I love the morning. I have my clearest thoughts in the mornings. I get the most done and feel the most energized. I've got a solid 10 weeks to train without interruption of travel so what to do...what to do? As of this writing I only have Tuesday workouts figured out. I can only have so many strength goals at one time and since I have the luxury of training by myself for a while I thought I better hit some GS sport numbers that still have my name on them ,16kg 100/100 10 minutes.
So, I know where I want to go, now I just gotta figure out how to get there, and the first thing is to find out where I am, right now, today.
In order to get to the 16kg I've got to go through the 14kg, so that's where I'll start. Something relatively easy so I can ramp up and through it quickly. 20/20 is easy, but 5 sets of them add to the difficulty, so 5 sets it is (although I felt strong enough to double this workload this morning, more is not necessarily better). My last set was a lighter and longer set for my grip, again, nothing too challenging, I don't want to rip up my hands. My hands are a big priority to me lately, more about that another time.
So the plan? The plan is to increase the rep count and length of set w/14kg over the next few weeks, with a longer lighter set at the end for grip. Thursdays will be heavier, slower, 16kg snatches and holds, Saturdays will be speed, light and fast.
(set 1)
week #1
20/20 x 5 w/14kg, 2 min work, 1 min rest = 15 min
40/40 w/12kg, 4 minutes.
week #2
25/25 x 4 sets w/14kg, 2.5 min work, 1 min rest = 14 min.
60/60 w/12kg, 6 min.
week #3
35/35 x 3 sets w/14kg, 3.5 min, 1 min rest = 13.5 min
80/80 w/12kg, 8 min
week #4
50/50 x 2 sets w/14kg, 5 min, 1 min rest = 11 min
100/100 w/12kg, 5 min
week #5 (no 12kg)
60/60 w/14kg, x 1 set = 6 min.
40/40 + 20/20 + 10/10 + 5/5 x 1 set w/14kg = 10 min
week #6
test, 10 min 14kg snatch
week #7 take off
week #8, repeat week #1 w/16kg and 14kg, set numbers for the next 3 weeks.
This may seem like too long of a ramp up to the 16kg, but I'll be training with the 16kg and heavier on Thursdays, so the heavy stuff will be on that day. I really don't believe in not paying my respect to the lighter weight, but maybe that's just me. It's not like once I reach my target I quit :) , the joy is the ride, and I love, love, love seeing progress over the weeks and earning strength and conditioning with consistency :)
Complete workout
12kg warm up, hard style
40 2 hd sw x 5 sets
swing/snatch progressions, 1 min work, 3 sec rest x 4 sets
16 min.
(set 5, for sets 2, 3, 4, go to my Youtube channel)
GS practice (above)
19 min.
14kg swings
warm up 100 swings, 5 min
20 rep theme, practice for classes ( see my Youtube channel for part 2 of this workout :) )
total of 50 minutes of swings
(part 1, 10 min, 180 swing reps, fyi :) )
Oh, so what does the title of this post have to do with my workout? At some point during my workout I started thinking about a client of mine that recently decided to give up. Give up on some of the things she truly wanted only because she believes that she can't have them...at least that's my interpretation of it. And my interpretation only matters to me, it may or may not actually be the case to her, and so as I was thinking about that I realized it paralleled the reason I chose to go back to my sport training this morning. I'm not going to settle for giving up on something I absolutely can achieve, and that I actually want, but I will let go of doing it in order to "prove" something. (as if anybody else really cares! lol)
It will be fun when I do what I set out to do, it will be fun all along the way, and it will be fun to move on to something else after I get there...or maybe it will be such a nice place to be that I'll stay there for a little while!
My purpose is to feel the joy, the hope, the inspiration, and the belief of, and in, the process :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :)
No comments:
Post a Comment