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Had volleyball on Wednesday. We went 2-2, been a while since I said that.

Ended up taking Thursday off due to a busy morning and an evening baseball game.

5/14 07:30

Samurai getups x10
Belly getups x10
41min outdoor jog 3.2m
- Ave HR 127, max 141
Tac frog, pumps + QL straddle

5/14 15:30

FSQT 100# x5, 130# x5, 155# x5
BP 95# x5, 115# x5, 140# x5
Trifecta

Feeling about 90%. Nothing hurting, but hips are stiff. Hopefully ready to get back to work next week.
 
Training maxes for this cycle:
OP 150, DL 445, BP 235, FSQT 265

05/17 06:30

BAN practice
Trifecta
Shoulder sequence

05/17 21:15

KB snatch 10x5 32
OP 100# x5, 115# x5, 130# x7
Pull-ups 8,7,6,5
Grip work
NS burpees x10

Nothing felt good today. Aren't you supposed to come out of deload week feeling fresh and ready? ?

Part of it was standing out in the rain for 90 minutes coaching a mudfest baseball game.
 
WhatWouldHulkDo said:
Training maxes for this cycle:
OP 150, DL 445, BP 235, FSQT 265

05/17 06:30

BAN practice
Trifecta
Shoulder sequence

05/17 21:15

KB snatch 10x5 32
OP 100# x5, 115# x5, 130# x7
Pull-ups 8,7,6,5
Grip work
NS burpees x10

Nothing felt good today. Aren't you supposed to come out of deload week feeling fresh and ready? ?

Part of it was standing out in the rain for 90 minutes coaching a mudfest baseball game.
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CNS stress could take 3-4 weeks to feel back to normal I think, after SFG testing it took at least that much time for me to recover fully.. probably longer.. Of course I had a nasty flu bug prior to testing so that didn't help matters.
It seems muscle tissue recovers fairly rapidly but the CNS is a mysterious beast, probably ties in to accumulated stress and fight or flight.. perhaps our ancestors led fairly peaceful lives which were broken up by episodes of sheer terror and survival.. if they survived they likely had a good long time for recovery? I've read our modern day to day stress levels are off the charts compared to life in the past..
 
Bret S. said:
CNS stress could take 3-4 weeks to feel back to normal I think, after SFG testing it took at least that much time for me to recover fully.. probably longer.. Of course I had a nasty flu bug prior to testing so that didn't help matters.
It seems muscle tissue recovers fairly rapidly but the CNS is a mysterious beast, probably ties in to accumulated stress and fight or flight.. perhaps our ancestors led fairly peaceful lives which were broken up by episodes of sheer terror and survival.. if they survived they likely had a good long time for recovery? I've read our modern day to day stress levels are off the charts compared to life in the past..
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I can totally believe this. Which begs the question - what does the CNS want for recovery? Muscles seem to like light movement - nothing too taxing, let the repair work continue, but keep some fluid moving through them. What does the CNS want? A cup of hot chocolate and reassurance that everything is going to be OK? A nice, heavy blanket to curl up under? Maybe a few compliments and a hug? ?
 
WhatWouldHulkDo said:
I can totally believe this. Which begs the question - what does the CNS want for recovery? Muscles seem to like light movement - nothing too taxing, let the repair work continue, but keep some fluid moving through them. What does the CNS want? A cup of hot chocolate and reassurance that everything is going to be OK? A nice, heavy blanket to curl up under? Maybe a few compliments and a hug? ?
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Haha
Man I wish I knew.. seems like cold helps a little, beyond that rest and light training is the only thing that's helped me. Maybe the little bugger needs only time.. dunno
 
05/18 06:30

Samurai getups x10
Belly getups x10
45min treadmill run/walk 3.5m
- 1W 9E (9T 1W)x4 14E 1W

05/18 17:30

Burpees 10x2
DL 290# x5, 335# x5, 380# x7
TGU 10x1 32

Much better than yesterday. Today's CNS recovery strategy was to load 380# on the bar and say, "look, we're lifting this, so come to peace with it."

05/18 21:45

FSPM + front splits
 
5/21 08:00

Samurai getups x10
Belly getups x10
Push-ups 6x10
37min outdoor jog 3.2m
- Ave HR 148, max 164
Tac frog, pumps + QL straddle

Ticker just would not slow down today. Granted, I pushed the pace a little... though it feels very sad to say that 11+ minute miles was pushing the pace.

Had a baseball game tonight, which just didn't leave me any energy for training. It's turning out to be a tough season for baseball... simple fact is that we don't have a talented team. But they showed a couple of moments of brilliance tonight - the kind of moments that make it worth coaching.
 
05/22 11:00

Squat mobility
Burpees 10x2
FSQT 175# x5, 200# x5, 225# x7
Balance sequence
- Balance on the board was rock solid today for some reason. On the Bosu, not so much...
Crawling 2min x3

Spent a large portion of the afternoon in the third world squat, catching at a kids pitcher's clinic. I've been doing this stuff long enough now that I no longer embarrass myself by shanking my throws back to the kids ?
 
WhatWouldHulkDo said:
Had a baseball game tonight, which just didn't leave me any energy for training. It's turning out to be a tough season for baseball... simple fact is that we don't have a talented team. But they showed a couple of moments of brilliance tonight - the kind of moments that make it worth coaching.
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The most talented kids are harder to coach in my experience.
 
Bret S. said:
The most talented kids are harder to coach in my experience.
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There's certainly some truth to that - natural talent does seem to have a tendency to make anyone, be they an 11-year-old boy or a 45-year-old man, less likely to listen to advise. And honestly, it's also something that a good coach has be cognizant of - don't turn a 0.3 hitter into a 0.2 hitter because you don't like the way they swing!

My problem this season is that I seem to be blessed with an unusually high number of boys with little talent combined with little interest in improving - they're just out there because their dad makes them ?.I've seen a number of boys over the few years I've been at this who really do love playing catch with their dad or their friends, but really aren't actually interested in playing a baseball game.

But, I can't complain too much. Every so often there are those moments of brilliance that make it worth it - like when the smallest guy on the team who looks more like the bat is swinging him, rather than the other way around, accidently tears one down the third base line. Good stuff.
 
Little bit of a rough couple days, training wise. Monday I woke up with a surprisingly sore back. Some manifestation of fatigue from the long run? DOMS from Saturday? Who knows.

5/24 06:30

BAN practice
Trifecta
Shoulder sequence

That evening I elected to forgo training in favor of being dad, and watched my daughter's team play a double-header. She did great, fun to watch. We got home way too late for me to think about lifting.

That night I had one of my episodes where I wake up at 2 AM with really sore shoulders. Only thing I can come up with as a possible cause is that I added one extra rep on the YTWL sequence in the morning ; 6-> 7. Doesn't seem like such a big deal, but maybe it's just the straw that broke the camel's back.

Anyway, slept terrible as a result, and woke up a bleary-eyed mess in no condition to go run. Kind of set me in a bad spot/mood for most of the day.

05/25 17:30

Burpees 10x2
DL 310# x3, 355# x3, 400# x5
OP 105# x3, 120# x3, 135# x6
Pull-ups 8,7,6,6
Grip work

Not the most energetic session I've ever had... but successfully got back on the horse.
 
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