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In Baltimore over the weekend but I managed to squeeze in a run and a light workout in anticipation of the new routine, starting today. About that, I forgot that I have a one-day ultimate tournament this coming Saturday, which will obviously prevent me from working out that day as well as compromise me for the following couple of days (should be a good 4.5-6 hours of ultimate).

Saturday:

work
run @moderate pace x20mins (in VFF)

I was in a huge rush and didn't have time to stretch or anything. Bad planning. Also this was my first extended run in a while in my VFF's, and I haven't been in barefoot-style shoes in over a month, so my calves and soleus muscles have been crying the past couple of days. Going down stairs is a bitch. Should have been smarter about this. Barefoot running is tops, but I thought I could jump right back into it after a layoff and I was clearly wrong about that.

Sunday:

warm up
bike @easy pace x10mins

work
bench 3x5x170
pullups 4x4xbw+25

nice walk back from the gym to my girlfriend's apartment, then

7DVJS (except the hip flexor raises and glute bridge... girlfriends can be distracting...)

cool down
stretch

Like I said, my calves are hurtin' from the run on Saturday and discipline on Sunday was bad. But that's okay, I can't beat myself up as bad about that as about what happened at work this morning: I had edited this research paper and it was really a godawful mess, so I made all kinds of comments (in Word) to myself like "WTF?" and "this makes my head want to explode." Then I took them all out and just left in the constructive comments. Or so I thought, because I got the response back from the person who wrote it and apparently I left in "this makes my head want to explode." Oh and that comment was selected to apply to like three entire paragraphs. In my defense, they were, and still are, totally incoherent.

Still, how fucking embarrassing is that for everyone involved. Oof.

Also, more depth jumps instead of squats.

This post is going to be a little long.

At this point I think I really need to get into a jumping-dominant focus because my explosiveness and movement efficiency suck ass. My strength could be better, too, but I've been working on it as a primary focus for the past, what, six months. Some okay gains in that time. I'm going to retest everything this weekend and then start the next phase. Basically looking at 4-6 weeks. Will still do max strength work once a week just to maintain (and maybe gain, who knows?).

Here's what I'm thinking for the next month, starting next week based on the power block from the MSEM article. Your thoughts are appreciated if you can make it through the whole thing:

Week 1
Monday upper body
warm up
SLRVJs x6-8
footwork (e.g. agility ladder)
bench 5x165, 5x175, ?x185
weighted pullups 4x3
SS1 clapping pushups 3x10
SS2 fast rope climb x3
core

Tuesday
ultimate

Wednesday lower body
warm up
SS1 KB swing 3xheavy
SS2 max-effort DLRVJ x4-6
LLLRRR bounds x5x20y
jump squats 3x3x95, max effort each rep
squat 5x245, 5x265, ?x275
DL 5x310
core


Thursday
ultimate

Friday
total rest

Saturday lower body
warm up
max effort DLRVJ xdropoff
sprints xdropoffx40y
lots of rest (walk to gym)
squat 3x255, 3x275, ?x285
walking lunge 3x10x110
core

Sunday
warm up
low-intensity cardio (REALLY low, like a long walk or something)

Week 2
Monday
same as W1 except
bench 3x175, 3x185, ?x195

Tuesday
ultimate

Wednesday
same as W1 except
squat 3x265, 3x275, ?x295

Thursday
ultimate

Friday
total rest

Saturday
same as W1 except
squat 5x255, 3x285, ?x315

Sunday
same as W1

Week 3
Monday
same as W1 except
bench 3x5x165
bw pullups 3x3

Tuesday
ultimate

Wednesday
same as W1 except
squat jumps 1x3x95
squat MSEM 2x3

Thursday
Warm up
Steady-state cardio x30-40 mins

Friday
total rest

Saturday
same as W1 except
cut jumping/sprinting volume in half
squat MSEM 2x3

Sunday
same as W1

Week 4
Monday
test bench and weighted pull ups

Tuesday
rest

Wednesday
same as W1 except
squat MSEM 2x3

Thursday
warm up
footwork, maybe some low-intensity hops and stuff
core

Friday
total rest

Saturday
Test RVJ, SVJ, squat, DL

Warm up
usual
no jumps

Work
OHP 5x105, 3x115, 3x120
DB row 5x50, 5x55, 8x55
box jumps 2x5x30" - not intense or anything, just wanted to do them
7DVJS

Cool down
stretch

Sore, as expected, but I sucked it up and did the whole thing and feel good about it.

I dominate you both. Can't figure out how to screen-cap it on this computer but I averaged 194.

Warm up
shoot hoops
usual
bunch of SLRVJs -- these felt awkward with a full run-up, my form must just be awful. I'm going to try to get some video soon.

Work
bench 5x185, 3x195, 2x205
pullups 6xbw, 3xbw+25, 4xbw+25, 5xbw+25
7DVJS

Cool down
stretch

No idea yet, I just did it for the first time yesterday. Today, definitely not because I had back-to-back frisbee games, which went okay although my ankle was a bit, not sore, but more just kind of tired by the end. I'm going to rest tomorrow except maybe 7DVJC. Honestly I don't think it'll help my vert that much but it's something to try in place of the core circuit I'd been doing. I just read Andrew's article about SLRVJ, it was tight. After I finish 5/3/1 I'm going to switch to the movement efficiency focus with a strength component type scheme for a while and see how that pans out. Strength work would be maintenance for the big lifts and probably walking lunges alternating with step ups. My movement efficiency is just god-awful, as my jumping ability would suggest. So that makes sense.

Back to frisbee, we split our games today. I always forget how frustrating rec league is. We should have won our second game but many, many of my teammates think that they are god's gift to ultimate and have all the throws in the world, when in fact they are fat and slow and incompetent. I am the best player on my team (we have a 6-5 guy who can jump, which is just great, but he throws a lot of shit away), which is never a good sign to begin with, but at least I know my limitations. None of you would know what the hell I was talking about if I continued this rant, so I'm going to stop. At the end of the day, it's just rec, and it's indoor so I should care even less, but we had the second game in our grasp and pissed it away and I couldn't do shit about it because nobody would sub out even though they were gassed (indoor ultimate has wrestling tap-out style substitutions). Fucking retards. Okay, NOW I'll stop.