Hola MIT Strength bloggers.
I haven't been logging my lifts, but I have been lifting. I joined the MIT Ultimate team and our practices are Monday and Thursday, and I have a club game on Tuesdays, so I've been lifting Wed/Fri/Sun. Also, running/swimming on some mornings.
About 2 or 3 weeks ago I switched to starting strength. Reason being that I wanted to drop back down and work on form and explosiveness with less weight while I get used to this aggressive schedule, and then increase weight as the season goes on. I also missed a few months this summer due to injury so this is a good way to get back into it.
I followed the beginner's guide to starting strength (start at 45lbs on each lift and add 10 lbs for sets of 5 until you get tired and/or form breaks down), and started on Bench - 150, squat - 175, press - 85, deadlift 225, powerclean - 50kg. These were decently low numbers compared to my max, but that's sort of what I wanted. I'm doing a 5lb linear progression on each lift each day (up to 170/200/105/245/70kg), along with dips/chins/hypers/abs.
This plan should be getting very challenging right near the end of the season, which works out well. I need to consider what to do when I can't make linear progress anymore. This winter I'd like to work in a lot of agilities, plyometrics, and maybe even some prowling, if there's any way to do that around here now?
Saturday, September 24, 2011
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I think Shanker left his prowler here (check with Mark, maybe?). If not, I used to use the indoor track for sprints, and of course there are now the plyo boxes.
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