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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / 207
« on: September 06, 2017, 02:19:47 am »
BW: 86.2kg
Activity: 9.5
Misc:
Diet Compliance: 14/14, 0/5, 9/9, 0/2, 4/4, 0/2, 3/3

Feel fat as fuck today lol. Took some green tea and caffeine and gna try get 5k activity while fasted before eating my first meal.
Took more green tea and caffeine in the evening after i noticed i can barely see my abs. was this something that happened overnight or did i just notice? idk. but ima try get them back lol..

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: September 06, 2017, 02:18:12 am »
Thanks all! Not sure where to go from here. On one hand that i was able to go from last volume day of 18x5x117.5kg to 20x5x120kg i shud be able to now progress to 20x5x122.5kg but another thought i had was to reset and add reps working up to 20x6x120kg which will be reps=weight as a milestone. Not a big deal and im not sure if it will even be a good idea to do a lot of volume with higher reps cos fatigue accumulates faster that way. Hmmmm

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / 208
« on: September 05, 2017, 04:13:37 am »
BW: 86.4kg (PR)
Activity: 10
Misc:
Diet Compliance: 14/14, 0/5, 9/9, 0/2, 4/4, 0/2, 2/2

Squat volume day with 120kg. Yikes.
BS 10x5x120(PR)
BS 10x5x120

Notes:
First session done. It was challenging when the weight is heavy enough that you really have to strain and focus and there's the usual gym crowd doing weird shit like the girl next you on the smith machine doing one leg glute kickbacks, a guy right behind you, "spotting" his gf on squats etc. sucks. the 2nd session shud be better hopefully but sometimes the cleaners come and that's just as bad.

2nd session wasn't easier but i got it done somehow.  But that's a PR for total reps at 100 in 2 sessions of 10 sets of 5 rep sets of 120kg. Now tme to recover and plan what to do next.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / 209
« on: September 04, 2017, 02:25:18 am »
BW: 86.2kg
Activity:
Misc:
Diet Compliance: 14/14, 0/5, 9/9, 0/2, 4/4, 0/2, 1/1

Rest. Decided to start doing some cutting on rest days. Just as damage mitigation for this weekend... i still wanna get to upto 87.5kg but leaner than i am right now.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: September 03, 2017, 01:46:43 pm »
Love the geeky machine readable training logging haha. I think along those lines if you could have a way of pretty printing it so you'd still have the raw data in some text form (eg sexps or jason or whatever you like) but present it to the reader in a nice colourful marked up way it would be the best of both worlds. ive long thought of writing a quick app for logging my workouts. Actually you've inspired me, ima do it so i can just log from the gym on my android phone without needing to come home and type it up wiht a keybaord.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: September 03, 2017, 01:26:36 pm »
Re the movement efficiency posts by acole and FP .. would it help if i ran thru a ladders drill and a medball sequence and put up a video on instagram? Cos i know it will look horrid as im a big slow lumbering dude who has no movement efficiency but im also very skeptical about being able to change that by doing ladders. I think it's more of a test than a builder. which is my default position for things i dont fancy doing :P

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / 210
« on: September 03, 2017, 12:47:49 pm »
BW: 86.2kg
Activity: 8.5
Misc:
Diet Compliance: 14/14, 0/5, 9/9, 0/2, 4/4, 0/2

BS 6x100, 6x110
BP 2x90(PR), 2x89.5, 2x89.5, 2x88.5, 2x88.5, 5x75, 5x73.5, 5x74.5, 5x73.5, 5x73.5
Dips 5x98.5, 4x5x93.5
DB incline BP 8x20, 7x70, 7x70, 8x15
Curls

Notes:
That weekend was a complete and utter diet fail. Im going to start over tmr. I just wanna mention that my hams were kinda sore yesterday so maybe the tarp bar deadlifts is telling me not only is my leg strenght non-existent but so are my hams undertrained/weak. who knows tbh. i just see a lot of tarp bar deadlifitng in my future!!!

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: September 01, 2017, 11:29:38 am »
Super excited about how the tarpbar is showing me a huge weakness. I don't have the leg strength to move these modest weights, im pumped that by using the very exercise which has exposed this weakness will correct that imbalance. Turns out i have weak legs cos i can't get these things off the ground without a lot of difficulty. And if i had strong legs then i wouldnt be struggling with such light weights in what is a quarter squat position, right? Happy about this discovery. This is how i get across the 35->40" chasm, it wont be backsquats it's tarp bar DL.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / 214
« on: September 01, 2017, 03:06:45 am »
BW: 86.3kg
Activity: 11
Misc:
Diet Compliance: 14/14, 0/5, 9/9, 0/2, 4/52

Heavy day tonight and get to jump on a bball court for the first time in ageeeeeees
BS 3x120, 3x135(PR), 1x150(PR!), 2x132.5
RDL 8x120, 8x190H(PR)
Tarpbar DL 2x5x120(PR; new exercise)
Jumps
Hill sprints x 9 (PR; +1 rep)
Back Xtn 12x60(PR), 12x60, 10x60

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / 215
« on: August 31, 2017, 04:29:45 am »
BW: 86.1kg
Activity: 10k
Misc:
Diet Compliance: 14/14, 0/5, 9/9, 0/2, 3/52

Rest.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: August 31, 2017, 04:27:55 am »
According to Yessis, the fast feet thing is a myth. All those ladders etc are a waste of time.

I like jump rope because it has an upper body component and i need some kind of upper body speed work and i noticed my basketball game improves when i implement regular jump rope. Think timing for dribbling, blocking, etc.

 Ive been looking for an upper body plyo execise and i haven't found one yet.  I dont really find anything useful about medball stuff. Todday tried to convince me they're useful but i couldn't really observe and improvements came from throws etc. The closest is this drill from calstrength which is doing pushups from 3 plates on the floor. never tried it and it looks boring so idk .. cant be bothered lol. There's kettlebell swings but i cant quite get them right wtih bands and without im not sure how useful it is apart from the hip hinge. just not happy with them


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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / 216
« on: August 30, 2017, 03:13:34 am »
BW: 86.5kg(PR)
Activity: 10k (great)
Misc: Left knee sore
Diet Compliance: 14/14, 0/5, 9/9, 0/2, 3/52

Lol i honestly did not expect my bw to stabilise above 86kg so quickly but there we go. Recovery squats and ohp to come tonight.
Recovery BS 6x90, 6x100
OHP 3x60, 1x65, 1x67.5(PR), 2x65, 3x1x65, 4x57.5, 5x5x55
WCU 3x99.5(+10kg; PR), 3x5x94.5(PR; +5kg), 2x5x92(+2.5kg)
Jump rope
Masaii hops
Seated DB OHP 12x20(PR), 10x20, 8x20

Notes:
It's probably nothing but my left knee is worrying me a little. ive never had any problems with it, so it's strange that it feels off today. Will keep an eye on it.

I also wanna mention that i messed aroudn with tarp bar deadlifts today. Some kids left the bar loaded and i played around with it a bit. Felt okay. i still find setup confusing and im not sure i can do the lift properly off the floor every rep for that reason, but at least RDLs with it wud be worth trying. interesting..

Also the jump rope .. today was different. I was able to go really quick for some reason. What caused it?

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / 217
« on: August 29, 2017, 04:02:53 am »
BW: 86.2kg
Activity: 6500
Misc:
Diet Compliance: 14/14, 0/5, 9/9, 0/2, 2/52

Cutting down on carbs today until next volume day when i can refeed.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / 218
« on: August 28, 2017, 07:11:14 am »
BW: 86.2kg (PR!)
Activity:
Misc:
Diet Compliance: 14/14, 0/5, 9/9, 0/2, 1/52

BS 9x5x117.5(PR)
BS 9x5x117.5(PR)

Notes:
First session out of the way, i wrapped it up in about an hour, just under. Will rest a bit, eat and then go back for sesh 2. It wasn't easy but i managed. Hopefully 2nd one isnt too bad. Btw i felt a bit of a dick doing this volume session at peak hour at the gym. I prefer when they fall on weekends..

2nd session was brutal but i dont feel as dead after as i did in the first. Now to recover..

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: August 28, 2017, 07:08:18 am »
Great post. Should we make a separate thread for this discussion? I'd be interested in getting more insight on work capacity. I think it's one of the reasons i never had a great physique is b/c my work capacity lagged behind and i didn't get the hormonal profile / adaptations that an elite male athlete would have got out of training. Less blame on genetics more on poor work capacity. Lemme know i'm happy to make it!

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