jeebus

Ok so sorry to myself once again for the hiatus. It's been a hell of a week due to a crappy cold and an overactive schedule. I won't even get into details.

Thursday was the first practice and it comprised of fitness testing. hootay. We did 3 tests: death runs for 20 minutes (minute on, minute off), a passing drill, and a plank.
I wasn't disappointed with my run scores but i wasn't thrilled either. I averaged out at 5/4.5. My goal for next time is to average 6/5.5. I plan on doing this at least once a week from now on and I think simply being outside and not being sick will help me improve my score but that's no excuse for the work that needs to be put in.

The passing drill I can't say I expected to do well. I can honestly say I've never had to make a 10m spin pass while running and nobody had ever really taught me how to do it. But I want to learn so that's going to be added to the list of things I have to work on.

The plank I'm mad about. I bitched out on that really badly. I can hold a plank for way longer, especially if I'm not coughing in the middle of it. No excuses, do it better next time.


Saturday I did a workout at Forever Fit in Watertown, which is a really neat gym. I like the setup. (Once again lost my sheet with my stats -sigh)

warm up: bm bar x5

strength: dead lift built up to a solid 3 rep max. I believe I did 3 reps of 3 at 185 and 3 reps of 3 at 205. because of the set up i was using, I did these with the down motion too instead of just dropping it.

rounds: I did 10 rounds of this combo. I did the first 2 reps with 105lbs but it was just a bit too much to push press so I downed the weight to 95lbs

3 thrusters (front squat up into a push press)
20 crunches
20 push ups (both on the ball)

so total 30 thrusters, 200 crunches and 200 push ups. This left me pretty beat
So then I was done for the day.

Now though I think it's time to completely change course. I'm going to focus solely on running and skills conditioning now I think. I'm already stronger, now it's time to get faster and go harder for longer. I know nobody reads this blog but if they did I'd ask for some advice.