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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: acole14's journal - DUNK OR DIE
« on: April 08, 2016, 05:14:13 am »
ya DamienZ made both the dunk icon and squat icon IIRC.. and that's the video it was taken from, the bulgarians squatting - ironmind training hall video.

(hope I didn't get that wrong about the gif, I know he made the dunk one though)

the running one I found online, which was surprising considering how good it is.

nice jump. that court looks like it has good lighting? love good lighting in a wood floor bball gym.

pc!

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: April 08, 2016, 04:07:22 am »
run + jump darq emerging.



04/07/2016

Bio: Morning

sleep = 7 hours
wakeup =  1 PM
bw = 152
morning resting heart rate = didn't measure
soreness = upper back very sore (from arm swing)
aches = right tennis elbow slightly
injuries = toenails wrekt
feel = tired



Food

2 PM

- 2 x wheat bread with peanut butter
- banana
- greek yogurt
- grape fruit juice



Session: Afternoon

4 PM
- sunny, great out

~10 miles total ran

run to court:
- 3.72 mi in 29:58
- ran slow but, also didn't feel bouncy at all

jumps:
- a few intense jumps
- L-SLRVJ: ~10'3 highest

run + jump:
- 2.01 mi (up and back basketball full court) in 22:22
- ~40 jumps each leg, alternating L-SLRVJ (rim) and R-SLRVJ (backboard) in 2 miles
- pretty much 40 rim touches with L-SLRVJ, got a few unexpected nice ones in there
- both miles were exactly 11:14

run home:
- 4.40 mi in 37:48
- actually was trying to run faster on my way home, but legs dead.. so even though I was trying a bit harder, couldn't get any power.




Food

6:30 PM

- beet juice + tart cherry juice
- greek yogurt



Food

10 PM

- couscous (1 cup) + grilled chicken, carrots, olives, garlic, mixed nuts, jalapeno pepper, red chili pepper, salt/pepper, olive oil, lemon juice.. love this meal
- water with lemon
- orange



Food

11 PM

- small bit of ice cream
- hot mint tea
- biscotti



Food

4 AM

- greek yogurt
- banana
- grape fruit juice



legs/feet feel pretty good right now..... hope they are fine tomorrow. i'd actually like to run+jump again. if I feel good, i'll do it. if my heel is hurting tomorrow i'll rest or run light.

I figure i'm going to keep trying to get my volume up with SLRVJ's.. I mean I don't need anything special right now in terms of vert training, I need to jump alot and get in great "jumping shape", as evident by my crazy sore upper back from arm swing... I still personally want to avoid weights for a while, so if I can make some gains just running, sprinting, and jumping, i'd be happy.

next time I jump, i'm going to a different court which is also ~4 miles away.. this one is nice too, with glass backboards and such. Sooo many nice courts around here.

jumping is just so fucking fun.




as for programming, been getting wrecked. that date/time lib i wanted to write, well i did, but it was crap. I need to port haskell's Data.Time (time) to purescript first and then attempt it.. ;/

https://hackage.haskell.org/package/time-1.6/

there's a "diffTime" function in there which is really nice, plus tons of helpers to help me roll over days and months etc.. so instead of just doing that myself, which I was doing, I should just port their solid code, then use it. That'd be a better idea.... so I might start attempting to port that lib a week from now or so. Need to get back to the forum stuff.

Figured out how to hookup websockets into my purescript web app, that was tricky but it works nicely now.. got that done today, plus some other stuff.. Working on Profile's now, but about to sleep soon I think.

pc!

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: April 08, 2016, 03:56:44 am »
raptor, give me a few to check that out. at first glance it reminded me of office space, like LBSS said... if you're down for a comedy, that's a great one, check it out.





yesterday: REST


04/06/2016

Bio: Morning

sleep = 8 hours
wakeup =  2 PM
bw = 152
morning resting heart rate = didn't measure
soreness = left quad, left heel, upper back
aches = right tennis elbow slightly, left heal
injuries = toenails wrekt
feel = wrecked



Food

3 PM

- boston chicken sandwich
- mac and cheese



Food

8 PM

- big bowl of cheerios + 2% milk + honey
- banana
- orange juice



Food

4 AM

- a ton of blue corn chips
- greek yogurt
- grape fruit juice




left heel/quad feel bruised.. right adductor cleared up.

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Basketball / Re: A WHOLE BUNCH OF DUNKS AND SHIT.
« on: April 08, 2016, 01:22:25 am »
saw this tonight, nasty.. josh richardson is fun to watch.

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

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Dreyth's New Journal
« on: April 07, 2016, 01:58:37 pm »
Quote from: Dreyth on April 07, 2016, 12:13:49 pm
Started officially studying for Network+ today. Reading one chapter a day of this book:
http://www.amazon.com/CompTIA-Network-All-In-One-Edition-N10-006/dp/0071848223

It's 20 chapters. Found a free pdf of it. Already took all of the quiz questions in the book and made flashcards out of them and put them on Quizlet. From there I download into my phone into my Flashcards Deluxe app. That app makes use of spaced repetition to learn better, as in faster and with less effort and time (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaced_repetition). It'll automatically notify me when I need to study old cards again. Automatically asks me questions that I get correct and less often, and vice versa. I used this app for a huge Cyber Security Essentials midterm I had and I got the highest grade in the class. This was last month. Learned about 165 flashcards in just a week. And some of those flashcards were HUGE. Not one word answers. About 40% of them were  3 to 7 sentence answers. Spaced repetition is the truth!

nice!

ya.. i'm a HUGE fan of spaced repetition/flash cards. Most effective and efficient way to drill stuff into a brain IMHO.



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So I plan to read this whole book in 3 weeks and at the same time know the answer to every quiz question (200+) in those 3 weeks. Then a 4th week of taking practice exams wherever I find them online and reviewing stuff I have trouble with. Then take the official cert exam.

cool!

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: April 07, 2016, 01:54:31 pm »
Quote from: Eric on April 06, 2016, 06:30:18 pm
Sorry to hijack your shizz and yeah Jacked n Tan and girls having big nice butts on instagram > edumakation these days.  If some noob was interested in learning more about this computer stuff, where would the best place to start?

no problem at all (regarding the hijack).

what do you think you might be interested in? just picking up some programming to see how you like it?

First you want to find some introductory classes using very simple (yet powerful) languages like Python:
1) http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-189-a-gentle-introduction-to-programming-using-python-january-iap-2011/
2) http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-00sc-introduction-to-computer-science-and-programming-spring-2011/

1 is a very basic intro. 2 is a heavier intro, specific to computer science. The first step to getting into programming is simply picking a language, picking some introductory material, then going through it slowly while trying out all of the examples and attempting the exercises.

You can get started very quickly using something like:
- https://repl.it/
- https://repl.it/languages/python3

That will allow you to code via your browser.. so most of the examples you come across, you'll be able to type them in (preferred) or paste them into that repl (read-eval-print-loop, ie, a command interface) and run the program.

Lots of people never take the "first step" to get into coding.. it always seems so daunting. But the first step is to simply find some examples, type them into a file or repl (like above) and run the code. Most likely, even the most simplest examples (getting the program to print hello or ask you questions etc) is enough to trigger an addiction.

Then like raptor pointed out, there are other sites like codeacademy which have their own learning tools, and hackerrank which challenge you with puzzles. If you go through that first introductory course .. you could then join hackerrank and see if you can solve anything. They have nice progressions, you can start out at extremely basic and move on towards advanced.. but along that progression you will find yourself solving small puzzles and it could become pretty fun, especially for someone new to the game. For veteran programmers, it's usually harder to stay excited solving small puzzles because you're always working on some big projects and such.. though, some people just love puzzles.

After you've learned some of the basics of python, you can take more advanced classes, learn more advanced features of the language, play with various libraries found on github, or dabble in other languages.. All languages have very simple tutorials that allow you to get a feel for that lang.. If you find yourself enjoying program, there's no shame in just pasting (or typing, because you actually learn more that way) examples and running them.

The key to learning how to code is pretty simple; consistency. Just like athletic training, it needs a consistent effort, even if it's less than 1 hour a day.

Hope that helps for now. Let me kno if you mess around with any of this stuff!

pc mayne!

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: April 07, 2016, 06:15:34 am »
yo will reply tmw.. been struggling with this code all night and i just realized it's > 6 AM

 :raging:

this moment-like library has proven alot tougher than i initially thought.. what a nightmare eheh

for tmw: upper back sore from arm swings during jumps, heel tender/hurt but better than last night, left quad feels 'bruised' also

 :raging:

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: April 06, 2016, 05:19:46 pm »
Quote from: Eric on April 06, 2016, 03:58:12 pm
Quick college and HS stuff.

My CJ professor for one of my classes was the captain of the PD in that city and he just talked about old stories of him when he used to patrol the streets.  We had 2 tests and he gave us the answers the day before, had us write them down and just copy it over to the test.

As far as HS, I graduated in the top 20 of my class and I was more focused on getting my NO Xplode mixed, programming my workout for the day and going to the library to check out new WSBB, EliteFTS and T-nation articles.

well, when it's all said and done.. gettin jakt > getin edukated.

;f



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Adarq, have you still been playing tennis? Idt I've seen it in your posts or i just missed it lately.

nah.. i got tennis elbow from overdoing tennis, so i stopped for a while, but i kept doing calisthenics.. and now i still have tennis elbow. So i'm not doing anything until it goes away. ;/




Quote from: LBSS on April 06, 2016, 04:28:12 pm
i went to one of the best school districts in the country (98th percentile, at least by this ranking: https://k12.niche.com/rankings/public-school-districts/best-overall/methodology/).

daym nice.



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took algebra in 7th grade, geometry in 8th, algebra ii in 9th, pre-calc in 10th, AP calc in 11th, and then no math at all senior year (AP physics instead). that was unusual, though, i think i was two grade levels ahead. didn't always get great grades. i think i got crammed into accelerated math because i was so good at reading and writing from an early age.

then the only math class i took in college was stats and i failed it because i took it pass/fail and was an arrogant shit and never went to class or did any of the work.

only class I ever dropped was calc 1. That was when I first realized I would actually have to study hard to pass a class.. hehe! then went on to pass all of the calcs.

pc



Quote from: Raptor on April 06, 2016, 04:26:29 pm
What you're describing sounds somewhat similar to what's happening here, too. We didn't even had a teacher of computer science in high school - nobody would come to teach at the school for a salary of 200$ per month in this domain.

Plus, I absolutely hated programming with all my heart, all my life. Started badly, was "teached" poorly, and I have always thought to myself "these programmers brag about how smart they are. If they're so smart, how come they need 1000 lines of code to calculate two numbers??? Why does it have to be that complicated, with so many words written, to calculate two numbers?".

And based on that, I absolutely hated programming. This continued in college too - I would not go to the classes and play ball instead. And we did Java and PHP in college, I barely attended the classes and was never interested in what was in them, couldn't understand a thing. It was basically the teacher writing weird stuff on the blackboard, continuously, and that was it, you go home. Nothing to understand.

Obviously it was very complicated for me back then too, as my mom and dad would break dishes and swear at each other and threaten each other and had to go in ambulances with my mom and emergency hospitals and crazy, crazy, crazy stuff, while also being in love like crazy on top of it all.

In the class, by the way, people would smoke and play poker, and throw papers at the teacher (in high school).

So... yeah... it is what it is.

There's so much to write about, lol.

ya comp sci isn't usually taught in such a fun & exciting manner.

There's so much art/beauty/science behind it, but most people teach it in a "junk style".

Here's someone I look up to alot.. Simon Peyton Jones. He's one of the creators of Haskell, which is itself the most beautiful programming language i've ever experienced. Anyway, he's helped also lead the effort to teach Computer Science as part of the normal Sciences in the UK. So now, all students will learn computer science concepts (abstract ideas, problem solving skills etc):

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ia55clAtdMs" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ia55clAtdMs</a>



He's a great speaker IMHO.. full of enthusiasm, passion, etc.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixmbkp0QEDM" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixmbkp0QEDM</a>



I mean he even makes "Writing a Research Paper" exciting..

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3dkRsTqdDA" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3dkRsTqdDA</a>



that's how I like to think about programming.. more of an Art with endless possibilities.

need more teachers like this :)

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: April 06, 2016, 02:38:08 pm »
Quote from: Raptor on April 06, 2016, 05:58:20 am
Is it true that the school in the USA is that bad? Like what I see in American movies, stuff you do in 11th or 12th grade we used to do in 7th grade or so, lol.

ya I was taking trigonometry and algebra 2 my senior year in h.s.. those are pre-h.s. classes in Europe from what i've heard. If you don't push yourself in K-12 (kindergarten through 12th grade) in public schools in USA, no one will push you (for the most part). So for example, no one really got through to me as to why I should take school seriously at all. It was easy for me. I just took the prescribed classes and passed them. All I cared about was basketball and programming (luckily). I had basketball class my junior year, and twice in my senior year. Believe it or not, I really didn't know what a "final exam" was until I got to college. In H.S., it would just be another test to me; "oh a test? whatever".

Actually I can recall one instance where I did push myself.. In my senior year I enrolled myself in Pascal Programming class.. but they kicked me out because I lacked the math pre-reqs. They put me in BASIC. I remember being very annoyed.. because at that time, I had already been fluent in C and several assembly languages (sparc, intel, mips, alpha). I was writing kernel modules, exploits, client/server code, .. all kinds of things. I tried to show the teacher (some old nasty lady) some code of mine. She refused to look at it.

So long story short.. I just coasted through h.s.. I was mostly reading my programming books while class was going on, or actually programming on paper (to transfer it to the computer when I got home); it was that easy. I was in classes full of knuckle heads, trouble makers, etc.. They would interrupt class, cause disturbances, drag the classes down, make it harder for people to learn. The teachers weren't so inspiring.. In fact, on several occasions I got detentions for reading my computer programming/unix internals books in class.. During "Drop everything and read", I had this amazing thing happen to me. I start reading my "Unix Internals by Vahalia" book. English Teacher comes up to me, and tells me to put that away and to find something enjoyable to read. I laughed and told her that I enjoy reading about software engineering etc.. She handed me a magazine. I gave it back to her.. She ended up giving me a detention. LMFAO. I've mentioned this before in my journal.

So high school was trash... middle school was even worse. I went to a middle school that was VERY bad.

College was better, but still a disappointment. I remember once I really got into my major at FAU (exercise science), a really tough class became easy-as-cake once nearly everyone failed the first test. That was another sad moment that stuck with me. It was a fill-in-the-blank/essay question test for Kinesiology. Really tough but I loved it. Tons of questions, really making sure you knew every insertion, origin, action, plane, etc. So after so many people bombed, every subsequent test was multiple choice. It became a joke.

I also challenged this one teach a few times, even went up to the president on the Board of Education etc. She marked questions wrong, that were scientifically correct. For example, she marked an answer wrong where I wrote "rectus femoris". The correct answer to her, was "quadriceps femoris". So I showed her an anatomy book.. She states; "that's not how I teach it in class". She was referring to one muscle, the rectus femoris, as the quadriceps femoris. Long story short, I didn't win.. Even after taking it to nearly the highest office at the university.

I guess those are some quick lessons in "Lesser education" in America.

Had I gone to really prestigious schools throughout (elementary, middle, high, college), I Imagine I would have different stories. But, I went to public schools in a C rated district, then public college (2 year) and finally FAU (4 year, decent but nothing amazing).

so that should give you an example perhaps.. lol.

pC!



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On the other hand, maybe college is better there, although I highly doubt it. College is free here, if you qualify. People learn here, using Romania's state money, and then they leave for other countries :D

free public college would help here.. too many people stop at 12th grade. It should be K-4yrcollege in our current world.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: April 06, 2016, 05:13:23 am »
04/05/2016

Bio: Morning

sleep = 8 hours
wakeup =  2 PM
bw = 150
morning resting heart rate = didn't measure
soreness = right adductor slightly
aches = right tennis elbow slightly, right adductor
injuries = toenails wrekt
feel = good



Food

2:30 PM

- 2 x wheat bread with peanut butter
- sugarless pure green tea
- greek yogurt



Session: Afternoon

3:30 PM
- beautiful day

run 1: to bball court
- 3.72 mi in 34:49
- just relaxing

jumps:
- 15 jumps each leg
- L-SLRVJ: a bunch of 10-10'3"'s, a few 10'4"'s, a 10'5"
- R-SLRVJ: submax, just backboard touches
- left quad (VL) tightened up a few jumps in.. still jumped though.
- felt pretty good, except for the quad tightening.. i've had this before though with SLRVJ.. any time I actually jump hard, it surfaces.. need to progress slowly.

run 2: scenic route to home
- 6.34 mi in 59:06
- just relaxing.. felt great.. ran thru a bunch of busy 'shop streets' in the city.

happy about the jumps.. if I can get back to 10'9" or so, I should be able to land some lobs.

felt great jumping in my NB 5000 v2's... much better than my XC flats. I love these shoes.



Food

7 PM

- beet juice + tart cherry juice



Food

8 PM

- rice and beans with grilled chicken
- 2 x pita bread (with butter grilled onto it)
- a few black bean chips (i really like these)



Food

10 PM

- small bit of java chip ice cream
- hot mint tea



ISSUE:
- left heal started hurting around ~12 AM
- annoying



Food

4:30 AM

- big bowl of cheerios + honey + 2% milk
- grape fruit juice
- banana




left quad is tight, left heal is tender, right adductor is slightly achy, right elbow is slightly achy..

tomorrow i'll probably rest.. I enjoy these run-to-court, jump, run-back sessions ALOT.

jumping = great feeling ;f

pC!

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Scooby 2011 Journal
« on: April 06, 2016, 02:30:30 am »
Quote from: scoobychau on April 05, 2016, 03:37:11 am
160331 Out of no where... this happened. (Dunk Training on Low rim)

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuRN16Bo2sk" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuRN16Bo2sk</a>

No time to update my journal...
but still have time to train...
lucky.

really nice.. not much too critique, looks good. maybe don't look down as much? seems like you are looking down. but who knows if that would make a difference.. Personal experience: it does in running, and it did for me when I jumped. looking down is generally bad.

also like i said on facebook.. practice lobs once in a while. If you get good at them, it's a few more inches in vert via maximal effort jumps/run-ups.

pC!

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Pics, Videos, & Links / Re: STOP UR BLOOD FLOW to ur.....lol
« on: April 06, 2016, 02:27:58 am »
Quote from: scoobychau on April 06, 2016, 12:43:30 am
what do u guys thinks..
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The key points you need to know about this exercise are:

It involves restricting blood flow of a working muscle to elicit gains in size and strength.
It sounds crazy, but it works. It is also quite safe.
Blood Flow Restriction Training (BFR) is a clever way to gain strength and power using much lighter weights than regular strength training (20-40% of 1RM).

Video here:
http://www.verticaljumping.com/weird_but_effective.html

i've seen studies saying it can result in some improvements.. however, until the research is overwhelming and you see other people getting serious results from it, I wouldn't waste a second on it. It's probably best performed under supervision, for the elderly.

If it really was magical, you would see people making insane gains off of it.. Think about it, you can go much lighter in the weight room, which means you can train far more frequently in the weight room with less fatigue (cns/muscular etc). That's a recipe for success. Unfortunately there isn't any magic yet, other than PED abuse.

Always remember that the s&c world loves to show you "new things". It's the "new shiny fancy thing" effect. In our world, that tricks/entices 90+% (numbers out of my ass but.. come on) of the population. Someone should create an s&c youtube channel which shows you new lifts/exercises every week, but they are really the same old money exercises shot from different angles & performed with different color shorts.  :trollface:

pc!!



Quote from: tooslow on April 06, 2016, 12:52:29 am
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It sounds weird,  but sit on your hands until they fall asleep, then do a set of hammer curls.  The hypoxia stemming from the restricted plasma flow will magnify the hypertrophic response of every repetition you perform.

 Use around 50% of your normal working weight, and go SLOW.  Make sure and film it, post here when you are done so I can  be sure form is correct.  If you do it wrong its worthless.

*copied and pasted from post by LanceSTS

LMFAO. nice find!

 :highfive:

He should have advocated 100% blood flow restriction for no less than 5 minutes while performing as many 10RM reps as you can within those 5 minutes. Actually no, even as a joke that's deadly. HEH!

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Basketball / Re: Will the Golden State Warriors lose in the 2015-2016 regular season?
« on: April 06, 2016, 01:24:51 am »
unexpected loss against the t-wolves.

going to be hard for GSW to get this record. They still have the spurs twice and they are 68-9.

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Basketball / Re: Will the Golden State Warriors lose in the 2015-2016 regular season?
« on: April 06, 2016, 01:09:34 am »
Quote from: maxent on April 05, 2016, 04:48:50 am
http://i.imgur.com/8xKdMcm.gifv

FRom tonight ^

hah sick! practicing those < 0.4s game winners.






GSW and MINN in OT right now.. tough game. can GSW get this bulls record??

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Basketball / Re: A WHOLE BUNCH OF DUNKS AND SHIT.
« on: April 06, 2016, 12:28:26 am »
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqkZcSToPEk" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqkZcSToPEk</a>

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