and now, some commentary:
my one ultimate tournament of the summer is this weekend (
http://wildwoodultimate.com/), so i decided to take it easy on the squats today. it's a very, very low-pressure tournament but i still want to be relatively fresh. really looking forward to it even though i'm not in great shape cardio-wise.
i'll be on the beach all weekend running around, so no real workout until next week. my plan, pending how wrecked i am after the tournament, is just to start over with week 2 of smolov. 4 x 9 x 240 wasn't that hard, so i think i should be okay. schedule for the next few weeks ends up being:
july 31------------------------------------------ aug 6
tournament, rest, 4 x 9, rest, 5 x 7, rest, 7 x 5
aug 7 ------------------------------------------ aug 13
10 x 3, rest, 4 x 9, rest, 5 x 7, rest, 7 x 5
aug 14 ------------------------------------------ aug 20
10 x 3, rest, 2 x 2, rest, rest, TEST, leave for beach
aug 21 ------------------------------------------ aug 27
beach, beach, beach, beach, beach, beach, beach
beach will include lots of low-intensity exercise and probably some ME jumping and light plyos. will reevaluate whether to continue smolov based on how well my 1RM test goes, as well as how well i'm jumping throughout. so far it hasn't killed my jumping as much as i feared, so that's good, but i'm still at the easy end. i'll be shooting for a 345 squat, which would put me just over 2xbw.
rest days may include light exercise like tennis or interval sprints, upper will be sprinkled throughout as it has been.
now that i'm finished prognosticating and planning, i will commence furiously knocking on wood and throwing salt over my left shoulder.