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BW: 80.8kg

The problem isnt im driving, the problem is im texting

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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.

last i checked (a few years back mind), i cud get bout 1/4 the way up my arm .. and it wasnt really feasible to check where it touched after, not sensitive enough there on the arm. cud use vid if that's possible (not really during game setting).  i dont care for that test anyway. you know would what be cool, a device you could stick to the side of a bacboard, like an arrow with a suction cup, and then try to pull it down

I didnt mean it that way. I just dislike the method but it has a few things going for it: 1.i can do it during/games when adrelenin kicks in and you perform better, 2. it needs no special equipment. but it just doesn't feel right, i dont think im jumping normally when i reach for the backboard as a target. if there was a line extending along the square to te end of the backboard i think i'd prefer that but there isnt and you dont get that feedback from actually seeing the corner. hmmmmmmmmmmmm. maybe i cud put up a sticker in line and jump for that? i'll try that actually. it reminds me of raptor saying he jumps higher with a ball in hand than without, b/c he trained his body to be maximally efficient in a dunk attempt. i think im the same

First the game, that team we just played is easily the best team ive ever faced. They cud all shoot and they did, around a 70% clip. Dude was taking NBA 3s and swishing them at over 80% lol. Like half a dozen at least. Wow. Such a strong comp, i love it. We lost and the benchmark is clear .. have a shitload of work to do as a team, tbh im not sure we can match them but at least individually i think i can rise up to the challenge.

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After the game i wanted to do some dunks quickly before the next game started .. and i attemped i think 2 dunks. Easily the best dunks ive done on that court. But i think it's not a regulation height which fucks me off cos how do you know you're not just jumping good instead of great? But i felt like i was closest to the rim ive ever gotten.

so then i thought to try acoles dumb suggestion of tryna touch the top of the square. it's dumb cos the mechanics for jumping for that corner are completely different to anything you'd ever do athletically .. it's an awkward angle and target to say the least. But i touched so high up that a team mate commented in disbelief. So that might be worth something ..  i was maybe 2 inches or 3 inches off the top of the square. Like i said, it's possible that i can actually jump high enough to touch a height equivalent to the top of the square .. if i was jumping at a better target like a high rim or something. Oh well. i need to figure this shit out, it's frustrating me not having a measurable way of checking how high im getting up

but omg .. after playing a game to jump that high is just amazing .. im more than convinced ive got the right mix of training going right now.. it's yielding impressive gains. only downside right now is my left ankle does not like these me jumps .. it may be the shoes actually.. stupid kobes dont have enough dorsiflexion and i think that's ruining my jumps

BW: 80.1kg (yay)

after the excesses of the weekend behind me, it's good to see the scales return to my baseline. I wont say exactly what yesterday's weighing was but it was 82.x something, yikes. so this is a relief.

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question for the wise audience here ..

i have 2 options for today,

1. PEAK: do an easy weights session and take advantage of my non-sore, well recovered state atm, try go beast at my evening game (it's my 2nd game and i didnt make a stellar first impression with the season opener last wk)

2. go hard on squats and keep putting the emphasis on long term results and hope for an okay game /dunks

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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBYu3m_gAfg" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBYu3m_gAfg</a>

just saying that last wk this was my 6RM and this week i did it for 6x6 .. so no form nazism please ..

so you can see my bar speed is pretty good .. i lock out pretty strong now. thanks to quarter squats. there was a time when i cud bounce up an ATG frontsquat around 150kg but i cudnt lock it out. No one suggested it and it never occured to me, but using quarter squats back then wud have helped me become a beast squatter then.

so im a fan of partial squatting .. best asssitance ive tried in a long time. will keep up the experiment going, i think i can get a lot more out of them, this is just the tip of hte iceberg

spoilers .. we need a spoiler tag

Notes:
I went on and did it, first set went ok, did a 2nd and next you know im thinking i can do 6 sets of this mfka even tho i only intended 2 sets and rest 4s if i cud manage those. My lifetime PR is 6x6x122.5 BUT i did that with creatine and close to 90kg bodyweight and my old bar was like 19.x something not 20kg -- this time i used a proper 20kg bar AND 2x25kg plates so it's in some sense more legit .. anyway. i destroyed it and i still weigh 80kg! will post video tmr). Ive also done 4x6x132.5kg but again that awas with creatine and a bodyweight close to 96kg .. this time i weighed a whopping 15kg less so there is that..

but im so happy with my workout on my birthday eve .. i think ive unlocked some inner switches for working hard and pushing thru barriers ..ive revised my goal of 6x6x127.5kg to 6x6x130kg .. that will be more satisfying and i can do it within the same timeframe as mentioned earlier, hold me to it!

BW: 80.4 (sad face)

damn it renovations continue to disrupt my saturday trainings i didnt sleep much more than a few hours .. they came in pretty early and that was the end of my restorative supplementation. Just did a strugglesome ohp workout where i did the slowest hardest to lock out triple ever .. i prob wud have given up on it but i didnt wanna in a public gym setting.

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ohp 2x60, 2x3x60, 4x2x60

BS 6x6x120(LPR!)
WCU 3x5x98.2kg, 3x5x93.2kg

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shud i try rest up tongith and then crack squats tmr? i dont like to delay workouts tho .. it just makes for a chaotic week tryna catch up. will see how we go..