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very cool.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXSSXP2Ptx0" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXSSXP2Ptx0</a>



also very cool:

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usiaQJoLNsE" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usiaQJoLNsE</a>

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today is two years since my brother killed himself. hard to believe it's been that long already. gonna spend some time this evening skyping with my parents and other brother. no workout.

damn. yea time flies. wishing you & your family the best. <3

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on a lighter note, i'm taking the occasion to back through some old things i wrote, in the months after he died, and came across some found poetry i pulled from this forum. i'm pretty sure it's from scooby's journal. it's verbatim, no edits of any kind, i only added line breaks. enjoy:

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I wish, I mean, I hope
no
those word is not strong enough.

I must regroup myself now, now
that half of 2018 is gone. I must
pick up the pace and finish
2018 in a strong way.

This is a message to myself
on 180608, a Friday afternoon
where I slacking/recovering from
my exam 2 days after finishing it.

It will be raining for the next 7 days or so.

that's interesting.. reading it in a different context like that.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: New year new me
« on: January 06, 2020, 05:37:04 pm »
Oh damn, journal title fits. Time to start keeping up with logging again.

lool

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Got a big goal to look forward to - Manchester Marathon 5th April 2020 (Goal: 3.30)

damn nice!

what's your longest run so far?

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(squatting has suffered due to hip injury from falling during a run which isn't 100% right yet)

i've had that happen a few times, once really bad last november. that one during november definitely caused some longer lasting issues. sux.

stay safe w/ it!

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: January 06, 2020, 04:17:40 pm »
Keep a close eye on the market and you'll find something eventually. I was searching for about 12 months before I purchased my current home.

thanks man! yea i plan on it.

how'd that turn out? good i hope!

i'm definitely bummed. thinking about checking some other areas out, opposite of what i was looking at initially, just to see the differences. ie, HOA/gated etc. can't imagine i'd find anything in my current price range, but it could be a good idea to check it out and get a feel for the differences between those types of properties/communities and the one i've been looking at.

pc!

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: January 06, 2020, 12:49:06 am »
so i put in an offer on the 5 acre prop. got it. offered well below asking but it made sense, so got a really good deal. but paused it after hitting one of my last checklist items: viewing the community/property in the evening.

soo.. the community was incredible as expected. loved it. fully expected to put in an offer.

then i get back to the property.

the neighbor to the east, who leaves their dogs out 24/7, .. their dogs just were barking non stop, for 1.5 hours. they've been there since the 70's (dogs will continue to be left outside) and their son (presumably) is the one who "neglected" the property i'm looking at..

living next to that could be rough.

perhaps it's incredible that something like that could cause me to pause an offer on some "dream property", but it made me think this dream property could really become a nightmare.

so i basically just withdrew my offer/interest for now.

really sucks.

i need to deload from this property dream for a bit maybe. had this one in the palm of my hand but something about it just isn't right (neighbor, smell in house that needs to be removed - from neighbor's neglect who previously owned the property) etc.

so yea fuck it.

i really need to figure out how to find a spot where there's absolutely no noise pollution from neighbor's etc - meaning great neighbors or tons of distance between myself and the next, or both. great neighbors seems impossible, lots of distance between just means lots of $$.

disappointed.

pc!

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side note: i will destroy microsoft. piece of shit company making piece of shit products that rob me of hard work. death to microsoft.

they've improved alot since the 90s tho.. iirc. :ninja:



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okay then.

happy new year everyone! 2019 was a good year goal-wise, in that i met my main athletic goal of running a sub-20 minute 5k. did it two weeks in a row, in fact. go me.

yup, two solid times. i def think you could go under 19 in 2020 if you wantd.



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in 2020, my athletic goals will be the following:

1. increase maximum strength. i haven't lifted for more than two years and i'm down about 10 pounds from my average weight while training to dunk (and all the other tangents i went on). the heaviest i ever saw on the scale was 183, iirc, but that was a long time ago. ~175 was my weightlifting set weight. i'm now ~165. always been lean, so the weight loss is substantially muscular and i'm definitely weaker than i was a few years ago. so goal number one will involve a few months reversing that process. not sure about exact targets yet, but it'll probably be something simple like a squat target, a bench target, and an upper pulling target. a trip to the gym will let me know what my baseline is and what i should be shooting for.

nice!

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2. run 5k under 19:00. this might be a bit of a reach, given that my newbie gains only got me from 20:53 to 19:42. but i hit that goal while almost never touching the 30 mile-per-week volume that's generally cited as a minimum for a sub-20 time. so if i can push the volume a bit this year, just by adding a couple of km per run and staying consistent -- plus getting some more practice racing now that i live near a literal weekly race -- perhaps the gains will continue to come fast.

def think you could knock that out.

if you get hooked on max strength life then it'll be a little harder. all good tho.

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3. do a clean handstand and a barefoot pistol on both legs. these are a lower priority, i'm adding them mainly to give myself an excuse to work more on mobility and joint health (lifting will also help with that in the form of warming up, which i do not do for running). handstands i've done before but had to stop when my right wrist started acting up too much. the ultimate bw strength goal for me is still a flag. OAC would also be cool but it's distant: my shoulders can barely tolerate single-arm holds. it'd be rad to get a kip-up as well. and a backflip. would need a gymnastics gym to learn that, i think.

there's a time sequence to these, because working on strength for a couple of months will mean cutting back on running volume and probably intensity. i can consistently work out five days per week, so a three days lifting/two days running schedule seems feasible. once i've hit whatever strength goal i come up with, i'll dial back the lifting and focus again on running. the bw stuff can be thrown in around the edges, i'm not too fussed about it.

yesterday:

- food poisoning x vomiting and diarrhea
threw up so hard i got a lump in my throat. only got 4.5-5 hours of sleep. joint aches and muscle weakness. blah. feel better this morning, at least.

eek!

hope u r ok now. damn.

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3h50m is major.

2 hr is a good cut off imho. at least you're close to that now after rearranging.

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I just figured out what caused the fat loss plateau a couple of weeks back.

It was my Fitbit One - I had been keeping it in my shorts pocket when the hip clip broke, which I know now inflates the calorie count quite a bit!
This week I received my replacement clips, and it's back clipped on my shorts waist, and noticed a drop in calorie burn.

Instead of 3500-3700 calorie burn on training days, it's now down to 3000-3200
so my metabolism hasn't slowed down by 400-500, I was just measuring it wrong for the last 5 months...

eek lol.

sounds like a software bug i occasionally try to track down, lmao.

good that you figd it out.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: January 04, 2020, 12:17:41 am »
haven't gone food shopping the last 2 days because i've been able to cook stir fry with peppers i've been growing. feels so good.

jalapenos and "redskins" .. not red, koz i picked them early. but they taste great, more green belle-ish.

can't wait until i have tons of pepper plants, going to get serious then. for this next phase, i plan on having 10 jalapeno, 10 green bell, 10 red bell, 5-10 redskin, 5 habanero, plus some other variations etc. hopefully i can start that in a few months.




day 1:









day 2:




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damn nice!

ya i imagine you'd lose it, that's been a major goal of yours for a while now.

get it!

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Party's Over!
« on: January 01, 2020, 10:14:23 am »
BW- 91.2

Squat-
60x3
80x3
100x3
120x3
110x4
92.5x6 for 2 sets

Calf Raises-
70x5 for 3 sets

Chin Ups- 10
Pull Ups- 7
Roman Chair Crunches- 18

Treadmill-
Jogged for the first time since May 2019! I did 800m @ 10km/h than walked for 700m. Did this 3x. Hopefully my Achilles pulls up alright tomorrow. It felt fine today.

awesome! good sign. hope so. and don't push it, keep gentle on it. :highfive:

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For beginner, intermediate, and elite.... also what is a good rest period after a plyo session?

dno depends on the exercise. but you usually want full recovery between sets. it's important to be recovered, shouldn't turn "plyos" into "cardio" etc.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Triathlon sprint prep
« on: December 31, 2019, 10:40:01 pm »
Tomorrow the gym is closed because I guess the 80 year olds that work the front desk are getting shit faced tonight.

lol. i like how that's the conclusion you draw. 80 year olds getting shit faced made me laugh.

pc!

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happy new year man!

yea you had a few setbacks but overall a solid year. OAC coming in 2020.

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