March 20, 2011

Day 79: 16 weeks out from Competition

MOTIVATIONAL QUOTE OF THE DAY

"Attitude determines your success...or your failure. Attitude turns troubles...into blessings. Attitude sets the altitude!" - Gina Ostarly


TRAINING

Cardio - Rollers:
20 min in 39x17 @ 104 rpm

Stretch 25 min.


COMMENTS

Sleep - Time and Quality: ~5 hours.

Stress: High.

Endurance: Good.

Pump: Only in legs.

Vascularity: Normal - and there is a new 'normal'.

Quality of Training: Day 6 is going to be 20 minutes of cardio - if I decide to make it HIT that's fine, but I am not going to force it, especially knowing how shattered I was yesterday after the previous five days, and that is just the START! Training was a nice and 'easy' rollers session today - hopefully my lower body will be fine for tomorrow.

Recovery: I was so sore yesterday it wasn't funny - lower body especially, glutes and quads, tight and stiff, no doubt from the Jump Squats on Friday, with the run I did in the evening not helping either.

Other Notes: This last week has let me see how my body handles what it HAS to be doing. Cardio was a mere ~20 minutes on training days - this needs to be upped to 20-60 minutes. Resistance sessions were fine, but by Day 5 I was shattered, and even though the session was intense, it was done almost at collapsing. This week was 'baseline' re nutrition and training like this, and next week is only going to be BETTER!