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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>

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.

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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? 

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.

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.

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 

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. 

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.

 



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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>

so SKYR - Icelandic yoghurt just started being mass marketed in the UK, I basically lived off the stuff in iceland, it's amazing. Better than Greek, really thick and great flavours. And nearly 10g protein/100g, I had no trouble polishing off a 450g tub in one go.

nice!!

i should give this a try:

http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/products/sm%C3%A1ri-organic-icelandic-yogurt-strawberry

https://www.instagram.com/p/BAzBGFlj8De/?taken-by=toshikis160j200

Japanese Clarence 

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