A bit of frustration today in the weight room, I wasn't able to get 315lb's up on my last set and head to drop it. I failed on the third rep was was odd, I think I lost tension or something because on the set before, 305lb's, I felt fine for all five. I just want to squat again to rectify this lose of strength but I have to wait another week. This is driving me crazy even though it should be expected that I'm going to lose strength when I'm losing body weight like mad. I also didn't eat supper before practice today which I think is what made me feel so weak.

TODAY'S WORKOUT

Warm-up
Flying 50m x4
Weights--
Squats 1x5@300lb's, 1x5@305lb's, 1x5@315lb's (fail)
Glute-ham raises 3x5

It had really low energy today, I made the executive decision to stop cutting carbs and I am even going to increase my caloric intake by 200 a day so I don't lose any more weight until I still my taper for the next meet (December 17th). I weighed in at 162.5lb's this morning but I'm expecting that to go up a little in the next week. As long as I can stay under 163.5 I should be able to go sub 162 for the meet.

TODAY'S WORKOUT

Quick Warm-up
40 minutes of hurdle mobility
135 degree pike 4x10
Oblique crunches 4x10@55lb's
Abdominal pull-downs 5x10@180lb's
Laying twists 4x10@25lb's
Standing twists 3x10@33lb's
Leg raises 4x10@20lb's
Stretching

Today's was pretty good, I was feeling much better than yesterday but I still didn't want to push it. It's still easy week anyway so it worked out well.

TODAY'S WORKOUT
Long warm-up
135 degree plank 3x10
Leg raises 3x10@20lb's
Oblique crunches 3x10@60lb's
Laying twists 3x10@22lb's
Abdominal pull-ups 4x10@180lb's
Standing twists 3x10@33lb's
Pull-up's 3x10@15lb's

I decided to take today off instead of tomorrow because my lower back isn't feeling the greatest, the quality today would be well under par.

I can't believe that it is December, each month seems to pass quicker than the last. I definitely wouldn't be able to compete right now but I'm building for the 17th. I'm going to keep going for max strength until next Thursday then cut it down to taper for the meet. I feel like I am stronger than ever before right now.
   I did some testing, flying 25m. I scored better than I did in the fall but it still wasn't great. I wasn't feeling very well going into it so it's not surprising that I didn't pb. Weights went pretty well, I pb'd by 10lb's for hang-cleans and 6lb's for clean and jerk.

TODAY'S WORKOUT

Warm-up
Flying 25m x3 (2.79s, 2.79s 2.78s)
Weights--
Hang cleans 1x3@230lb's, 1x3@235lb's, 1x3@240lb's
Clean and jerk 3x3@185lb's

I was a bit sore today from last night so I kept the volume pretty low, only 900m total of running. My legs are pretty rubbery from squats last night, hopefully they feel a bit better for tomorrow's speed testing.

TODAY'S WORKOUT

Warm-up
2x3x150m
Cool down