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putting the disc away (for now)

I have finally reached my limit. I am DONE touching the disc until winter league.  I thought it was odd that I wasn't sick of playing ultimate when the season ended. Turns out the feeling was delayed by a month but I didn't escape it.  I continued to think that each event would be my...

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A trial run for permanent change

One year ago today I was 20 pounds overweight and afraid that my days of playing competitive ultimate were over.  I hadn't been successful in making the top level ultimate teams in the area when I had moved here several years ago and now I was 32 years old.

One year ago today I woke up and...

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strength training: leg workout one legged strength strength training

Today I did a moderate intensity lower body workout.  A moderate intensity strength training session involves doing sets of 8-10RM.  Rest between sets was less than 2 minutes.  For most of the exercises I performed 3 sets.  You may recognize some of theses exercises from the ...

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Multidirectional Movement

Because of my sore calves my weight room session consisted of only upper body exercises today.

For endurance training I went outside and decided to play around with some multidirectional movement interspersed with running.  I performed this workout on grass in cleats.  My workout was...

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Calves are sore and I don’t know why calves

Saturday I took the day off and today was the last game for the CPUC Lancaster fall league.  Occasionally I will still get DOMS from a very hard lifting session, but I do not get sore immediately following workout--except for today.  My calves were burning after the game.  I...

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My favorite intervals endurance intervals work capacity

Tonight I did my favorite interval workout which consists of 20 seconds at about 80-85% of a sprint followed by 40 seconds of walking.  I used this type of workout a lot last season when I was getting back into shape.  I started at ten reps and worked my way up to twenty.  This may...

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