This season definitely hasn't started off as I had hoped, I have been injured since October and really haven't done any serious plyometrics since or even any technical work. Even the sprint work I have been doing has been hindered and I think that my mechanics have been suffering because I haven't been able to get full knee extension. I have been thinking as of late... maybe it's time to call the season and go into a period of complete rest so I can get an early start on the outdoor season. I really don't want to, because I had big plans for this indoor campaign but my first meet is in a little over three weeks and I still haven't even been able to bound yet. This time last year I already had two pb's under my belt and was very confident and healthy. Right now my confidence is pretty much in the gutter and I can barely remember what I full approach jump is supposed to look like.
If this knee issue persists much longer, it will be time to call it quits... I'll make my decision within the next three weeks depending how I'm feeling.
Thursday, December 20, 2012
Monday, December 10, 2012
The Pros of Being Injuried
This season hasn't started off as I have hoped--I have struggled to establish a routine that works for me and have felt tired and rundown for the majority of my training thus far but I seem to be finally finding my stride, after making some dietary tweaks my energy levels are rising and I have actually been feeling better each day, just in time as the season transitions into a competition block in a months time.
I have also been injured since about October and haven't been able to do much jumping--and in the past two weeks I haven't been able to do any jumping. I have a superficial tear of the insertion of my patellar tendon which has been a very frustrating battle thus far--every time I try to "test" how it's doing it flares up again so I have removed all jumping from my program and it seems to finally be making progress. Although there may be nothing worse then being injured, and having to modify training to suit, I must say, there are few things that feel better that being on the "upward" part of recovery and finding that each day you can do more and are closer to being back to 100%. I was able to squat 175lb's today with zero knee pain and I felt like fist pumping after--considering at my strongest I was able to do 5x345lb's it's definitely the happiest I have ever been squatting less than 200lb's.
I still can't do plyos but I feel like within the next couple of weeks I'll finally make it over that hump too. And that will be a very good day indeed...
I have also been injured since about October and haven't been able to do much jumping--and in the past two weeks I haven't been able to do any jumping. I have a superficial tear of the insertion of my patellar tendon which has been a very frustrating battle thus far--every time I try to "test" how it's doing it flares up again so I have removed all jumping from my program and it seems to finally be making progress. Although there may be nothing worse then being injured, and having to modify training to suit, I must say, there are few things that feel better that being on the "upward" part of recovery and finding that each day you can do more and are closer to being back to 100%. I was able to squat 175lb's today with zero knee pain and I felt like fist pumping after--considering at my strongest I was able to do 5x345lb's it's definitely the happiest I have ever been squatting less than 200lb's.
I still can't do plyos but I feel like within the next couple of weeks I'll finally make it over that hump too. And that will be a very good day indeed...
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