Eintracht Training

I'm not really feeling the leadership. I agree that it's important to learn to throw with touch...but I'm not really interested in perfecting my air-bounce backhand. That was what we did for the first twenty minutes of practice. The next twenty minutes? Blades. Okay, so it's indoor. But still.

But there was thirty or so minutes of scrimmage at the end and the drills weren't all bad...just not really my cup of tea, strategically speaking. Plus with the beginners I get good practice having to attack discs on the edge of my sphere of catchability. I also met Jared, a player from Denver who picks up for a week with whatever team is in whatever city Cirque du Soleil happens to visit (he's one of their lighting techs). Nice guy, interesting job, pretty cool way to see the world.

Sore

Yeah, my body tells me it's been a while. Started out sore, ended with some shin splints going on so I cut my run a little short.

2.4mi in 19:00 (1 in 7:00, 1 in 8:00, 0.4 in 3:00)

10 minutes foam rolling
5 minutes stretching
2x(5 fingertip pushups, 10 fist pushups)
10 V-ups, 10 leg lifts, 25 crunches, 20 situps
4x(0:45 plank, 0:15 rest)

Uni Lift

500m row in 1:48, 1:00 rest, 500m row in 1:48
Thrusters: 10 at 20, 30, 40, 45kg
SLDL to cable row: 10 at 7.5, 10kg
SLDL to DB row: 10 at 10kg
HSPU: 10 with 2 mats, 3x5 with 1 mat

21-15-9 for time:
R DB snatch 14kg
L DB snatch 14kg
Pullups
Completed in 9:06

Feldrenner Training

The structured throwing practice and the warmup drill we did really made me think about how much further along the team here in Mainz is fundamentally from Frankfurt. I don't know whether they understand the game better, or whether this team's leaders just put more thought into planning practices, but I'm a big believer in doing drills that mimic real-game situations. Even though there were plenty of errors in both cities (both teams have beginners even at their "experienced" practices) I felt a lot more incentive to push myself and improve tonight, compared to Monday, because the drill actually made sense to me. After that we played 3v3 continuous-passes, which is super tiring because I'm not used to non-stop Atlas-style play like that, and after a while my defense started really suffering...but then we moved into a full-field 7v7 mixed scrimmage, 3/4 the way it ought to be, and that was pretty great. I still can't get over how nice it is to play on a turf field, 7-9pm under the lights. I mostly handled, half the time wondering why they don't dump/swing enough and the other half of the time throwing goals to girls. Boom.

Uni Lift

3x(4 muscle-ups, rest
5 burpee pullups, rest
6 pullups at +10kg, rest)

Overhead squat: 10 at 20, 5 at 40kg
Deadlift: 5 at 60, 80, 90, 80, 60kg
Bench press: 5 at 55, 4 at 60, 4 at 60, 6 at 55kg
Hang clean to push jerk: 5 at 40, 5 at 50kg
Ring plank holds, 3x10 roman chair leg lifts
Army Abs

Met a kid from Hungary who is into Crossfit, so we're going to try to coordinate some WoDs (as best we can with the limitations of a university fitness center). I need to keep at it, though--my hands were toast by the end today and I couldn't even keep my grip for the few hang cleans I did. It's frustrating that I can't drop the weight. But either way, looking back on some of my old workouts, there's a lot of work to do just to get back to where I was in-season...

Eintracht Training

Indoor training in Höchst. Much closer than Mainz, a lot more people, but not nearly at the same level. Frustrating at times, but still definitely good practice for me--I got to work on my throws, run around indoors and remember how bad it is for your knees. I got to work on my defense against a squirrely asian kid (aren't they all?) and I had some fun.

Uni Lift

First day at the university gym. Getting reacclimated to lifting.

Overhead squat: 10 at 20, 5 at 40kg
Front squat: 5 at 50, 55, 60, 65kg
Push press: 5 at 30, 40, 50, 55kg
Muscle-ups: 3x3
Bench press: 5 at 35, 55, 55, 55, 3 at 55, 5 at 45kg
1:30 plank, 0:30 ring plank
Situp and press: 15, 11 at 15kg
Angry Dave Abs

Feldrenner Training

Long commute, but the practice was worth it. Outdoors, turf field, under the lights from 7-9pm, I felt like I was back home practicing with Machine. Numbers were low, but the level was pretty high. After a couple drills we scrimmaged 3v3 with an additional permanent defender, which made things pretty interesting. Thank god I didn't have to be the permanent defender. As it was I started to feel some tightness in my groin, but pretended it wasn't there and finished out practice fine. We had a solid ten minutes or so to work on throwing afterwards, and it was good to remember what I had been missing. After practice there was a team meeting to discuss goals and how to reach them. I'm looking forward to putting in some work myself.

McFit Lift

Cashed in a Probetraining.

2:00 rowing machine
10 pullups
Deadlift: 5 at 40, 70, 70, 70, 70kg
Pullups: 5 at +10, 3 at +12.5, +15, +12.5kg
Clean and Jerk: 2 at 40, 50, 60kg
5 cleans 40kg
Bent-over row: 3x8 at 25kg
Reverse butterfly machine: 10 at 15, 20, 25kg
4x10 roman chair leg raises
2 sets Pavlov press

Sick

Oh well. Once the university starts up again I'll be able to hit the gym on a more regular basis.

5 rounds:
5 pistol squats per leg
5 handstand pushups

Exploring

3mi in 22:15

I basically set out for a jog to explore the area around Griesheim, where I just moved into my apartment. When something caught my eye, I paused for maybe half a minute to check it out. I found the river, saw the turf field, discovered a shisha bar that has two pool tables, and also stumbled on a couple mini-parks, one of which has a basketball hoop. Pretty neat little area, and it's definitely nice to run along the river.

BWW

5 rounds for time:
10 squats
10 pushups
10 burpees
Completed in 6:07


2x25 leges-vertical toe-touch situps
25 leg lifts, 25 toe-touch situps
:60 plank, :15 rest, :45 L plank, :15 rest, :45 R plank, :15 rest, :45 plank

French Run

Run. Every 2:00 do 10 pushups (without stopping the clock).

Total: ~2mi and 100 pushups in 20:05