Monday, FUNday!
After John’s warning yesterday about getting my sleep, I got into bed early (for us, anyway) and tried to get a good night’s sleep. Even though I had slept a fair amount all weekend, I was pretty tired and thought I would sleep well. Unfortunately, it was not to be. I struggled to fall asleep and spent a few hours tossing and turning, going into and out of a light sleep. I finally fell asleep for real pretty late, but was up a bunch starting around 5AM. When I did get out of bed, I didn’t feel that badly and I feel OK so far today. Fingers crossed that I can get a good night’s sleep tonight and that I don’t pay for last night the rest of this week.
I did my drills swim this morning and felt good. In a 45 minute swim session, I did about 25 minutes of drills. After I got out of the pool, I bought a Gatorade and did my heavy strength training day. This week was even “heavier” than last – I still did four sets of all seven exercises, but today I worked out with 85, 90, 95 and 100% of my 1 rep max for each exercise, doing five, four, three and two reps respectively (i.e. 5 reps at 85%, 4 reps at 90%, etc.). The weights were pretty good, except the deadlift, which was a little too heavy for me to maintain good form and the bench press, where I just didn’t feel comfortable trying to put up over 200 pounds. Next time I’ll get a spotter and go for it. Doing the swim and strength workouts back-to-back in the morning was a little tough and meant that I was a little late to work, but now I have the rest of the day away from the gym, which is nice. It also means that I have nearly 24 hours until tomorrow morning’s ride and 36 hours until tomorrow’s run. That’s a nice break.
I’ve added some new stuff to the blog (still working on it), including a table showing training volume to date (for week, month and year).
Swim – January 29
Distance: 1,800
Time: 45 minutes
Strength Training – January 29
Time: 1:00