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K, not paying lipservice to sprinting anymore .. i'm going all in .. but i dont care for bodyweight sprinting .. weigh vest sprinting allows me to believe this is a productive use of my training that may get me fitter, leaner, stronger, bigger, etc. That may or may not be true but i believe it and that's the most important thing is because apart from squats, i dont think there is anything else i can say the same. I now imagine myself as a beast, weighing 85kg soaking wet and running 40m in 5s or so with a 10kg vest. That's a goal that i find exciting as a journey and destination. I still want a double bw squat for reps but with my issues with lower back, i am willing to put it aside and find something just as meaningful to me ...

dont see the point of playing meaningless basketball games eveyr week either. i dont enjoy it and i dont imrpve as an athlete or as a player. pickup on weekends is better. so i'll just do that. maybe closer to easter tournament, i'll play more games but only if im playing as a SF on the perimeter. cant get myself excited about C position on 2-3 zone and being all but absent on offence. no more. if there aren't at least 2 dudes bigger than me on a team, im declining cos ill just get pulled into the same old shit as an underweight C and ive never had much success or enjoyed it. tbh it actually regresses me as a player. i get more steals and interceptions playing on the wing .. and i get to sprint more which i enjoy rather than jogging up and down half heartedly.

BW: 81.2kg (??)

something funny going on .. i think my body prefers to have a higher fat intake??

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i want to add hip thrusts, rdls, bounds and medball throws. some or one of these made me experience that amazing sprint workout last summer where i felt super bouncy and i never figured out what caused it. since im not doing any of these atm .. im not sure which one to try and im not really keen to commit to all of them..

Yesterday's basketball training was amazing. I was consciously practicing my arm swing while doing normal movements when i realised why I look so robotic and unnatural on the court ... it's b/c no one ever coached me to initiate movement with the shoulders! So for example, when cutting a better basketball player would initiate the movement top down .. for me it was always bottom only .. i think .. which is why i was and am slow to begin moves. Catching an oop or trying a windmill probably needs this more than anything else. I wonder now that if i had stronger upper body and was actually using my whole body strength in movements if i'd be more athletic? Well, we shall be explore this further but it certainly is exciting to say the least...

i wore my running shoes and tried one dunk, hurt, so im not sure if change of shoes fixes my achilles ...

BW: 81.5kg (!!)

Yeah idk why my bodyweight is fluctuating so erratically but i had all but convinced myself weighing 82.5kg with abs was a good goal for me ha.

BW: 83.2kg (PR)

Been eating poorly so weight has gone up. But hoping to reset today.

I do think since i stopped doing partial squats my super snappy lockout has all but disappeared. So i do think i need to get my quarter squat up somewhere PR'ry and then put it on maintenance rather than stop doing them altogether, which doesn't work, evidently since I lost the benefits conferred. It remains to be seen if using back extensions + quarter squats while practicing a set or two of backsquats regularly i can progress past my previous squat PRs without focusing on BS itself.

Quote from: maxent on November 14, 2016, 05:25:05 am

Quote from: LBSS on November 14, 2016, 04:17:48 am

weird. exact opposite for me. wearing it around and warming up with and then taking it off felt like putting on rocket boots. got like a 2" boost on DLRVJ, which is like 6%. pretty big effect, for me the difference between getting high enough to dunk and not. just wearing it to warm up had no effect.

i actually did that experiment yesterday. landed a very hard ME effort dunk at 95kg .. took off vest, took a nice break of about 5 mins. Then tried to dunk unweighted. And actually jumped lower than i used to get without usinbg the vest. But there is a confounding variable. My left ankle niggle kicked in and it inhibits vertical. I wish i could fix it. I may need to start addressing it with strategic taping .. it's the back of my ankle btw .. does anyone have any experience managing and rehabing that particular injury?

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edit, ok maybe im wrong about the injury .. it cud be something else like achilles tendon ..y ikes :/

http://sma.org.au/resources-advice/injury-fact-sheets/achilles-tendon-injuries/

back of the ankle where? on the heel?

i've had lots of weird heel/achilles aches, always freaks me out to the max.. i'd personally try refraining from activities that exacerbate it, rather than experimenting with taping etc.. but i'm overly cautious when it comes to the achilles.

so my initial advice is rest.. rehab would be calf raise variations (forefoot slightly elevated for more ROM, double leg, feet straight/internally rotated/externally rotated) and then eventually single leg.. also some very light mobility exercises for the ankle, but definitely not forcing ROM, letting it sink in naturally.

also an extremely important factor when it comes to achilles aches & such is making sure you properly warmup.. if you ever skip out on a warmup, you're running the risk of things getting worse.. that's been my mistake on several occasions.

pc!

Hi! Not the base of the heel/sole but back of the ankle. It feels fine today as expected after 2 sleeps, but if i go and do sme dunks tonight it will trigger the thing again. I wont dunk today though! Or at all for a while. But it remains to be seen what other training i can do around it. Will take your advice to do the rehab work, thank you. I am also suspecting footwear to be a possible culprit, Kobe's might be causing the problem.

 I did 6x120kg after 6x70(2x25kg plates). My last warmup set is usually 6x110kg which i do every squat workout. figure if my topsets are gone down, i might as well start working harder on the other end.

In other news i think i got myself out of bball games on tuesdays on account of my achilles. Now to do the same for thurs..

weird. exact opposite for me. wearing it around and warming up with and then taking it off felt like putting on rocket boots. got like a 2" boost on DLRVJ, which is like 6%. pretty big effect, for me the difference between getting high enough to dunk and not. just wearing it to warm up had no effect.

i actually did that experiment yesterday. landed a very hard ME effort dunk at 95kg .. took off vest, took a nice break of about 5 mins. Then tried to dunk unweighted. And actually jumped lower than i used to get without usinbg the vest. But there is a confounding variable. My left ankle niggle kicked in and it inhibits vertical. I wish i could fix it. I may need to start addressing it with strategic taping .. it's the back of my ankle btw .. does anyone have any experience managing and rehabing that particular injury?

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edit, ok maybe im wrong about the injury .. it cud be something else like achilles tendon ..y ikes :/

http://sma.org.au/resources-advice/injury-fact-sheets/achilles-tendon-injuries/