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Today

Squats 100kg 5, 5, 8 felt great had way more but in view of race 6 days away held back. Stayed at 100kg as over 7 days since last back squats.

SLRDL 16kg KB 2 x 12

Felt great, yoga has really helped not so much with flexibility alone but with control of my body, I feel like it does what I tell it to more so now.

After did a good stretching sesh
-calves/soleus
-hip flexor/quads
-hip external rotator
-hams
-adductors

Hopefully not too sore tomorrow given gap between last squats.

https://www.t-nation.com/training/lifters-guide-to-marijuana

I think this article summarises things pretty well.

What a week.

Flew to the alps last Sunday, currently in the airport coming back.

Climbed two 4000m peaks, gran paradiso (highest entirely in Italy) and Mont Blanc (highest in the alps and western Europe at 4810m) via the Italian route (1800m in one go for summit day). We had dinner at 7pm in the hut, breakfast was served a few hours later at midnight and we left at 12.45 ( didn't sleep a second due to anticipation), climbed through the night with the sun coming up once we were well over 4000m. Summitted after around 6 hours and got back to the hut at around 10.30am the following day.

By far the hardest thing I have ever done both physically and mentally. On the summit push my legs were on fire, at that Altitude oxygen is 50% less so the body goes into anaerobic mode, full of lactate, gasping for air. Coming down was even worse, one of the hardest things was having to focus so intensely for such a long period of time on zero sleep, a wrong step could be the end.

God damn what a week.

On a twilight shift so got up and did some stuff

Squats 107.5kg 3 x 5
Leg Curls 45 x 15
Leg ext slow 20kg 1 x 25

Having some lateral knee pain and right Lower back tightness. Need to find some time to give my glutes a good lax ball session think that would help.

Did hot yoga after was fun.

That's 5x days in a row I've done yoga now lol.

Today

Cycle commute 2 x 20m

Upper body
Pull ups 3 x 10
Inc dB BP 34kg x 6 or 7 lost count, 28kg x 12
Cable Rows 70kg 2 x 12
Overhead pulls 24kg x 10 18kg x 15
Curls x 2 sets Tris x 2 sets lateral raise x 1 set

Had my girlfriend join me with lifting for the first time ever and she enjoyed it (specifically the pump Hahaha)

After another yoga class 1 hr 15 M muchess intense than the last!

17.6k run 5.45 pace.

Would have been longer and faster but my feet were fucking destroyed. Huge arch blisters and u have to be on my feet for like 37.5 hours this weekend so had to call it a day. Hope they heal up fast. Peroneal tendon was a little bit teeaky too, not as bad as last time.

Bought a hydration belt pack thing today too, excited to try it out on a looong hot trail run once these issues are resolved.

^^ long story short, I might have worked some magic on myself. I got really annoyed at the injury and just tried to stretch the living fu*k out of it - which I knew could be a very bad idea. This was up there with the longest & most intense i’ve ever stretched.

holding stretch positions for 5-10 minutes and such is very difficult. you have to focus so hard on just staying relaxed & calm. really controlling your breathing, trying to just melt into it, and then hold with no protective tension.

could be a David Goggins moment lol. He’s well known for 2-3 hour stretch sessions every night. I def don’t want to get into that… But sometimes your body is just urging you to do some intense stretching, it feels like an instinct. Apparently he fixed his jacked up body (from stress/training) by really committing to stretching.

when I was stretching yesterday, I wasn’t thinking about the injured area actually healing… I just wanted it to release it’s grip for a while and fucking relax.

would be amazing if it’s fixed now.

pc!

Sometimes when I do this it feels amazing and fixes me, occasionally it just makes it worse though. Guess you just gotta play it by feel!

Yeah those lunges left me sore lol. Probably stupid to expect to pb 2 days after that

I did run though, 21.27. Paced it all wrong, had loads in the tank, was going full out for the last 50m and overtook quite a few people (I'm a considerably better sprinter than I am distance runner lol, just purely from basketball and lifting)

I got some insoles to help deal with my peroneal issue and they worked but FUCK my medial arches are shredded from edge blistering. Gonna send them back and get the lower profile version and preempt the blisters next time, my arches are so high the skin is baby soft and just not used to anything touching them so they're just in pieces now. The pain the last 10mins significant hampered my running, it was just pure misery.

MEh, anyway was fun way to the start the day.

Do they have park run in the US? I think it's the best thing ever, there are at least 5+ in my city alone. There were over 500 people there today with the winner running a serious time of 16:05 and the slowest people coming in at 60mins, pushchairs, dogs etc, is great. I was chasing this little kid who was probably about 10 the whole way round, blew past him in the last 30m tho lol 

Couple hours later hit the gym

Power clean 90kg 3 x 2
Squats 112.5kg 3x3
Leg curl 45kg x 12

This is how training is supposed to feel, these were the sessions I fell in love with training for. The deadline for our first year revalidation portfolio stuff just passed on Friday and now I can finally just love life. Also its now June and I'm going to climb mont blanc in like 3 weeks. The last few months (year even?) have been pretty rough but things are finally looking up.