Gymmed yesterday.  Winter League tonight.  Hollywood and Randy's team again.  We're gonna need a response to their triangle defense.

Yesterday, I beasted a Hammy lean, straight out, down and up.  After that, though, I wasn't as able to do it again.  My sustaining power was running low.  Been thinking about deck-of-cards-ing it on Friday.  Maybe saturday.  Plyos, baby.

Feeling the soreness from throwing yesterday, though I didn't recognize it for what it was until just now.  Either way, good quick day at the gym just now.

DB Power Snatches: The inequality between right and left is becoming troublesome.  My left arm needs to be able to pull this much weight, though the legs at least seem relatively equal.  I can feel in my pistols that the real difference is stability, whether from the ankle or my proprioception I don't know.  Got up to 60#, feeling good in the right arm.  The left arm, however, was weak, possibly in the shoulder.  Will probably follow Mackey's lead and start working the left harder than the right for injury prevention.  This imbalance, while natural, is unnerving.
Hang Snatches with the bar: 45, 65.  Felt good, but tough.  Hang snatches really make you get the explosion out of the legs.
Chin Ups: 5,3,3(with a wider grip on the final set).  I'm getting happier and happier with my ability to push out especially my first set.  I need to be able to sustain, but that will come as I keep working these exercises.  I'm also getting better at stabilizing myself after I jump up to the bars.
Bench Press: 5x95,105, 105, 4x115.  I could have gotten 5 on the 115 with a spot, but I foolishly didn't ask anybody around me.  That's my loss.
Chest Fly: 10x20,22.5,25.  The 25 was the right weight to end on.  In fact, the whole exercise felt good across the sets.  20 to get me warm, 22.5 to get me tired, 25 to really work the muscles.

After that, double strength protein and going home.  Doin' Work,
~#28

Went and threw.  Got about 50 yds on both forehand and backhand for about 50 throws each.  Additionally, I did some ring-ups, which was a new experience.  Much more stabilization.  Did a 4-3-2.  Felt good.  Will keep them in mind as something to throw in for variety.

Gym time with Eli again.  Back into the routine.  Got good strong hammy leans, down and then up.  Snatched 85, though poorly, it was still clean enough that I'll count it, so that's a new PR.  Otherwise, just a regular day, felt pretty strong but otherwise nothing special.

Doin' Work,
~#28

Winter League.  I had what I think may have been my highest jump ever.  There is no proof, but it felt like I got my ass on the shoulder of a dude from Bodhi.  It was a gigantic foul and Alex Howlett(!) played the rebound off the wall to score the point against us, but still.  I had some swagger after that.  Overall, a good game, though there's one layout opportunity that I didn't take and will piss me off since I couldn't play the wall and pull it off.  Otherwise, good defense, good offense and a lot of fun handling some pissant little asian who underweighed me by probably 30 pounds and kept trying to play physical with me.  As i described to dad, he defended my fakes really well, unfortunately, this just let me push off him and get extra yards under.  He was not very good.

Doing Work (and probably more snatches...they're working!)
~#28

After a break for Madison, I hit the gym again today.  My snatch is not coming along like I want it to.  I've got the motion for a hang snatch down, but I'm a) having trouble getting my knees out of the way fast enough to power snatch and b) can't hang snatch 85# (though I can snatch it from slightly lower than a normal hang).

Other than that, my day was pretty easy.  Snatches (45,65, 75, 85), Pull ups (5,5,4), Incline plate presses (45, 55, 60), Iso DLs, protein.  Shower and then writing more thank you emails to my contacts in Madison.

Missed posting about a couple of gym days and last night was winter league.  Gym days were meh, same old same old.  Been chilling with Corey for a couple days because he's up in town.  Winter league was another win against a team we beat previously.  This game was much closer because we were missing Dang and Egg.  Miller and I  were clearly the top two players on the field by a long margin.  I played like it, I feel.  I was also Spikey McDouchenstein, but I'm alright with that since my team was playing chronically lame ultimate.  I don't know why, but they just couldn't get together any energy to play.  I made a couple of Brando-esque plays that, had I been watching, would have gotten me pumped and the rest of my team just sorta sat there.  Pretty frustrating.  I had to make plays pretty often because terrible throws would go up or defenders would just give up their assignments.  Not was I wanted to do, going into the night, BUT probably pretty good for me skill-wise.

On the major plus-side, got to talk to Heidi about the coming summer, which is one thing out of the way.

Doin' Work,
~#28

Hill Sprints. 8x~70m, 3 min. rest each time.  Simple, hopefully effective.  I kept all my times hovering around 10s, which I was comfortable with.  I aimed to get under 10, but seldom accomplished this.  Focus was on foot drive, follow-through of my leg and keeping my chest forward and down.  My breath suffered for lack of attention, but that wasn't too bad.

Also, winter league was a pretty rousing success for me.  Dang and Egg weren't there, but were replaced with others of similar caliber.  I felt more than confident enough strutting out there, even though we were playing the number 1 seed.  I never felt really outmanned no matter the coverage and every once in a while, they would throw their worst guy on me (should I feel insulted?) and I had no trouble opening up quarter field spaces between us on every cut.  Additionally, although I got boxed out once and had an AWFUL turn on what should have been at 95% throw, I played overall well.  I think I definitely hit my goals of focusing on starting cuts before the tap and working the deep space well.  Not much of a chance to work my ups, but that's alright.

Doin' Work,
~#28

Yesterday ended up mostly being a rest day.  Did 2x15 pushup and 2x15 pike pushup (shoulder work) and called it a day.

Today, had training.  The usual sets, plus DB snatches.  I've been watching videos and practicing my snatch form and i really felt it improve today.  I snatched 5x40# on both arms.  That was not bad.  Additionally, my pistol is getting better, though as I get tired, it goes downhill hard and I start falling to the side.  After I was done with Eli, I did a few front squats with the free bar (not the smith rack).  I had to work much harder in these to keep my spine neutral.  I would love to get a coach on it, but barring that, I'm just trying to focus.  I've got ultimate tonight and there's a real chance I'll be the best person on the field at some points.  Hopefully I can go out there and play like it.  My focuses today are going to be on starting my cuts before the disc is tapped in, making all my deep cuts work towards the break side and really pushing on my ups.  I've gotten skied too many times in the past few weeks.  Way too many.  gonna try to start locking it down today.

Do Work,
~#28

Day with eli.  Spent doing ab rollouts, 6" step-ups, inverted rows, pushups, pistols and bench situps.  Nothing too hard, nothing power-based.  Annoyed.