So i mentioned to one of my clients the other day that i would post some selections from my training log just to prove to her that i have bad days too.  I thought many of you would enjoy this.  I read an article by Dan John about his training and i always default to his stats when i have a bad day.  He says that 1 in 100 workouts will be great, 1 in 5 you will be productive and all the rest are just there to fill time (paraphrasing of course).  Its quite an entertaining article and its in his book so check it out if you get the chance.

This first picture is of the week before the American Open.  As you can see the weekend before the meet i successfully completed my openers only to end up with a tweaked shoulder.   All in all nothing spectacular here except that i nailed a couple PRs at the meet.  I counted the 105 as a PR even though i pressed it out.  Felt pretty good at the time but as you will see, i haven’t revisited that feeling recently.  You can also laugh at the thought of me training in my singlet in 40 degree weather in my garage.  I still chuckle at it.  I can only imagine what the folks strolling by were thinking.

I will have to give a brief description of the comments here.  January 14 was the middle/end of my first week back into CF style training.  The goal was to prepare for regionals at the end of May.  I had Greg Everett of Catalyst Athletics helping me with programming since i wouldn’t do it on my own.  As you can see i was pretty trashed going into the workout on the 14th and i remember it taking all the will power i had just to start the workout and i nearly quit a couple times.  I followed that with 15 rounds of cindy in 10 minutes which really surprised me.  I proceeded to take over 5 days off because of soreness.  Finally got some light work in on the 25th and went to Colorado to snowboard on the 26th and broke my collar bone on the 27th.

First workout back off of injury was March 17th… Almost 2 months later.  I did squats with up to 100kg which as you can see i noted as being “hard.”  To put that into perspective i did 155 for 2 last week…  You can also see my my comment about the shoulder that i may have jumped in a bit too soon since it was still bugging me.

Did some sled drags to get my heart rate up as thats all i can handle in the form of conditioning right now.  I call it “mindless conditioning.”

All i can say about April 22, is that some days you just have to take what you can get.  Over the next couple days i was playing with some stuff.  Box squats were new to me so as you can see i sent the video to a buddy for some critiquing.  Still working on those.    I also get a bit obsessive about the snatch and end up more frustrated than anything.  This is why i limit my clients to 3 misses at a weight.  Otherwise you spend all day fucking with the same weight and never get anything accomplished.  I read Mike Boyle say something like give your athletes 3 attempts and they will usually beg for more so then you can push it to 5 but cut it off there.

You may also notice a little conditioning in there.  I was totally peer pressured into that by my brother but it was fun and worth it.  I didn’t even get that sore….  My first cleans since the accident are up there too which made me really happy.

I have been working on technique a bit more in the snatch so hopefully that 100-105 isn’t so far off.  The only thing i am missing now is the jerk from the front.  I have this stupid bump where my bone sticks up on my collar bone so i can’t get the bar into a good rack position.  Still frustrated with that but happy that i can jerk from behind the neck and clean heavy with no pain.

Thanks for taking the time to look into my training life.  I know many of you claimed that your log kept you accountable.  I tend to have a different opinion about myself.  My log doesn’t really care if i take a couple days off or miss a couple lifts.  its always there for me and never makes me feel bad about not training.  Thats why i started the open gym and have been lifting with a good crew the last couple months.  Thanks guys.