This Past Week (10/24-10/30)

This past week was my deload week for SMS 12, which I started on Monday. Per usual, all of my deloads lifts went well. Sunday I had another basketball league game at DePaul, and I felt pretty good running up and down the floor. I also had an hour of yoga earlier in the day.

Monday was my squat day, Tuesday was bench, Thursday was deadlift, and Friday was my military press day for this deload week. Wednesday I did my box jumps and then did some barefoot sprint work as well as some hip mobility work. Saturday I ran a timed mile, ala the conditioning test we had to do for basketball. The goal was to break the 6:00 mark, so I wanted to see how close I was despite my only aerobic conditioning being an hour or two of pickup basketball once or twice a week. I ran a 6:23, which I was pleasantly surprised with. Right now I am planning to continue to run the timed mile each week until I break 6:00.

I finished reading Transfer of Training in Sports this past week, and made significant progress inSupertraining as well.

I cooked salmon for the first time in months on Saturday night. I think I want to make that in to a weekly ritual. I would much rather do that than go out to eat, because, quite frankly, I feel awful every time I eat a restaurant due to the poor quality of food and the higher carbohydrate meals. I have come to accept the fact that pizza is probably no longer an option for me because of how it skyrockets my blood sugar for hours after, and pasta dishes and breakfast foods (waffles, pancakes, etc.) do the same thing. It is remarkable how much better I feel when I cook for myself and really limit my carbohydrate intake.

The articles page on my site is still messed up, but I am hoping to have it fixed today.

That's all for this past week. Now I need to live this one.

Get big or die tryin'.