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jump looks high, lesson about not murdering yourself with volume seems good. 

Yeah for me I think 4 hard sessions plus an easier one per week is about right. 5-6 is when I start either breaking down or not performing well anyway.

There was a meet on this weekend but it cost (more) money to do and it was an hour away so I just decided to time-trial myself at the track. Did a flatout 100m and 60m and some jumps. Frame-counted them at ~12.1 and 7.40. Clearly I just lack speed endurance as a 7.40 60m should be a bit faster than 12.1, but that's OK because I have been doing very minimal track training. The strength/power component has definitely helped maintain speed to some extent. Broad jump is 2.85m atm, again, very little actual practice of the movement so can't expect any better than that.

Sprinting flat out in a straight line on an empty track with nice weather is just beautiful though. I definitely get caught up in results to the point where you forget how enjoyable the actual movement is.

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Damn acole you been slack on the updates!

Fill us in with what's been happening with your training or even just life in general.
Hope you've been well and Happy Easter!

Thanks mate, hope you had a good one. Yeah I've been meaning to update for ages so I appreciate the bump. I've still been reading everyone's training and happy to see everyone is killing it. Just been slammed with finishing up the old PhD. Training's been put on the backburner for a bit for sure but the end is in sight.

Last time I did anything of note was at the final round of aths comp. The last training session before i went hard and definitely irritated my bicep femoris tendon....wasn't feeling good to flex the knee at all. Probably shouldn't have run but people were dropping out like flies so felt obliged. Flared up again in warmups and ended up running a painful 12.52 100m, not very good. Should have called it there but needed to just put in a token LJ effort....big mistake. I jumped pretty well considering but it was game over from then. Really exploded the next day so I just shut down everything for the next month, just did UB/core at the gym. Been doing that for the last two months, been a bit demotivated and the BFT is still sore. That's the problem with tendinopathies - if you ignore the pain it just gets exponentially worse and takes forever to go away (similar to my foot, which I kept training on and took a year to heal!).

Once I've finished up (probably end of May), I'll be working for a bit here getting $$ until end of July. My partner and I are having a baby boy due around then and decided that because I don't have a FT job lined up immediately that it would be nice to get out of the city for 6-9 months to save money and just have a break from city life and working 40-50hrs/week, just for brief interlude. Moving back to my old home in Geelong as my parents have moved out to the country and were planning on selling, but we'll live there until the end of the year or until I sort myself out. Will be good for the first tricky 6mths of having a new child and also training. Big vert training plans for that period. Training for vertical jumping has always been awkward  in Melbourne compared to just lifting or running due to lack of available facilities to get in jumping practice. But back home that won't be an issue. It won't be forever, planning to sort myself out job-wise over that time and move back to Melbourne or elsewhere for 2018 so it'll be a nice deadline to get something respectable achieved before I get timed out.

That's awesome to hear. Sounds like you've been extremely busy on the study/work front and congratulations on the family news!

Thanks mate. How's yours coming along? I forgot to say congrats on making that Aus team. Nice work! Will the games be streamed?

Awesome to see you back brother and the home garage sounds sick.

Quote from: acole14 on May 25, 2017, 10:04:03 am

Also planning on catching up with Coges finally to have a jumps session! It won't be great on my end yet (32-33''atm). Should be in a couple of weeks (if still keen Coges?)

Still keen mate. Haven't trained in nearly 2 weeks but back at it today so we could be having the worst dunk session ever filmed haha.

Haha that's OK, good to set a baseline.

Awesome to see you back brother and the home garage sounds sick.

my dream come true hopefully. It's not massive but I should be able to get a workable setup going. There's also an aths track about 5mins drive that'll be useful as well. I've really felt restricted last couple of years but now I should have clear air.

What area will you end up in? I'm pretty lucky in that I have 1 track a 5 min drive from home and another track a 10m drive from work. Now if only I could run...

What area will you end up in? I'm pretty lucky in that I have 1 track a 5 min drive from home and another track a 10m drive from work. Now if only I could run...

Out in Coburg. Still have the same commute time except I'm on the tram now.

Yeah there's only two good tracks in WA apparently. Melbourne might have more athletic tracks per capita than most other cities outside of the US (where it felt like every HS I saw had a track/football field combo).