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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism -- summer training 2019
« on: December 24, 2018, 09:41:15 pm »Bodyweight(AM): 82.3kg (25 dec)
Diet compliance: 1/1 days
Daily Squat: 38/38 days
Daily Run: 38/38 days
Basketball skill work:
Morning:
TM Hill Run 6km - 3°x10min, 4°x10min, 5°x10min
Noon:
BS 5x135, 1x140, Belted BS 3x140, 5x135
Back Xtn 17x(40kg, band)
Evening:
No run - had to go to a xmas thing (sad)
Notes:
I was getting bored of the same old thing every day so i decided to change the incline variable. No reason why TM training can't actually be harder or better than real world training if you use it properly. I always use an incline of 1 but today i went up to 5 and then in 2.5min intervals, dropped down to 0 while increasing speed up to 12km/hr (from an initial 7km/hr), for the last 2.5 mins just to see how it 'felt'. If i was going to go for a TM PR i'd prob struggle to get it at speeds over 12km/hr. Not sure if that's because i'm not fast enough OR if my TM is not really good at speeds higher than 12km/hr (sub 25 pace), cos my feet start slipping. Might be shoes or the motor struggling (it's just a home one not a fancy commercial one). Tbh it would be a good idea to one day do a run on the gym treadmill just to see how different it is, it may be i'm capable of more than i am at home.
Some other observations and thoughts from the TM hill run:
1- dropping from 5° to 4° felt so much easier than subsequent changes although i was obviously then increasing speed more so that might have something to do with it
2. If there is some kind of limit to my TM around 12km/hr then maybe instead of trying to get faster i should try to do more work at speeds around 11km/hr but with greater and greater inclines? That might translate to more training effect than trying to get to 15km/hr (4:00 pace) on this treadmill. However i may just be unfit/slow as a possiblity, im not sure
3. Watched a video on TM/RL running and the person claimed wind resistance becomes an issue at higher speeds IRL whereas on a TM you don't have that problem. The wind resistance is greater for taller guys than smaller ones. Maybe i shud aim for a sub 20 on the TM first, possibly on another TM tho. My old gym had those natural ones but whenever i tried them i found them very difficult lol so i never liked them for some reason
I realised last night ive ran 25km in the last 48hrs which is prob more than i had in my entire lifetime before this daily training experiment started. The 'gains' have been incredible, albeit not the PR kind (yet). I wake up feeling refreshed and energetic, recovery is nothing short of amazing. In the past after a 'hard' workout, i'd be completely destroyed for the rest of the week. Now it's just almost if it didn't happen because it's a daily occurrence so the body just deals with it as per normal. Not having the distinction between 'rest' days and 'workout' days has some downsides (in lifestyle terms) but in terms of effectiveness, it's nothing short of amazing. As i do more running my body comp seems to be improving as well, something to watch. It kind of makes sense tho, whenever i started playing basketball after a break, the first few weeks/months always saw rapid changes to body comp which i now understand is prob from being 'active' for a couple of hours at a time, albeit at a low pickup intensity, which is where my running seems to be heading lately. Maybe mimicking that same effect. Having said that, im not sure if the longer, slower runs ive been doing will actually help me achieve my running goal (sub 20 5k) .. i could be just wasting my time doing lots of slow kms for all i know. May need to do at least one or two hard runs in a week to just make sure i'm still making progress on that front. Thinking of possibly doing a saturday park run this weekend to find out but idk if it's worth it at my present stage of fitness.
