Over these past 6-7 months, i've used two different methods of training, both of which have yielded results:
Summer
ME focused, no endurance days.
M-W-F upper body
T-Th-Sat core and lower
I then modified this going into the school year, allowing for some endurance training.
Fall
Monday: ME upper
Tuesday: ME lower and core
Wednesday: Metcon upper
Thursday: Metcon lower and core
Friday: Me upper
Saturday: Me lower and core
and now, i'm going to change that focus towards metcon/endurance training with each day being total body instead of the upper/lower split. The idea is that i want to continue developing ME strength, but i really want to emphasize endurance, because from the spring into the fall, i will be drilling parkour movements alot more, and during the summer i'm active every day all day, so i need the stamina and joint adaptations to handle things...this is the general idea
Winter
Monday: ME
Tuesday: Metcon (legs focus)
Wednesday: Metcon (upper focus)
Thursday: rest
Friday: ME
Saturday: Endurance (high rep,no particular focus)
because I'm doing full body workouts, i'm not sure how my body will respond to certain workloads, so i'll have to do a little feeling around to see what i can handle while still making gains. I'm still going to be aiming for certain overload goals during each cycle, but i'll have to make sure i don't push too hard.
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1 comment:
Hey man,
haven't heard updates from you in a while :). Great to read your pulling power is going upwards and on the matter of strength vs Strength Endurance i also see strength-endurance as the midway solution. While i think a OAP or Pullup +60kg(as an example) is an imporant part of GPP i dont think we need to be able to pull more so that it where i would move on to SSP. Sure you can continue, if you are interested in being able to Save people or simply enjoy it but concerning the first, if you can pull 60-70kg what do you want to rescue? 2 People at once?! I think that is a rather VERY specific goal and wouldnt benefit your parkour. For me at least,the main reason is it is imporant to have on "ok" max strength so your joints are able to endure the pylometric efforts put upon them in Parkour. Guess you think the same way though ;-).
Nice to hear your muscle ups are advancing as well. I broke the 4 barrier a month ago or so but then wasnt able to do 1 for weeks, kind of odd. Back to 2 now though.
Be carefull in the summer man... Danno said that your muscles should be around 95% if you want to do a serious parkour session as the fforts are very demanding.
See you soon my friend,
Yves
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