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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: December 19, 2016, 11:31:45 am »
Kinda excited to see how it goes specialising on push presses. I gave equal time to bench/press/push press and got nothing much out of it in return. but now i'd like to focus on PP and get a nice milestone lift like 5x5xbodyweight and 100kg for a single. Will be cool to chase a goal that i actually find attractive on upper body lifts for a change.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: December 19, 2016, 11:16:06 am »
BS 5x130, 2Fx137.5, 6x110
Push Press 5x5x70(PR)
Back Xtn 3x11x40(PR)

BW: 81kg

Notes:
So sunday i binged and didnt train. Today im back on eating clean and i trained. FML. I imagine if i put all those calories from sunday into today? I might actually grow some gains. Oh well, im a disgrace. But on the plus side, i was starting to get pretty lean, i think sunday i weighed 80.7kg or something? I really did think i could end the year at an even 80.0kg. Now i dont know. We'll see i guess.

Fuck back extensuions though. Such a limited exercise, i tried putting 40kg on my back and getting into place but the position felt so unnatural and precarious and i only later realised why. cos you cant use your hands to grab the handle if shit goes wrong. and the whole idea of doing a row and holding the bar to the chest is terrible in practice though excellent in theory, just takes too much effort to hold 40kg in the back extension bench, leave alone do reps of back xtns. i used 2x20kg plates, i guess with my weight vest that gives a max loading of 50kg with the exercise, then im moving on to other stuff, prob barbell stuff

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: December 15, 2016, 09:21:28 am »
Played a game today, wasnt planning to but it was a team mates last game with the team so i was obliged to go. I checked into the game with 4 mins to go, scored 4 points off 2nd chance rebounds i pulled down. Final score was 51-52. I cant help lose games by 1 point it seems lol. Team mates were saying why didnt i check in sooner, but i dont really like subbing off players unless someone wants to go off.. we prob win that game tho if i played more minutes. Pretty cool game.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: December 15, 2016, 01:40:06 am »
I cant figure out what happened to my erectors mass.. it's almost all but gone. it's not like my squat has suddenly disappeared, im still maintaining 130kg for reps etc. The only exercises that i havent been doing are weighted chinups and rdls .. cud they be the reason? shud really start doing them again if thats the case, i miss having bigger erectors, prob the only bodypart i had good development on. may be that i do less squatmornings these days too

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: December 14, 2016, 08:49:50 am »
BS 5x130, 6x120
Weighted Sprints 6x40m
Sprints 6x40m
BP 2x92.5(LPR), 6Fx82.5(aw man wanted 8, got 7 last week)

BW: 81.1kg (LPR)

notes:
Think i picked up a bug from airport food. or maybe im dehydrated. really hoping im not sick though. i have some goals to accomplish man cant wait for illness.. btw i got the scan back for my foot if anyone wants to see i will post it but it's pretty depressing cos they dont really know wahts going on.. and doc didnt seem to wanna go to bat for me and refer an MRI ..

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: December 12, 2016, 10:30:07 pm »
Quote from: LBSS on December 12, 2016, 10:24:51 pm
Quote from: maxent on December 12, 2016, 10:10:27 pm

tried using a bar to load the back extension but it simply does not work, cant hold it in place .. sad, really was falling in love with this exercise but it's limited in a big way by how to load it. oh well.

hold plate to chest, hold barbell in row position, get better at holding the barbell on your back. lots of options.

thanks, im ok with holding plates, my largest one is 25kg and i used it sunday. i considered i could hold 2x20kgs since the 25kg is physically thicker but i havent tried it. not sure i could pull up 2 plates into position tbh. but ideally a bar type loading would be beft cos it wud be essentially infinitely loadable. til i tried it, and i pulled up 40kg to my chest while tryna keep my elbows out of the way b/c they will hit the handles otherwise, it's almost impossible. andrew suggested a curl bar but im not sure that will make any difference really not that ive tried it but i havent got one and i dont want to unless i know it will work

i have seen the pendlay guys use the barbell in squat position but they have spotters and i obviously havent got a way to get in and out of place with a bar on the back.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: December 12, 2016, 10:11:05 pm »
Big weekend of eating, poorly, all the shittiest no nutrition food, but going to start over today

BW: 82.5kg

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: December 12, 2016, 10:10:27 pm »
Havent logged the last 2 sessions i think, oh well nothing happened. Couldnt do shit but im going to try get back on track this week. Its been rough recovering lately .. but im starting to figure out a plan to get out of this funk for a lack of a better word.

Sunday
BS 4x130, 2x137.5 (LPR)
Weighted Hill Sprint 3x6
Back Xtn 3x12x35kg (but i lost count on the last set so i might have shorted a rep, will repeat)

BW: 81.5kg (LPR)

tried using a bar to load the back extension but it simply does not work, cant hold it in place .. sad, really was falling in love with this exercise but it's limited in a big way by how to load it. oh well.

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Boxing / Greig Tonkins vs KJ
« on: December 07, 2016, 12:37:27 pm »
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIRT7lf8byw" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIRT7lf8byw</a>


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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: December 07, 2016, 05:23:32 am »
One thing which i'd like to be able to do is run the fast break well. Like leave the defender in the dust. im working on my sprints now so that shud help, in addition to getting my legs stronger and becoming fitter and in better shape. plus im not really eating enough to perform at 100% right now. Maybe if i fix my achilles, get myself into decent shape and PR my lifts/sprints and eat optimally for performance, i can run a decent fastbreak. #goals

Having said that, i dont think practicing sprints will carry over by themselves unless i actually practice running with a ball, im sure the mind body connection with a ball needs to be accounted for too

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: December 07, 2016, 05:21:13 am »
Good call on playing it like you're not going to get a call. Im def taking that into my mindset if i play again (not sure). TBH it was a pretty good game from me, i blocked a few shots that changed the complexion of the game. i got stops, rebounds and scored all the shots i took. they werent driving while i protected the rim, scoring from jumpers. So all things considered, id take it. I cant help think a simple cut from 1 one of those dudes would have won us the game but i cant control that. i wonder if i shud have tried something gimmicky like throw the ball into a defender to get another out of bounds call... oh if only my mind had calculated all these things at the time! :)


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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: December 07, 2016, 03:25:39 am »
I went and got a doctors referral to get an ultrasound done on my achilles. He wrote plus or minus stereoid injection if i need it from the scan. anyone know much about them? do i have to stop training after getting one or how does it work. Hopefully i can get this sorted out tho, i want to start dunking again .. it's been a month since i last had one

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: December 07, 2016, 03:22:40 am »
Quote from: Coges on December 06, 2016, 05:18:56 pm
That's shit man. Don't beat yourself up though. It's hard playing with guys who don't know how to move on the court.

I checked thefinal score and it was 52-53. Someone was saying the scorer messed up and we actually should have been up by at least 2pts. I also can't figure out how on one play i went for a fastbreak layup and the ref didnt give a call even tho the dude hit me pretty hard. I asked him wtf and he said, 'if anything i shud have called a charge'. lmao a charge on a fastbreak where we were both moving? k. Anyway the next play down the court, they naturally get a fastbreak foul call on barely a touch. I guess these things are just luck but im not missing a layup on a touch foul. I keep replaying it in my head and think what if i went behind the back before the finish or something, just to avoid contact b/c i know im not getting any foul calls but it's weird to think as an offensive player you're trying to avoid contact :/

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: December 06, 2016, 08:26:14 am »
BS 5x130
Bball final
BP 2x90(PR), 1x92.5(PR by mistake lol), 7x82.5(PR)

BW: 81.8kg i think

Notes:
Well that was heartbreaking.. we lost the finals by 1 basket in the last seconds of the game. and i was the reason. In bounds play near the half court, i look for someone to pass too but the two guys closest to me are stationary and wud have yielded a steal & fastbreak. Guy across the court was closer to the basket so he was saferb/c we cud get 3-4 defenders on him on a turnover. but he too just stood there instead of cutting straight for a layup connect. I went for him crosscourt, he got the ball stolen or inteceprted and they got a layup .. we lose. motherfucks have zero bball iq, im sad.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: December 04, 2016, 08:43:31 am »
BS 5x130, 3x132.5(LPR)
Accessory BS with hip circle etc
OHP 4x4x60(LPR), 3x3x60
Weighted Hill sprint x 12 (PR; +6 reps since last time)
Weighted Sprint intervals 6x[20s on, 20s off; PR -5s recovery]
Back Xtn 3x12x30(PR; 10kg vest, 20kg plate)
Curls 3x8x30kg
Weighted crunches 2x12x20kg (wanted 3 sets but i started cramping up pretty bad while resting after the 2nd set so i decided to end it there)

BW: 82.2 (i think, this was a weird reading i expected it to be low 81kg but there you go).

Notes:
Well fuck me, i wanted 6x130kg but i put the bar back when my bar speed was sooooooooo low. I can bounce the mfas up just fine, it's lockign them. I explain it quite easily tho, in lieu of fat loss i'd been doing a bit of fasted walking with teh weight vest which does fatigue my vmos especially. I should not do that if i care about my squats, which i do. There is a place and time for fasted walking with a vest but i think it's prob when you're eating enough food to recover for fresher squat workouts, not my present situation.
Good workout. I could do more because i knew i am done with basketball .. yes, not playing another game this year!

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