sigh ..every morning it just gets a little later

arrival: 6:56am

bm bar x5

thrusters: 65 x5 75x5 85x5x3x2

scrum positioning x5

fat man chinups x20

chest flys 90x8x8x8

departure: 7:25am

humbug

i did a drill that we used to do at umass. setting up cones in a 40 x 22m rectangle, with cones marking each 10m on the long sides, you sprint the length and jog the width, doing each length twice.

jog 22m sprint 40m jog 22m sprint 40m x2
jog 22m sprint 30m jog 22m sprint 30m x2
jog 22m sprint 20m jog 22m sprint 20m x2
jog 22m sprint 10m jog 22m sprint 10m x2

I did this 3 times. Each time took me between 3 and 4 minutes, the cold air really was screwing with my lungs and i felt really slow

i did a plank in between the 3 reps the first one lasting 1:55min, the second one lasting 2:03 min. It's unfortunate that my shoulders and not my abs give out in a plank.


BLAH

5 more days

gym arrival: 6:50am

sprints: started off doing up downs on my back at the turning points but my knees were being so tweaky that i had to switch to shuttle runs instead. fuck gym floors

60m x6
rest
60m x5
rest
60m x4
rest
60m x3
rest
60m x2
rest
60m x1

mister fancy bball dude was back :) too bad i'm even more awkward than usual at 7am

gym departure: 7:12am

speed bags are the most irritating thing to listen to ever

gym arrival: 8:36pm

didn't really warm up, just jumped right into it because i was short on time.
I did each exercise x30 x25 x20 x15 x10 x5 and in between each exercise i jogged a recovery lap around the track, though I sprinted some just to get them over with faster and switched directions a few times to give my knees a break on the tiny track. my right knee in particular is tweaking, most likely from the stress that's put on it while playing hooker. i'll keep an eye on it to make sure it doesn't get exacerbated.

knees to chest x30
lap
burpies x30
lap
body weight squats x30
lap
crunches x30
lap
push ups x30
lap
knees to chest x25
lap
burpies x25
lap

ect... all the way down to 5 a piece

gym departure: 9:20 pm

6 days left

gym arrival: 6:39am

warm up: bm bar x5

bench press: 45 x5, 65x5, 95 x5x5, 105 x5, 115 x5

jerk: 75 x5, 95 x5

clean and jerk: 95 x3 x3 x3 x3 x3

chest fly: 70 x8, 90 x6, 110 x4

lat pull down: 70 x8, 85 x6, 100 x4

raises: 12.5 x6 front, diagonal, side, ES

tunes: when the levee breaks-led zeppelin, junkyard waltz-freakbass, across the universe-thebeatles, let me get down-busta rhymes, one chance-modest mouse, paralyzed-rock kills kid, polaroid-shwayze

gym departure: 7:28


also did stadiums after practice on saturday (14) small steps

a quick blurb about yesterday

before practice i decided i need to workout more inspite of the fact i was half unconscious. so i hopped on my bike and rode down to the track (approx 4 or 5 miles each way), sprinted 100m x4 and biked home.

MY LEGS AND BACK HATED ME AT PRACTICE WHERE WE DID A CIRCUIT!

OH. MY. QUAD!!

still, worth it!

10 days left til U23's

NMPB.... do you know how hard it is to get out of bed at 6 after listening to your sister cry all night, not getting home til 12:30 and then the same sister busting into your room at 2 am to drunkenly slur at you? it's a lot.... but surprisingly once i was up and started running, it actually felt really good.

gym arrival: 6:48am

Tredmill

easy speed: 5.0 (towards the end when it got a bit hard on my knees I'd bump down to 2.9 for 30 secs and then back up to 5.0)
hard speed: 7.4

Easy 3 min, Hard 3 min x2
Easy 2 min, Hard 2 min x3
Easy 1 min, Hard 1 min x4
cool down 2 min on 2.7

total time: 36 minutes
total distance: 3.25 mi

tunes: It's impossible to write down songs when you're running like that but the first and last songs were exactly what I need to hear- Time to get away-LCD soundsystem, Love Freak-Trey Songz, and the really nice lady who complimented my rugby tee put sports center on the tv in front of me, so that was awesome too!

gym departure: 7:29pm

CAN'T STOP WON'T STOP