Recap: First rest day in a while, so figured it was time to recap my training and look ahead to the last two weeks before we head to Charlottesville. Right now, I'm really happy with my pure metabolic capacity. So long as I can handle the movements from a strength and skill standpoint, I'm doing the movements faster and longer than ever before. I feel very comfortable right now with things like rowing, running, bodyweight movements, and high-rep/lighter weight barbell movements. I intend to build on this next week and I really ramp up the rowing and running before a lower volume week prior to competition.
As for my stated weaknesses (deadlift, squatting movements, and pressing endurance), I'm very happy with two of the three. My squatting has improved in all areas. I'm front and overhead squatting weights I never have before and I'm performing high-rep squatting movements (i.e., thrusters, wallball shots) faster and with better endurance. I attribute this improvement to improved mobility and basically doing some form of squatting in every warm-up and workout. My pressing endurance is coming along -- albeit slowly. My push-ups are definitely improving, as are my dips. I could really feel it on ring dip portion of muscle-ups the other day, and also on my burpees. My deadlift is still a bit on an unknown. We haven't deadlifted heavy in over a month. I did a high-rep workout with 225# over Christmas vacation but, other than that, it's difficult to gadge. I feel comfortable handling 275# and below, but anything above that number would give me pause.
Looking foward, my hope is to get in at least one more deadlift session between now and Charlottesville. Hopefully, Tom will program some for this Sunday's class. It would really help put me at ease if I could pull some heavier weight without much of a problem. I'd also like to get in two more handstand push-up sessions and some corresponding dips in an effort to shore up the pressing endurance. I plan to stay the course in terms of squatting and continue to work the movement in all domains. It's time to realize that my strength is basically set for Charlottesville at this point, and now my emphasis is on conditioning. I plan to do a lot of interval work, both running and rowing, in the next ten days.
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