injuring my lower back with them.
Flat bench press
Ramped up to my working set
5 x 95kg
5 x 95kg
5 x 95kg
5 x 95kg
5 x 95kg (super duper happy with these. Feeling strong like a mofo. Wondering if I could ever do 5x5 with 100kg??)
Pull-ups
3 sets of 5
And then for fun I did one set of pull-ups until failure. I got to 10.
Supersetted dB rows with dB overhead press
3 sets of; 8 reps of dB rows using 32.5kg, and 10 reps of overhead pressing using 20kg dBs.
Finished off with 5 minutes of skipping. Was going to do some planking etc, but couldn’t be bothered.
In other news…
Tomorrows game has been ear-marked as the game of the season. First vs third, with everything to play for, with history of bad blood between the teams, tomorrows game should be interesting.
“theBird. theDocumentary” is well on its way in production, with a teaser about to be released on T-Nation within the next few weeks. The documentary will be an award winning performance that reveals everything you ever wanted to know about your favourite bird! Watch this space!
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Saturday, 14th July 2012.
GAMEDAY
Tonights home game was against the top of the ladder team. It was a cold night, with liitle wind, no rain… almost perfect playong conditions.
We lost 4-0.
Once again we played 3-5-2. Which means we play with 2 of our centre-backs marking with one sweeper. This means that if the opposition midfielders attack, they pretty much get a free run at the goal if our own midfielders dont get back and defend. And tonight our midfielders failed to get back when it counted, and they also failed to make any impact up-front. This strengthens my argument against playing with the 3-5-2 formation, as it does not seem to be working.
Personally I played ok I suppose. I really didnt have much to do. I was marking the leagues leading goal scorer, but he was substituted off within the first 10 minutes due to a hamstring injury. After the game I still felt like I have plenty in the tank, which is not a good thing. I think I would be making more impact if we played 4-4-2, allowing me to attack on occasions.
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I’ll be following. You’ve probably answered this before now but what position do you play?
[quote]Jaice wrote:
I’ll be following. You’ve probably answered this before now but what position do you play?[/quote]
Welcome to the cage!
Currently playing centre back in a back 3. I prefer to be playing as right back in a back 4.
Do you play?
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[quote]theBird wrote:
[quote]Jaice wrote:
I’ll be following. You’ve probably answered this before now but what position do you play?[/quote]
Welcome to the cage!
Currently playing centre back in a back 3. I prefer to be playing as right back in a back 4.
Do you play?
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I didn’t expect that, I had you down as a centre forward for some reason. I do a bit, not as seriously as you though - we’re trying to get a team going next school year. Do you have any tips on establishing a team and getting some interest in it from your peers?
[quote]Jaice wrote:
I didn’t expect that, I had you down as a centre forward for some reason. I do a bit, not as seriously as you though - we’re trying to get a team going next school year. Do you have any tips on establishing a team and getting some interest in it from your peers?
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I don’t play in a very serious league. Its semi-amateur/semi-pro.
You live in a footballing nation. You shouldn’t have much rouble finding 15 guys who are motivated to play some good football. The struggle we have here in Australia is that we have no real footballing culture, and many guys that rock up to training have poor skills and no idea.
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[quote]theBird wrote:
[quote]jtownlax wrote:
LOL at the avi man. Thanks for the advice.
Read an article about how it is a bad idea to do workouts fasted as an athlete. Just a thought.[/quote]
Let me know how you go with your training. You should start a log aswell.
Where did you read that fasted training is bad? I do it twice a week to help with fat loss. And Im also thinking that if I can perform a specific skill or run a certain distance at a certain intensity, then it will be easier for me on game day when I am not in a fasted state. I don’t know if that last point makes sense.
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Couldn’t find the article but i remember it saying that doing fasted workouts reduce the explosiveness of the athlete.
My log name is Jtowns training log. Had it here for a while now.
[quote]jtownlax wrote:
[quote]theBird wrote:
[quote]jtownlax wrote:
LOL at the avi man. Thanks for the advice.
Read an article about how it is a bad idea to do workouts fasted as an athlete. Just a thought.[/quote]
Let me know how you go with your training. You should start a log aswell.
Where did you read that fasted training is bad? I do it twice a week to help with fat loss. And Im also thinking that if I can perform a specific skill or run a certain distance at a certain intensity, then it will be easier for me on game day when I am not in a fasted state. I don’t know if that last point makes sense.
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Couldn’t find the article but i remember it saying that doing fasted workouts reduce the explosiveness of the athlete.
My log name is Jtowns training log. Had it here for a while now.[/quote]
im not sure why that would be true, I could see fasted training decreasing endurance but as far as I know explosiveness is pretty much all neural. but im no expert, do whatever works…
Monday, 16th July 2012.
Was planning to go to the gym this morning, but I stayed up late watching the tour, so I hit the gym this afternoon instead… Monday afternoon is Bro-tard day. Almost had to kill a bro-tard when he decied to use my squat rack to lean on to stretch his lats before his machine assisted pull-ups, while I was using the rack for split squats balancing on one leg with 60kg on my back!
TRAINING
PM
Legs at the gym!
Agile 8 etc.
Squats. 3 sets of 20 reps using the barbell only. I then did 5 x 50kg, 5 x 60kg, and then 5 x 70kg. Feeling good, mobility is much better… Ill be squatting 160 again in no time!
Single leg split squats.
Ramped up to my working set
7 x 50kg
7 x 60kg (PB!!)
7 x 60kg
5 x 60kg
Single leg deadlifts
3 sets of 8 reps using 30kg barbell
Walking lunges
3 sets of 10 steps each leg holding 22.5kg dBs
3 rounds of;
1 minute plank, 10 straight leg lifts, and 20 gladiator rows using 10kg dBs.
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Hey man, just letting you know though I rarely post here now, I’m still creeping your log. Keep up the good work. Liking the split squats.
[quote]Spidey22 wrote:
Hey man, just letting you know though I rarely post here now, I’m still creeping your log. Keep up the good work. Liking the split squats.[/quote]
Hey bro, whats the story?
Are you just taking a little break from T-Nation duties? I know your busy with working your ass off in your summer vacation.
Anyway, hurry up and get back in here, T-Nation misses you. <3.
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MEGA-UPDATE!
Hey ducklings!
Well your all probably wondering where the hell I have been? Well, I have taken a week off work and have gone down to the city fo the week. Hence this week training will be a little different than usual, and ofcourse I wont be attending team soccer training. Anyway, this is what has been happening…
Tuesday, 17th July 2012.
Travelled down to the city. No training.
Wednesday, 18th July 2012.
Did some ball work against a wall for about 30 minutes and then ran to the nearest park where I did 7 x 70m sprints, walking back for recovery. Finished off with 4 sets of 6 reps of pull-ups.
Thursday, 19th July 2012.
Not feeling the best today. I suppose my diet hasnt been the best as Im treating this week away almost like a mini-holiday. Had a few wines last night and a beer… which probably didnt help. Anyway, I managed to get my lethargic self to do some ball work for 30 minutes and then I did a slow 2km run through some bush-land, with some hills. Felt slow and lethargic, but I suppose doing something is better than just sitting back on the couch and watching Judge Judy. Hamstrings feel tight… I have been sitting down lots this week… might be an idea to get a bit of a rub-down tomorrow maybe.
Tomorrow Im planning on hitting the gym in the ealry morning to do my usual Friday upper body work-out. I always feel weird at a foreign gym, but I supoose thats part of my lifestyle and I better just get used to it.
Keep it real.
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Friday, 20th July 2012.
TRAINING
AM
Upper body at the gym. Was at a foreign gym as I am visiting family etc in the city this week. Always strange when training in foreign gyms… Have to get used to the different equipment, bars, weights, surroundings and people at the gym. I have a few hundred stories for the squat rack curling thread, but we won’t go there. Also typing this on my brothers iPad so I’m going to keep this short and sweet…
Agile 8
3 sets of 20 reps of squats with bar only. Then did 3 sets of 5 using 50kg. Didn’t feel in the groove… But at least I did it.
Barbell bench press
Ramped up to my working set
3 x 105kg
3 x 105kg
3 x 105kg
Pull ups.
3 sets of 5 with 60 seconds break in between. And then did max effort of chin-ups, managed to get 10.
Db rows
3 sets of 10 using 30kg dbs.
Finished off super setting face pulls with push ups.
And in other news…
My hamstrings are feeling really tight today, and can feel them pulling on my lower back causing tension. Not sure why this is happening, I suppose the extra running I have been doing isn’t helping the cause, or maybe it’s the extra time I have spent in the car with all the extra traveling I’m doing this week. I’ll try and do some rolling/mobility work tonight before I go to my towns premiere of batman!!!
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Saturday, 21st July 2012.
TRAINING
Today is the day before game day, so todays activity included some light mobility work and a quick kick of the ball. Started off with agile 8, where I noticed my hamstrings are still a bit tight. Also spent a little extra time on my hip flexors, and thats something Im going to have to concentrate on. Very tight! Finished off with some ball work, practiced some dribbling, and passing and recieving the ball.
Tomorrows game is against a middle of the table team. On paper we should win, but going by recent results this game may be close. Also will be interesting to see what effect of not training with the team this week will have on my performance/fitness.
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Sunday, 22nd July 2012.
GAMEDAY
We lost 3-0.
We came out dominating possesion for yhe first 30 minutes, although our strikers failed to capatalise on there chances on goal. This cost us dearly. The opposition scored a goal form 30 yards out. One of the midfielder took a wild swing at the ball, and it curled and floated in the air as it went through the top corner of our goal.
In the second half our lack of fitness bcame apparent. About 3 of the starting players (including myself) had not trained with the team for the past week or more. The opposition scored another 2 goals, as we were pushing numbers up the field trying to get back into the game.I could really feel myself struggling with my fitness, and struggled to make the runs I would usually make. As I had taken a week off from work, I had probably added a kg or 2 to my weight with my extra indulgent meals i have been having. I must take this opportunity to remind myself that the conditiong aspect of the game is intense, and you cant expect to perform when your only 70% fit. Im going to really push myself at the track this week and get back into some decent shape.
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[quote]theBird wrote:
[quote]Spidey22 wrote:
Hey man, just letting you know though I rarely post here now, I’m still creeping your log. Keep up the good work. Liking the split squats.[/quote]
Hey bro, whats the story?
Are you just taking a little break from T-Nation duties? I know your busy with working your ass off in your summer vacation.
Anyway, hurry up and get back in here, T-Nation misses you. <3.
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I’m still posting sporadically on the site. And log my training in the BOI. Just don’t stay over here often, due to me not agreeing with some of the moves/decisions made on the site. Still follow ya’ll though. You’re killing it bud.
Tuesday, 24th July 2012.
TRAINING
AM
Legs at the gym.
Agile 8 etc.
3 sets of 20 reps of squats with barbell only. Then did 3 sets of 5 reps with 40kg, 50kg and 60kg. Feeling ok, although it does feel like Im using my right leg more than my left. Flexibility was ok… might try and drop my box an inch maybe??
Bulgarian split squats
Ramped up to my working set
7 x 55kg
7 x 55kg
7 x 55kg
Single leg deadlifts
3 sets of 8 using 30kg barbell. Slowly getting better at these. Trick is to get the back leg up for balance sooner than later.
Walking lunges
3 sets of 20 steps using 22.5kg dBs.
Finished off with 3 rounds of 1 minute plank, 10 leg raises, and 20 gladiator rows usuing 10kg.
nb: routine getting stale. Might be time to change things up soon… any suggestions?
PM
Went to team soccer training. Like usual, the sesion was pretty shit. I feigned a knee injury and left early so I could get home and cook my steak. Planning to wake up tomorrow and head to the park to do some real skill work!!
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