5k Row

5k Row

20:41.2 (maybe a pr?)

Played wallball for an hour

Body: good shoulder still clicks

Sleep: 10hrs

Nutrition: good

Notes: Today was a great first day of this training cycle I am about to embark on. I ate very well and killed the 5k row. Wednesday I am going to swim I think and then Friday I may bike or play some racquetball depending on how I feel. Feeling really good and loving it.

The Weekend

Friday

Bench

2x5x190

16x190

Curled until my biceps popped

Saturday/Sunday

nothing special

Comments: Well this weekend was my last weekend of heavy drinking for a while. Ill still have a few quality beers here and there but no more pounding. I've noticed lately I dont have that much fun anymore because I am shitfaced I have fun just hanging around with friends maybe having a few beers. My nutrition in general has been pretty terrible since the summer time and it is time to clean that up I was just waiting for halloween to be over to calm it down. In retro spec it was really not necessary for me to drink the last few weekends its been pretty bad night life anyways which I cant say I am to mad about because I can focus more on goals rather than going out and getting lit. I am still on my active rest faze tomorrow begins week 3 of that and it is actually going a lot easier than I thought my body was so run down its hard to explain and I can tell that I am still not 100% recovered. Shows me that I need to take the volume down and take a week off every 4-6 weeks to stay fresh anything else is overkill. Sometime soon I am going to get my shoulder and hip taken care of finally probably mri's needed being my educated guess. I am also going to start bring a few workouts back in and get back to blogging them. I will most likely be doing lsd stuff but possibly some intense rows or swims maybe bikes as well. Still going to stay away from the weights. Overall....nutrition will be clean, still on active rest, more workouts, back to blogging, Oh and also starting my goals for next year which will include meditating. Ben and I have been talking about it and I have been reading up on it as well as learning about it in some classes. It really seems that it can benefit my mental health a lot especially because I have a lot of anxiety and stress.

Checking In and Some Real Talk

So its been almost a week and a half since my last post and I am going to say everything is going well. I have been sticking to the plan and I couldn't be happier with my decision I have already noticed a difference in my energy and my shoulder and hip feel ten times better. S what have I been doing? I have been swimming in class and shooting around and playing wall ball a ton for lax....Which leads me to my next statement. I know I have been going back and forth on the whole lacrosse thing for about a year now and I myself and I am assuming the people around me are sick of hearing me go back and forth. Ever since this summer I have been craving lacrosse the spark that I once had before is now back and I want to get after it. Getting injured has given me time to think and reflect which I have been doing a lot of this week. I thought about what I have left in my college career and what I want to do with my life after. I mostly focused on college and right now in the moment. To me, being strong is nice and such but it is not my priority. I feel like this is my time to possibly shine as a lacrosse player at a high level and I really want that feeling of accomplishment and competitiveness back that I have been missing for oh so long. I am taking all of this time off now so that I can heal and be back at 100% come season time in the spring semester. I have no idea where I will be on the team but I feel like I need it back in my life. Getting injured last season was due to a stupid mistake of over training and was completely my fault. I pawned it off on my injury from senior year that never healed but really I re-hurt it going way to hard in season. I have always had the feeling that if I do not workout on top of the sport I will lose something. It may be so but what I have now realized is that I training is used to TRAIN for the season and not to be done in season for that very reason of getting injured like a dumbass. Being injured put me off to the idea to never play again because I did not want to go through that again but once I realized a long time later that I can control that factor for the most part that I really need lacrosse back. SO what I am trying to say here is that I have made an official decision that I am going to play lacrosse this spring season. I have a lot of support of the players and coaches here and it feels good to have them tell me to play when I said I was thinking about it. After I heal from surgery I am going to EASE back into training and eventually pick it up for about a month and get in shape for the season. I WILL work my ass off and I WILL make my goals that I will be setting in the next few days in another post.

In the mean time I am going to start using swimming as a conditioning 2 times a week or so and then maybe bike every once in a while. I will be shooting and hitting the wall almost every day I can so I am not rusty come season time.

This is it... I am finally over the mental block that has bothered me for so long....Vulnerable yes....Ready to kill it? ABSOLUTELY.

This Needs To Be Done

So I have decided that I am going to take this time before surgery to get all healed up and also use the recovery from surgery to finish up the healing. I am going to use the next 5 weeks before surgery as recovery weeks. Some weeks I will take off some I will do swimming and biking maybe some racquetball and definitely yoga every week. Between my hip my shoulder and my ankle I think this will be a good time for this and also maybe try to find something new as a hobby non athletic wise who knows. If I even use weights I will be doing very light work for the next 5 weeks and then 3 weeks after surgery as well. I need to make sure that I can get everything taken care of because in the future I need to be able to be 100%. We are entering the crossfit games as a team and I also am contemplating lacrosse again. But this all depends on how well I am able to take care of myself.

10/14/11

Squat

5x135

5x225

2x5x265

10x265

db curls

3x10x47.5

Chin ups

1x16

Body: pretty good shoulder is slowly getting there hip is feeling decent as well

Sleep: 9hrs

Nutrition: good

Notes: Great day for squatting. I felt really good for not squatting in a while and 10 came easily which I was pretty surprised and happy with. Taking the weekend off and will be back at it on Monday.

Forgot to Blog Again

10/12/11

Deadlift

3x135

3x225

3x315

9x365

Chin Ups

10, 10 w/25lbs, 11 w/25lbs

db curl set right after last chin up set

10x35

Decline sit ups

2x12x25

1hr 45min MMA Practice

Comments: still loving the mma and the deadlifts went well

10/13/11

1hr 30mins of Racquetball

Body: lower back, hamstrings are sore but also legs are just tired

Sleep: 9hrs

Nutrition: good had some ice cream

Notes: Solid day guess it turned into not so much of a rest day but who can pass up a nice game of racquetball. Ready to squat tomorrow and going to give benching a shot as well.

Yoga

2 hrs 20 min of racquetball

P90x Yoga

Body: still good minus shoulder

Sleep: 8hrs

Nutrition: good

Notes: Solid day all around. Played a lot of racquetball and man is that exhausting. Yoga was good I was really sore and it helped out a ton for sure. I am going to deadlift pretty light tomorrow and get in a few other things. Maybe some crossfit too.

10/10/11

Squat

5x135

2x5x225

10x225

DB Curls

3x10x45

Bench

1x10x185

Tri Pull down

2x12x140

Body: pretty good shoulder getting better

Sleep: 8hrs

Nutrition: good

Notes: First time fully squatting in 6 weeks. I can feel my hip a little but it is not what it was before it is a feeling of none use rather than injury which is awesome. I am going to try to get a little bit heavier on friday but I am so pumped that I am back in that sense. Only one more thing left...my shoulder. Then surgery and I will be good.

Swimming and MMA

10/5/11

300 yrd Swim 6:21 (200 of freestyle 100 of butterfly)

3x100yrd repeats First and and last freestyle and middle was butterfly

2 hour mma practice

10/6/11

rest Day

2 hours of racquetball

Body: Pretty good shoulder feeling better

Sleep: 8.5hrs

Nutrition: good had a double burger though

Notes: Yesterday I decided to just swim for my workout since I was in the pool already and it ended up being pretty good I was breathing heavy. I had a nice long ma practice which is so awesome. I went into the gym in a shitty mood and came out in the best mood. That is what I am missing in my life and I found a new way to get that. I also love the sport I have been learning takedowns and some submissions as well as striking I cannot wait to become better at it and know more of what I am doing.

Racquetball For Days

10/3/11

1hr 45 mins of racquet ball

1hr mma practice

10/4/11

1hr 20 mins 0f racquetball

Body: shoulder still nagging (pretty annoying)

Sleep: 8hrs

Nutrition: good deficit

Notes: Well shoulder still isnt good to lift with so I am staying away from the weights right now. What else is new that I have to go around injuries....really starting to bother me. Probably going to take another week off from lifting...whatever. MMA was really cool and I cant wait to get into that we already started doing take downs and throws. Other than that ive got nothing really to say.

Restingggg

25 min walk with the puppy

Body: good shoulder is feeling better

Sleep: 8hrs

Nutrition: good still looking to cut

Notes: Been resting the past couples days since I am recovering this week. I am thinking of trying some 1 reps next week possibly not really sure yet. About a month and a half out until surgery so I am just going to try and stay structured until the. Looking to get some more running in and cut a bit just beat my ankle up until surgery too.