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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: October 03, 2016, 11:11:10 pm »
BW: 82.6kg / 182.1lb

Heading in hte right direction. i'd be ok weighing 82.5kg to rep 140kg worksets. It's not justifiable for 130kg worksets tho.


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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: October 03, 2016, 10:49:28 am »
shit bro, i feel sheepish, i saw your reply on my phone waiting in the drivethru. meant to delete this when i came home from work but got side-tracked. i really appreciate you said that though, it's beyond cool. there's no ill feeling here only respect. lets get it done. ive worked so hard to get to this point where i am right now, to push past previous stumbkling blocks after multiple setbacks (injury, life, etc), im brimming with optimism for what's to come in the next few months.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: October 03, 2016, 04:41:15 am »
Quote from: LBSS on October 02, 2016, 05:59:37 pm
trying to compare yourself to entropy is a fool's errand.

It is indeed depressing to anyone who respects your truly exceptional talents to see you of late apparently spending a great deal of time on shallow, negative polemics that contribute almost nothing in the way of real knowledge or deep truths to the subject matter they deal with. Instead of utilizing your major talents in the difficult business of discovering new viewpoints, and new understanding and techniques, you make a spectacle of yourself indulging your minor talent for innuendo and derogation. There are occasions on which it is desirable for a person with an outstanding reputation to devote some effort to pointing ·out the flaws ina significant proposal. But it is fatuous to waste time attacking one so weak that it can be demolished by high school debating tactics that avoid serious consideration of fundamental issues and deal only in hostile innuendoes, unsubstantiated arrogant opinions, and trivial nitpicking.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: October 02, 2016, 04:25:11 am »
BS 6x5x130(PR)
OHP 5x5x60(LPR)
Weighted Chinup 3x5x100(+15kg; PR i think)

BW: 83.2kg (full blown obesity status acquired .. i dont even care .. fk it)

Notes:
Pretty hard but i got them all in. wooho.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: September 30, 2016, 02:44:17 am »
On another note, i clearly over-reached on tuesday. I have not recovered from those heavy doubles at 137.5kg. But the flipside is when i do eventually recover, i'll be a bit more of a beast than i was previously. So that's something to look forward to, as i try to keep up spirits. Been devoting myself to recovery, smr, mobility, all that stuff. Wearing full body compression gear today as well haha. i have been wearing compression tights all the time (day/night) but today also wearing a top, which i hate, cos it feels constricting but whatever, as long as it helps recovery a little, it's okay.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: September 29, 2016, 08:15:39 am »
BS 3Fx130, 0Fx142.5B
Push Press 2x6x68.5(LPR), 5x70(PR)

Notes:
Was a dream of my mine to use 2x25kg plates for push presses and today i thought to try it, having never got a single rep before with them and was able to do 5?! I may have been abble to do 6 but i stopped at 5 just cos i was so stunned. So cool. If i make this a new setpoint from here i'll be happy

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: September 27, 2016, 10:31:29 pm »
BW: 81.6kg (yikes)

been thinking while im in 130kgs, it's an opportunity to become more all-rounded. add in conditioning (sprint intervals), maybe max sprints too, focus on skills, all that stuff ive neglected. it will allow me to lean out and become more athletic and when i get to 140kgs, i will either be adapted and be able to continue them or maybe put them on maitenance in which case i wont regress while building up towards 5x5x150kg. do think that until ive mastered 150kg for 6x6, im not going to get any permanent changes to my organism, this just temporary peakiness that will come and go. need to make some new setpoints, so that if i come off a holiday or something i can quickly get back to using 140kg worksets and prob start off around 120kg from a layoff.

having said that, another part of me wants to get out of 130kgs asap cos it's nomans territory.

im relishing the challenge to do more with less, lets see how it goes. starting tmr.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: September 27, 2016, 09:21:21 am »
Real talk, i tested my vert against the rim before the game and cud only manage just under the wrist which is what 29"? something like that iirc, but i think i did svj on that jump, maybe im misremebmering, it cant be more than a drop step anyways. later i was able to jump higher, i think, maybe, given i was doing svj dunks, or maybe not, maybe im just super efficient at svj dunk lolz. anyway fk it. my legs are torched after that game, did a lot of running, im treating bball game as a conditioning workout so it's not a complete waste of my time. trnya be the first one to sprint back on d, etc. fk evertything bout this game tho. it's a ms game, and with my level of accumulated fatiue and lack of efficiency / athleticism im pretty mediocre to say the least at hte game of tbasketball. dont care, dont care, not even bothered.

feel fat, unathletic and useless. need to start sprinting again. at least i have an excuse, weather is complete shit

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: September 27, 2016, 06:46:47 am »
BS 4x2x137.5(LPR), 1Fx137.5, 0Fx137.5
BP 6x85(LPR), 3x5x85(LPR)
Game
SVJ dunks 2x5 (i can do these without bothering ankle so yah)

Notes:
Last wk 135kg was my training max / LPR single. Today i used 137.5kg for double worksets. If i could have arranged the day better i prob get all 6 sets! But it's ok, next wk i'll get 6x2x137.5kg then i can tackle 6x2x140kg the following tuesday, an important milestone.

Game tnite .. am kinda meh about basketball right now. I dont fit into this team. they dont feed me the ball enough and i dont know what role im filling .. im kinda disappointed tbh. One of these days im gna just go get mine and dominate but it may have to wait yet.

oh and benching tells me what i shud heed, my hamstrings are weak af, you know you have a weakness when you cant bench sets of 5-6 without hamstrings cramping up with what is modest weight. Im also learning that my back strength is non-existent via failed bench sets that need returning back to the rack, if i had a stronger back i'd find it ez to re-rack failed benches. So def will dedicate some time to pulling off pins to improve my back strength. will help my squat eventually lolzsy.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: September 24, 2016, 05:01:49 am »
BS 6x5x127.5 (PR)
OHP 6x4x60(LPR)
WCU 5x5x99.3(PR; 84.3kg+15kg)

BW: 80.8kg / 178.1lb

Notes:
Yup thats a lifetime PR at 127.5kg. I've done 5x5x127.5kg before (with old bar so slightly under that load irl) when i weighed around 92-95kg at the time and im not 100% (tried to look it up in the logs) but i may have used a (velcro) belt for some of those latter sets. Anyway, i smashed it by doing 1 more set, all rawdog. So i can start to write PR instead of LPR now. Fuck ya. vids up on my insta if you're interested.


just wanna give a shoutout to Leonel .. there was a moment when the 6x110kg warmup felt heavy/hard that i may have wussed out but i remembered i had some ppl to prove wrong! I havent decided what my worksets will be next saturday, either go for 5x5x130kg or 5x5x132.5kg depending on how ambitious i am. I know i need to be at 5x5x150kg @80kg eventually, so there's no point dwelling instead of making progress towards that milestone. It's 2 cycles away btw, 6x6x132.5 <-> 5x5x140 and 6x6x142.5 <-> 5x5x150. I'm almost ready to start the 6x6x132.5kg cycle.
Confession: I havent sprinted in forever. I must admit that it's prob the only thing which i noticed carry over to my basketball ability. I felt i cud accelerate and drive so much quicker when i was sprinting regularly. It must be a staple of my training. However. Bad weather and daunting workouts has meant it has fallen by the wayside. In future i think i need to dedicate an entire block to sprinting. And an entire block to conditioning. My conditioning is probably the weakest part of my organism right now and (probably forever). Lifting might hellp me jump but it does almost nothing for my edurance and conditioning which is super important for the stupid aerobic sport of mine.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: September 22, 2016, 11:21:48 pm »
BW: 80.7kg

today im kinda bloated so i'll take this measurement without much fuss. tmr is my last volume session for this cycle, after that im going to take it easy on the eating and just add mad weight for a bit, then PEAK my vert before starting a new cycle. It shud be the last time i use baby weights (<130kg) so that's an important milestone to pass. hoping to eat and sleep well and come in for 5x5x127.5kg without much fuss.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: September 22, 2016, 11:18:44 pm »
I guess i'm just not wired that way, i have done my fair share of ceiling  head jump touches ..which is softer.  but a backboard seems too solid a target to aim for.. we're not goign to agree bout this haha. i hurt my cervical spine last year and it sucked. i dont want to bother it again ever, esp with a meaningless vertical test.

last night i did go to the court to do some dunks and i noticed on the side beam supporting the hoop/backboard  complex, i cud mark out a milestone that corresponds to 36" and 40" respectively and try to touch it. however, i have no idea how i wud go about measuring it. tape seems too unreliable unless i use string with a weight suspended at the bottom. will look into it .. maybe the best alternative yet. i cud mark out 28"-32"-36"-40" milestones along the beam, it's slanted so it can be done.

i just wanted to report that i did 2 dunks and on the 3rd my ankle noped out and i couldnt jump anymore. sad. may need to fix it up before resuming jumping proper.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: September 22, 2016, 08:10:52 am »
Am i taking crazy pills or is the idea of smashing ones head against anything (be it backboaerd or rim or the roof of a 20ft building) not at all enticing?!

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: September 22, 2016, 04:15:24 am »
Can i just disagree that im a weirdo though but nice post vag  :highfive:

(also if you suggest an idea to me and i say 'that soudns cool, i'll try it' chances are i'll never get aroudn to it .. haha.)

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: September 21, 2016, 11:18:21 pm »
BW: 80.8kg

The problem isnt im driving, the problem is im texting
BS 6x127.5(LPR), 2x135B(+5kg), 2x140B(LPR; +5kg)
Quarter BS 8x165(+2.5kg), 8x200(PR!; +2.5kg)

Quarter Barbell Jump Squat 8x70, 6x110, 6x120(LPR)
Push Press 2x6x67.5(LPR)

Notes
Aw yis, today was a revelation workout. I figured exactly how mirror has helped me squat better .. it's to do wiht bottom position and pushing knees down. If you dont have that feedback you may not notice you're not loading up the quads by that subtle knee push down at the bottom. And the upshot? I PR my 6rm by 5kg and and doubled 140kg with a belt BUT for the first time in my life -- i didnt squat morning a heavy belted squat. Magic. I owe it all to the quarter squats. If anyone guessed the solution to squatmornings is bringing up quad weakness (that guy from strength theory is the only one who said it ime)) -- give tyousrelf a medal, spot on.

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