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From a sweet article I saw. (Also because they live in the same place I'm from in Mexico and I think my grandpa is part Tarahumara, which makes me part, which makes me feel badass).

Original link: http://liveprimal.com/2009/07/tarahumara-the-running-people/

Tarahumara Runners video.
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIyEvomUz14" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIyEvomUz14</a>

From Wikipedia:

You could try rest pausing the weaker arm until it matches for total number of reps. That way you don't have to sacrifice intensity for your stronger arm, but it should help to even out imbalances.

Trufax

When I was learning one armed pushups I always started on my left, and I never did any more reps on my right to keep them the same. I probably could have done less on my right and kept them even since my left arm was still severely atrophied, but I never really figured out how to maintain intensity in the stronger arm until my weaker side caught up.

Upper body soreness is much better than yesterday, even after the upper body session after my sprints. My chest, in particular, is feeling much better.
Oddly, my quads are feeling sore from middle to a few inches above my knees. I can't remember the last time I've had soreness just in the middle of my legs.

Aside from that, today I realized my diet is growing slowly. I just haven't worried too much about stuffing myself, and I'm eating more anyway. I used to not bother with food while I was in my room doing homework or playing my trumpet, but now I go to the kitchen with the slightest hunger, even if I only end up eating cold cereal.

Yesterday during my sprint session I puked a little bit... again. It's getting really annoying that it happens with every high volume sprint work for 300IH or 400m. I did feel like it wasn't near as bad as other times, so it might just be a temporary thing.  I'm excited to see how squats and sprints go this week. My hurdles, mostly, have been feeling really clean and really fast.

Thursday 11/04/2010:

Upper body split

-Shoulder Warmup
-Bench press: 3x5 @ 140 lbs. (felt crazy hard. Haven't done any serious upper body lifts for a long time)
-One arm DB row: 4x5 w/ 50lb dumbbell. (no problem here, actually think I should have used more weight)
-Pull up S1: 2x6, 1x5 @ BW + 10 lbs.
-Dips S1: 2x8, 1x7 @ BW + 35 lbs.

-PWO Shake.


Feel really crappy on the bench and pullups. Looks like I should work a bit more on upper body. I've been skipping out on it whenever I don't have time since I'm prioritizing leg workouts and sprints for track season.

Yeah, my hurdle stuff are feeling really fast. I ran next to one of my friends who once did track and I was almost running as fast as him, but he wasn't going over hurdles. 

Indoor track officially starts after new years. I think the first meet is the second Saturday in January or something like that. I still don't know for sure. So basically I have almost two months two get as strong as possible with what I'm doing now, but after I might have to switch it up a bit to fit with the more frequent/higher volume sprint workouts.

What I like about the way I set up my workouts right now, is I'm going over 5 hurdles as a 110H workout. But during indoor track my races are only over 5 hurdles. I won't be having any problems with sprint endurance. 

Wednesday 11/03/2010:

-Warmup
-Sprint/hurdle mobility drills
-Sprint warmup: a few starts on blocks. Did a bit of recording today.
-Hurdle warmup: a few more starts just over first hurdle. A few recordings on this too that I'll post to youtube later.

-Hurdle endurance:
  Set 1
    -Sprint 5 hurdles (60m)
    -Walk back to start.
    -Repeat x 3
  Set 2-3
    -Sprint 5 hurdles
    -Walk to start
    -Repeat x 4

-Sand runs
    -4 min barefoot run on beach volleyball court

-Stretch + PWO shake.

Some of my runs felt insane. This was 3" below competition height, but it was still crazy. Felt really fast between hurdles, but I still feel like my start needs a bit more work. Looked through my footage and it's definitely better than what I was looking like last season and even on my last vid. Pretty stoked for indoor track season now.


Rehearsals are going to mess up my schedule for a while. (same as my schedule's been before)
Planned on doing upper body after rehearsal, but the gym closed at 9:30 and not 10pm like I thought. Going in after school tomorrow for upper body work and delaying next sprint day until Saturday. I'm hoping to do some long jump footage too to check that since I haven't practiced jumps since the season was over.

Yeah, it won't let me see a thing. All I have access to are the main pages with some info about Charlie's death and afterwards and whatnot, but I have no access to the community area.

Sent it to Joe, but I don't have his responses. At least not yet.