Post by jessebruni on Aug 10, 2015 9:13:37 GMT -7
Question time!
So some of you on here may have heard me talk about my plans for the year involving doing shorter overall phases, excluding ARCing almost entirely, and cutting out the majority of the PE phases throughout the year in order to get 4 strength and power phases in the year. The plan was going well, I had just finished my 3rd strength cycle, and was 1 week into my 3rd power cycle when I came down with Chicken Pox. Never got it as a kid and never got the vaccination...but that's another story. Anyway, I did nothing for a week and just rested which I'm hoping was the right call. On the bright side I lost like 3 lbs (though that was probably muscle so maybe not such a good thing after all) but I also lost a week in my power phase. My plan was originally to take the power phase through the end of August, then do another Strength phase in September, power again in October, and then 2 weeks of PE in November and spend the rest of the year trying to send my mega project. The problem was that plan didn't leave me much time to project since I really only get weekend days, and often not even 2 in a row, and even if I did get 2 in a row I'm not sure my skin could take 2 days in a row on this project. Now that I've lost a week I'm not sure whether I should push the plan back by a week but jump right back in, or start over again with another strength phase, or what.
Another consideration is whether I'm even strong enough for the project in the first place. I tried it on Sunday, which was my second day on, after having just sent a 13b (my 3rd this year/ever) and couldn't do a single move on it. In the past I've been able to do some of the moves, and link through a few of them, so I've been telling myself I was just tired because it was second day on, and my skin wasn't tough enough because the first day on was DWS out at the lake, and that it was just too humid and hot (90 degree weather). But underneath all those perfectly valid excuses there is still a really, really, hard route that I'm really not sure I'm strong enough for and not sure one more cycle would make me strong enough for it either.
I have a thought that maybe what I should be doing is to jump back into my power phase but spend more time this week and next week bouldering rather than campusing, then transition into campusing more, follow that up with a strength cycle, but get on the project on the weekends, a power cycle, still get on the project on the weekends, and then a PE cycle and keep getting on the project during the weekends and just see what happens. This would give me a lot more time on the project but by trying to perform and train at the same time I may not be getting much value out of these weekends on the project. Another thought is to reset right now, start a new strength cycle, and then do power in September, PE in the first half of October, and then performance/maintainance in the rest of October and into November.
Anyway, I'm curious to hear other people's thoughts.
So some of you on here may have heard me talk about my plans for the year involving doing shorter overall phases, excluding ARCing almost entirely, and cutting out the majority of the PE phases throughout the year in order to get 4 strength and power phases in the year. The plan was going well, I had just finished my 3rd strength cycle, and was 1 week into my 3rd power cycle when I came down with Chicken Pox. Never got it as a kid and never got the vaccination...but that's another story. Anyway, I did nothing for a week and just rested which I'm hoping was the right call. On the bright side I lost like 3 lbs (though that was probably muscle so maybe not such a good thing after all) but I also lost a week in my power phase. My plan was originally to take the power phase through the end of August, then do another Strength phase in September, power again in October, and then 2 weeks of PE in November and spend the rest of the year trying to send my mega project. The problem was that plan didn't leave me much time to project since I really only get weekend days, and often not even 2 in a row, and even if I did get 2 in a row I'm not sure my skin could take 2 days in a row on this project. Now that I've lost a week I'm not sure whether I should push the plan back by a week but jump right back in, or start over again with another strength phase, or what.
Another consideration is whether I'm even strong enough for the project in the first place. I tried it on Sunday, which was my second day on, after having just sent a 13b (my 3rd this year/ever) and couldn't do a single move on it. In the past I've been able to do some of the moves, and link through a few of them, so I've been telling myself I was just tired because it was second day on, and my skin wasn't tough enough because the first day on was DWS out at the lake, and that it was just too humid and hot (90 degree weather). But underneath all those perfectly valid excuses there is still a really, really, hard route that I'm really not sure I'm strong enough for and not sure one more cycle would make me strong enough for it either.
I have a thought that maybe what I should be doing is to jump back into my power phase but spend more time this week and next week bouldering rather than campusing, then transition into campusing more, follow that up with a strength cycle, but get on the project on the weekends, a power cycle, still get on the project on the weekends, and then a PE cycle and keep getting on the project during the weekends and just see what happens. This would give me a lot more time on the project but by trying to perform and train at the same time I may not be getting much value out of these weekends on the project. Another thought is to reset right now, start a new strength cycle, and then do power in September, PE in the first half of October, and then performance/maintainance in the rest of October and into November.
Anyway, I'm curious to hear other people's thoughts.