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"The Insanity Continues"

Current Training

Regimen

September of 2011 

Pat Manson sent me an email, welcoming me to the "Above the Bar" club and generously giving me some advice on how to proceed while getting back into shape.  Honestly, I have always kept his advice in mind but it is not my nature to go slow.  I push!  And that has been a major mistake!  His email is reprinted here with his permission - hopefully some of you will have better luck following his suggestions.    Good Luck!

As of Mid-January 2012

Toward the end of January I found myself burned out and bored with the weight training schedule - in addition the work with the weights had become limited as I recuperated from the high groin injury.  In my workouts I began doing less with the weights and more body-weight exercises.  This switch was partly promoted by the addition to Gold's gym of a new cross training room which included the addition of a "jungle gym" and still rings!  The pylo jumping boxes were also moved into the cross-training room.  The new training room is like a candy store to an old time vaulter from the '60s who had spent more of his college career in the gymnastics room than in the weight room.  However I was quick to realize that I retained none of the strength or skills of those college days - I was unable to perform a single gymnastic exercise.   A new challenge!

As of Mid-April 2012

I have decided to pull down my workout schedule.  I am making progress but the truth is that I am not keeping to the schedule myself because of my life-style and my propensity to injure myself.  At the beginning of the month I tweaked the calf muscle again while running a few relatively slow 100 yd intervals.

Whatever I'm doing is not working and I wouldn't want to encourage anyone else to make the same mistakes that I am making.  Besides, we have all been there before so we all know what we need to work on.  My humble advice, find a competent trainer and work with him/her.

Good Luck!