It’s been a month of PB’s (personnel bests) and I feel as if all my hard work is coming together. Coach has been pushing me hard and the benefits are clear to see. We have been concentrating on volume training and the gain in strength and flexibility has been enormous.
We started out with 10 x 10 squats and I finished this week with my PB on the squats at 130 kg. 10 reps at 130 kg is very hard work and requires everything you have in your arsenal. I could feel the blood pressure building in my head as I reached the 95 rep. 5 more to go and my legs were like jelly but I couldn’t afford to faultier now. I wasn’t coming this close to stop now. They were the 5 hardiest lifts of my life. I could hardly walk to the rack my legs were on fire and I could feel my glutes stiffening up already.
My PB’s were coming thick and fast, the hard thing now is to improve on them. I think it’s going to take time and some serious training. I’ve reached a stage where I can’t get past my current set of PB’s. My training is going well and I’m enjoying my time in the gym. Just because I’ve reached a level where I should have been years ago, it’s not time to stop. Now is the time to redefine my WHY.
One of my big reasons for training was to improve my riding, well I’ve done that the other reason was I wanted to be fitter to enjoy my old age and do more with my family. They all seem to be combined and in order to enjoy one it must improve the other. I still want to ride harder and faster and in order to do that I need to work just as hard at staying fit. As I said before, as you grow older you lose 10% of your body strength each year if you don’t do something about it. My son is just about to embark on his journey into the biking world. I want to teach him all I know and some day, race him round the IOM TT. How great would that be but in order to achieve that dream, I need to be fit. So that’s my big WHY. It will keep me motivated long into the future (get your skates on son).
As for the rest of my regime, it’s going very well. My intake of water is still around 6-8 bottles per day and I have found I need it more than ever. I can certainly tell if I’ve only had 5 bottles by tea time. My two shakes a day are going really well, I might have to up my intake very shortly as I am starting to get hungry before my 21.00hrs drink. So I am thinking about having a shake before and after my training and then my usual drink at 9. What I don’t want to do is start eating rubbish to fill myself up. So far I have managed to stay of most of the whites and only eat meat and veg. It has taken some getting used to and now it’s not a problem I don’t think about it anymore. I say most of the whites because the soup has pasta in it, not very much but it’s in there.
Over all I’m really pleased with my PB’s and the way my training is going, the gym is still great fun and I’m getting a lot out of it. I still get the odd ache here and there but that just confirms I’m pushing myself in the right direction. I keep saying to myself “if I can talk I’m not working hard enough and if I can’t talk I’m working a bit too hard” I think that’s how it goes. Any way onwards and upwards, it’s a big drive on the abs next week.
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