I rebenchmarked as best I could these past two gym sessions, trying to get a feel for what the season had left me with:
Legs:
[Barefoot DL: 10x95,115,115(?)
Chin Up: 3,1, 3(pull up grip)]
TRX 1-L Squats: 5/Lx3 (These were really good. I think I'm going to do them more. The TRX bands definitely helped stabilize. I pulled myself up more as the sets wore on, though.
1-L Quad Extend: 10x25,37.5,45
TRX Roll-out: 4x10s hold, 1x 15s
Arms:
Wide Lat pulldown:10x84,84,86.5
Bench press: 3x10x85 (last set was actually 7)
Decline press: 2x10x45/arm (iso), 10x50/arm (bilateral)
Tricep pulldown: 3x10x60
Run 1 mile, 8 mph, 2%
Doing this left me with a decent idea of what's going to need doing for the next months. Time to go back to work.
~#28
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Monday, September 19, 2011
I stopped posting a few months ago, not because I stopped working out, but because I just didn't find the time. I did stop working out though, due to injuries and constant ultimate tournaments, I never thought I was in a good place. That said, Udderburn just failed to qualify for Regionals this weekend and now begins the long, hard winter. I will be ramping down my ultimate and ramping up, significantly, my training. Lessons learned:
1) It matters. Training for just 1 winter made me a VASTLY better player. I turned myself from a player considered 100% O-line to a player who plays nearly all the D points when the pressure is on. This is an accomplishment I am beyond proud of.
2) It isn't hard. Not that it doesn't require hard work. I mean, 150 pounds of anything is hard to pick up. I mean it wasn't hard making the time, making the plans, making the choice again and again to hit the gym. The hard part was flipping that mental switch. In many ways, I didn't do it actively, it just happened. If there is something I think was key to my improvement, however, it was that switch. I wish I could tell people how to do it. Getting a trainer didn't work quite how I wanted, but it did teach me quite a bit about training and many different lifts.
3) There is a wealth of information out there, go and find it and you will be rewarded. I used so many different workout regimens in the past few months. I had two different trainers (with two different styles), I used Toad's tabata-fanatacism to fuel a few workouts, I ran, I didn't run, I stole Ironside's workouts. All that I had to do was figure out where to look and things just...work.
4) Losing fucking sucks. I took the losses at Sectionals here at least as hard as the losses at College Sectionals. And all I could think was "This is right. I _should_ be upset. Losing should hurt because you should care so much about yourself, your team, and your game that losing is a punch in the gut."
5) You can't be too proactive. There were lots of problems with how Udderburn was run, but that was lots of inexperience. Keep the pressure on captains, make sure they know what to do, push for your ideas. Captainship is full of politics, especially when you start adding captains (Udderburn ended up with 4!) and it pays to navigate those waters. I feel very much that I acted like Corey when he first arrived at Yuk- full of knowledge that only half the important people were listening to. There are lessons to learn from that, too.
Speaking of which, Corey and Gail might be coming up to Madison in October and that would be amazing. I'd absolutely love to see them again, especially if I got to show them around. Ginie and I are both excited.
The work begins again,
~#28
1) It matters. Training for just 1 winter made me a VASTLY better player. I turned myself from a player considered 100% O-line to a player who plays nearly all the D points when the pressure is on. This is an accomplishment I am beyond proud of.
2) It isn't hard. Not that it doesn't require hard work. I mean, 150 pounds of anything is hard to pick up. I mean it wasn't hard making the time, making the plans, making the choice again and again to hit the gym. The hard part was flipping that mental switch. In many ways, I didn't do it actively, it just happened. If there is something I think was key to my improvement, however, it was that switch. I wish I could tell people how to do it. Getting a trainer didn't work quite how I wanted, but it did teach me quite a bit about training and many different lifts.
3) There is a wealth of information out there, go and find it and you will be rewarded. I used so many different workout regimens in the past few months. I had two different trainers (with two different styles), I used Toad's tabata-fanatacism to fuel a few workouts, I ran, I didn't run, I stole Ironside's workouts. All that I had to do was figure out where to look and things just...work.
4) Losing fucking sucks. I took the losses at Sectionals here at least as hard as the losses at College Sectionals. And all I could think was "This is right. I _should_ be upset. Losing should hurt because you should care so much about yourself, your team, and your game that losing is a punch in the gut."
5) You can't be too proactive. There were lots of problems with how Udderburn was run, but that was lots of inexperience. Keep the pressure on captains, make sure they know what to do, push for your ideas. Captainship is full of politics, especially when you start adding captains (Udderburn ended up with 4!) and it pays to navigate those waters. I feel very much that I acted like Corey when he first arrived at Yuk- full of knowledge that only half the important people were listening to. There are lessons to learn from that, too.
Speaking of which, Corey and Gail might be coming up to Madison in October and that would be amazing. I'd absolutely love to see them again, especially if I got to show them around. Ginie and I are both excited.
The work begins again,
~#28
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