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Yeah but I fucking WENT to Michigan, so I still have to watch the games. Painful. Just painful. And my NFL team is the Skins, so basically this year sucks.

Workout last night:

Foam roll upper legs x20 minutes

Yes, this counts as a workout. At least, it was harder than the rest of my workouts have been this week. It's really interesting to notice the difference between pain and tightness when I roll my right (dominant) leg versus my left (weaker) leg. The right one hurts so much more; I actually can barely roll out the VMO (teardrop muscle). I have to take some weight off it or it hurts too much. But it feels awesome afterwards and if I keep it up the tension should go down a lot.

Also, this morning I woke up and had a strange urge to try a one-armed pushup. Never done one before, but I got it! Right arm only, left was a fail. Still, was kind of a nice surprise.

Workout -- cardio and core

Warm up
none

Cardio
Row x15' (~3200m)
Stationary bike x10'
Row x5' (~1250m)

Core x3
T push-up x10 (5/side)
Russian twist x15 (30 touches)
Pallof press x10/sidex50#
Chin-ups x5 (need to start doing more of these because I've gotten worse at them in the past couple of months)

Cool down
stretch
foam roll legs and low back (hooooooooly shit I need to get back into doing this regularly cause it hurt like a mother, especially my right IT band and quad)

Deload.

Warm up
as usual

Work
Squat 3x5x195
OHP 3x5x105
Pull ups 3x5
Chin ups x5

Cool down
stretch

Easy-peasy.

Warm up
as usual

Work
Squat 3x5x245
Bench 3x5x175
Dead lift 3x320 FAIL: did these as singles and could not get the fourth rep off the floor without form going to shit
Pallof press 2x10/sidex60
Bunch of pullups, rows, inverted rows scattered throughout

Cool down
stretch

These all felt hard, except the second set of bench presses. Time for a deload after pretty much a month straight of linear gains. Starting Monday I'm dropping back down to the weights I started with, then I'll test standing vert before ramping back up the following week.

EDIT: I finally sucked it up and ordered straps, so my DL can keep going up without me having to worry about grip.

Warm up
Shot hoops
The usual

Work
Depth jump 3x5
Squat 3x5x240
OHP 3x5x120
Bunch of chins and pullups thrown in

Cool down
stretch

Warm up
jog to gym x10' sloooowwww
mobility shit

Work
Squat 3x5x235
Bench 3x5x170
Dead lift 5x310

Cool down
stretch
shoot hoops x5'
jog home x10' sloooowwww

Found an absolutely awesome resource on soccer training via Charlie Francis' forums (saw your name somewhere on there, adarqui). Tons of great info but loooots of crap to wade through over there, and this guy duxx (Mladin Jovanovic is his real name) put together a sick PowerPoint of his soup-to-nuts training philosophy. I know everyone here is pretty much focused on vert (well, except adarq), but if anyone's interested I'd be happy to email it around.

Frisbee was fun. It's just fall rec but I'd been busy with club or other shit for the past month and a half so it was only my second game with this team. We won despite trying very hard to lose towards the end of the game. I was running and cutting okay but will definitely need to do some more specific stuff as next spring approaches. For the time being legs felt good, throws were still there, and winning is fun.