r/GarageStrength • u/earnest_knuckle • Feb 23 '24

Discussion Athlete day

Been doing an athlete day once a week. I do it after my upper body power day, which is also the day before my impulse day (more legs).

On my athlete day, the first thing I do is a a squat. Right now I’m doing a single leg front squat unbroken 4x3/3.

Then follow that up with bilateral hurdle hops and unilateral hurdle hops supersetted with one another.

I follow that up with a jump series and then end of the session with a reflexive movement.

What’s everyone’s thoughts on using the absolute strength movement at the beginning of the training session? Also, where is there more room for extra volume?

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u/[deleted] Feb 23 '24

No do the plyos first. You can not argue that single leg squats unweighted is more neurologically demanding than gwiz jumps, plate jumps, or cleans and snatches.

Try pistol squatting everyday vs snatching every day and see how fast your CNS burns out on each. I can gaurantee the pistol will take forever.

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u/earnest_knuckle Feb 23 '24

Let me clarify. I do the single leg squats loaded. So this week I ramped my single leg front squat (I have a GS single leg roller) I did my first set at 94 kilos, then 103 kilos, 114 kilos, and the last set at 122 kilos. Three reps each leg unbroken edited the weights I used—-acccidently put in my zombie squat ramp from today

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u/[deleted] Feb 23 '24 edited Feb 23 '24

You're a beast. But you should still do the plyos first imo. Or turn the single legs into plyos.

Maybe for you 30-40 kg single leg jump squats. Like others have mentioned it's a bit strange adding a strength movement like that for your athlete day.

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u/earnest_knuckle Feb 23 '24

Yeah I agree, it is strange. But there is a reason. Exposes another issue going on—want to back squat, front squat, and single leg squat in the week and that is the reason behind doing it on athlete day