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31 October 2018

Bodyweight@session : ~85,5kg
Soreness : quads, glutes, abductors, chest, shoulders, lats. all rather minor
Injuries/aches : none

HANG POWER CLEAN:
10@20kg
5@30kg
5@35kg
5@40kg
5@45kg
5@50kg
4@55kg ( +1 rep )
3@60kg ( +1 rep )
1@65kg
0@70kg
5@55kg ( +5 kg )
6@50kg ( +1 rep )
-Awesomeness! 3x60 is huge. 65 went up great also. 70 PR attempt was close.

BICEPS Z-BAR CURLS:
10@30kg ( +2,5 kg )
10@30kg ( +2,5 kg )
10@30kg ( +2,5 kg )
10@30kg ( +2,5 kg )
-Third time in a row adding weight, was hard this time but not near failure. Awesome!

TRICEPS ROPE PUSH DOWNS: ( new exercise )
10@110lbs ( +10 lbs )
10@110lbs ( +10 lbs )
10@110lbs
10@110lbs
-Great!

STATIONARY BIKE:
20 mins: 10km / 150kcal worth.
-Love this LISS recovery thing.

30 October 2018

Bodyweight@session : ~85,5kg
Soreness : none
Injuries/aches : none

ATG SQUAT:
5@75kg ( +2,5 kg )
5@75kg ( +2,5 kg )
5@75kg ( +2,5 kg )
14@60kg ( +2,5 kg ) , ( -1 rep )
-Still very strong.

BENCH PRESS:
5@67,5kg ( +2,5 kg )
5@657,kg ( +2,5 kg )
5@67,5kg ( +2,5 kg )
15@52,5kg
-Very nice for first time at this load, expected to lose a couple of reps.

DEAD HANG PULLUPS:
6@BW+7,5kg ( +1 rep )
5@BW+7,5kg
5@BW+7,5kg
11@BW
-Solid.

25 October 2018

Bodyweight@session : ???
Soreness : none
Injuries/aches : don't remember

1½ hours full court basketball.
Again all around good. Good endurance, speed, strength. And a bit more than good vert/spring, feels like my body is always ready for a good jump now. Maybe it is the power cleans. Ill take it. Must do rim jumps sometime soon.

Friday was a day off here so was away on a mini vacation till Sunday midnight. Not a total waste, got in some insane volume of (recreational/touristic) walking, e.g. Saturday was ~15km!!! 

Gotta start running again. No real run since previous Saturday's race. Just 20 mins bike and 1 bball session (ok 1 more bike today and 1 more bball tomorrow ). Not a dramatic off  but gotta get back at it relatively soon.

Also, i want to buy a smart watch. I was thinking Samsung galaxy watch ( im a samsung guy, got mobile and TV and i am really happy with them ). Note that the strongest reason for getting it is for fitness tracking. Samsung watch is a great all around choice. But the Samsung running app on my mobile (samsung health) is very basic, it keeps only total time, total kcals and 1km splits. No custom laps, no other auto metrics. e.g. if from 1.5km to 2.5km i do 4', but 1 to 1.5 / 2.5 to 3 was walking , like 5' each, then the log will say 2nd km was 7 minutes and 3d km was 7 minutes, the intermittent 1km PR is lost.

I searched a bit the reviews but couldn't find what i wanted. Before i dig deeper, can you guys tel me:
Long shot : Is there someone with a samsung watch? Or someone that can easily find the full specs of the samsung watch fitness tracker?
For a larger target group : Is there a mobile app (android) that does such complicate measurements? Ideally i would like a full report like those that adarq posts. 12 mins test, fastest km fastest mile fastest idk what. That's garmin right? Is that from a built in app? Or from a post-processor that i can download too?

If i can get good/complex measurements with an app, i will prefer the samsung watch. If not, then i will opt out the smart/cell stuff and will buy a garmin watch. 

Thanks and cheers! 

Lebron for president, dude seems to be king in every aspect of his existence!

18 October 2018

Bodyweight@session : ???
Soreness : none
Injuries/aches : shoulders hurting from being hit from the bar at HPCs. lol funny

1½ hours full court basketball.
All good. Endurance, speed, strength, vert, all good. Still gassing out though. I think that from a basketball perspective, my aerobic base is solid, i need to improve my anaerobic abilities. I have to ( and i wanted to, regardless of bball ) bring back tempo work in my running sessions.

Logging this here as a.... reminder? motivation? goal setting? for good purpose anyway:

Top 10 M 40-44:
16:27 , 18:56 , 19:02 , 21:00 , 21:48, 21:58 , 22:09 , 22:22 , 22:44 , 22 :44

Top 10 M 45-49:
16:48 , 18:00 , 18:28 , 18:54 , 19:30 , 19:58 , 20:14 , 20:26 , 21:07 , 21:26

Damn, next age group is harder,  22' gets you in top 5 in 40-44 but not even top 10 in 44-49. Anyway, that changes from event to event, just wanted to have a clear map of what it takes to get some serious ranking.

Just saying! 

13 October 2018

RACE DAY

Was amazing, loved the hype , the vibes, the race itself, everything. Also, FWIW , that race was at the most central/commercial roads of my city, it was amazing to run at them closed on a Saturday night.

Technical analysis:
Traffic was much smaller than expected. Everyone with registered time below 30' was on the first block. Still lots of people but the second and third block were so packed that would ruin the race 100%. Total contestants were .... 18.000 , eighteen thousand, LOL.
Was jammed at the beginning, i was just 50 meters away from the electronic timing start gate, yet it took me 45 seconds to get there ( gun time vs net time in electronic timing ).
After that it was kinda jammed for another 200-300m , you could run but had to zig zag and occasionally break or accelerate. After that it was free, 100% clean race.
As warned by adarqui i was going too fast. Goal was 5'30''/km to break the 27'30'' barrier and PR by 30''. However, around 1,5km i was at 5'10'' average but not feeling going max, it was kinda buffered. Found 2 guys that were pacing good ( looking at watch all the time ) so followed them.
Long story short , kept that pace till the end, destroyed my PR by 2 minutes and 36 seconds !

25'19'' electronic ,   

Mobile said it was 4.98km in 25'37'' , started it and finished it 10 seconds early/late too so it's fair.
Last km logged = 4'56'' stoping it 10 seconds after finish, i can't log an accurate time for that but it is 1km lone and of course 1km in a race 
Basically , everything is PR, in any combination, lone 1km , 2km , 1500m , 2,5km, 3km, 5km every distance above 500m that  i have ever time trialed was PRed/destroyed!