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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Age vs Vertical
« on: June 11, 2019, 05:01:36 am »
10 June 2019

Bodyweight@session : ~84kg
Soreness : idk, none? legs are kinda tired/sore but all over, no specific sore muscle.
Injuries/aches : none

INCLIDE DB PRESS:
Work up to 10@17.5kg each hand

WIDE GRIP LAT PULLDOWN:
Work up to 10@145lbs

SINLE LEG BOX SQUATS:
Work up to 8 each leg @ BW+15kg

CRUNCHES : 2x15
45' HYPERSEXTENSIONS : 2x15

So , the story is that my gym closed permanently out of the sudden. The subscription remain is transferable to a few other cooperating gyms but all this happened 1 week after i stopped going, so i learned it 1,5 month later. That means the 'good' gyms that were offering subscription transfer were 'sold out' ( the positions were limited ). I found one that fits my needs but its not very convenient, especially now that i still have tons of work, my free time is limited.
So, i decided that for the time being ( bball season is over , main focus is running ) , i will use my work's gym. It is a small gym with just the basics, what you'd find in a hotel. No squat rack, no bench , no olympic bars. But its still good for just doing some stuff and of course it is ultra convenient. So imma go with this for a while and see how it works.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Scooby 2011 Journal
« on: June 11, 2019, 04:49:11 am »
I think that you have much better chances at this if you palm the ball. Yes, a perfect lob allows you to have the full armswing power and you only need to slap the ball in , 6'' above rim are enough with the absolutely perfect thrown lob and perfect timing. But that will probably never happen, the average lob-dunk is almost equal to cuffed, 10'' above are needed.
On the other hand, if you can palm the ball good, you may lose 1 or 2 inches from the limited arm swing, but you can dunk it without the wrist being above the rim. It all depends on how well you palm it but i'd say the average palmed dunk minimum is 7'' above rim. Adarq you are the lob master so correct me if im wrong.
Now i know you have small hands, but ive had many co-players that had too and they palmed it better than me. Also there are new balls out, built to stick in your hands. e.g. i recently saw this one at a store, i could palm it firmly with 2 fingertips: https://www.badensports.com/products/grip-tread-basketball
Not saying that is the course you should take, but give it some thought.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Age vs Vertical
« on: June 10, 2019, 04:47:08 am »
8 June 2019

7km @ 49:53
Wanted 'comfortable' but it was too hot and humid so i ended up going between comfortable and slow. Still rusty.



9 June 2019

1KM warmup ( strides, stretches, jog )
5KM TIME TRIAL @ 30:02
0.5KM cooldown walk
TOTAL : 6.5km @ 44:17
-Meh, im an idiot, I started tracking from the beginning, so when i went into the time trial i had no idea of my pacing. Went too fast ( first 2 kms 5:39 and 5:55 ) so gassed out around 3.5. Had to walk a bit to catch my breath. Then finished strong ( 5'31'' last km ) to break the 30 mins 'barrier', lost it by 2 seconds, dammit!.
I gotta improve but i gotta be patient too, it is 6 days that i got back into this after 50 days of absolutely zero workouts.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Age vs Vertical
« on: June 07, 2019, 06:48:36 am »
hah nice. just jump right back in it.  :ninja: :ibrunning:

Lol yes but that comes with a prize: got extremely sore legs ( mostly VMOs ) and abs (!). Talking about real DOMS , as if i've lifted heavy.

6 June 2019

Bodyweight@session : ???
Soreness : quads, glutes, calves, abs
Injuries/aches : none

RUN  6km @ 43:50

Went slow, wanted even slower but couldn't do it, kept picking up the pace whenever i lost focus in pacing ( which is often when going slow ).
Average pace was just over 7' for the first 5km ( i was aiming for 7'20'' to 7'30'' ) , then just walked fast the last km so ended up with a total average km pace of 7'17''.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Scooby 2011 Journal
« on: June 07, 2019, 06:40:44 am »
The ( rusty ) official forum vertec eye says 36''-37'' ( 89'' reach , 8''-9'' above rim , 117'' rim ).

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800m+ Running and/or Conditioning / Re: 2019 London Marathon
« on: June 04, 2019, 07:34:33 am »
So many gems to find in those stats:
So after having run 20K at ~14:45 per 5K  , Kiphoge goes 'meh, i feel fresh, let's pick it up' and he does 20->25 in 14:14 , a time which until 1939 was WR.
Kipsang's slowest km pace was 3'18'' , i dont think i'll ever in my life be be able to do 3'18'' in an all out 1km sprint lol.
Kiphoge never went above 3m/km.
Inhuman.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Age vs Vertical
« on: June 04, 2019, 06:46:19 am »
3 June 2019

Bodyweight@session : ???
Soreness : none
Injuries/aches : none

RUN 5km @ 33:30

Went 'comfortable'. Average km pace landed at 6'41'' , happy with that, was afraid id be slower.
Was ultra rusty as expected. Lungs and legs were fine for it but the whole system was not ready, like 'dude, WTF are you doing, why are we running 5K after 50 days of zero exercise?'

What???  ;D

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Age vs Vertical
« on: April 18, 2019, 11:29:19 am »
^^^
Well it is a very good time anyway, but keep in mind that it was a very fast, mostly downhill course.
After the first uphill ~500m that had about ~20m of vertical raise, the rest 4km had a vertical drop of ~90m. About ~70m net drop for the whole race.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Age vs Vertical
« on: April 17, 2019, 02:47:59 am »
Some bad news:
1) I somehow must have sprained my left ankle. Haven't run yet but i feel it when walking etc. Weird, i don't remember twisting it. It's very mild but its there.
2) Im down with the flu or some other virus, FML, again nothing too much but still can't train/run etc, dosing up drugs and multivitamins and food and rest lol.

daaamn! heal up/recover quick.

Thanks man! Both are going very good but it looks like ill need a couple more days off. It would be fine but next week is Easter week here, more imposed offs. FML.

Quote
Now some good ones:
Got the electronic results from my last race, gun time was 23:04 , net time was 22:57. Sub 23 biatch!!! oh wait, it was 4,5km  :uhhhfacepalm: Average pace was 5:01 ,  :personal-record:
Ranking : 63/430 overall , 33/154 age group ( M 18+ , there were no other classes, duh ) , only 5 people above me were older.
Not bad!  :lololol: :ibrunning:

63/430 is solid. moving up the ladder! :ibrunning: :ibrunning: :ibrunning:

Yup, not bad at all. Wasn't prepared at all for that race, plus it was morning and i was coming from a poor sleep night, 4 hours or so.
Here's the distribution of times:
Winner did 14:15 , #28 20' , #98 25' , #180 30' , #255 35' , #304 40'
A time around 20' is very doable if fresh and well prepared for that race ( plus knowing the course ). Cheers to next year!

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Age vs Vertical
« on: April 16, 2019, 04:35:29 am »
Some bad news:
1) I somehow must have sprained my left ankle. Haven't run yet but i feel it when walking etc. Weird, i don't remember twisting it. It's very mild but its there.
2) Im down with the flu or some other virus, FML, again nothing too much but still can't train/run etc, dosing up drugs and multivitamins and food and rest lol.

Now some good ones:
Got the electronic results from my last race, gun time was 23:04 , net time was 22:57. Sub 23 biatch!!! oh wait, it was 4,5km  :uhhhfacepalm: Average pace was 5:01 ,  :personal-record:
Ranking : 63/430 overall , 33/154 age group ( M 18+ , there were no other classes, duh ) , only 5 people above me were older.
Not bad!  :lololol: :ibrunning:

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Age vs Vertical
« on: April 15, 2019, 10:29:32 am »
13 April 2019

Bodyweight@session : ~85kg
Soreness : none
Injuries/aches : none

ATG BACK SQUAT:
8@20kg
8@40kg
8@50kg
8@60kg
6@70kg
3@80kg ( +1 rep )
-Ultra solid again. Wanted more though. Wanted 8@70 and at least 4@80. Plan is whenever i reach 5 reps at top set i am adding weight.

DB LUNGE:
-Skipped again, felt glutes needed some rest

SEATED NEUTRAL GRIP DB OHP:
10@20kg each hand
10@20kg each hand
10@20kg each hand
10@20kg each hand
-Probably should have done 22s.

DEAD HANG CHINUPS:
10@BW
10@BW
8@BW
8@BW
-Same reps with last time but i felt stronger.

SEATED CRUNCHES MACHINE:
20@95lbs
20@95lbs
20@95lbs

SEATED BACK EXTENSION MACHINE:
20@125lbs
20@125lbs
20@125lbs

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Age vs Vertical
« on: April 12, 2019, 06:31:53 am »
11 April 2019

Bodyweight@session : ~84kg, unexplained low
Soreness : still glutes but less now, a little hamstrings, also some abs and traps (?!)
Injuries/aches : none

SEATED DB CURL:
10 each hand @16kg
10 each hand @16kg
10 each hand @16kg
10 each hand @16kg

SEATED EZ BAR PREACHER CURL:
12@25kg
12@25kg
12@25kg

DIPS:
10@BW
10@BW
10@BW
10@BW

TRICEPS ROPE PUSHDOWN:
12@100lbs
12@100lbs
11@100lbs

DB SHRUGS:
12@22kg each hand
12@22kg each hand
12@22kg each hand

SEATED STATIONARY BIKE:
20mins , ~10km
-Was very easy, barely sweated. Improvement in fitness is starting to show.

Weather got too bad ( those damn spring storms ) so went to the gym and improvised. Did the arms stuff i was doing in previous program, plus shrugs. Then some bike.
Was fun, might keep that for when i want a third gym day in the week.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Age vs Vertical
« on: April 11, 2019, 05:52:31 am »
10 April 2019

Bodyweight@session : ???
Soreness : hamstrings 2/5. glutes already fried, quads ( inner ) hurting too, BSS is a killer! chest and lats 1/5
Injuries/aches : none

RUN 6KM @ 38:51

Nice & easy 'recovery'/anti-DOMS run again. Pace was 'comfortable' again, this time it was hovering around 6'35''/km ( 10 seconds faster than last week ).
Picked it up at the last km to get the average below 6'30'' ( total under 39' ) , i did 5'55'' pretty easy. Awesome.
Also that was all done in bad weather, cold and windy, last 1.5 km was under rain too. Very happy to have my comfortable-sore-rainy-cold pace down to 6'30''.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Age vs Vertical
« on: April 10, 2019, 04:19:49 am »
9 April 2019

Bodyweight@session : ~85kg
Soreness : none
Injuries/aches : none

RDL:
8@20kg
8@40kg
8@60kg ( +10 kg )
8@70kg ( +10 kg )
8@80kg ( +10 kg )
6@85kg ( +10 kg ) , ( -2 reps )
-Awesome. 4 months ago i needed half a minute ( including much pain and frustration ) to get out of bed, now i am repping BW nice and easy. Grateful!
Could do all the reps @85 , or even @90, but i quit the minute i feel i am losing even a tiny bit of form. Going for AELS president  ;D

SMITH MACHINE BSS:
8 each leg @ 25kg
8 each leg @ 30kg
8 each leg @ 35kg
-Haven't done those forever so wanted to check weights. 35 felt too hard ( duh!) , will do all sets with 30 next time and move up from there.

BENCH PRESS:
10@57,5kg
10@57,5kg
10@57,5kg
10@57,5kg
-Very nice but need one more time before i do 60kg.

DEAD HANG PULLUPS:
9@BW ( -1 rep )
8@BW ( -1 rep )
8@BW
8@BW ( +1 rep )
-Weak for some unknown reason.

SEATED CRUNCHES MACHINE:
SEATED BACK EXTENSION MACHINE:
-Skipped those to do the switch i was saying ( wood-choppers at DL day, crunches & extensions on squat day )

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Age vs Vertical
« on: April 08, 2019, 10:23:33 am »
6 April 2019

Bodyweight@session : ~85kg
Soreness : dont remember, i think nonw
Injuries/aches : none

ATG BACK SQUAT:
8@20kg
8@30kg
8@40kg
8@50kg
8@60kg
6@70kg ( + 2 reps )
2@80kg ( extra set )
-Alright, 2 ultra solid ATG reps @80kg, very sweet. Gonna continue this, i missed low rep high intensity so much, Next stop : 1*BW.

DB LUNGE:
-Skipped again, dammit, gotta start doing them.

SEATED NEUTRAL GRIP DB OHP:
10@20kg each hand
10@20kg each hand
10@20kg each hand
10@20kg each hand
-Strongest ever. I can try 22s next time if i feel good.

DEAD HANG CHINUPS:
10@BW ( + 2 reps )
10@BW ( + 2 reps )
8@BW
8@BW
-Nice.

STANDING CABLE TORSO TWISTS:
15 each side @ 40lbs
15 each side @ 40lbs
15 each side @ 40lbs  ( + 2 reps )
-Strongest ever here, nice.

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