Quarterly Meeting

Those big wooden things behind the sleds are called jerk blocks. They existed so we can work on putting heavy stuff over our heads, called a jerk, and drop it and not have to pick it back up from the floor. It makes training the jerk at heavy loads much easier. In fact, since the blocks are such a pain to drag out, it only makes sense to move them when we’ll be training at greater than 90% of our best. 

Yesterday I joked with Alex that his has become quarterly meeting for us, since we probably bust them out every 3 or 4 months. We always train the jerk, just not typically at really high loads. Every few months seems to be enough to keep the strength and skill there. 

It got me thinking. Workout programs are usually in a weekly time frame. What are somethings that we should do once a month, or like us yesterday, once every 3 months? What about efforts you do once a year?

For someone who spends a lot of time writing workout programs, it’s a nice thought experiment. For you, you can think about mixing in unusual efforts to round out your fitness. Maybe you take a really long walk once a month or go on a big hike a couple times a year. Maybe it’s a bike trip or a ski trip, anything atypical from your everyday life. We view these things as disruptions to our regularly scheduled training, but perhaps it’s the perfect shake up that your body needs. 

Here’s your challenge: think about something physical you can do once a month, once a quarter and once a year. Let’s zoom out of our weekly training view and look at the bigger picture.

Justin Miner

@justinminergain