Fraser Young

[Fraser Young]

WEEK 4

18 Jan

Resistance Band Dorsiflexion – 2 x 15
A1 Pogo Jumps – 4 x 20 secs
A2 Ziani Leg Lifts – 4 x 60 secs (94cm)
Plank/Plyo/Speed Skater Combo – 3 sets
Broad Jumps – 5, best of 2.40m
2 step approach – 8 per side
2 step pop ups – 4 per side
2 step 2 footed jumps – 6 per side
Tibialis Raise – 25 reps

19 Jan

CMJ – 6 jumps, best of 60cm
Patrick Step Up – 2 x 15 x 40kg
Front Squats – 3 x 5 x 75kg
BB KoT Lunge – 3 x 9 x 35kg
Band Assisted Nordic Curls – 3 x 7

Pleasantly surprised by my CMJ, not far off my PB now (63cm?). I’m also aware of the rough rule that your running vert should be 5+ inches more than standing, so I’m keen to test my running vert soon.

21 Jan

OFF – Moving house and while I had time at the end of the day to squeeze in a session, I felt the quality would be poor.

23 Jan

CMJ – 6 jumps, best of 59cm
Patrick Step Up – 2 x 15 x 45kg
Power Cleans (doubles) – 2 x 60,60,65,70,75kg
BB KoT Lunge – 3 x 10 x 35kg
Band Assisted Nordic Curls – 3 x 7
Achilles Spring Combo – 2 x 35 secs, 7 reps

My power clean technique is still a work in progress, but if I don’t use enough weight I end up upright rowing it. Nice to see my CMJ stayed slightly above my previous weeks. I took an extra day before completing this because moving house took more out of me than I thought and I was aching in a few places.

24 Jan

7 stretches from Becoming a Supple Leopard

So that’s the end of my first 4 week cycle, I’ve sat down and looked at what I want to add/remove for the next four weeks and I’m happy with what I have. I could obsessively pick over each exercise or try and fit everything in but I wanted to avoid overthinking and stick with what first comes to mind.

Here’s my slightly improved power cleans with a hook grip

https://www.instagram.com/p/CKcHAXnnLAz/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

[Fraser Young]

WEEK 3

11 Jan

Resistance Band Dorsiflexion – 3 x 10
A1 Pogo Jumps – 4 x 20 secs
A2 Ziani Leg Lifts – 4 x 60 secs (94cm)
Kneeling Jumps – 5
Plank/Plyo/Speed Skater Combo – 3 sets
Broad Jumps – 5, best of 2.45m
2 step approach – 8 per side
2 step pop ups – 4 per side
2 step 2 footed jumps – 6 per side
Tibialis Raise – 25 reps

Suddenly able to travel further in my broad jumps, it was nice to see. I did and up tweaking my adductor though which made me aware of it for the rest of the session.

12 Jan

OFF – My adductor is still bothering me so I skipped legs.

14 Jan

Resistance Band Dorsiflexion – 2 x 15
A1 Pogo Jumps – 4 x 20 secs
A2 Ziani Leg Lifts – 4 x 60 secs (94cm)
Plank/Plyo/Speed Skater Combo – 3 sets
Broad Jumps – 5, best of 2.37m
2 step approach – 8 per side
2 step pop ups – 4 per side
2 step 2 footed jumps – 6 per side
Tibialis Raise, 25 reps

I removed the kneeling jumps as they were doing nothing for me, the Copenhagen plank is now in my warm up as it’s good for reducing injury risk of the adductors.

15 Jan

CMJ – 6 jumps, best of 58cm
Patrick Step Up – 2 x 15 x 40kg
Power Cleans (singles) – 10 x 1 x 50kg
BB KoT Lunge – 3 x 8 x 35kg
Band Assisted Nordic Curls – 3 x 7
Achilles Spring Combo – 2 x 35 secs, 7 reps

I reduced the weight on power cleans and also switched to a hook grip, which was an immediate improvement.

17 Jan

7 stretches from Becoming a Supple Leopard

Overall a solid week, still playing around with exercise order but I’m much happier with it now. The plan was to take 2 sessions off every 4 weeks and if those happen to be because of injury then I can roll straight into the next 4 week cycle without a deload.

[Fraser Young]

WEEKS 64-65

29 Dec

Arnold Press – 3 x 12 x 9.5kg
Weighted Pull ups – 3 x 6 x 15kg
Pike Push up (feet elevated) – 3 x 8
Handstand practice – 4 x 30 secs
Reverse Table Top – 30 secs

1 Jan 2021

L-Sit to Tuck to Pulse – 4 x 3
Advanced Tuck Planche – 5 x 5 secs
Raised L-Sit (30cm) – 3 x 20 secs

The advanced tuck was supposed to be 5 x 7 secs but I’m a bit rusty and deconditioned.

3 Jan

7 stretches from Becoming a Supple Leopard

I have a list of 12 upper body stretches and I worked through a sample of them to see which ones are best.

5 Jan

Pseudo Waistline Hold – 2 x 2 x 10 secs
PPPu – 5, 4
PPPu Negatives – 2 x 8
Planche Lean – 2 x 4 x 15 secs

I’ve been dawdling with this one for too long so I’m ramping it up. The goal is a 20 second pseudo waistline hold so I moved it from 5 to 10 seconds and coped quite well. While I’m not racing to complete the full planche in the shortest time, I need some sort of urgency otherwise it will drag on forever.

7 Jan

Arnold Press – 3 x 12 x 9.5kg
A1 Weighted Pull ups – 3 x 6 x 15kg
A2 Pike Push up (feet elevated) – 3 x 9
Handstand practice – 4 x 30 secs (60 secs rest)
Reverse Table Top – 30 secs

I had barely any time so I cut a minute rest from each set and supersetted the pull ups and push ups. It went well but fell apart a bit at the handstands, really need to carve out more time for the gym.

[Fraser Young]

WEEK 2

4 Jan

Resistance Band Dorsiflexion – 3 x 10
A1 Pogo Jumps – 4 x 20 secs
A2 Ziani Leg Lifts – 4 x 60 secs (80cm)
Kneeling Jumps – 5
Plank/Plyo/Speed Skater Combo – 3 sets
Broad Jumps – 5, best of 2.30m
2 step approach – 8 per side
2 step pop ups – 4 per side
2 step 2 footed jumps – 6 per side
Tibialis Raise – 25 reps
Copenhagen Plank – 2 x 25 secs

5 Jan

CMJ – 8 jumps, best of 58cm
Patrick Step Up – 2 x 15 x 30kg
BB KoT Lunge – 3 x 10 x 25kg
Front Squat – 5 x 70,70,75kg
Band Assisted Nordic Curls – 3 x 7
Achilles Spring Combo – 2 x 35 secs, 7 reps

7 Jan

Resistance Band Dorsiflexion – 3 x 10
A1 Pogo Jumps – 4 x 20 secs
A2 Ziani Leg Lifts – 4 x 60 secs (80cm)
Kneeling Jumps – 5
Plank/Plyo/Speed Skater Combo – 3 sets
Broad Jumps – 5, best of 2.35m
2 step approach – 8 per side
2 step pop ups – 4 per side
2 step 2 footed jumps – 6 per side

Short on time so I skipped the end exercises. I’ll probably move the copenhagen plank to my warm up at some point as my adductors are quite sore by the time I get round to them.

8 Jan

CMJ – 9 jumps, best of 58cm
Patrick Step Up – 2 x 15 x 35kg
Power Cleans (singles) – 2 x 60kg, 2 x 62.5kg, 2 x 65kg, 2 x 67.5kg, 2 x 70kg
BB KoT Lunge – 3 x 10 x 30kg
Band Assisted Nordic Curls – 3 x 7
Achilles Spring Combo – 2 x 35 secs, 7 reps

Power cleans were meant to be in it last week but I wanted to establish my front squats more. My technique is ugly so I want to spend time fixing it as the power clean helps a lot with jump power.

10 Jan

7 stretches from Becoming a Supple Leopard

[Fraser Young]

23 Dec

Resistance Band Dorsiflexion – 3 x 10
Pogo Jumps – 3 x 20 secs
Broad Jumps, 5
Plank/Plyo/Speed Skater Combo – 3 sets
2 Step 2 foot jumps – 8
Patrick Step Up – 2 x 15 x 10kg
DB KoT Lunge – 10 x 5kg
BB KoT Lunge – 2 x 8 x 20kg
Band Assisted Nordic Curl – 3 x 7
Achilles Spring Combo – 2 x 35 secs, 7 reps

25 Dec

Resistance Band Dorsiflexion – 3 x 10
Pogo Jumps – 4 x 20 secs
Broad Jumps – 6, best of 2.32m
Plank/Plyo/Speed Skater Combo – 3 sets
CMJ – 7 jumps, best of 57cm
Patrick Step Up – 2 x 15 x 15kg
BB KoT Lunge – 3 x 8 x 20kg
Band Assisted Nordic Curl – 3 x 7

I still haven’t finalised the exercises. The plan is to do 4 weeks, then have a 2-3 day taper and change up some of the exercises or set/rep schemes. I incorporated some of the warm up drills from Freak Jump Technique 3, such as the dorsiflexion and the broad jumps. The combo is a 10 second RKC plank, 4 plyo pushups and 4 speed skaters (lateral bounds), to activate the muscles.

WEEK 1

28 Dec

Resistance Band Dorsiflexion – 3 x 10
Pogo Jumps – 4 x 20 secs
Broad Jumps – 5, best of 2.33m
Kneeling Jumps, 4
Plank/Plyo/Speed Skater Combo – 3 sets
2 step approach – 8 per side
2 step pop ups – 4 per side
2 step 2 footed jumps – 6 per side
Tibialis Raise – 25 reps
Copenhagen Plank – 2 x 20 secs

This is the technical jumping day, I don’t have a lot of space so I can’t do much more than a 2 step approach, but that will stop me getting ahead of myself. This will be Mon & Thurs, with weights based on Tues & Fri, then the weekend off.

29 Dec

CMJ – 10 jumps, best of 58cm
Patrick Step Up – 2 x 15 x 20kg
BB KoT Lunge – 3 x 8 x 20kg
Front Squat – 5 x 50,55,60kg
Band Assisted Nordic Curls – 3 x 7
Achilles Spring Combo – 2 x 35 secs, 7 reps

The patrick step up is something I can happily increase the weight on, and now I’ve switched to a barbell lunge I can load up too. When I read that a 2 footed jump is more quad dominant I immediately wanted to include front squats but they’ve not really been in the programs I’ve followed. I won’t go super heavy there.

31 Dec

Resistance Band Dorsiflexion – 3 x 10
A1 Pogo Jumps – 4 x 20 secs
A2 Ziani Leg Lifts – 4 x 60 secs (80cm)
Plank/Plyo/Speed Skater Combo – 3 sets
Broad Jumps – 5, best of 2.31m
2 step approach – 8 per side
2 step pop ups – 4 per side
2 step 2 footed jumps – 6 per side
Tibialis Raise – 25 reps
Copenhagen Plank – 2 x 20 secs

Someone directed me to Kadour Ziani a while back and I had noted down his leg lifts (stand and lift straight leg over an object in front of you, repeat for time). The pogo jumps come with a 2 minute rest, so it was a perfect place to fit in some leg lifts.

1 Jan 2021

CMJ – 10 jumps, best of 56cm
Patrick Step Up – 2 x 15 x 25kg
BB KoT Lunge – 3 x 10 x 20kg
Front Squat – 5 x 60,65,70kg
Band Assisted Nordic Curls – 3 x 7
Achilles Spring Combo – 2 x 35 secs, 7 reps

3 Jan

7 stretches from Becoming a Supple Leopard

I have a list of my favourites and I know it’ll help keep me in better condition for the following training week.

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