Snowman
Level 6 Valued Member
May 21
C&J-18x3 @ 32K
May 22-25
Paving. I am enacting the 6 o'clock rule that I came up withwhen I first started doing asphalt work, about 5 years ago. If I got home before 6 o'clock, I trained. If I got home later, that meant that I had worked a long day, and probably didn't have enough time to train, shower, eat, and get to bed in time to get enough sleep for the next day. After my first full week with this company, I'm realizing that I probably won't work out on my work days. This week was apparently a normal week, during which we worked four days and got about 50-55 hours; I think the earliest I got home was 6:30, and the latest was 11. I actually really like the idea of regular 3 day weekends, and my body seems to be holding up very well. As long as I can get caught up on sleep during the weekends, I'll be fine.
I have next week off, but once work starts in earnest again, I'm going to make a couple temporary alterations to my program. 1) No more loaded carries, since I get plenty of that at work. 2) I'm going to drop my swings sets down from 10 to about 6 reps or so, to make it easier to recover from and so I can focus even more on power. I get plenty of strength endurance and LSD at work, so I really just need to fill in the gaps with some truly anti-glycolytic work a couple times per week. I would also like to note what I consider to be a positive change in my "relationship with training." The last time I did asphalt work was 2014, and I was always a little disappointed when I didn't have time to train. Now, I'm generally unconcerned with how much work interferes with training, since I can recognize that I'm getting a good training effect from the manual labor.
May 26
Rest day.
I should probably also note that I started meditating in the mornings about 3 weeks ago, which seems like it's having a positive, but difficult to qualify, effect. I do a little Super Joints inspired 5-10 minutes of movement prior to meditating (mostly to ensure that I don't fall asleep while meditating), and two weeks ago I began to end each pre-meditation movement session with 4 TGUs (2 singles per side) with the 32K, which really seems to fire up the ol' nervous system.
C&J-18x3 @ 32K
May 22-25
Paving. I am enacting the 6 o'clock rule that I came up withwhen I first started doing asphalt work, about 5 years ago. If I got home before 6 o'clock, I trained. If I got home later, that meant that I had worked a long day, and probably didn't have enough time to train, shower, eat, and get to bed in time to get enough sleep for the next day. After my first full week with this company, I'm realizing that I probably won't work out on my work days. This week was apparently a normal week, during which we worked four days and got about 50-55 hours; I think the earliest I got home was 6:30, and the latest was 11. I actually really like the idea of regular 3 day weekends, and my body seems to be holding up very well. As long as I can get caught up on sleep during the weekends, I'll be fine.
I have next week off, but once work starts in earnest again, I'm going to make a couple temporary alterations to my program. 1) No more loaded carries, since I get plenty of that at work. 2) I'm going to drop my swings sets down from 10 to about 6 reps or so, to make it easier to recover from and so I can focus even more on power. I get plenty of strength endurance and LSD at work, so I really just need to fill in the gaps with some truly anti-glycolytic work a couple times per week. I would also like to note what I consider to be a positive change in my "relationship with training." The last time I did asphalt work was 2014, and I was always a little disappointed when I didn't have time to train. Now, I'm generally unconcerned with how much work interferes with training, since I can recognize that I'm getting a good training effect from the manual labor.
May 26
Rest day.
I should probably also note that I started meditating in the mornings about 3 weeks ago, which seems like it's having a positive, but difficult to qualify, effect. I do a little Super Joints inspired 5-10 minutes of movement prior to meditating (mostly to ensure that I don't fall asleep while meditating), and two weeks ago I began to end each pre-meditation movement session with 4 TGUs (2 singles per side) with the 32K, which really seems to fire up the ol' nervous system.
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