#1- hang 10 seconds on a 20mm edge with 70lbs added to my body- My best hang in the 3 weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas was 5 seconds with 70lbs added. BUT! I tried training on a smaller edge for longer amounts of time with less weight and I did make progress with that. I was one rung away from the top of the campus board on the 15mm rungs and that's been a goal for a long time as well. I don't know what was going on with my fingers but 70lbs was always feeling really heavy so I just kinda leaned into it and found other ways to train and improve. I still plan to come back to this goal. So this one was kind of a failure but there was a morsel of success within it.
#2- One pull-up with 100lbs added to bodyweight. Again, I never really went for a single pull-up max. I focused a lot on one-arm pulling strength, specifically at the bottom where I feel like I'm noticeably weaker than at the top. I used a pulley to take weight off and tried to hang in the bottom position for as long as possible. I also added 75lbs but only did the bottom portion of the pull-up, like from the start to elbows bent at 90 degrees. I think I made progress. Actually I had a huge breakthrough at home where for the first time ever I could pull from a slightly bent elbow and feel myself pull up a little. If that makes sense. Like I made upward progress from a low position. Which was exciting. I did it again today when I was working out so that's cool.
#3- Squat 205lbs for 1 or squat 135lbs comfortably for 8- I'm really happy with my squat progress. I did 3 sets of 8 with 135 on 12/15 and on 12/19 I went for a one rep max of 175 and felt good! It was super hard and I went really slow but I got it up and felt good about my form. I've become strong enough and learned the form well enough that I feel like I can make progress without worrying about my safety. I knew I wasn't even going to try 205 for 1 but I did do 135 for 8 multiple times--it was hard but we'll call this one the most successful so far!
#4- Bench 190lbs for one. I don't know why I made my goal for this 190. Well, first let me say I did 185lbs for one pretty comfortably and it looked like I could do more so maybe that wasn't crazy. But it really came together in the last week before Christmas break. 155lbs was feeling heavy heavy for a few weeks there. Anyway, I did 185lbs which had been my goal for a few months so I'm happy about that!
#5- Not doing too much sprinting although I did 2 workouts of 4x200m and ran some okay times and then ran some even more okay times a week later so that was encouraging. I've made a lot of progress in skating still. It seems like every time I go I can set a new PR in something so that's really exciting. I did some really good skating in Harrisonburg. The temptation to start running again looms over me, sometimes more than others. But I feel really motivated to accomplish my goals before I go back to it.
Overall I think the past month shows that progress isn't linear. And you can't always attack your goals head on. Sometimes you gotta work on different things and take a windy path to get to where you're trying to go. Or prioritize some things over others. With fingers and pull-ups and bench, the weight was just feeling heavy for some reason so I worked around as best I could tried to really zero in on where I needed to get better. I give myself a
good job/10
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