Rest day.
It's time to turn the page on the squat cycle and move into the second phase of my yearly training plan. The first phase was about size and strength. I gained a ton of leg strength and 10-15 pounds of bodyweight. Metabolic conditioning was placed on the back-burner for 16 weeks and I allowed myself to eat whatever I needed to keep up with the cycle. The second phase will still be strength-biased, but the emphasis will be on Olympic weightlifting instead of pure strength numbers. Also, I will begin establishing a metabolic conditioning base. This will be accompished by adding rowing intervals and field work/hill sprints to my weekly training, and by increasing my intensity on metcons. I will also be cleaning up my diet and, presumably, lowering my bodyweight somewhat. I will be adding a lot of bodyweight gymnastics movements to my post-workout programming.
This phase of training should take me up until Thanksgiving. That will place me 10 weeks out from SuperFit, at which time I will begin my third phase of training (metabolic conditioning). My goals by Thanksgiving are to significantly increase my Olympic lifts and have huge volume on my gymnastics movements. Also, I hope to have a solid conditioning foundation.
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