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Two episodes in and this is already a cracker. Did anyone else watch it?

Not sure if its a factor of being on the other side of the world or being so young at the time but I never knew of Jerry Krause's involvement in the end of that era. Also never knew of Pippen's dissent in that final year. It's amazing though how ego is always the ultimate destroyer. 

New log time. Been contemplating this for a bit. Fresh start and all. Really though I've been faffing about for a while now and think a new log without the clutter of the previous one will help me focus. One main goal for this log is to have a recorded 40" vert by my 40th birthday which is in roughly 349 days. My most recently recorded vert test was 32" in mid April this year off the back of maybe 4 weeks of consistent training. Weighing in at 90-91 at the time. I'm not sure I can add 8" in 12 months but I can certainly try. All training will be focused on this one goal.

The following is a checklist of items I think I need to tick off in order to reach the goal:
- bw of 85kgs- I have at least 6-7kgs of fat I can lose. Want to be no more than 8%.
- consistent jumping practice- practice that skill
- Loose calves, quads and hip flexors- these have been tight for years. Like decades.
- Have elite core strength- this is the one area I've never trained. I've had decent squatting and deadlifting strength. Never had good or decent core/hip flexor strength. This could be a huge missing link for me.

So I'm a competitive bastard. Even seeing other people at the gym makes me competitive and I think I do my best when I've got something to go up against. Is anyone up for a vert comp? I'm thinking test verts - train - test verts again - profit!

Thoughts?

I've titled it 2019 but I'm thinking more a 12 or 16 week thing.

EDIT-

VERT COMP 2019-

Participants-

Coges
Maxent
Adarqui
LBSS
John Stamos
Fast Does Lie


January 2019- (SVJ, RVJ, SLRVJ)

                         SVJ           RVJ             SLRVJ
Coges                     23”                             30”
Fast Does Lie           22”
Seifullaah73            23”
Maxent   
adarqui
LBSS
John Stamos   
acole14

Has anyone seen Icarus? I watched it a couple of weeks back and then listened to Bryan Fogel on the Rogan podcast. So incredibly fascinating. The absolute control that they had over the athletes and they doping program is unbelievable. I mean I know professional athletes use PEDs. After watching this and listening to the interview I would pretty much doubt if any athlete is clean.

https://www.netflix.com/au/title/80168079

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2FCBIpKCdI

Have been following Diane Fu on IG for a while and she's at a Chinese lifting camp with plenty of champs and some WR holders training there. She's posting a ton of vids on her IG along with a heap of stories showing their training. Pretty interesting stuff.

https://www.instagram.com/dianefu/

Especially cool to see what they do with a lack of equipment. Case in point...

https://www.strengthandconditioningresearch.com/promotions/quarter-squats-transfer-sprinting/

I recently came across this Vola room which contains and is continually updated with fitness material:

https://volafile.io/r/QdHD9A

Take it for what you will but there's been some good stuff posted up recently.