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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Party's Over!
« on: March 14, 2017, 01:46:29 am »
Quote from: acole14 on March 13, 2017, 11:05:38 pm
Quote from: Mutumbo000 on March 13, 2017, 07:55:10 pm
My right achilles tendon has been very sore since I did the ME sprint session last week. Now that the league season is about to start I'm going to ditch ME sprint sessions altogether. I've also been doing a lot of standing calf raises at home and eccentric exercises to try and strengthen my calves and take some load of the achilles tendon. Since I'm not playing rugby this season I won't be going to rugby training tonight, which will give my tendons an extra days rest before league training tomorrow. I've also been taking NSAIDs and having hot baths for pain relief. Last week there were days I could barely walk without limping. It's not 100% this week but it's feeling better then it was.

Plan to go to the gym later and train some upper body.

Eek. That ain't good mate. Know any good myos or physios? Might be some alignments issues or something at play. Otherwise yeah, what you're doing sounds good. I don't know how useful NSAIDs would be right now for tendon healing though...if the pain is at the level you need them, then take them of course but hopefully not for too long.

I have been thinking of getting some physio done on it especially getting the therapeutic ultrasound to help with the blood flow and scar tissue. The NSAIDs are just a short term measure. I'm crossing my fingers that ditching the ME sprinting will significantly help along with the continuation of eccentric exercises to strengthen my calf muscles. Once I'm warmed up and start playing I don't feel the achilles at all except after doing long sprints or chases where I get up to and maintain max speed, which are usually only a few times each training session. 

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Party's Over!
« on: March 13, 2017, 07:55:10 pm »
My right achilles tendon has been very sore since I did the ME sprint session last week. Now that the league season is about to start I'm going to ditch ME sprint sessions altogether. I've also been doing a lot of standing calf raises at home and eccentric exercises to try and strengthen my calves and take some load of the achilles tendon. Since I'm not playing rugby this season I won't be going to rugby training tonight, which will give my tendons an extra days rest before league training tomorrow. I've also been taking NSAIDs and having hot baths for pain relief. Last week there were days I could barely walk without limping. It's not 100% this week but it's feeling better then it was.

Plan to go to the gym later and train some upper body.

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Pics, Videos, & Links / Re: beast
« on: March 13, 2017, 08:30:24 am »
Quote from: LBSS on March 13, 2017, 08:18:14 am
i wonder how fast he is now. he ran 10.5 as a teenager.

He looks pretty heavy!

I found a journal of his from when he used to sprint back in 2009.
http://elitetrack.com/forums/topic/tom-martins-training-log/

His increased strength didn't correspond to an increase in speed but injuries were a limiting factor. If he wasn't suffering hamstring injuries and got to work on max speed and speed velocity the increased strength should theoretically lead to faster times due to better acceleration and force development etc. If I was guessing his time now judging on his size I'd say he'd be anywhere from mid 11s to high 12s over 100m as the extra weight he's carrying would negatively impact his top speed/speed endurance.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Party's Over!
« on: March 13, 2017, 01:45:53 am »
Bodyweight-
82.9

Rugby League-
Had a skills session on Sunday. Passed the ball around and played touch for over an hour.

Box Squat-
60x5
100x5
120x3
132.5x2 failed the 3rd rep
110x8
102.5x8

Rows-
40x12
60x12
70x12
80x12
90x7
100x7
105x7

Chin Ups-
bw+10kgx8x2
bw+12kgx8

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: warpspeed to the new scenario
« on: March 11, 2017, 09:10:50 am »
Quote from: Joe on March 11, 2017, 03:41:09 am
Quote from: Mutumbo000 on March 10, 2017, 07:24:00 pm
Quote from: Joe on March 09, 2017, 05:27:46 am
Morning stats
RHR (bmp): 62
Waist (cm): 88

Baseline established. Let's get to work!

What's your height and bodyweight?

76kg and 175cm. Probs like 18-20% bodyfat, I think,  but want to do a hypertrophy phase first despite this.

Yeah 18-20% bodyfat seems pretty accurate. You're18.9% according to the Willougby calculator.
http://clymer.altervista.org/bmi/

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: warpspeed to the new scenario
« on: March 10, 2017, 07:24:00 pm »
Quote from: Joe on March 09, 2017, 05:27:46 am
Morning stats
RHR (bmp): 62
Waist (cm): 88

Baseline established. Let's get to work!

What's your height and bodyweight?

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Party's Over!
« on: March 10, 2017, 06:45:44 pm »
BW- 83.1

Rugby League Training-
90 minutes. Defensive session tonight. Bulk of the training was spent on keeping lines in defence and tackling.

Rest day today.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Party's Over!
« on: March 09, 2017, 07:17:22 am »
Box Squat-
60x5
100x5
105x3x3 SPEED

Chin Ups-
bwx15
bwx14
bwx12

Rugby Training-
2 hours. I've got league training tomorrow and then I can finally give my legs (ACHILLES!!!) a rest. Lost half an inch of my waist this week as well from all the training. If I stay off the piss on the weekend it should stay off.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Two Hands Two Feet
« on: March 08, 2017, 10:38:51 pm »
Quote from: Coges on March 08, 2017, 05:02:04 pm
Quote from: Mutumbo000 on March 07, 2017, 11:28:57 pm
Quote from: Coges on March 07, 2017, 06:02:18 pm
Waist measurement of just over 34" this morning which is probably the lowest in 7-8 years since I used to weigh in the low 80s. Pretty stoked about that. Weight is stable around the 89 mark.

Nice!

Thanks mate. It's surprising to see it so low so quickly as I was 35-36 only 2 months ago. Don't really know how low I should aim. Am tracking weight as well but imo waist is more important.

That's good stuff. How much of the waist drop do you think is due to dropping the beers/alcohol? Agree with you as well with the waist. Weight is just a number. Body composition is what is most important and the waist is one of the best indicators of that.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Two Hands Two Feet
« on: March 08, 2017, 10:35:10 pm »
Quote from: Coges on March 08, 2017, 05:06:06 pm
Ball game last night. First run in 3-4 weeks and went ok. The other team had no one over 6ft so rebounds and putbacks were easy. They are an off season footy team playing basketball so it ended up getting rough. I dropped my shoulder and ran straight through a guy in the last minute when he tried to hip and shoulder me. He ended up doing a side flip and landing on his back on the court. Most satisfying moment of the game.

And at that point I knew they were screwed :P

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Basketball / Re: Does anyone bet on basketball here?
« on: March 08, 2017, 10:33:49 pm »
Nope. I used to spend a bit of time trying it (not on NBA but on other leagues) and found the odds for favourites were always minimal. You get the occasional upset and you've negated all your past wins. I ended up betting on the line using the favourites by a margin of 1-10 as most basketball games tend to be close and you'd get a return of $2.20-$2.50 on the $1. I had varied success. In the end I just thought it was worth more time and trouble than it was worth so I don't bother with it anymore. The amount of people that can genuinely make money from sports betting is small (apart from the bookies).

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Party's Over!
« on: March 08, 2017, 06:23:35 am »
Rugby League Training-
Went down and trained with the Bulldogs today. They started their pre-season 10 weeks ago so they were in pretty good shape. Numbers were good as well- had 40 players out so it'll be a competition for spots in the team. I watch tonnes of rugby league on television and ball skills wise it's very similar to rugby so even though I've never played before I'm confident that I should be able to crack a spot in the 1st division team hopefully playing outside centre or wing. I just need to learn the plays and stuff of this team but overall it was alright.

Training wise it was mainly doing drills/plays and punishments, which they called 'Charlie'. The 'Charlie' is similar to the suicides that you do in basketball but ours was run 10m drop on the ground, get up run 20m drop on the ground, get up run 10m drop on the ground. ]We had to do a 'Charlie' every time somebody fucked up/dropped a ball and the coaches would wait until 6 mistakes were made and we'd do the Charlies in sets of 6. Next training will be on Friday where the session will be around tackling and defence. The Wednesday sessions are when they focus on the offence and running plays. It would've been funner if we played some more touch but I only got to training 10 minutes before it started so I only got to play touch for like 5 minutes today.

99% sure I'm going to play league this season now.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Two Hands Two Feet
« on: March 07, 2017, 11:28:57 pm »
Quote from: Coges on March 07, 2017, 06:02:18 pm
Waist measurement of just over 34" this morning which is probably the lowest in 7-8 years since I used to weigh in the low 80s. Pretty stoked about that. Weight is stable around the 89 mark.

Nice!

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Pics, Videos, & Links / Re: beast
« on: March 07, 2017, 07:02:21 am »
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGVFtTi73HM" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGVFtTi73HM</a>

Seabelo is no slouch but  Lutumailagi was on fire that day!

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Party's Over!
« on: March 07, 2017, 06:58:25 am »
Iced my achilles last night, which helped it but it still wasn't 100% today but pushed on anyway.

Box Squat-
60x5
100x5
120x3
130x3
107.x8
100x8

Bench-
barx12
60x12
90x6
110x2
105x3 blah
100x3 drained

Rugby Training-
2 hours. Did tonnes of running and some sprints (trust my luck to have a full on fitness session once I have a sore achilles). Only did about 20 minutes of tackling/contact and a few skill drills. First game in 3 weeks. Might go to rugby league training tomorrow- a few months ago i was talking about playing. My body doesn't have the durability to play both though so it'll be one or the other.

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