I am not down with the sickness

I haven't posted in the blog for nearly 2 weeks because I have been afflicted with the sickness. Some sort of upper respiratory infection that really kicked my ass. I had to miss work Friday March 9th after the OHP workout where I felt like garbage. I felt a bit better over the weekend and then stupidly decided to work out which set me back for quite some time. I feel much better, nearly 100%, and tomorrow I am going to pick it back up. The only change I am going to add is additional workouts.

The idea is to keep the strength aspect of the training while adding in some more metabolic conditioning, more circuit training. Tammy and I discussed and are going to meet in the mornings for lifting and tech work such as double-unders, handstand push-ups, kipping, and hopefully some muscle-ups once the rings get in. In the afternoon we will be doing the main-site WODs. I am still a bit skeptical at doing the main-site WODs because if it doesn't mesh well witht he strength aspect of the training I can see it really screwing us up. What I mean is that I am not sure how our body's will react to say 3x5 squats Monday morning followed by a heavy thrusters circuit at night. That's a lot of legs. Conversely, if we do 3x5 squats Monday morning and then a heavy upper body exercise, how will that affect bench press the next day...? I don't know. This will be a cool experiment. I will likely go by the main-site WODs while listening to what my body is telling me. Everything can be scaled or tailored to suite one's personal preference at that time. If I am tired or really sore I will back off etc. I am still trying to learn how to reign in the ego in regards to workouts.

Tomorrow 6:30am will be 3x5 squats at 225. I am going to drop the weight significantly as I am coming off a long break and I want to make sure the body can handle it. 9-10hrs of work then another workout...I really want to take the heavy stuff easy until I am feeling a bit more comfortable with the increased training volume. Trying to be smart here. Another reason being is that Mehdi from stronglifts sent out an email highlighting the importance of going parallel on the squat. I thought this was a perfect opportunity to make sure that I was completing a proper squat.

Cheers!