Training Log: Jeremy Wallace

4/15
Power block, week three, day three.
6x1@95% power clean and jerk (225), power snatch (170)
3x5 seated box jumps with a 20# med ball
3x5 rotational cable throws
3x5 one legged box jumps
EMOM 8 rounds sprints
One minute max effort row, 1:24 pace

I ate Mexican food before hand and thought I would get more time to digest before lifting than I did. The workout was a bit lackluster.

Fiber supplement for the win.

4/17 was a scheduled rest day, and 4/18 turned into one because Rachel wanted some topsoil for garden spaces, some of which needed to be tilled, but the tiller wouldn't run. So now there are two big piles of dirt in the yard.

On the bright side, I found a new open stone between the topsoil and compost piles. They asked $10 but took $1. 16.8#.

Test week is this week (in the gym, that is. Tests in the classroom are next week.), and it will probably spill over into deload week, as it almost always seems to do.

4/20/16
I got a sub today because Connor felt terrible last night and Rachel was working. He felt fine all day, so I got to train. Yea!

Open stone: (16.8)
5x stand, no reverse
5x with reverse
10 or 11 full throws.
Decent. About 41' again. I was having a weird problem of hitting the trig with my left foot coming out of the back when I initiated the glide.
10 or so LWD full throws before I had to take Connor to karate. 60' best throw.

Test week! Day one.
90% rep test: back squat: 300x1x11=410 calculated 1rm. New working max of 370; incline: 175x1x10=233 calculated 1rm. New working max of 210.
My shoulder feels like it's almost 100%, so I should be able to make steady progress with bench and incline.
3x10 glute bridge@225
3x5 floor press@135
3x10 low cable rows@140 just to promote shoulder health. I must have a good pulling session after my pushing exercises, or my shoulder gets wonky.
7 rounds EMOM: 3 135# thrusters, 3 30" box jumps.
1 minute max effort row: 1:29 pace. Slooooow, but I was pretty gassed.

After incline you did an EMOM with an overhead press. That adds to shoulder fatigue too!

4/25/2016

4/29/2016

5/4/16
Peak season, day two, two weeks out from Smoky
Mobility:Lacrosse ball work on my shoulders
Push press: 95x1x3; 150x2x3
DL: 225x1x3;335x2x3

3x10 140# lat pulldowns

I wanted to throw afterwards, but I needed to feed the kids and get them home.

5/5
LWD drills:
Cast and drop x5
Line drills x5
One turns x5
I didn't get to full throws, and my training has been terrible the past two weeks. Life can be a real bitch.

Mark and I drive to Greensboro today. My brothers and my throws will help me to heal.

5/7/2016
Triad
Fourth overall, again.
5 PRs on the day, but two of them were on events that didn't count toward the day's total, and I bombed heavy hammer and caber.
Braemar: 35' first place, but it didn't count
Open stone: 42' 8.5" 2nd place.
HWD: 29' 4"? 5" games PR, but I still throw much better in practice.
LWD: 62' something. PR
Heavy hammer: 71' awful.
Light hammer: 100' 2" PR, but it didn't count toward today's total.
Caber: I don't know what happened here. I had three easy picks. The first pull was simply late, an easy fix. But the next two pulls were weird and ugly. Boo. I don't know what I got. Something awful.
Sheaf: 26' If we had gone to 28' I might have had the height for it, but we went to 29'.
WOB: 14'. Calves cramped up and I couldn't get a strong pull.

5/9/2016

Jeremy,
Don't know if you've seen this before, but this is a link to Dan McKim's blog:https://believethrower.com/blogs/news/100126726-games-day-nutrition-and-supplementaion

It has some good info on gameday nutrition and supplementation.

5/21: Smoky Mountain Highland Games
Better late than never. There has been entirely too many interesting developments in my life to keep up with this lately.
But here's a recap.
One year ago, I finished third in the novice division at Smoky; today I finished second in the A's.
Hammer: 84', a big PR, and third place
Open stone: 42' 1" for 4th
HWD: 33'3" for a big PR and second place.
LWD: 65'11" for a PR and third place with the tie breaker.
Caber: 50 degrees. 8th, I think, still my worst event.
Sheaf: 23' for second place. We all struggled with a wet, heavy bag.
WOB: 14' for second place. No cramps.