I became dad to a little boy 2 weeks ago. This post could be titled “Surviving GS after birth”…
Little Troy is a healthy boy, and I’m told, quiet! Ahah, my heart goes out to you people who have screaming brats. I really admire you. And those of you who have several kids, you are the true unsung heroes of the world. Civilization owes you. If this is quiet, then I’d hate to have a difficult baby. 2 weeks of quiet zombieland is taking a toll on me. Luckily for me, here in Denmark, everything is at a standstill for a couple of weeks more of holidays and I do not have to work so much yet…
I changed my GS program to allow for the disturbed sleeping and eating patterns. I dropped nearly all strength training and most assistance exercises. Up to the birth I went through a strength cycle where I happily and easily build my squat back to just over 100kg. This will have to do and I hope it will carry me those last month before the IGSF World Championships in Italy…
I am basically doing a 3 day a week program spread over 6 days. I quickly found out I didn’t have enough energy to train more than 15-20 minutes of actual work at a time, and spreading my program this way lets me progress and recover, so far.
I’m freshest in the mornings, so I train around 11am, when Troy is taking a nap.
The 24s are feeling heavy after 30 reps or so. At the moment I am first rebuilding my numbers in snatch and jerk with the 20s, and doing 1 training pass with 24s as my main weight.
No timed sets with 24s. Just building volume progressively like I described in my GS manual. This is also a psychological strategy I chose that allows me to stay fresh, well, relatively speaking…
I hope that I will be able to steadily progress and peak in November on this skeleton program. If this works, I’ll market it as the Skeleton Warrior Protocol, and sell it to all GS enthusiasts with small kids 
One of the things I’m doing for my legs to build up endurance, apart from lots of Jerks, is the Superlegs challenge.
Nick Tumminello wrote a great article about different bodyweight leg complexes, check it out for inspiration.
