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Quick, quick, slow...


Decided it's probably best to start pairing some of my blog posts together, as you might have noticed, as progress is starting to become a little more difficult, at least on the 195g.

Furthermore, it's worth noting that both of these sessions were done after a round, as they were scheduled competitions and fell on the day of my training. Also, I've been wanting to try out different solutions to see how my body reacts in those situations but I think it's fair to say that doing speed training after 18 and 16 holes respectively didn't work out on this occasion.

Again, that's probably because I'm looking at the fact I haven't pushed the needle forward on the 195g but as you can see there's still plenty of infill happening with the other weights, as in session 9 I had new records on the 80g and 205g, whilst improving on my previous best set record on the 205g by 3mph.

Today was a similar story, with a new record of 91mph on the 225g and a new set record at 89mph, followed by a set record on the 105g (step) at 99mph.

So, as it stands I'm treading water a little on the 195g but improving elsewhere, which could change as we're going to transition into a new phase of the Full Speed Spectrum program in the next session, which see's the high weight max from set 3 switch places with the step set.

I think I'm also on a bit of plateau because I'm making some minor tweaks to my swing too, which obviously I'm also trying to incorporate with my stack training, so that might be slowing me down a hair but should hopefully help unlock some more speed in the coming weeks.

Let's keep moving it!..

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