Doldrums

There’s not a lot of throwing progress to report since my last post, but such is the nature of the off-season. I was only able to go out and throw once last week, so the chances of something remarkable happening were understandably reduced. Also, on the one day I was able to get out and throw, I just didn’t feel like I had “it”. Had that been a meet day, it wouldn’t have been pretty. The only bright spot was discus, where I had some success in increasing the speed at which my back leg comes to the front of the circle. This is a very important factor in maintaining rotational momentum through the power position, and some increases in distance resulted. It looked like I was throwing around 135’. Still wimpy, but better.

I continue to see slow and steady progress in the weight room. I think that between now and the first meet of the season (~10 weeks) the benefits from all of the off-season lifting will have produced some noticeable gains in performance. I would like to have achieved the following numbers by then: Bench-175#, Squat-200#, Clean-145#, Overhead Pulls-90#. That would make a 48% average increase since last season in these 4 lifts. Not too shabby, but then I was really, really weak last season!

On an unrelated note – I checked some of my favorite websites to see if there were any additional meets to enter this year, only to discover that several of those that I had planned to attend had been dropped. Some were likely dropped due to conflicts with other meets in the area, and others…who knows?...but it was pretty disappointing. I had planned on entering 12 meets this year, but now that number is down to 8. I may find myself traveling a little further to seek out meets before the year is over. I’m not sure that 8 meets is going to satisfy my addiction.