[Ben M]

Ben M on October 19, 2021 at 10:33 am · in reply to: Freeride plan: Change the mobility/strength days if prior Olympic lifting? #58286

Oh, zero criticism on how the plans are generally proposed! I wanted to double check and defer to your expertise. Many sport-specific training plans rightly train specific movements! E.g. In the past when I only did the basic compound lifts (all concentric strength), the first weeks of ski season were brutal on the quads (because of the eccentric loading).

Appreciate the response, and the knowledge bases and everything here. I had searched through my kindle copy of Uphill Athlete and couldn’t find any explicit answer in there, though I possibly could have inferred.

Thanks again!

[Ben M]

Ben M on October 4, 2021 at 10:35 pm · in reply to: Playing tennis… #57639

I’ve tried using a heart monitor during squash — I think Strava likely smooths out the peaks too aggressively since a long rally is often mostly beyond anaerobic, and my AeT is around ~140.

https://www.strava.com/activities/5766942678 (where the HR supposedly stays in z2 most of the time… that’s just not what happens on court lol)

My current thinking (starting week 1 of the freeride skier plan) is to play 45 mins of squash on the strength/mobility days, and checkin on other performance metrics to see if that ends up being overtraining.

For 9+ years pre-covid lockdown I would play squash for about an hour and then go do the basic compound lifts as supplemental. last 3 years I brought in clean+jerk for the weight eccentric explosiveness in the jerk lunge. This winter I’m seeing if the UA training is better, especially for uphill cardio.