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Soreness shockingly low today, although not gone altogether.  

No more ultimate until next year and I'm not hurt at the end of the season, for the first time in three years (!).  

Now, no distractions and no reason not to make gains.  

Yes, that's three high fives.

adarq, you got any thoughts in terms of approach/ratio of workouts? I can't find the PM I sent you, so I have the sessions I made up (strength-hypertrophy, strength-power, speed-reactivity) but not the setup, which was pulled completely out of my ass anyway.

EDIT: Also, it's a bit early but you got any ideas for me for stim? I realize I didn't include that before.

EDIT 2: Think I will take it relatively easy this week and then test on Friday and Saturday.

A+ nice find.

That submax buttkick thing in the exercise index looks exhausting.

No energy drink needed, brah. Just a close-as-hell Michigan victory over our second-most-hated rival. GO BLUE.

Well the tournament was a complete fucking wash. Our captains are nice guys but they suck. One of them got us disqualified for violating the roster rules. So we played three games but needless to say they're all forfeit and we don't get to play tomorrow. I played unevenly but not horribly and my ankle felt 100% throughout. So that was a win.

Also a win: http://scores.espn.go.com/ncf/conversation?gameId=302540087

W/r/t midfoot adaptation, why not start with some high-volume extensive tempo on grass, barefoot? Keep running naturally in shoes (i.e. heel-toe) but cut back the volume, and add something like 2500m of tempo in five sets, with double the time of the run as rest before the next rep, and double the time of the 100m rest periods as the rest between sets. Charlie Francis style:

11111
1211
221
1112
2111

That would start to accustom you to maintaining a good pace with your COG farther forward.

Another quick thing: From the Sports Science guys' series on running, one thing that seems to lead people to injuries is trying to force a different heel strike than is "natural" while wearing shoes. So maybe spring for some FiveFingers or start toughening up those soles?

Assuming you meant mine...

40 time?

Good question

100m time?

Good question

mile time?

Good question

Haha. I'm still out of shape at the moment, so my guess for each would be suck, suck and suck. I'm booked this weekend but my last attempt at testing was a complete wash, so I'm going to do some real baseline, with proper planning, probably the weekend after this (will take me at least a week to recover from my tournament this weekend).

I'm not especially concerned with any of the things you asked about, but the fact of your asking makes me want to know. So either thanks for motivating me or fuck you for complicating things, I'm not sure which, lol.  

have you ever squatted in oly shoes? they make a world of difference.. expect to be getting ATG extremely easy in them.

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ordered oly shoes monday, can't wait for them to get here!