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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Age vs Vertical
« on: May 10, 2017, 04:16:34 am »
A lot of work and life plus a one-week business trip derailed me. Back at it.

9 May 2017

Bodyweight@session : ~85,5kg
Soreness : none
Injuries/aches : none

ATG PAUSED SQUAT:
5@20kg
5@30kg
5@40kg
5@50kg
5@60kg
5@70kg
-Nice and easy, very solid.

PAUSED BENCH PRESS:
5@20kg
5@30kg
5@40kg
5@50kg
5@60kg
-Never did paused bench > 50kg. Was planning to do just normal reps at top set, but surprise, got it nice and easy. This is some kind of lame  :personal-record:

DEAD-HANG PULLUPS:
7@BW
6@BW
6@BW
6@BW
6@BW
-Never done 5 sets in dead hang pullups i think,  so 31 reps total are another lame  :personal-record:

Not bad at all for a full 3 weeks off, expected much worse.

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Article & Video Discussion / Re: posture issues and athletic performance
« on: May 10, 2017, 04:06:13 am »
I probably easily outscore all of you in bad posture. Kyphotic , head forward, awkward body ( very long arms/legs/neck , small torso, big head ) , sitting all day in front of a computer for 15 years now. I have never done anything to fix it, just learned to live with it. FWIW, i think that developing a big(-ish) back kinda helped, makes me want to not have it rounded with some sort of not-making-sense way, so i have noticed the last couple of years i naturally tend to be straighter. Will be watching this thread closely...

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: May 03, 2017, 05:33:52 am »
my condolences too to you and your family Andrew. i feel you, my mom had to deal with breast cancer this year, luckily she found it early so she got away with operation / chemo / rays.
As we say here, may you all live long to remember her.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism (day #3/345) -- A beast in a year
« on: April 24, 2017, 03:37:43 am »
Quote from: maxent on April 23, 2017, 08:22:04 pm
So um, if you had to add 40kg to your paused squat workset, how wud you do it? Asking for a friend.. haha.

Easy answer:
http://www.adarq.org/progress-journals-experimental-routines/kingfish/

And that is not playing smartass, kingfish has shown how extremely simple it is to do it. No rocket science at all.
-Eat too make gains. Not cutting, not bulking, not re-compositioning... just fueling the machine you want to make work good.
-Get a shitload of protein and creatin in your body daily.
-Squat volumes. KF didn't wake up one morning with a 475lbs paused squat. He got it up there with 5x8 if i remember well. And those 8s were not really eights, they looked more like 8x1 clusters.
-Repeat with inhuman motivation and dedication till kingdom comes.
-Kingdom does come.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Age vs Vertical
« on: April 21, 2017, 06:13:29 am »
20 April 2017

Bodyweight@session : ???
Soreness : none
Injuries/aches : none

1½ hours half court basketball.
Again, mediocre endurance , very good physical game/strength.
But this time I was able to get some jumps in after a nice pick-up warmup: Shocked!!! Extremely smooth and efficient plant/takeoff in all attempts, somehow able to transfer power from the gather to the toes, like back in the good old days. Easy 10'4'' ( 29'' ) dropsteps, easy 10'5'' ( 30'' ) off all approaches and a couple of 10'6'' off 1-2 steps. 10'6''!!!! 31'' !!!!!!! After not having jumped for idk, 6, 8 months??? WTF!!!
:wowthatwasnutswtf: :ibjumping: :highfive: :headbang:  :motherofgod:  :almostascoolasnyancat:

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Age vs Vertical
« on: April 18, 2017, 04:26:19 pm »
18 April 2017

Bodyweight@session : ~85kg
Soreness : none
Injuries/aches : none

ATG PAUSED SQUAT:
4@85kg ( +1 rep ) , season best!
8@70kg ( +1 rep ) , season best!
8@70kg ( +1 rep ) , season best!
-Got it, no missed reps at top set which was exactly equat to BW, win!
Did 8s instead of 7s at the other sets , just because i could.

BENCH PRESS:
5@72,5kg ( +2,5 kg )
4@72,5kg ( +2,5 kg ) , ( -1 rep )
4@72,5kg ( +2,5 kg ) , ( -1 rep )
15@57,5kg ( +2,5 kg ) , ( -3 reps ) , ties :personal-record:
-Also, all time 3xF  :personal-record: , previous was 4-4-4@72,5.
Awesomeness!

DEAD-HANG PULLUPS:
8@BW+5kg ties :personal-record:
7@BW+5kg ( +1 rep )
6@BW+5kg
10@BW ( +1 rep ) , ties  :personal-record:
-Also, weighted 3-sets-total-reps  :personal-record:

PAUSED STANDING CALF RAISE MACHINE:
15@BW+70kg
15@BW+70kg
15@BW+70kg ( +3 reps )
-Season best. Probably  :personal-record: for paused.

Guess those 4 Easter days of good rest and food made some possitive impact, lol, i'll take it!

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Age vs Vertical
« on: April 14, 2017, 06:12:21 am »
13 April 2017

Bodyweight@session : ~86kg
Soreness : Little bit of everything, mostly traps.
Injuries/aches : none

SQUAT:
10@20kg ( -5 kg )
7@40kg ( -5 kg )
5@60kg ( -5 kg )
3@70kg ( -5 kg )
3@80kg ( -5 kg )
3@90kg ( -5 kg )
1+2x½@100kg ( extra set ) , season best!
20@60kg ( -5 kg ) , ( +2 reps )
-Decided to change ramping and up the top weight to the milestone-ish 100kg.
Got it at first rep but missed depth on the other two. I'll take it. Counted wrong on the back-off, wanted to use 70. Duh!

DIPS:
8@BW+5kg
8@BW+5kg
7@BW+5kg
11@BW

DEAD HANG CHINUPS:
7@BW+5kg ( -1 rep )
7@BW+5kg
6@BW+5kg
9@BW  ( +1 rep )

PAUSED SEATED CALF RAISE MACHINE:
15@70kg
14@70kg ( -1 rep )
13@70kg ( +1 rep )

Missed this workout too last week so was rusty. Also overall tired from this being the third consecutive day of lifting.
All in all, not bad. Off for Easter now, next workout = 19 April.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« 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:

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Age vs Vertical
« on: April 13, 2017, 06:35:43 am »
^Thanks! Love progressing the pullups/chinups. One more rep per session, or even per 2 sessions, still amasses huge progress over a year.

12 April 2017

Bodyweight@session : ~85,5kg
Soreness : chest, lats, quads, glutes, calves, all minor
Injuries/aches : none

RDL:
8@90kg
8@90kg
8@90kg

SEATED NEUTRAL GRIP DB OHP:
12@18kg each hand
12@18kg each hand
12@18kg each hand

BICEPS Z-BAR CURL:
12@30kg
12@30kg
12@30kg

TRICEPS PUSH DOWN:
12@140lbs
12@140lbs
12@140lbs

DB SHRUGS:
12@22kg each hand ( +2 kg per hand ) , ( -3 reps )
12@22kg each hand ( +2 kg per hand ) , ( -3 reps )
12@22kg each hand  ( +2 kg per hand ) , ( -3 reps )

-Skipped/missed this workout last week so I was rusty. Got all reps at the same loads, but they did fill a bit harder. Must stay at same loads next week too.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Age vs Vertical
« on: April 12, 2017, 05:36:39 am »
11 April 2017

Bodyweight@session : ~85kg
Soreness : none
Injuries/aches : none

ATG PAUSED SQUAT:
3@85kg ( +2,5 kg) , ( -1 rep )
7@70kg
7@70kg
-Ah, missed the count, wanted to redo last time weights and i thought it was 85. That explains why it felt so hard and why i missed a rep. 7s were strong again.

BENCH PRESS:
5@70kg
5@70kg ( +1 rep )
5@70kg ( +1 rep )
18@55kg ( 1 rep ) , all time :personal-record:
-Ties 3x5 :personal-record: Was very solid too, most probably better than the PR it tied.

DEAD-HANG PULLUPS:
8@BW+5kg ( +1 rep ) :personal-record:
6@BW+5kg
6@BW+5kg
9@BW ( +1 rep )
-Great.

PAUSED STANDING CALF RAISE MACHINE:
15@BW+70kg ( +5 kg )
15@BW+70kg ( +5 kg )
12@BW+70kg ( +5 kg ) , ( -3 reps )
-Stronger than expected. Still run out of gas at last set.

Got yet another work&life attack. It's gonna get worse too , April doesn't look optimistic training-wise.
However, performance was awesome, looks like the 1 week break worked more as needed rest than as de-training. Great!

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: April 07, 2017, 06:01:25 am »
Quote from: adarqui on April 07, 2017, 05:51:51 am

walk/run/jump:
- felt decent, surprisingly
- L-SLRVJ: 2 x ~10'7"'s, nice  :ibjumping:
-- tried hard on a few jumps, and listened to some music.. wanted to see where i'm at with some more intense jumps.


 :wowthatwasnutswtf: :headbang: :highfive: :ibjumping: :ibjumping: :ibjumping:

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Age vs Vertical
« on: April 07, 2017, 05:55:16 am »
6 April 2017

Bodyweight@session : ???
Soreness : none
Injuries/aches : none

1½ hours full court basketball.
Rather mediocre endurance and vert. Good to very good physical game/strength. Extremely tiring overall.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Age vs Vertical
« on: April 05, 2017, 05:57:51 am »
4 April 2017

Bodyweight@session : ~86kg
Soreness : none
Injuries/aches : none

ATG PAUSED SQUAT:
4@82,5kg ( +2,5 kg)
7@70kg
7@70kg
-Love the progress here. Approaching legit BW ATG paused for reps with the confidence to do them outside the cage is a MAJOR milestone for me.
Also, finally the 70kg sets felt easier, i can add weight next time.

BENCH PRESS:
5@70kg ( +2,5 kg )
4@70kg ( +2,5 kg ) , ( -1 rep )
4@70kg ( +2,5 kg ) , ( -1 rep )
18@55kg ( +2,5 kg ) , ties  :personal-record:
-Constant progress. Tied high-rep PR for 55kg, next one is 15@57,5

DEAD-HANG PULLUPS:
7@BW+5kg
6@BW+5kg
6@BW+5kg
8@BW
-Couldn't add reps this time. However they felt better/ more solid.

PAUSED STANDING CALF RAISE MACHINE:
15@BW+65kg
15@BW+65kg
15@BW+65kg  ( +1 rep )
-Finally got my 3x15 here. First 2 sets were easy too, last one burnout. Up to 70 next time.

Great day, again, such an awesome feeling!

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Age vs Vertical
« on: April 01, 2017, 03:27:23 pm »
1 April 2017

Bodyweight@session : ~85,25kg
Soreness : none
Injuries/aches : none

SQUAT:
10@25kg ( +2,5 kg )
7@45kg ( +2,5 kg )
5@65kg ( +2,5 kg )
3@75kg ( +2,5 kg )
3@85kg ( +2,5 kg )
3@95kg ( +2,5 kg ) , season best!
18@65kg ( +2,5 kg ) , high rep season best!
-Awesomeness!

DIPS:
8@BW+5kg ( +1 rep )
8@BW+5kg ( +1 rep )
7@BW+5kg
11@BW  ( +1 rep )
-Very good, probably PR-ish as a total for weighted but too bored to check.

DEAD HANG CHINUPS:
8@BW+5kg ( +1 rep )
7@BW+5kg ( +1 rep )
6@BW+5kg
8@BW
-Frustrated that i barely got 8@BW while i did 8 weighted in my first set. Still this has to be PR-ish total too so can't complain.

PAUSED SEATED CALF RAISE MACHINE:
15@70kg
15@70kg ( +2 reps )
12@70kg
-Good.

Feeling strong lately, like back on the train for good, love it.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Age vs Vertical
« on: March 31, 2017, 04:48:12 am »
30 March 2017

Bodyweight@session : ~85kg
Soreness : anterior deltoids, chest, lats, all minimal
Injuries/aches : none

RDL:
8@90kg ( +5 kg )
8@90kg ( +5 kg )
8@90kg ( +5 kg )
-Aaaaand i dumped hook grip, back to mixed. Instant results, 90 was much easier than 85.

SEATED NEUTRAL GRIP DB OHP:
12@18kg each hand ( +2 kg per hand )
12@18kg each hand ( +2 kg per hand )
12@18kg each hand ( +2 kg per hand )

BICEPS Z-BAR CURL:
12@30kg
12@30kg
12@30kg ( +2 reps )

TRICEPS PUSH DOWN:
12@140lbs
12@140lbs
12@140lbs

DB SHRUGS:
15@20kg each hand ( +3 reps )
15@20kg each hand ( +3 reps )
15@20kg each hand ( +3 reps )

Strong day.

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