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I'm still mostly doing my plan from a few posts ago, but sprints and jump practice have been hard to come by. I've had a hell of a time trying to get the athletics track a mere five min away open on the weekends. It's a long story, but I may get somewhere with it soon (got a local councillor on my side, but it seems to be pin-balling around lots of departments and there's a lease agreement involved). It's very hard to get jumping in without a track at the moment. My home-made vertec experiment has just been a disaster because my backyard isn't very level and it's also a wind-tunnel. The gym isn't really very jump-friendly now either as I have to go during busy times (7:30-8:30PM). Same for sprinting - I'd love to be doing more of it as I feel better when I'm consistently running, and fitter too.

The only change to the weights side is that I'm doing more front squatting instead of RDLs, mostly because my squat started stalling a bit (that's also because I'm getting smashed by work and had a few weeks completely scuttled). This is probably the best style of training for me atm with life being fairly busy (I couldn't imagine training for or playing a competitive sport right now). I'm handling the current volume pretty well and throwing in some volume front squats has helped with quad/mid-back strength too (I rarely got quad or midback soreness doing the very hip/glute-dominant slow ATG squats I filmed a few months ago). So basically, a lot of squatting in addition to sporadic jumping and accessory stuff. As the weather gets better, I can do more outdoor backyard SVJs, and I'm switching gyms to a much bigger setup, which should allow me to jump more (I hope). More than anything, consistent access to good jumping spots has been my biggest nemesis.

I made this the other day from a Dragon Ball Super episode I saw on yt. Hehe:

Quote from: LBSS on July 30, 2018, 11:44:35 am

what's that about registering with british athletics? the open meets at lee valley cost six pounds per event. i don't know where you are in the UK but it's worth traveling to race. you'll never be in as good shape as you hope to be, and that's fine! i did two races on my recent trip in crap conditions because there's no replacement, even as a training tool, for competition against other people. could i have done better if i'd trained more, hadn't flown 7,000 miles one way and then 7,000 miles another way, been able to keep running consistently on the road, etc.? yes. doesn't matter, still beyond happy with myself for at least trying.

you can do it!

If you want to join a club you have to register with england athletics and pay the membership fee.

Most of the meets near my region, east england, do their meets online and some are cancelled and some require registration with england athletics.

I think what LBSS is saying is that there seems to be plenty of cheap open meetings around the UK, and travelling to the closest available one occasionally as a progress indicator would be hugely beneficial. I read the entry info and it looks like there's no requirements to be registered or be in a club. It would also give you a date to base your training around, rather than just training with no actual competition planned. Above all, you can really only max out your time in a competitive atmosphere - maybe not your first few runs, but certainly once you get a couple under your belt, you'll get less nervous and your training will show.

(That is awesome, btw. I would love that sort of opportunity here. It's so expensive to run in Melbourne, and the number of meets with good conditions is so few it's barely worth it from a money standpoint. Be thankful for living in a good country for aths).

Wimbledon has reached semi finals and yesterday semi final between anderson and isrin or something like that. was an epic match. back and forth.

Longest match in history ever breaks the longest match record to 6hrs 35mins, both have 2 game points last round went to 26 - 24 to anderson. one point anderson fell down and got up and continued the rally with a left hand response and won that rally.
his serve has 80% ace rate.

just epic and nadal and djokovic had to wait lol.

That was a great match but it wasn't even close to the longest ever. No coincidence that it occurred between two monster servebots at Wimbledon.

at first glance, Cousins doesn't seem like a good fit for GSW .. but, GSW being in the West, they're already one of the "tough teams", with Draymond etc.. Now with Cousins, more bruising. Seems like an elite West AND elite East team now. kinda nuts.

hoping Cousins is healthy.

just want to see the West go nuclear.. seems like it's a nuclear arms race in the West. this is fun shit. LMAO.

btw.. Lonzo won't last in LA. I expect he'll be gone soon tbh.. His dad is just too much for LEBRON.

I think the biggest Boogie bonus is that he can shoot threes now. If he's not going to be featured much on offense (which you would presume), they might just have him camped on the 3pt line, and he can rebound everything on defense - basically Javale McThree. Ridiculous that the GSW could somehow add to their talent this summer.....madness.

I also could see the Lakers shipping Lonzo+Ingram/Kuzma for Kawhi Leonard soon. They have been really high on Lonzo (who is quite good despite his bad shooting), but LeBron changes everything.

Notes:
Thankfully my left hip and right thigh seem fine. Those jumps were just hard on me because i was using the stupid crossfit shoes with no cushioning for the first time and also i was taking an akward runnup.

Wow, so you soured on the Metcons? I'm surprised to hear that they lack cushioning. I think they are the perfect jumping shoe.

I am, i still have 4 months to drop the fat....

Good to hear man. Good to see you're doing some sprints too.

Please tell me lane 3 got DQ'd for running out of her lane like that! Falling on the track sucks. I hope your daughter is OK.

I was gonna say, to replicate a self-hand-timed training time in your first race is practically impossible. Sub-14 FAT is not bad given your preparation.