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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: acole14's journal - DUNK OR DIE
« on: June 12, 2016, 06:01:57 pm »Well these things usually come in threes...both knees (left chondromalacia/right tib-fib/peroneal nerve pain) felt mostly back to normal, had just been going to the gym everyday and doing the upper body/core exercises in Gym 1/2 alternating, with the ADEs as warmup. Then a couple of nights ago I woke up and felt like I'd got whiplash or something...both scapulae had seized up, tight AF and killing. Could barely turn my head. Next day was an absolute battle, wanted to stay home but had to go in to do animal surgeries that were finishing that day, worst day of the year by far. Really weird, pretty sure it wasn't anything I did in the gym the day before, was really just one set of pullups to failure and not much else. I think it was simply just sleeping wrong.
Couple of days later and they've finally calmed down, can finally look up and down without pain...bizarre. Anyway I leave in a bit over two weeks so going to stick to the damn program for a bit I hope.
damn sucks.. stuff like that happens to me too.. one of the worst ones I have is, somehow an erector gets "wrecked" if I twist, or hang from a pullup bar and breathe wrong, etc. When it happens, it hurts for a few days and I can feel it every time I breathe. These are some of the most annoying issues, I must say.
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I might strap a rabbit's foot to the weight vest though.
lmao.. somehow that will end up causing injury though; ie, the added 1 oz to one side of the vest, making your body compensate. don't do it.
Yeah as I have now gathered a bit of data on vested training I can say...
1) Worst idea ever for sports. Eg good luck making a layup when the vest comes off!
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absolutely amazing though how something like that can temporarily cause these "ripples" in our CNS, which almost seem to require a sleep-reboot in order to reset everything back to the appropriate state.
on a side note, since getting back to utilizing multiple sessions per day, there's one thing i've always loved about it; it's almost a vest-like experience. I always feel so much lighter/stronger in the evening session. If I don't over-tax myself in the morning/afternoon session, the evening sessions "feel" so much better. I don't really know yet whether the stats will back that up. But I should be able to get an idea of whether or not I run better during the second session, now that I have the GPS watch. As for jumping, I can pretty much say without a doubt, that I jump better at night - if I perform some kind of light yet explosive work in the morning/afternoon. For jumping, the time of day definitely helps alot too though, i'm usually stronger in the evening.
That's one thing we don't see alot on here; multiple sessions per day. Obviously work/life/school etc interferes with that.. but, even just ~30min of some light explosive work in the first session might be enough to "wake us up" even more, come evening. During my peak dunking, I was squatting several times per day - very high frequency, very short sessions.
The "multi-day effect" could potentially be a useful tool in itself.
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