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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: June 08, 2016, 01:36:19 am »
Quote from: maxent on June 07, 2016, 07:43:44 pm
Quote from: adarqui on June 04, 2016, 12:42:13 pm
Quote from: LBSS on June 04, 2016, 07:43:51 am
Quote from: adarqui on June 04, 2016, 01:43:47 am
high socks, XC flats, and tons of jumps at a bball court: adarq siting.


yeah but did you bring your knife and beanie?

actually.. yes.. i just didn't mention it. lmao. I didn't have the big bowie knife, but I did have my "tactical" pocket knife which I can clip to my shorts  :ninja: and I had a black beanie  :ninja:

nearly full adarq mode.

if i ever get in shape, im def taking an instagram photo with a knife in my mouth .. but running out of time and motivation lol. #reverse #atrophy #then #hypetrophy #2016 #bernie,.

why do you need to be in shape to take such a pic?

extend the deadline and drink a fuckton of cappuccino for motivation.

 :ibsquatting:



Quote from: jumperer on June 07, 2016, 08:00:11 pm
Quote from: adarqui on June 07, 2016, 06:36:16 pm
Quote from: jumperer on June 07, 2016, 05:27:50 pm
We have around the same max vertical reach. I think that it's gonna take a year or so for me before I can start going to the gym to throw down lobs on 10. You think you're around that mark?

well, if I can stay healthy, I think much less than a year tbh.. at the rate i'm going right now, I might be able to throw down some weak dunks in ~3 months off L-SLRVJ.. but that all depends on whether or not I can jump consistently (injuries not getting in the way). My training is starting to converge into something that feels maintainable; with more of a focus on power/recovery than distance/volume. This is why i'm a bit more optimistic now.

:ibjumping:

:ibrunning:



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I also wish I was a one foot jumper too lol.

ya I think i'm more of a natural 1-foot jumper.. or maybe it's just the "millions" of layups I did over my lifetime. After a very long period of detraining, I just feel more comfortable jumping off of one leg, rather than two. I think that's a telling sign.

pc!

I see. Yea, it's gonna take me way longer than 3 months even to throw down weak dunks lol. My standing reach is like 7'8-7'9 too, so I have to jump higher than you. Also about that, when I used to play basketball, we would warm up with lay up lines, and a lot of us would be going up off one foot and seeing how high we could tap the backboard. This is why I can touch rim off my right foot I think, you had to go both left and righty during layup lines. I also think one foot jumping feels comfortable too btw. It all got messed up by being quad dominant though. Wish I can return to it one day.

ya my reach is ~8' in shoes, definitely helps. Wish it was like 8'6" though... lmao.

you keep mentioning this quad dominant stuff.. i dno, it doesn't seem to me like you're hitting your hamstrings/glutes enough? I just get that vibe.. if this quad dominance you have is somehow really a problem, you could focus hard on your hamstrings/glutes. I personally am very happy for my "strong quads". If they were somehow so strong (or p-chain so weak) that I would consistently get knee/tendonitis issues in my knee when jumping, I would make sure they are actually strong enough & that's not the reason for the knee issues, jump less frequently, jump with less intensity, sprint, and target my p-chain hard.

pc!

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Basketball / Re: NBA Playoffs: 2015-2016
« on: June 08, 2016, 01:16:09 am »
Quote from: ghettoracer on June 08, 2016, 12:45:39 am
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he has been an awful custodian of his talent and legend. A better man would have more results to show.

i couldn't have put it any better.  to me his ego really got him good, which might not be all his fault since all the hype he received and huge endorsements at such a young age.  some argue he turn out pretty good but like you said, could/should have been better.  a lot better.  but his ego never subsided over the years, in that aspect i think he never learned to be truly humble.  yeah he claims to be but it's an act.  with his athletic performance seeming fading pretty fast if he don't make his mid range jumper more solid and add some real footwork improvements the sun is setting quick.  footwork is simply practice until second nature and you'll certainly know yourself if you did it wrong when you travelled.  when he can say it with a straight face "i don't travel".  what does that say about him?

so if lebron was humble, but still failed to improve, then what? .. but that's the key here i guess.. lebron's personality, or perceived lack of humility, results in people concocting all types of arguments against his achievements. Personally, I think it's waaaaaay to easy to say "someone could have been great, but they didn't do x y z, or they weren't humble enough".

I guess it just bothers me.. I'll use Kobe as an example. Kobe receives so much praise, yet, he was so much more hated than Lebron as a player, teammate etc. He basically demanded a trade as soon as he got into the league. His ego was through the roof; he was the black mamba after all. He had a major "indiscretion" (which was potentially criminal). He was apart of a dynasty team, with SHAQ, who he helped to run out of LA. His two titles in 2009 & 2010 were an amazing achievement, given that he didn't have shaq anymore. So, is he a disappointment? Should he have 10 titles if he had been more humble? This is an easy game to play.. Let's play it with Shaq, arguably the most un-humble guy next to Wilt Chamberlain or Dennis Rodman. Is Shaq a disappointment? If he had been more humble, would he be less of one?

These are hall-of-fame players we're talking about here.. Being "more humble" is just some weird talking point I mostly see people throw around, just to give themselves an excuse to crap on an athlete.

News flash.. many of the best athletes/players in history aren't humble. They have big egos.

It's just so odd to me that two athletes with huge egos, can be treated so dramatically different by people.

Also to sum it up; I think the humble/ego excuse is very weak.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=why+do+champions+have+big+egos



As far as tennis goes, i've seen people in person use a similar argument to basically justify racist comments targeting Serena Williams.. because of her "ego". In tennis it's especially a problem, because lots of people are just looking for an excuse to always root against "the black chick". They most often use such baseless arguments to justify their hate.. Meanwhile, these same people were fans of Mcenroe, Roddick, Murray etc.



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another thing i heard and fully agree with since returning to CLE is LBJ "player" is doing well, but LBJ "GM", and LBJ "coach" has been disaster...  he should let other people do their jobs.

disaster? they got to two straight finals.. is it Lebron's fault that everyone is missing shots? heh.

and let's imagine he has that kind of influence over the GM & owner of CLE.. how is it his fault, that they would listen to him, instead of doing their job?

:uhhhfacepalm:

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: June 07, 2016, 10:42:58 pm »
Quote from: acole14 on June 07, 2016, 10:02:55 pm
Quote from: T0ddday on June 07, 2016, 10:09:52 am

Bro, how come you never hit me up?  I could have gotten you into a lot better basketball than Northridge hooping!  Is that an oz thing?  Acole is claiming he is gonna swing through LA - is that actually unlikely?


I won't leave you hanging mate! Haha..I might not have as much training under the belt as I would have liked, but I'd still love to come check out your training centre and actually see a vertec in real life  :wowthatwasnutswtf:

damn.. you're going to love the vertec. still probably the most fun testing/training tool i've ever used. dammit I just need to hit that next rung@#$@!$

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: THE DREAM JOURNAL
« on: June 07, 2016, 10:35:30 pm »
Quote from: Final Phenom on June 07, 2016, 09:17:00 pm
Quote from: adarqui on June 07, 2016, 02:10:28 am
edit: maybe it had something to do with the race/athletics talk.  :o

Kind of a stretch, lol.

I wrote a paper on "Precognitive Dreams" for my english class last year and the main scientific explanation for dream premonitions is the law of large numbers: Collectively human beings have so many dreams that there's bound to be occasional coincidental overlap between our dreams and real life. We forget most of our dreams, but a cue later in the day can cause us to remember one of our dreams if the cue was in the dream as well. This makes it seem like we have more "dream premonitions" than we actually do.

There have been some interesting case studies where people claim to have many dream premonitions in a short time period, which would refute the law of large numbers, but because of unreliability of study authors we can't draw conclusions.

nice. i've had quite a few of these over the years. when it happens, it can be a mindblowing experience.

cliche as it is in such a discussion, inception was such an amazing movie.


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Call me a delusional schizo, but I believe there's something more to dreams than what we can explain with science.

well, if there is more to dreams than we can explain with science, I think that would just be our small understanding of science. I personally don't believe in anything that can't be explained scientifically.



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At least our current level of science.

ya

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: June 07, 2016, 06:59:12 pm »
i'm getting all of these blonde streaks in my hair, looks pretty cool. starting to look more like a surfer.

it's from the running in the sun.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: June 07, 2016, 06:36:16 pm »
Quote from: jumperer on June 07, 2016, 05:27:50 pm
We have around the same max vertical reach. I think that it's gonna take a year or so for me before I can start going to the gym to throw down lobs on 10. You think you're around that mark?

well, if I can stay healthy, I think much less than a year tbh.. at the rate i'm going right now, I might be able to throw down some weak dunks in ~3 months off L-SLRVJ.. but that all depends on whether or not I can jump consistently (injuries not getting in the way). My training is starting to converge into something that feels maintainable; with more of a focus on power/recovery than distance/volume. This is why i'm a bit more optimistic now.

:ibjumping:

:ibrunning:



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I also wish I was a one foot jumper too lol.

ya I think i'm more of a natural 1-foot jumper.. or maybe it's just the "millions" of layups I did over my lifetime. After a very long period of detraining, I just feel more comfortable jumping off of one leg, rather than two. I think that's a telling sign.

pc!

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: June 07, 2016, 05:00:26 pm »
Quote from: John Stamos on June 07, 2016, 03:49:28 pm
Nice job on the PR's, also they are calling Bernie sexist for staying in the race lol

who is "they"? I haven't heard that :F



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Your walking PRs would look like my jogging PRs lol

damn.. i imagine my running PR's look like Mo Farah's 10% effort jogging PR's.

ya my walking is getting pretty solid.. though sometimes it wrecks my toenails.

i'm closing in on sub-40 min 5k walking PR.. I wanted that one yesterday, but fell slightly short.

pc!

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: acole14's journal - DUNK OR DIE
« on: June 07, 2016, 12:33:00 pm »
Quote from: LBSS on June 07, 2016, 11:08:30 am
- chronic knee stuff when i was fencing a lot

any idea if it was from practice drills (holds etc) or how many lunge-like movements you do when fencing someone? you'd think that wouldn't hold a candle to jump training, regarding knee stress, but daym



Quote from: Leonel on June 07, 2016, 11:58:06 am
- "tennis elbow" for almost a year (both elbows)

uhg.. having it in one elbow sucks bad (I still have it).. seriously don't want it in both elbows at the same time.

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... come to think about it, I never strained or pulled a muscle and never broke a bone... yaaayy I'm invincible!! :D

 :highfive:

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: FP's log
« on: June 07, 2016, 03:10:35 am »
Quote from: Final Phenom on June 06, 2016, 11:28:36 pm
Quote from: Final Phenom on June 06, 2016, 11:23:16 pm
6/5
BW: 178.8
2 hour practice/tryout: Nothing special. Hamstrings achy after every practice, gonna use the next few days to rest them.

Workout #10, GPP #6
Superset x5:
-BP:115x10, 135x8, 140x8,7,5
-Leg raises (off bench): 5x20
Pullups:8,6,4
Squat
Front Squat shoulders and back way too sunburned
Dot Drill x2: SL hops feeling real slow
SL calf raises: BW x 5 sets each leg to failure (~12-20)

6/6
Swimming: 20 laps. Getting water in my throat had to stop to cough a few times. Very slow, breathing every 4th stroke (can't do 3 cause I can only do one side and 2 is too frequent). Had to take several 30 second breaks.

Workout #11, SVJ #1
SVJ x 30: maxed out at 29", possibly 29.5". Meh, about expected. Did a single 1-step DLRVJ, felt a slight back ache.

Should be good to do some squats tomorrow.

Important question: My hamstrings feel achy after every practice but I really wanna continue my sprinting and DL's. Should I do sprints and DL's anyway? achiness is in the upper hamstring (almost glute). Last few sprint sessions I had it real bad, it almost felt like a toothache in my legs when I was sitting down for prolonged periods (driving).

people here who have had serious hamstrings pulls would probably be able to answer you better.. but, i'd say tone down the intensity on the sprints, or cut them out completely, until that feeling goes away. the "I had it real bad" phrase definitely makes it sound like you shouldn't push them maximally in a sprint session. If they are firing sub-optimally due to strain, overuse, fatigue etc, then what point would a sprint session even serve? i'd try to see if you can tone it down a bit and see if that feeling goes away/improves.

my 2cents.

pc!

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: June 07, 2016, 02:18:39 am »
Quote from: maxent on June 07, 2016, 01:44:46 am
Back from my trip! What an incredible 4 weeks which included LA, San Franciso, Las Vegas, San Diego and last but not least, Yosemite!

SICK!

man you didn't hit up venice beach and check out some dunkers?

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I wish I could have eaten better and trained more but these things are hard to do while travelling. Squatted twice, did not bench at all, balled twice and that's about it lol. Eating out every day for 30 days, it's hard to get enough protein .. im pretty soft now .. as i mentioned above. I need to get back in shape.

Since my gym gains are all but vanished, im open to trying out things in training i wudnt otherwise, esp while rebuilding back to where I was before May. Prob have a good 3 months ahead of me before i'm in PR territory. Maybe more, that sucks but whatever.

i seriously doubt they've vanished.. once you get back on track you'll surprise yourself. 30 days is only ~2 weeks after a 2 week deload, look at it that way..  :ninja:



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To recap -- I can't believe i went to the game at Oracle Arena where GSW came back from 3-1 down to win an incredible WCF in 7. I was there! If KD hits a 3, and Westbrook has a better shooting night I could have seen OKC go thru to the finals. Incredible watching KD drop 40 points. He did everything he could have but GSW just played better as a team. They fully deserve to win the ring this year.

if there was one to go to, that could be it.. the game that started the historic run.

really cool man.. glad GSW won tho :F

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: acole14's journal - DUNK OR DIE
« on: June 07, 2016, 02:13:20 am »
Quote from: Mutumbo000 on June 07, 2016, 01:54:05 am
Quote from: LBSS on June 06, 2016, 08:49:28 am
adarq, we need a "brittlebro" team once the forum switches over. charter members: me, acole, scooby, you, maybe mutumbo000.

I'm definitely a member.

My lifetime sporting injuries include:

Double fracture of left leg
Broken left arm
Broken collarbone 
Broken Cheekbone
3 Hamstring Tears
Achilles Tendonosis
Groin strains
Hip flexor issues etc.

eek.. the combo of bone & tissue.

damn @ double fracture of left leg.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: THE DREAM JOURNAL
« on: June 07, 2016, 02:10:28 am »
a few days ago:

weird coincidence, or nostradamus moment.

a few days ago I had a dream that I saw a bunch of white UFO's in the sky, which turned out to be kites.. the next day while walking, I saw this black thing hovering WAY up in the sky for some time, and as I got closer to it, turned out to be a black kite. i've never seen a kite flying that high, must have been some professional kite people.



edit: maybe it had something to do with the race/athletics talk.  :o

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: The PR's/PB's, videos, pictures, and daily achievements thread
« on: June 07, 2016, 02:08:29 am »
http://www.adarq.org/progress-journals-experimental-routines/adarq's-journal/msg120642/#msg120642

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PR TRAIN:  :almostascoolasnyancat:

walk:
- unfortunately, no studying.. was drizzling out. sux.
- 9.14 mi in 2h:01m:47s  :personal-record:
- pace: 13:20 min/mi  :personal-record:
- speed: 4.48 mph  :personal-record:
- max speed: 5.4 mph  :personal-record:
- splits: 13:59, 13:27, 12:42, 13:30, 13:25, 12:35, 13:41, 13:40, 12:51, ~rest

other walking pr's:
- one hour: 4.56 mi  :personal-record:
- 3 mi: 39m:34s  :personal-record:
- 5k: 40m:54s  :personal-record:
- 10k: 1h:22m:34s  :personal-record:

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: June 07, 2016, 02:07:20 am »
right hamstring was a bit too sore still, so rested again. should be good to go tomorrow.



06/06/2016

Bio: Morning

last night's sleep: ~8 hours
last night fell asleep: ~3:30 AM
wakeup = 11:30 AM
bw = 148
morning resting heart rate = didn't measure
soreness = right hamstring moderate, right calf barely
aches = none
injuries = toenails slightly wrekt - getting worse, right elbow tendonitis barely (always)
standing desk (when on computer): none
feel = a bit slow/sluggish, but slightly sore (right hamstring)
water = alot



Food

12 PM

- greek yogurt
- green tea



Session: Evening

6 PM

PR TRAIN:  :almostascoolasnyancat:

walk:
- unfortunately, no studying.. was drizzling out. sux.
- left rib cramp issue several times
- 9.14 mi in 2h:01m:47s  :personal-record:
- pace: 13:20 min/mi  :personal-record:
- speed: 4.48 mph  :personal-record:
- max speed: 5.4 mph  :personal-record:
- splits: 13:59, 13:27, 12:42, 13:30, 13:25, 12:35, 13:41, 13:40, 12:51, ~rest

other walking pr's:
- one hour: 4.56 mi  :personal-record:
- 3 mi: 39m:34s  :personal-record:
- 5k: 40m:54s  :personal-record:
- 10k: 1h:22m:34s  :personal-record:

pr-walk-fest.

toenails hurt after fast walking.. sucks. ;/ my new socks might not be protecting as much as my nb minimus socks too though.. hope that's not the case. these are thicker, but supposedly serve the same purpose - non friction.



Food

8 PM

- 2% milk



Food

10 PM

- banana
- a few chocolates
- some mixed nuts
- enormous stir fry: grilled chicken, 5 carrots, half sweet potato, white onions, half green pepper, garlic, kalamata olives, 2 big turmeric pieces, bunch of mixed nuts, olive oil, salt/black pepper, jalapeno pepper, red chili pepper, serrano pepper
- sweet green tea
- biscotti



Food

2 AM

- greek yogurt
- grape fruit juice




tons of programming done today.. fixed some major bugs in the migration script - which is great, everything migrating good now. very fun to see the data flood in & take shape. the next few days will probably be non-stop front-end, need to keep chipping away at that. In a few days i'll probably need to start addressing some backend optimization stuff, ie; right now if I need to perform several queries for a thread: thread, user who created it, latest thread post, thread stats -> i do them all sequentially in the code.. so I can speed all of that up huge if: I do some raw custom ugly queries, or 2: I use an async/concurrency library. I'm going with option #2. There's a few things I need to modify before I implement that, but it's on my mind.. once that is implemented, I probably won't even need to optimize the front end -> it'll be so fast initially.

another thing I have to address is, migrated user registration.. if you're a new user, everything is fine.. but, if you're an existing user (migrated from this forum), need to get that to somehow link together via the email we registered with. I'm avoiding any custom login mechanism, instead everything right now is from Google or Github via OAuth2.. this is much better because you guys won't have to remember an extra password etc. I'll probably also add registration/sign in via facebook/twitter to make it even easier... but ya, linking existing accounts together is not built yet.

pc!!

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: acole14's journal - DUNK OR DIE
« on: June 07, 2016, 01:33:46 am »
Quote from: T0ddday on June 06, 2016, 07:37:44 pm
Quote from: adarqui on June 06, 2016, 05:51:52 pm
Quote from: LBSS on June 06, 2016, 08:49:28 am
adarq, we need a "brittlebro" team once the forum switches over. charter members: me, acole, scooby, you, maybe mutumbo000.

yup, nice.

:highfive:

no wait.. high fiving our brittleness.. :(



Quote from: T0ddday on June 06, 2016, 05:43:07 pm
Quote from: LBSS on June 06, 2016, 08:49:28 am
adarq, we need a "brittlebro" team once the forum switches over. charter members: me, acole, scooby, you, maybe mutumbo000.

I should be president of the club.  Hamstring rupture, 5 hamstring strains and 3 oblique strains and double knee tendinitis gotta hold sway.

yes, that definitely qualifies you to be a member. lmao!

but, this club must remain presidentless.. the last thing I want to think abut is eventually BECOMING the president of such a club.. HEH!#!@

my brittleness really shines through in how many bones i've broken during contact injuries. I don't even want to think about full tendon tears or serious muscle tears; just thinking about that stuff wrecks me mentally.

injuries =  :raging:

This is TOTALLY broscience but it does seem to me that your either a bone breaker or a tendon or ligament guy.  I've never broken a bone in my life despite boxing, gymnastics, football, basketball and a extremely reckless child.  When I was 13 I jumped off a monument to grab onto a tree branch on a dare and didn't realize the tree branch was wet... Slipped right off and fell almost 20 feet and landed on my arm and leg and walked away.  My bones are strong as hell but my tendons snap under heavy load. 

My theory is strong bones don't break but they are heavy so they add weight to your body.  The increased load is hard for your muscles to carry around and that overloads the tendon and causes it to rupture.  This is also my explanation for why I'm so heavy - people never think I weigh more than 200lbs and are shocked when I step on the scale at 225.  I trained w LBSS and he was about as thick as me with approximately equal leanness and only an inch shorter but 40 lbs lighter...

I carry more muscle than you right now but I swear you and I could look equally muscled and I would still be 30lbs heavier...

Maybe it's just grass is always greener mentality but I think I'd rather be a bone breaker...  Bones grow back stronger than tendons do.

Quote from: LBSS on June 06, 2016, 08:02:17 pm
i'll just jump in to second t0ddday's observation. his torso is bigger, my legs are bigger but if we were both wearing long pants and long sleeves we'd look comparable. fwiw, i've only broken little bones (nose, couple fingers). and my worst traumatic impact injury was bones getting dislocated; they didn't break.

but i've had a lifetime of nagging and acute joint injuries.

edit: list format

it definitely makes sense. I haven't had many muscle tears.

The worst one I had was still from a contact injury (basketball):
- where someone kneed down into my calf as I was planting to go up for a layup.

Other than that, i've had:
- sacral spine issue (genetic, permanent)
- arm break (stupid kid stuff, ~6 y/o)
- chipped tooth (basketball, ~9 y/o)
- osgood schlatter in both knees (~13-15 y/o)
- broken ribs (dirtbike accident, ~14 y/o)
- broken finger - avulsion fracture (basketball, ~12 y/o)
- broken finger (basketball, ~13 y/o)
- broken wrist (basketball, ~16 y/o)
- broken finger (basketball, ~20 y/o)
- completely dislocated pinky toe (boxing - drills on a man barefoot, ~24 y/o)
- broken index knuckle/torn ligament (boxing, ~25 y/o)
- major bicep tendon strain (~26 y/o, sandbag deadlifts/bearhug)
- destroyed toenails (basketball, running)
- and then I pretty much stopped contact sports................  no more breaks. :ninja:

needless to say, my muscles have seemingly never been strong enough for pulls.

I've had a wide variety of small aches/injuries, ie:
- hamstring tendonitis from trying to become a natural GHR master on my natural GHR bench (never doing that again)
- knee tendonitis from cycling on a shit bike
- hamstring tendon partial tear from a stretching incident
- right elbow tendonitis from tennis/calisthenics, right adductor/hip flexor tendonitis from who knows.

edit: I've also had a few bad lacerations during basketball:
- split head open on temple @ ~19 (this one was worse, basically a faucet of blood, ~10 stitches)
- split top of forehead open two weeks later (~7 stitches)



i'm basically 146-148 right now and i'm still far from 'shredded'. I'm potentially "hollow man".. hollow-man-dunker. From my log, it's clear i'm not starving myself. So as long as i'm eating healthy and feel good, i'm willing to see how low my weight will go, naturally.. into the 'abyss'.

sad member of the brittlebros club.

pc!

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