Pre-Tournament Week

Last week went ok. Did intervals only twice, but did all the Air Alerts. The burnouts are hurting but overall I wasn't too sore. I have a tournament this weekend, and am supposed to do Air Alert on MWF, trying to decide if I want to move Friday's Air Alert to Thursday. Any thoughts Edelman?

At practice Thursday, we ran intervals. I always rely on Fox to set the pace, but afterwards, he mentioned that he was able to hit the same spot every time when we started running again. I had to explain that you're not supposed to run each interval at the same pace. The first one should probably be considerably faster than the second. It doesn't matter how fast your legs are moving, it's all about how fast the heart is beating. If you run the first couple slower than you can, you're wasting those runs, you don't get the full benefit unless you're running all out. You should NOT be able to recover completely in the rest periods. On Saturday, I went out to the track and ran the intervals myself, really pushing myself on the first runs. I was very slow by the end (and very, very tired), but I made it through. Next week is 7x30/20s.

For Rival this summer, I'm thinking of just having people start witht he 8x20/10s so everyone is doing the same thing. The people who haven't been running will be a lot slower initially, but I think that's ok.

Last thing, I'm reading this Core Performance book. It's very good, very balanced. Has the best nutrition/diet system I've seen. I hope to give a full review later this week (or next week), but then again I'm still hoping to get my philosophy post up sometime...

Trying not to be a pansy

I'm still hoping to get my philosophic post up, until then, an update. Savage 7 this weekend went pretty well. The wind/weather Saturday was horrible, but Sunday was reasonable and I had a good time and never really felt tired. My hamstrings were a bit sore Monday, and my knee was a little sore (no idea what from), but other than that I feel good. Oh, I did get elbowed in the nose, but I don't think it did any real damage.

I took Monday off (boo) to rest the knee and nose, but got back at it today. Already did Air Alert week 2/day 1. Didn't seem too bad except the 200 burnouts were rough. Also, I gave myself whiplash on the thrustups, got my head a little too involved. Again, I'm hoping it's not too bad. A little stiff and sore right now, but I plan on pushing through (I'm a fucking soldier).

Intervals tonight with the SPSU, 6 sets of 45 sec running, 30 sec walking. This will be my first time doing this set of intervals, I'm expecting them to be pretty tough since I haven't run intervals for about a month.

Other than that, I'm still trying to put together a core workout, I'll post it here when I get it done. It's good to be working out/playing again.

Air Alert Week 15 Mid Week Update

Ow.

Getting back into the swing of things

Did my first physical activity in almost 3 weeks last night (although I'm still not really supposed to be exercising yet). Southern Poly started the Air Alert program. We did our base measurements (my 21.5" wasn't good enough to beat Fox's 24") , and the first exercises. The 2x20 leapups were tough, on week 15 we've gotta do 4x100. That seems beyond reason to me right now. My quads are a little sore today, but nothing too bad. I'm taking it easy this week, hope to be completely healed by this weekend for Savage 7. The doc gave me the ok, but keep your fingers crossed for me anyway.

I've got another post I'm gonna try and put up this week. It's going to be boring, I'm calling it The Philosophy of Fast-twitch muscle fiber recruitment during extending inactivity. You guys have got to start posting more often...