Sounds great, man! How’re you responding to all the stimulus? I’ve noticed that I’ve got to recover really hard now with the extra lifting 2x a week. Solid numbers. Haha, it’s pretty funny how we’re almost similar in lift PRs and the direction of our freshman years. I was a LJ and TJ my freshman year..ended up in a dared 800m and stuck with it since. Are you going to periodize the strength training throughout the season? Love the starting strength 5×5 program.
Haha kinda how i ended up in the 800…I was thinking maybe ill be good in the 400/800 and some coaches i worked with in the summer also said try the 400/800. But no i don’t think ill be periodizing the strength training, im just trying to maintain and get stronger.
Currently im doing a 5×5 program that i modified a little bit. I seem to recover for the most part, its just hard on the CNS cause i have “hard” days at least 2-3x/week at track practice then doing heavy sqauts/deads/power cleans makes you want to sleep for 12+ hours.
Im gonna switch it up from 3/days a week to 2 days a week, and its gonna look like this:
Saturday:
Squat 5×5
Deads 2×5
Power cleans 3×3
Pullups As many sets are possible but 1-2 reps away from failure in each set.
Bench Press 5×5
Tues/Wed/Thur
Squat 3×5
Deads 1×5
Power Cleans 3×3
Pullups As many sets are possible but 1-2 reps away from failure in each set.
Bench Press 3×5