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Pics, Videos, & Links / Re: jump videos
« on: August 17, 2017, 09:19:00 am »
Not to take it offtopic but im fascinated by the Masaii jump. Any thoughts on adding it into one's training?

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / 229
« on: August 17, 2017, 04:09:06 am »
BW: 84.7kg
Activity: 6500
Misc: None
Diet Compliance: 2/65

Did eat clean yesterday. I maybe a little more bread but that's better than icecream. So gna try to put together another 2 week period of unbroken compliance. With the one refeed after volume squat day per week. or 8 day week.. haha.

should post the vert vid you posted on IG .. that was a pretty sick jump.

Thanks. Link.

The shoes im wearing there are adidas crazy light boost's which are shit for jumping in because they're heavy and bulky but great for training in because of the boost cushioning. I will prob jump higher in Kobes on hardwood as opposed to the rubber gym floor. Plus with a better windup will gain a little from that. But dont feel ready to jump on a court just yet, too out of shape, whale like. i am afraid i'll barely touch the rim and lose confidence. Maybe later down the line. For now im ok jumping in the gym at 88kg. Getting that up to 90kg will be an exciting milestone on the gym scales.

Feel suprisingly unsore today. Was expecting way worse but thankfully my new program is starting to feel right. The only hitch was the chinups torched my core a bit and i was wondering if it would kill heavy squats but it didnt thankfully. I need more ab work in any case so i wont stop doing them.



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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / 230
« on: August 16, 2017, 03:18:54 am »
BW: 85kg
Activity:
Misc:
Diet Compliance: 0/65

Heavy day yeahhh.

BS 3x120, 2x132.5(PR since injury), 1x140(PR since injury), 3x130(PR since injury), 5x127.5(PR since injury)
RDL 8x170(PR)
Jumps (hit a PR of over 35, maybe as high as 37.5" - see insta for vid)
Hill Sprints x 6 (PR +1 rep)
Back Xtn 3x8x60(PR since injury)

Notes:
Comeback is on.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / 231
« on: August 15, 2017, 04:08:19 am »
BW: 85.2kg
Activity:
Misc:
Diet Compliance: 2/67

Maybe i could lean out a little and stay at 85kg before pushing for 87.5kg though. Im kinda chubby now :/

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Kingfush
« on: August 14, 2017, 10:40:23 am »
^ and theres totally nothing wrong with that. makes the heavy compound lift more impressive than it really is.  ;D

i have the opposite problem. everyone thinks i weigh 200 but i may have weighed as low as 169 at the time lol. Most recently my friend who is a powerlifter and has picked me up said i must be around 92kg/210lb but i was actually 180 at the time. i also picked him up and he was heavy af at around 105kg/230lb. I want to weigh 200 so bad :(

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / 232
« on: August 14, 2017, 03:29:20 am »
BW: 85.6kg (PR!)
Activity: 9000 (good)
Misc: Adductors
Diet Compliance: 1/67 (new week new me)

Recovery BS 6x70, 6x90, 6x90
OHP 6x2x62.5(PR), 4x57.5, 4x55, 5x55
Chinup 5x95(PR;+6.25kg), 5x94(+5kg), 5x94(+5kg)
Seated DB OHP 3x10x20(PR)
Jump rope

Notes:
The rust came off as i went thru the workout. Felt pretty fresh on the jump rope. But i didnt try doing a full on jump workout, that wud wreck me for weds heavy squats and proper jump session. I may have overdone the OHP volume, we'll see how it goes


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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: August 13, 2017, 01:55:29 pm »
HIGH REP NATION.

routine idea looks good but it will undoubtedly change, it always does. good stuff tho.

ya already i just noticed one issue which may affect me is that after volume squats, my core will be pretty beat to be able to do ohp well the next workout. But, i cant really find a way to fit in anywhere else so it will have to do..

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: acole14's journal
« on: August 13, 2017, 12:44:06 pm »
The best things about my new gym are the 24hr access and the equipment, but they're only just enough to overcome the proliferation of gym-bro's. So many gym-bro's at these places...There's also a PT there who is just abysmal, spends more time on his phone than supervising his clients. One time I was there he was training a guy on squats and was loading the bar up way too much. The PT is on his phone while the clients walks 130kgs out, shaking so much he looks like he's about to blast off into orbit, does three half-squats and nearly falls over backwards on the last rep, just managed to save it. PT comes over: "How were those mate??" "Yeah good mate".

we should make a thread for these stories. my least favourite is how people do rack pulls (or whatever they are) in the racks by dropping hte bar onto the safety pins. Yea go on just permanently bend the bar for your ego. Not talking about huge weights either like always around 80-140kg. just why?

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / 233
« on: August 13, 2017, 06:15:51 am »
BW: 84.5kg
Activity: 6000
Misc:
Diet Compliance: 0/68

Not sure why but i thought id have some icecream "for recovery" but i think its dumb because i get less nutrients this way. im not trying that again

soreness in glutes mainly but also adductors. quads not so much. confirms my theory that light squats dont do much if anything for legs :(

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: August 12, 2017, 02:32:11 pm »
Ok this is the sort of program im envisioning (will test to see if it's workable in real life!)

EOD training with no recognition of the 7 day week.

Day 1: Volume squats
Day 2: Rest
Day 3: Light recovery squats, volume OHP (barbell & seated DBs)
Day 4: Rest
Day 5: Heavy squats, JUMPS (depth jumps and max attempt RVJs for PR), RDLs, Hill sprints, Back Extensions
Day 6: Rest
Day 7: Medium squats (to shake off cobwebs from heavy day), volume Bench(barbell paused variant and incline dbs)
Day 8: Rest

Repeat x forever.

I think if i can make this work, it will do wonders for me..

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / 234
« on: August 12, 2017, 03:08:00 am »
BW: 84.9kg
Activity: 8000 
Misc:
Diet Compliance: 16/84

Here we go, the big squat volume day. Not sure how to structure it though. Was thinking two sessions but we'll see.

BS 2x120, 1x132.5, 7x5x112.5(PR)
BS 8x5x112.5(PR)

Notes:
Knocked out the first squat session. Thought about doing back extensions and RDLs like usual but i think better to be rested up and fresher for the 2nd session. As a compormise i'll do back extensions as a warmup for the 2nd session that way i dont have to leave it late to do them. As it happens im gonna head down to the gym around 11pm anyways, shud be interesting taking caffeine late.

2nd session went okay. Ive decided to jetison back extensions and RDLs altogether on squat volume day. I wanna try them on heavy squat day, that way they wont interfere with overhead pressing on light squat days if that makes sense. My upper back/traps get wrecked too much from RDLs and it messes up ohp. Programming problems galore

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: August 11, 2017, 09:08:11 am »
Meant to ask this for a while, but what is 'activity' measuring exactly? Kcals seems way high, and if it's steps, why not say steps?

yep steps! but like if i do jump rope or something it will still count something but they aren't technically steps. skips? so whatever it's calculating through the day, that's what im calling units of activity. it's just a magic number that comes out of the band which i use to measure my activity. I hit 9k today which is good for a rest day. kcal would be nice but theres no good way to measure that without using fancy lab things like doubly labelled water

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / 235
« on: August 11, 2017, 05:01:38 am »
BW: 84.3kg
Activity: 9000
Misc:
Diet Compliance: 15/84

Surpisingly sore free today. But i realised last night ive been over-eating by about 500kcal so im gna cut down a bit. Rest day.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: August 10, 2017, 10:42:55 am »
Man I don't know how good you are at BBALL, and I believe you are still in your 20s, but with the strength and physique you have, you could certainly play professional BBALL outside of the USA, I'm not sure where you live. overseas pays really good too. i could NEVER play pro bball no matter how much i practice or how much bball iq, coordination, i have....

That would be a dream come true. But i think at 33 almost 34, it's unlikely to happen. Would be aamzing for sure!

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / 236
« on: August 10, 2017, 03:03:31 am »
BW: 84.7kg
Activity: 9000
Misc:
Diet Compliance: 14/84

Squating heavy and jumping high. weather looks good for sprints too

BS 3x125(PR since injury), 1x132.5(PR since injury), 1x137.5(PR since injury), 5x122.5(PR since injury)
Paused BP 2x90(PR), 5x2x87.5(PR)
DB incline BP 8x25, 8x25, 10x25(PR)
Jumps
Hill sprints x 5 (PR 2 more reps than last week)


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