Training: Week 7 Average to Savage 1.0. The past week overall felt good. had to modify training times with drill and I’m glad I was able to get everything done. Was more efficient with my time in the gym and I think I could be pushing my accessories a little more than I am. The counter argument to that is my main numbers continue to go up, I’m not feeling too beat up and I’m increasing the weight with ease on a microcycle timeframe. I worked up to 520×5 on Sumo deads, 365×18 on Squat, 250×18 on bench, and 135×15 on OHP. I’ll be going into the second testing group this next week. The deads bumped up the training max to 585 which is up from the first cycle. It’s been interesting adding those back in to training.
BJJ: Getting our main instructor back has been a Godsend. Things are more back to normal, which is good. At times people say that breaks make you appreciate what you have, but I feel like the the multiple breaks of the past year, I knew I appreciated grappling. We’ll probably have a night where we plan things out for the next year or two.
Sleep: Week 2 of the new year my sleep time was down to 6:23 time asleep per night with a time in bed of 7:35. I’m sticking to the schedule, but I felt like the buckeyes kept me up later than I wanted with my dog getting me up earlier than I wanted.
Stress: On the higher end lately. I just feel like I keep thinking about making major changes to my job and I’m curious if it will make me happier overall. I feel like how I’m handling things now is not sustainable. Average resting HR is down to 39bpm and HRV has been sitting at 103ms. Both are down from the past couple weeks.
Diet: Continuing to stay dry this month which has been good for my HRV. It’s sad to me that after a stressful day I did have a craving for a beer just to chill out. Continuing to use the slow cooker to meal prep for the week which has been a great modification. Bought a $5 crockpot book at half price books and it’s been a good resource to use.
Learning: I’ve done a lot better job reading this past week which has been good. Have not done a great job just cutting out time to get other academic responsibilities taken care of.
Seeking Progress 