Fired up a second season. This is exciting! I don't think i've ever managed to actually string two contiguous seasons of training together in any sport. This time 'round i'm going to try to keep the lifting up through at least the strength phase of the season. I cut it out fairly early last season because 1) i wanted to see if i was lugging about an extra ten lbs of unnecessary muscle, and 2) because it tends to jack with my other workouts. However, i didn't lose any appreciable weight by taking nearly five months off from lifting, and i fancy i won't lose much in the way of endurance workouts if i time it all properly.
Electronic bathroom scale this morning says i weigh 198.8 at 17.1% bf. That's up from what i've been weighing for the last few months, but i'm lighter than where i started last go. Diet has sucked for the last several weeks, so there's an easy correction.
And i have a real live goal for this season: Three Roofs at Golf. Solid 5.12a.
Now if i can just find a job that doesn't siphon my soul off...
Anyhow, i'm off to a decent start this season, and i've decided to go with the "intermediate" plan on the Rock Prodigy program. That'll give me a relatively shortened endurance phase (2 weeks of ARCing instead of 4) and a relatively lengthened strength and power phase (an extra week of each). This'll suit my goals better for one: the climbs at Golf are fairly short, but very sustained and powerful. But also i felt like i could have made more gains on the strength and power fronts last season without injury, so this arrangement is more inspiring to me. I might switch back to more endurance next season if i feel like that's a serious weak link, but this'll be a fun experiment in seeing how much pain my widdle nubbins can take. :))
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