Next week they said no track session, but can do what you like and then week after winter session starts, here comes the long distance running
But you're not gonna do cross-country right? Your off-season should be the time you hit the gym hard and make strength gains. If I were you I'd do away with half squats and focus on your full squat and either lunges or BSS for quads, full ROM deadlifts and leg hypers for hams, and calf work. Save half-squats for in-season. Set some off-season goals for yourself. One of them should definitely be get to 1.5BW full squat. It's crazy you've been squatting for awhile now and are only at ~1xBW for your 1RM.
Also, did you end up running any meets during this season?? Seems like you were training a lot but didn't see any results.
Noooo way, no cross countries, they usually the regular long distance i.e. last time we did 400x1, 300x2, 200x3 and some 100 from one side to the other and the time of rest can be short in terms of run one side then wait for the signal to run again and it came long so some rest and at the end it was run stop 3-4 sec and run again so tiring.
i'm not too familiar with off season or on season, but im guessing winter is off season, so yeah going to hit the gym, i don't really pay much attention to the half squats, since i move up in weight, its going to be difficult i do half squats so as to be comfortable with that weight, so when going down it wont be too heavy to stop me from moving in the opposite direction, its not something i am aiming on improving but using to help with my squats.
definitely doing lunges and maybe alternate with BSS, the dumbells are hard to grip onto, not too heavy to do lunges but grip loses and end up holding the dumbell and the end of the bar so the dumbell is tilted and really putting pressure on my wrist.
I know, i have been squatting a year, i remember i squatted like in october to december and i was not going deep enough and had reached 55kg, so had to go back down to 30-40kg and start working my way up and my torso was falling forward had to fix that and move up again, raptor recommended deep squats for better quad involvement so went back down and moved up to where i am now where i moved down to 45 and attempting the 8 reps progression, its been crazy.
Definitely want to aim for 1.5xBW.
I live on campus so every holiday i go to my parents and they end up doing their competition during the holidays and it was irritating so no i didn't get to run any meets.
The track training has helped me and do see some results in terms of speed endurance, can run the 200m without getting tired, ran the 500m non stop, keeping a good pace but was dead at the finish.
I kinda improved my time from around 14.4 to 13.4 and now maybe I hope i can get at least 12.** seconds. So it has helped with my endurance but they never did much flying sprints or strength speed training it was all about endurance and form they never considered the strength or the acceleration.
so that was dissapointing they didn't do good training. just hope for the best for the coming up off season and i am finished hopefully and back home, no gym only grass and my tires lol.
so the following for my gym work
full squat and either lunges or BSS for quads,
full ROM deadlifts and leg hypers for hams,
and calf work calf raises.
how about for upperbody?