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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism (Day 1 of the new track focus training)
« on: June 21, 2016, 02:46:08 pm »#3) Program REST. Like Adarq said about your CNS - you gotta watch it. But one thing people forget is that it's OK to have a program that will fry your CNS after weeks and weeks of it. In fact I think that's the optimal program. You should have a program that if you did it for 15 weeks straight you will be fried. Just don't do it for 15 weeks. Think in blocks of minumum 3 weeks, maximum of 6 weeks. So you have your weights, bball, jumping, track bounding that you do... Week 1, Week 2, Week 3. Do the submax bounds and maybe during Week 3 you allow yourself to really go all out on 1 set of each (5x multi-bound, 5x multi-single leg and alternating leg bound). Get a PR. Then week 4 is OFF. If you don't want to take it off the good thing about sprinting is it's REALLY easy to deload. You can do your bounds only with straight legs to just get blood moving. If you have been doing 5x100m in 13 seconds you just back this off to 5x100m in 16 seconds and it becomes recovery and easy rather than damaging...
Programming REST weeks or deloading weeks into your schedule is far better than trying to program a workout that isn't too hard on your CNS. IMO it's better to go 105%, 105%, 110%, 60% every four weeks rather than 95%, 95% 95%, 95%. You will make better gains AND honestly 95% is too close for comfort for me... Depending on life, work, stress (with your women sounds like you got that) you might do what you think is 95% but you are actually doing 101%, 101%, 101%, 101% and like Andrew said - this WILL catch up with you and you will stagnate, get worse, get angry and worst of all get injured. We know what 60% is. We hate it as athletes. But as long as you go hard the previous three weeks think of it as just as important and also well deserved...
very nice! love this.