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lmfao! how will leaning up save you money on clothes at walmart? or am i confused.

clue me in!

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Got within two inches of the rim on a single leg running jump today (6'11 reach in shoes)!
34-35"  :personal-record: for my single leg jump! My previous PR was 30" prior to my surgery.

sick! should feel great to be back and better than before.

pc!

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News, Announcements, & Suggestions / Re: table function?
« on: February 22, 2016, 03:27:23 pm »
Hm yea that link works! Looking at all those tags makes me realize it'll be pretty cumbersome to use though. Sometimes I do more sets on an exercise so copying the same table isn't enough. I may have to edit and it'll get annoying.

Now if the tab key worked... that would pretty much solve everything neatly. Make it like a 5 space tab or something. Boom everything aligns.



i'll paste an excel table though when im not too lazy  :huh:

ya just paste it directly so I can check it out.. wrap it in [ code ] [ /code ] bbcode. that usually preserves everything properly.

pc

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News, Announcements, & Suggestions / Re: table function?
« on: February 22, 2016, 01:13:18 pm »
Is there a way to line up text perfectly in a comment? Basically a table without table borders.

if this could be implemented it would make organizing logs very easy. especially if i decide to log my food and macro intake.

sure i could use excel and then post a screenshot, but it's a lot easier to have the format done just once in a post and then quote it and edit the numbers for the next post

you mean like this? http://wiki.simplemachines.org/smf/Table

unfortunately we're still using SMF, otherwise i'd just add a feature to this thing.. (some day :( ). if that table is ok, we can write a quick script to take a paste from excel and convert it into that table format. if you want me to do that let me know, just send me an example paste. Might need to paste it as csv though.. if copying from excel results in it pasting tabs/csv, then we can easily convert that into the bbcode table format.

pc!

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800m+ Running and/or Conditioning / Re: The Haile Gebrselassie Thread
« on: February 22, 2016, 12:14:10 pm »
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6Q_TIuf_ZI" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6Q_TIuf_ZI</a>

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoUre7AcVJ8" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoUre7AcVJ8</a>

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsHUzGecS1Q" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsHUzGecS1Q</a>

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSp1r1QhUSY" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSp1r1QhUSY</a>

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800m+ Running and/or Conditioning / Re: The Haile Gebrselassie Thread
« on: February 22, 2016, 12:05:20 pm »
i like what he says about his left arm, at the end.. he mentions how his left arm is stiff when he runs but his right arm is fine, he then says "you know why? holding books when I ran to school as a kid" (something like that).

hah.

also nice little demo of how you should "sound" when you hit the ground.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ab3ZZN3zV9A" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ab3ZZN3zV9A</a>

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800m+ Running and/or Conditioning / The Haile Gebrselassie Thread
« on: February 22, 2016, 12:04:13 pm »
Haile Gebrselassie

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: February 22, 2016, 11:47:13 am »
sucks. but on the bright side you can dedicate more energy to calisthenics for a while.

ya definitely. i've been thinking of doing more uptempo (minimal rest) basic calisthenic + light lower body workouts.. eventually mixing in jump rope to bring back some impacts. then finally slowly bring back running once all of that stuff feels strong.

This month was basically supposed to be a shift from "slow running" to more speed/hill work, lower bodyweight strength, jump rope, and long slow running. So there are fortunately still some elements I can improve while nursing this ham tendon/calf back to health.

The real question I ask myself is how I never (to my knowledge) re-injured this hamstring-tendon when I was dunking years back. I mean I often felt it and had to be careful sometimes. It was definitely on my mind. But I never actually re-injured it like i've done now. Perhaps all of the lower body strength training just kept my hamstring & ham tendon strong enough not to blow up.

pc!

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imho, steady paced runs (same pace @ 30-60 min) will give you the most benefit right now. focusing more on a relaxed pace for longer durations will have the most impact on your resting HR and such too.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: February 22, 2016, 11:30:24 am »
I hardly even dunk because my knees can't take pounding but today I trained a dunker along with a football player.  Having never trained a pro-dunker before was eye-opening, a local guy whose internet name is young-hollywood came to one of our sessions to learn about speed and rehab and just seeing him jump was so motivating.  I was always skeptical of internet dunkers and videos and imagined a lot of camera artistry and exaggerations about height... But this guy was no more than 5'11 and had a legitimate 50'' two footed jump.  Even though I didn't plan to jump I was motivated to jump at the vertec and got some 11' 3-step vertec touches in for the first time I can remember.  That of course is slightly below the guys standing vertical.  Lol.

what?  :wowthatwasnutswtf:

must have been sick watching haneef jump. he's such a freak. he also has some of the cleanest/most effortless ~50's i've seen from a dunker.



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The motivation a group of positive athletes has on each other really is helpful, you could unlock gains you don't know exist with the right environment - far more than what PEDs can give you.

ya environment means so much. it's not discussed enough in s&c.

if you train alone, you really need to figure out how to be competitive with your "self". it's much more of a mental war IMHO.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: February 21, 2016, 09:44:26 pm »
02/21/2016

Bio: Morning

sleep = 7 hr
wakeup = 6 AM
bw = 154 lb.
morning resting heart rate = didn't measure
soreness = hamstrings very slightly
aches = left hamstring tendon slightly (old injury, inflamed)
injuries = toenails wrekt, right big toe blister (it's big lmfao)
feel = good



Food

6:15 AM

- 1 x orange juice
- 1 x legit sugarless green tea
- 1 x greek yogurt
- 1 x biscotti



Session: Morning

7 AM

walk to track: ~4 mi
- some light sprints mixed in
- felt great

track:
- http://www.adarq.org/progress-journals-experimental-routines/adarq's-journal/msg115899/#msg115899
- long story short, calf dead

walk home: ~4 mi
- left calf/hamstring wrecked



iced hamstring/calf quite a bit when I got home



Food

11 AM

- 6 x scrambled eggs with shredded mozzarella
- 1 x wheat toast with peanut butter
- 2 x pickles
- 1 x water with lemon
- a few salt and vinegar chips



Food

- bunch of water with lemon throughout the day



Food

8 PM

- bowl of pasta
- flan
- 1 x greek yogurt
- decent amount of pistachios



Session: Stretching

throughout the day and after 8 PM

- lots of hamstring, quad, and adductor stretching
- surprisingly loose (adductors/quads)
- really good hamstring stretches, including standing hamstring (touch floor stretch), got palms to floor and held it for a while.. felt good after.



pc

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: February 21, 2016, 02:14:35 pm »
well.. time to shut down running for a week or two. my left calf & hamstring / hamstring tendon are jacked up.

woke up at 6 AM today, felt great. ate, got out of the house around 7. Did several warmup  runs/sprints on the way to the track. Felt really good but did feel my hamstring tendon slightly; it came and went. So that warmup was ~4 mi, in exactly an hour. I'm wondering if that 1 hour of walking with a few light sprints mixed in, was enough to cause my hamstring/calf to fatigue/tighten... if so, very odd. I mean I felt fine, 1 hour of "travel" doesn't bother me at all.

anyway, began track workout, this time starting with a slow 400 instead of fast.. so alternating slow/fast/slow/fast/... I figured the slow run would be good to gauge my hamstring/calf. Interestingly, on the first slow lap, I felt my left calf tightening.. and this is using my simple heel->toe form that I can run forever on. It got progressively worse each lap until finally I ran really slow for 1 mile (mile 4) to see if it would go away, and it didn't. So I stopped, which i'm really glad I did because my calf/hamstring might have exploded had I continued.

lame  :raging:

the sad thing is, I was running good and I was holding back quite a bit, worrying about my calf.

First fast 400m was ~5:25 (~11 mph) pace. I think it was ~1:20 for that lap.

mile splits (min/mi): today vs last week
- mile 1: 6:11 vs 6:50
- mile 2: 6:46 vs 7:12
- mile 3: 7:08 vs 7:41
- mile 4: 8:25 vs 8:17
- mile 5:         vs 8:27

being wrecked, alternating slow/fast 400's, still ran a 21:08 5k... that's kind of cool.  :wowthatwasnutswtf:

had I been able to run without worrying about my calf, was going to be a sick workout.. really sucks.

so anyway, it's definitely turned into a legit issue so.. going to shut down running for a week or two unfortunately.

the ~4 mi walk home was pretty brutal.. I couldn't run, even if I had to, to survive. I felt really injured. Calf/hamstring were very painful/jacked up. I feel alot better now, but stretching is painful, so not going to stretch if I feel any pain.

 :raging: :raging: :raging: :raging: :raging:



pc

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Mixed Martial Arts / Re: The Conor McGregor Thread
« on: February 21, 2016, 01:55:20 pm »
who would you like connor to face next, is there someone who you think may pose a threat or an opponent which would be a super fight, like may/pac in his current division or other division.

well the RDS (rafael dos santos) fight is intriguing. I am pretty excited about that fight. Conor is coming up from his 145 title, to 155.. no preparation fights. He's just going straight for the title at 155. That's ridiculous; and another reason why people love him. I'd just like to see him continue what he's doing; dominating a division then moving up in weight. If he's able to win 155, then maybe 170, and perhaps 185.. that'd be one of the craziest accomplishments in MMA history. That's what he wants to try and do soo.. real excited about Conor, he's a beast.

pc!

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Mixed Martial Arts / Re: The Conor McGregor Thread
« on: February 21, 2016, 11:56:06 am »
looking bigger

edit: he enjoyed the pacquiao/mayweather jr fight.. nice. he's intelligent when it comes to the fight game.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FOGVUX9W_M" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FOGVUX9W_M</a>

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Mixed Martial Arts / Re: The Conor McGregor Thread
« on: February 21, 2016, 11:55:56 am »
I am hearing a lot about him recently and I am wondering, what has made his so famous so quickly that he is even targetting may vs pac ppv / gate revenue records.

his confidence & skill. he's an elite striker for mma, excellent timing/counters/aggression. he's basically predicted exactly how his past ~5-6 fights would end (to the round and how they will be defeated). He's just an animal. He's also attempting something you see in boxing, dominate a division and then move up in weight, attempt to dominate a new division. He's talking about owning 155 then moving up to 170. it's crazy.. you don't see that in mma.

pc!

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