Sunday, January 9, 2011

DECEMBER 26th - JANUARY 9th

Monday
Power clean @185, one rep every minute on the minute for 20 minutes.
Tuesday
Row
2000 meters, rest 3 minutes (7:19.6PR)
1500 meters, rest 3 minutes (6:14.4)
1000 meters, rest 3 minutes (3:45.6)
500 meters, done (1:45.3)
Wednesday
5-10-15 reps for time
Back squat @225 & 185
Box jump @30"
Went with 225 on sets 5 and 10. Dropped to 185 for the last set.
(12:25)
Thursday
Mobility work
Friday
Mobility work
Saturday
7 x 5 minute rounds of grappling
Sunday
Mobility work
Monday
Deadlift
3,3,3,1,1,1,1
225, 275, 295, 315, 405fail, 405fail, 400fail, 365
Tuesday
50-40-30-20-10 reps for time
Calorie row
Double unders
Sit ups
(22:26)
Wednesday
Row
1 minute work, 1 minute rest, 2 min work, 2 min rest, 3 work, 3 rest, 4 work, 4 rest, 3 work, 3 rest, 2 work, 2 rest, 1 work, 1 rest.
(4405 meters)
Thursday
Mobility work
Friday
2 minutes cumulative in a lockoff, chin above bar
Then
10 rounds for time
10 russian KB swings @70lbs
10 GHD sit ups
(14:34)
Saturday
8 x 5 minute rounds grappling
Sunday
Mobility work

So here we are. Training is going well, I am now officially registered for the Speedgoat 50K, and I will be registered for the Leadville 100 in the next month. I'm coming to terms more and more with my personal goals and what these goals require of me. I'm learning, slowly, what amount and kind of training I respond best to, and what I am able to handle. "Specializing in nothing, excelling in everything" is a relative concept, and it's not one that I will apply to my own training any longer.
Every person has an ideal exercise prescription. Every person has goals and reasons for training or just working out. There is no perfect program. There is no perfect program that exists outside a single person's goals. Your perfect program is like enlightenment. Many, many years of sacrifice are required. Thousands of hours spent in damp caves. You can go it alone, or you can find a teacher. Some can take you where you want to go, and some can offer only the one size fits all comfort of Kool Aid. Do you know where you're going?

3 comments:

  1. Dude, how did that 1500m row feel? Ouch....

    And no, I have no idea where I'm going.

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  2. Well, the time speaks for itself, but it hurt pretty bad.

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  3. Looks and sounds good man. Don't drink the Kool Aid.

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