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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: April 04, 2017, 10:00:10 am »
Quote from: LBSS on April 04, 2017, 03:49:05 am
Quote from: maxent on April 04, 2017, 03:23:39 am
Quote from: LBSS on April 04, 2017, 12:43:48 am
a suggestion, not a new one: stop thinking about your bodyweight at all. no more targets. focus on being the basketball player you want to be, and eating nutritious food, and let the rest flow from that.

I'm not thinking about bodyweight. 73kg corresponds to the leanest ive been in a while, nothing more nothign less. It's the bf% at 73kg i was/am referring to..

then i amend my suggestion to: stop thinking about your bf%.

idk. i dont have the motivation rn to do a 14 day PSMF w/ 24hr fasting on 1MAD which wud get me to 73kg or so. But supposing i did that, then i'd have another 3kg to diet off to be 10%bf.  Which is prob another 21 days of similar hardcore dieting. Why would i accept my 15-20% bf rn as something to live with as an acceptable state of affairs? It's just a recipe for great mediocrity. I will finish the job, i just dont know when, life is about to get real busy until mid june so yah, fuck it. I fucked up. And i might not get another chance which is what's saddening.

i dont really have a choice tho, if i focus on lifts or dunking or conditioning or whatever - it just means im delaying the inevitable cut, and when i get around to doing that cut any gains gained from those other phases wud vanish, it's pointles,s surely you can undrestand that

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: April 04, 2017, 09:50:40 am »
how cud i forget to mention. something in my jumpshot form clicked today, i was using a wrist cocked action which was giving me great accuracy (around 90%) .. so if this is a permenant improvement i might not be a complete shit bball player after all.

One thing i need to get right this year is tapering off the lifting/weight vest/rest of training closer to comp. last comp a year ago, i was completely fatigued :( and instead of being super athletic i was just okay. stupid weight vest. i wore it too much in hindsight. no one ever told me you're supposed to take it off when peaking for something? anyway this time i'll be conservative.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / chasing athleticism (day #3/13) -- damage control alt delete
« on: April 04, 2017, 09:47:54 am »
Bodyweight: 77.8kg
Activity: 8000+ (good!)

Training today. I look like shit, smh, shud have accepted 73.0kg as a new set point but i was unsatisfied with it and now im nowhere near it anymore either :(
BS 5x110, 2x6x90(paused)
Dunks & shooting around
Hill sprints 2x6

Notes:
Meh, wasnt really up for anything good trainign wise but i punched in the bare min. Got some dunks down on hardcourt but it wasnt the higher rim so idk if it's worth anything. I shud prob test on a high rim next time to see where im at. Also didnt have weighed vest to use for sprints, but that's okay cos it was the first time doing them since last yr.
Really wish i cud eat everything to recover and train better but instead of i have to content with tasteless chicken breast lol. Fucking dickhead.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: April 04, 2017, 03:23:39 am »
Quote from: LBSS on April 04, 2017, 12:43:48 am
a suggestion, not a new one: stop thinking about your bodyweight at all. no more targets. focus on being the basketball player you want to be, and eating nutritious food, and let the rest flow from that.

I'm not thinking about bodyweight. 73kg corresponds to the leanest ive been in a while, nothing more nothign less. It's the bf% at 73kg i was/am referring to..

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / chasing athleticism (day #3/13) -- damage control alt delete
« on: April 03, 2017, 11:39:29 pm »
Bodyweight: 77.8kg
Activity:

Training today. I look like shit, smh, shud have accepted 73.0kg as a new set point but i was unsatisfied with it and now im nowhere near it anymore either :(

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: April 03, 2017, 11:26:28 pm »
Quote from: Mutumbo000 on April 03, 2017, 05:31:12 pm
Quote from: maxent on April 02, 2017, 11:40:58 pm
So acknowledging that sports performance is just as much about how you think & perceive yourself and the game as it is about physical ability, i think i'd like to play at my heaviest bodyweight this time around, just for a change. I usually go super light and then get bodied around, sure it makes (warmup) dunking a piece of cake but it's not like that ever amounted to a game dunk. In reality, im more likely to dunk in-game when feeling powerful & agressive at a heavier bw.

My idea is to go on the creatine for the comp. Also ima be carbed up for once. But the thing which worries me right now is whether i have enough fitness. I havent been keeping up with the cardio .. and im not sure i have enough time to fix that. Sigh. It really sucks that i keep making the same mistake in preparing, just neglecting cardio. In hindsight i shud really be devoting an entire training block to building up my conditioning to a high level off-season, and hten maintaining that year-round. But ive never been strong enough or athletic enough to warrant changing focus away from those things towards improved conditioning.

Maybe a leanish morning weight of 77.5kg which equates to 80kg game time would be a good place to aim for by day 13?

Even moreso in a game like basketball, which is about skill. The best way to get your fitness up is by playing as many basketball games as you can preferably organised games, but even pick up is better than just going on a treadmill or whatever for cardio.

ideally it would be both games + practice + pickup + cardio. but season ended 2 wks ago in my league and ive been lucky to get a game last wk but not sure if i will this one and next. will try to arrange 1v1 against some good players, maybe even 1v2; 21 games, that will help fitness. failing that it has to come from the treadmill and sprint intevals etc :/

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: April 02, 2017, 11:40:58 pm »
So acknowledging that sports performance is just as much about how you think & perceive yourself and the game as it is about physical ability, i think i'd like to play at my heaviest bodyweight this time around, just for a change. I usually go super light and then get bodied around, sure it makes (warmup) dunking a piece of cake but it's not like that ever amounted to a game dunk. In reality, im more likely to dunk in-game when feeling powerful & agressive at a heavier bw.

My idea is to go on the creatine for the comp. Also ima be carbed up for once. But the thing which worries me right now is whether i have enough fitness. I havent been keeping up with the cardio .. and im not sure i have enough time to fix that. Sigh. It really sucks that i keep making the same mistake in preparing, just neglecting cardio. In hindsight i shud really be devoting an entire training block to building up my conditioning to a high level off-season, and hten maintaining that year-round. But ive never been strong enough or athletic enough to warrant changing focus away from those things towards improved conditioning.

Maybe a leanish morning weight of 77.5kg which equates to 80kg game time would be a good place to aim for by day 13?

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / chasing athleticism (day #2/13) -- damage control alt delete
« on: April 02, 2017, 11:05:13 pm »
BW: 78.2kg (87.4kg w/ vest)
Activity:

Gna try rest today but hopefully I can swing a game to play tmr. Plus lifting. The sprints induced leg (mainly quads) soreness finally seems to have subsided, nice.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: April 02, 2017, 06:04:28 am »
Quote from: Mutumbo000 on April 02, 2017, 01:03:31 am
Quote from: maxent on April 01, 2017, 10:08:39 pm
BW: 79.9kg

so i gained 7kg in 7 days. Im a disgrace. lol

LOL!

Don't worry bro most of it is probably just water weight. My weight can fluctuate 2-3kg in a day depending on the time of the day, how much I've eaten, and how much I've sweated etc.

You're right. Ive been pissing all day, woke up twice in the late morning to go to the bathroom. I reckon ive gained a decent amount of fat too though. Maybe 2-3kg :/ what really perplexes me is last saturday i had a better workout after 2 weeks of hardcore dieting (24hr fasting, 1 meal a day, zero carb, zero fat) than i did this saturday after a whole week of icecream! it's like my body struggled to adjust to increased calories and carbs. To be fair a lot of those carbs were sugar so maybe more toxic than if i had got them from oatmeal or something. Still, what's done is done haha.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism (day #1/13) -- damage control alt delete
« on: April 01, 2017, 10:08:39 pm »
BW: 79.9kg

so i gained 7kg in 7 days. Im a disgrace. lol
BP 1x90(LPR), 6x77.5(LPR), 5x76, 6x70
Chinup 3x6xbw

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: April 01, 2017, 11:52:47 am »
BW: ?
Activity: 8600

BS 3x3x117.5, 2x117.5, 1x117.5
Back Xtn 12x50(PR), 2x8x50, 15x25

ate way too much, way too much.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: March 31, 2017, 01:01:20 am »
BW: 78.2kg

Why are my abs so sore today though. Dunking / sprinting? I also did some bounds just to see if i could do them painfree and I could. Interesting.. !

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: March 30, 2017, 01:50:00 pm »
Ha! I got my first dunks in 6 months. Funny thing is i'm pretty much in the same place I was prior to injury. I have zero movement efficiency for jumping .. havent done jumping at all (esp off 2 legs) since sept. I put it down to squatting. I shud never have doubted it but getting my squat ratio up is prob the only thing which will improve my vertical. Oh well, no more self doubt.. got work to do.

Also did some sprints, 6x50m max effort, then finished with 6x100m(20s each) intervals with 20s rest.

So the training recipe is easy frm here, get leaner, get stronger, get fitter and practice dunking and sprinting. hopefully that will be enough for some sort of peakiness to my game come easter.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: March 30, 2017, 01:55:03 am »
Having this idea of trying to have a dunk session but my heart isn't really in it. I have had 2 dunk attempts since Sept, both of them at the end of the last 2 games i played (garbage time basically). I didnt cleanly land either but. I do think my foot is healed. I dont know if dunking will reinjure it. I also dont think i will be able to jump very high anyways since im not lean or strong or both.
I want a good project, thinking of making a compiler for my language. I haven't got any ideas for languages yet tho .. so idk, but i just want something to hack on this weekend and the next couple of weeks.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / chasing athleticism -- a journey to the bottom (1/14)
« on: March 28, 2017, 10:43:08 pm »
Bodyweight: 77.5kg (yikes)
Activity:

Legs feel fresher but im starting to look pretty sloppy again, arresting the decline. I find my memory was failing me as well which was as interesting, perhaps my brain functions better off on low carbing, idk. For example I had a face in mind (that i came across recently) and I couldnt think where I know it from. Which wasnt the first instance of such a failing. I'd drive to the shops and start wondering why I was ther and what i was supposed to get. Weird.

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