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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / chasing athleticism (day #3/345) -- A beast in a year
« on: April 23, 2017, 08:22:04 pm »
Bodyweight: 79.1kg (lol)
Activity: 10.4K

Yesterday was one of those days which changes everything. Playing pickup with my mate was a game changer. He's 6'6" about 115kg and he blocked the shit out of me on a drive from behind, aka lebron james. I have work to do. Want to be a lean 85-90kg playing against him and holding my own. So um, if you had to add 40kg to your paused squat workset, how wud you do it? Asking for a friend.. haha.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / chasing athleticism (day #2/345) -- A beast in a year
« on: April 22, 2017, 11:45:45 pm »
Bodyweight: 78.5kg
Activity: 13.3k (PR; oops)

Kinda sore in the posterior chain as expected... but i have to do upper body lifts then go down for some pickup. Wud rather rest but this is a social thing so ima do it.
BP 1x90
Bball pickup (pretty high level effort ..)
BP 3x5x80(LPR), 5x77.5
WCU 4x5x90 (ish; used +10kg vest so idk)
Did you guys see the vids then? I took it down before sleeping so idk if you did.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: April 22, 2017, 10:56:17 am »
Quote from: acole14 on April 22, 2017, 10:39:21 am
Can you just post that vid here? Don't have IG.

cud do but then i gotta hide it after and it's just a hassle. arent we all on insta these days? i only started using it when i saw andrew, gukl, todday and coges use it. but will do.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / chasing athleticism (day #1/345) -- A beast in a year
« on: April 22, 2017, 05:30:20 am »
Bodyweight: 79kg
Activity: 9k
Nutrition: clean
So a bit of a background, this is effectively where I will start to eat and train like KF, day in day out discipline with an eye for long term gains. Roughly a calendar year til next Easter. Will do daily weighings and logging of activity, maybe even start charting it (not essential but i could do a graph in my sig.). I have a 36" vert to start (vid src/proof: @maxentr0py) but 42" is what I want by day 345.
Training
BS 2x120(paused;=PR), 3x120(paused; PR), 2x120(paused), 3x3x120
Back Xtn 3x12x60(PR; 2x25kg+10kg vest)
Sprints 6x150m (PR; new ex)

Notes:
Didnt squat at home, renovations rendered gym unavailable. Wasnt sure if id be able to do a decent workout at the gym cos they dont have a powercage and i am not confident squatting out of the rack. But, i did, and i got some decent sets in. I wanted a triple PR to start with and racked it at 2 cos of gym dickheads either side of me threw me off :/ Then did a triple the following set when I had a better vibe. And another paused double. Finished it with some unpaused sets. Then went to the courts to do some jumps, wasnt happening, came home.
Ok, fk it, im commiting to sprinting every workout. Hill sprints if I cant be fucked, submax otherwise and ME at least once a week.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: April 20, 2017, 01:20:04 am »
Yep, have to make the task as easy as possible. Testing my willpower constantly is not a good way to tip things in my favour. Success can happen, it just becomes less and less unlikely. I'm better off being 100% strict and clean than trying to balance conflicting goals. But this is only temporary, when im done cutting (WHEN??) I wont have to deal with this shit b/c I wont even crave this stuff anymore. Will start over on sunday. I think i have found that to be the best day to do it after volume saturday.

Thinking of switching my language over from C to Rust, mainly cos I started using a higher level language (Racket) for implementation because I was having trouble getting correctness leave alone grappling with the C induced issues of memory management etc. But having got it correct in Racket now I was gna go back to reimplement in C - just realised I'd miss closures, and looked into it and Rust has them so I can use them instead of trying to do without them in C. I'm just such a bad programmer that the right choice of language makes the difference between getting shit done and reasonably ok, and not ..

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: April 19, 2017, 09:26:52 pm »
Quote from: Coges on April 19, 2017, 07:15:36 pm
Quote from: maxent on April 19, 2017, 11:52:54 am
Haha, theres just too many different options, i can never risk trying something different that might not be as good as one of my favs. Would like to try the coles ones though. The Harry's option was actually okay, i had it tonight. I dont think it displaces Connoisseurs but it can do the job. The only thing which turned me of was reading the ingredients list and it mention some glucose syrup (corn), eh, why not just real food man. smh.

It's definitely a slippery slope. I'm amazed I managed to avoid buying any talking about it this much.

A lot of Aus foods have largely avoided the corn syrup in the past but I've noticed it more and more which is just shocking.

I think my initial plan of cold turkey is still the most likely to succeed. The whole moderation thing will never happen. Last night I took 4 5-htp capsules to curb my cravings to finish off the rest of the icecream supply. Better not have any around i think :/ 5htp did the trick tho, didnt crave anymore. Phew. I worked so hard to get kinda leanish, i can undo it is so easily with a few days of prolonged binging ...

on that note, i may go read the ingredients list of the Conneiseur choc brownie, if it's unnnatural enough, that will convince me to stay away. hopefully..
Possible mitigation strategies

1. increase training volume
2. start doing loads of cardio
3. stop

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: April 19, 2017, 11:52:54 am »
Haha, theres just too many different options, i can never risk trying something different that might not be as good as one of my favs. Would like to try the coles ones though. The Harry's option was actually okay, i had it tonight. I dont think it displaces Connoisseurs but it can do the job. The only thing which turned me of was reading the ingredients list and it mention some glucose syrup (corn), eh, why not just real food man. smh.

Just want to mention in passing that i have some decent hamstring soreness. RDLs seem to be doing the trick. Nice.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: April 19, 2017, 03:05:56 am »
If Connoisseur made smaller tubs (500mL) and sold them in supermarkets, I would still be okay, I would only keep one around and know it's ok to have it once a week as a refeed following volume day squats etc. But 1L is just too much. I know you can get smaller ones at petrol stations but they dont stock my fav flavour so it's not a solution, plus they're expensive. I think NQR is Vic only :/ but i'll try doing some research and see if i find an alternative.

Just saw Woolworths is doing these atm for $3.99


i might try it.. size is right, price too. but i doubt it's as good lol

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: April 19, 2017, 02:24:55 am »
Quote from: Coges on April 19, 2017, 02:13:08 am
Quote from: maxent on April 18, 2017, 10:12:24 pm
i have decided to break up with icecream, it's too hard to moderate so will just not have any from here on.

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

Man that sucks! I did the same thing and the next time I had connoisseur ice cream I couldn't believe how sweet it was. The sugar content was off the charts. I did find this stuff https://www.facebook.com/powtein/ at NQR of all places recently for $3-4 a tub. Pretty nice as a substitute.

I did that after laying off my previous goto (Streets Cookie & Cream). Used to go tubs of it at a time (2L ones). After discovering Connoisseur Chocolate Brownie, I tried the streets and no lie, i had one or two scoops and put the entire thing in the bin. It was just too sweet.  Just plain sugar, yuck. Maybe the next step in the evolution is to make my own icecream with the right macros.

Re the healthy variants, i actually have a tub sitting in the fridge but I can't bring myself to try it, mainly cos i think i will hate it and it cost $15 for a small tub. Will see if i can find your recommendation, $4 is much better..

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / chasing athleticism
« on: April 18, 2017, 10:12:24 pm »
Bodyweight: 78.5kg
Activity:

Interesting doms post reintroduction of RDLs. Erectors and abz. I do think rather than replace back extensions RDLs will compliment them nicely. Gna keep my form and rom strict and full and see where it takes me. Also explosive.

Today i will fast and PSMF most of the day but will eat around 130g of carbs at night. Just wanna recomp for now. Ate two tubs of icecream over Monday night and Tuesday morning - i have decided to break up with icecream, it's too hard to moderate so will just not have any from here on.

I dont really care about my shitty dunking -- but -- i havent got any movement efficiency for jumping rn, not having dunked regularly since something like august. Cud build it up back but i feel satisfied in knowing just squatting will maintain and improve my vertical that i dont even need to do ANY jumps at all. But ai good dunk session is actually a great conditioning workout, so thats prob a good reason to do it. I did notice yesterday on the court i was able to accelerate rapidly on drives. Seems my body is pretty athletic in that sense right now .. not sure why tho but if i can incorporate that into my drills hopefully i can maintain and build acceleration for free for when i get back into basketball proper in the summer.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: April 18, 2017, 01:11:51 pm »
Finally took the plunge and added back RDLs. First impressions were the medball felt lighter in my hand when i did some jumpshot micking with the 6kg medball. I will be adding exercises piecemeal as I go along into winter, next is prob cable rows which I find beneficial for maintaining chest position at the bottom of a squat. Cool. Also did some throws with the medball and low rim dunks tried to do a windmill with the 6 ball, landed it but idk, it doesnt look anything at all like a wmill so idk.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / chasing athleticism
« on: April 17, 2017, 10:48:06 pm »
BW: 77.4kg
Activity:

Legs finally recovered enough to feel like training. Not sure what I will emphasise tho, some thigns 'fun'. Low rim dunking with a 6 ball might be it? Maybe focus on sprinting and/or running?
 Something different. Hmm...
BS 2x117.5(PR; paused), 2x122.5(PR; 25s), 2x125(PR; 25s), 2x120
Calf Raise 15x160(LPR; new ex)
BP 6x70, 1x80, 8x60, 8x67.5
RDL 8x70(LPR), 8x100(LPR), 8x110(LPR)
Dunks and shit (~20 of them)

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: April 16, 2017, 06:56:46 am »
omg, im so hyped from that weekend. Will do a proper update at some point but right now i just cant wait to get back into training hard.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / chasing athleticism (day #13/13) -- damage control alt delete
« on: April 13, 2017, 11:01:15 pm »
Bodyweight: 76.5kg
Activity:

I kinda messed up with those weighted chinups. I know they torch my abs a lot but i did them anyway and ive had pretty sore abs to the point where it limits mobility. Feel better today than I did yesterday. Im gna try ice and rest and so on. Smash the protein and hope one more sleep gets them recovered enough for my first game tmr.

Otherwise, 76.5kg is a pretty damn perfect reading, what I may have expected and hoped for but not achieved perfectly another time. This means with some food and water in my gut im a leanish 77kg, adding clothes and shoes and maybe 79-80kg. Which is a decent weight for me where I can still play okay in the post. I dont want to spend much time in the post wrestling big dudes who have 30-40kg on me on D especially, hopefully can just play C and protect the rim and let someone else bang it out with the bigs.

Anyway, going to try real hard to limit activity to 6k today. Yesterday i messed up and broke my device's PR at 13.5k+ units. Im incorrigible...

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: April 13, 2017, 10:53:04 pm »
Quote from: vag on April 13, 2017, 06:38:26 am
Yes, 36'' vert is impressive on it's own, at your height and reach it gets... scary. Congratulations and keep it up!!!  :highfive:

Thanks vag :) Only thing scary about me is the mediocrity to athleticism ratio but i'll take it.

Quote from: Mutumbo000 on April 13, 2017, 07:51:13 am
Faaarrrrk 36 inch vert you jump higher than me now :o

Can't wait to see some trick dunks coming :headbang:

Need way more vertical reserve to do anything significant. But recently ive been thinking ive got to practice on low rims (and use size 6 ball if it helps) to get technique down before  moving onto regulation rims. It's not important right now, 40" is more critical to success than anything else but will start doing the occasional low rim session just for fun.

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