Week 2: The Lift that almost took me out!

     Hello to my readers we are now on week 2 of my spring camp journey. To do a small recap on what happened last week we just began the year and had our first team meeting with the head coach to go over the standard and go over the scheduling for the following spring season. Also that slipped my mind last week is that we have now added a brand new strength coach who I’m a fan of and that some of our former players are going to be the assistant strength coach which I believe will help us get over the hump this coming season. Now to get into this week after a bit of a recap, we have finally gotten to week two and to be all honest it was a way harder week then the first one.

  Starting off strong on Monday we had our usual morning lifts. Now mind you our lifts are a different style then it was last year and what I mean by that is last year we were big on force output on our weight which I excelled at but now it’s a bit different with Coach Walker (The strength coaches name if I didn’t mention). His workouts are more about slow and controlled movement through the lifts and building strength so we usually do normal lifts like squats and bench press but now we bring the weight down slowly for the amount of time we have for the workout which was usually six seconds which was hard already last week but manageable. But this week we kicked it up some more and now are in eight seconds and when I say I almost didn’t finish I mean it. We started off with the usual warm up and stretch routine then we moved on to our power clean progression. Now we move on to the actual workout which was to do elevated front squats, dumbbell elevated bench press and to finish it chin-ups all being with the purpose of going down slow for eight seconds which almost had me throw up mid workout but we pushed through and overall my experience was that it actually made me feel a lot stronger so I’m enjoying this new style of lifts.