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nice! man i miss rings. so much pump.

Quote from: Coges on December 04, 2016, 08:08:20 pm

Still want to keep my eye on vert training but don't know how I'm going to go with the way my body has been responding. Unless that is I train purely for dunking without actually playing any basketball. That kinda sucks though.

it's not so bad tbh.. the worst part about basketball is the injuries. i'm very injury prone so basketball just became a big downer injury wise. I missed basketball until my vert started eventually going way up, then I didn't miss it at all.. dunking becomes a new sport. lul.

but ya could be hard for you to train vert without playing basketball. luckily for me it was easy.
 

Yeah I just don’t get the time to go to the courts during the week if I’m not playing. Still hoping to play every 2-3 weeks but like you said the injuries just keep mounting.

And yeah I’ve never had chest pump like this from rings before. It’s brilliant.

Quick note on bodyweight. I got to low 91s last week and noticed that I really don't have the upper body musculature to keep going much further. I'm not too bad but I don't really see the point in getting down to sub 90 with no chesticles to speak of. Plan for now is to get to around 90 and then mini clean bulk/cut around that point. I haven't done much upper body work in about 6 months so there's no surprise it's not looking great and I'm hoping it won't take too much time to get some decent results.

Training to come later on tonight.

Ha. So this went well...

Had a great weekend with the family and whatnot. Training...not so much. My couch stretch experiment is over given I can't kneel on my left knee. Spent about 90 mins stretching and rolling last night and the body is feeling pretty good. Am using one of Kit's HF stretches (half lunge/pelvis pos tilt/try to straighten back leg) which I find is working really well. Spent a considerable amount of time on my quads and IT band. Glutes feel tight today so will give them some attention tonight.

Need to get my training re-organised. Have been in a kind of limbo the last few months given the ankle, shoulder and now knee injuries. Looking to come up with a new plan of action incorporating some of what I was doing but adding a lot of different stuff too. Looking at a daily AM practice plus 3-4 gym days a week (bas, sas, lower, etc), 1-2 runs, 1 swim, 1-2 extra (basketball/martial arts), 2 dedicated stretching. Kind of looks like a lot on paper but it's warm now so getting into the habit of an early start should be no problem. Main goals are to build my squat back up, upper body strength and size, front/side splits, be fit for whatever activity I'm doing (basketball or martial arts - hapkido/BJJ). On the bodyweight side I look at the flow/locomotion/handbalancing stuff and it all seem so cool but out of reach. It's something I want to dabble and get more involved in though. 

Still want to keep my eye on vert training but don't know how I'm going to go with the way my body has been responding. Unless that is I train purely for dunking without actually playing any basketball. That kinda sucks though.

*edit- will definitely be keeping the T0ddday squatting elements as this pushed my squat faster than anything I have tried before.

Agreed. No harm in going down. Set some low expectations and see what happens.

28/11/16 – 5pm

Scap push ups x 20
Banded btn pull apart x 20
Banded fly x 20
Banded discloations x 5, 5

Rotations into bridge (on wall) x 10, 10
Bridge push ups (2 hands) x 10, 10
Jeff Curls – 16kg x 10, 10 (10s hold at end of each set)

Shrimp Squat- bw x 5, 5
SL DL- 16kg x 5, 5

Incline Bench- bar (fat gripz) x 10, 30 x 5, 40 x 5, 5, 5
Unilateral DB Floor Press- 15kg x 8, 8

Circuit x 4
Push Up Support on rings x 15s
Planche lean x 5s
Tuck Front lever x 5s
Handstand entries x 5

Front split work x 2 mins each side

Don't know why I included the planche leans. No intention of working towards that at the moment. Just trying to piece together stuff that works for my body at the moment.

Quote from: Coges on November 24, 2016, 03:30:07 am

No offence mate but I see weighted sprinting going pear shaped pretty quickly.

im not worried about injuries ... at worst it will be a waste of time but i dont think that will be the case, maybe i'll grow my calves finally


edit, i actually disagree. comparing sprinting with weighted sprinting, it feels safer than running ME at bodyweight .. i feel out of control and less powerful. with the vest i feel more in control and powerful. i will focus on speed at some point, but rather work on acceleration and power since i find it more appealing than speed or vertical. when i land my first windmill i want to do it off a dropstep .. haha. if i only cared about speed or vertical id cut to 70kg but im not going to get under 80kg again.

Power and acceleration vs speed and vertical. Two sides of the same coin no?

I'm just thinking you'll fuck up your sprinting mechanics. Where's the carry over in that?

Maybe you feel more powerful cause you're slower with the vest on and it requires more strength for you to move?

Anyway, good luck mate.

I think the achilles thing is aggravated by the ankle injury but maybe not helped by squatting in raised heel shoes and doing track work too.

Yeah the hip flexors/psoas/tfl/rec fem/etc are all bitches. I think most of my problems were/are caused by not balancing enough restorative work for all the other stuff I do. I had really been slacking on that and didn't notice it until about 10 days ago. Daily work required from now on.

Also, have been getting on board with Kit Laughlin's stretching material. Some brilliant stretches but also a way of looking at stretching/flexibility that I've never had before. Have been using this HF stretch daily and it feels unbelievable:

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHwyBHS6MQs" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHwyBHS6MQs</a>