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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Party's Over!
« on: November 11, 2015, 10:41:09 pm »
BODYWEIGHT- 92.5KG

SORENESS-
Achilles/Calves- It would be stupid to run tonight given how much soreness I'm currently experiencing so I'm not running today.

MENTAL STATE- Good. I just signed up to the gym in my lunch break. I've decided to bite the bullet and start lifting weights again mostly because I won't always be able to do running. My plan is to do full body workouts 3 times a week. Maybe more just depends how motivated I remain.

Edit- Just got back from the gym!

Front Squats-
barx4
40x4
60x4x4 60kg actually felt heavy LOL!
I didn't really feel any DOMS. If anything my wrists were hurting more than my legs but I'm starting to feel my quads now.


Assisted Pullups (19kg)-
8x3
7x1 i wanted to get 8 reps but failed on the last one...

Barbell Rows-
20x12
30x12
40x12

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Party's Over!
« on: November 10, 2015, 06:38:07 pm »
Quote from: Raptor on November 10, 2015, 11:24:43 am
Quote from: Mutumbo000 on November 08, 2015, 03:38:06 am
$483 fine for a minor offence like that is unbelievable that's literally 3 days work

My unemployment money is ~120 $ per month. 483$ would be more than 3 months of unemployment money.

Also, 483$ would be more than the highest salary I had in my life, per month.

It’s definitely a high price to pay. In Australia the unemployed get paid $520 a fortnight so it’s close to a fortnightly payment for somebody that is unemployed.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Party's Over!
« on: November 10, 2015, 06:32:58 pm »
Quote from: LBSS on November 10, 2015, 11:16:28 am
getting drunk to deal with frustration is kind of worrisome, dude.

Yeah I’ve had/got a drinking problem that I’m trying to overcome. There was a period in 2014 where I was drinking 72+ bottles of beer a week. Later in the year I cut that down to about 50 bottles a week and in the last month 6 months down to 25. Recently I’ve gone from drinking twice a week down to once a week and trying to restrict that once a week session to about 6 beers. Up until recently I didn’t really care that much about it because I would literally rather go out with mates and get drunk than play sport. If none of my mates felt like going out I’d drink by myself.  Apart from being overweight I turned 25 on the 13th of October so I thought that now’s a good time just to grow up and stop acting like a teenager. Hence, starting this journal and starting to exercise again.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Party's Over!
« on: November 10, 2015, 06:24:39 am »
BODYWEIGHT- 92.5KG

SORENESS-


Achilles tendon/Calves- Feels worse in the left side now. I've been sitting down in the office doing a lot of stretching and calf raises. I also walked 5km yesterday so it appears that it's actually aggravated it more so it's worse than before :raging:

Mental State- Good. However, my Achilles/calves problem is driving me mental. I've been doing a lot of research into the causes and cures for it. I've come across a few interesting studies, such as this one:
http://lermagazine.com/article/achilles-tendinopathy-and-body-mass-index

"They found that the acute transverse strain response (calculated based on change in tendon thickness) of the Achilles tendon in the overweight group was almost half that of the low normal weight group, and hypothesized that the structural tendon changes associated with obesity impair the tendon’s ability to respond to load".

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23768275
"These findings suggest that obesity is associated with structural changes in tendon that impairs intra-tendinous fluid movement in response to load and provides new insights into the link between tendon pathology and overweight and obesity".

So basically being overweight increases the load, which is obvious. However, more concerning is that it also affects the ability of the tissues to take the load, which magnifies the problem. Hence, why being overweight/obese is such a prevalent cause for not just achilles issues but Orthopedic issues in general e.g. hip and knee replacement etc. 

But anyway back to training:

TRACK-

Stretching/Dynamic Warm Up
A couple of run throughs

1x50m fly
5 minutes rest
1x150m- felt good I maintained my speed well but the time was probably slow due to there being a strong headwind that I was running into.
20 minutes recovery
1x150m- Same story as the 1st 150m.

I had wanted to do a 200m but by this stage my left achilles was giving me a lot of pain so I stretched a bit and called it a day. I'm going to ice it tonight and give it complete rest tomorrow so hopefully it feels reasonable again in a couple of days. Rest does absolutely nothing for this injury. In the last 2 years I've done fuck all exercise or training and the problem is just as bad/if not worse now than it was before so the only thing I can do is just keep persevering and lose weight/strengthen & stretch calves/slowly increase the workload.

Lying Leg Raises-
11x3x2

Sit-Ups-
20x1
17x3 

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Recovery from quadricep tendonitis
« on: November 10, 2015, 12:45:38 am »
Quote from: jumperer on November 09, 2015, 11:08:43 pm
I see. yea I'm not as flexibility so I prefer standing on top of a box lol. anyway, got in my first few dunks off one foot in between some pick up games. what I do is I hold the ball in one hand and then just run with it and go off one foot. yea, I know some people will say its cheap or travelling, and I know that I'm not even close to dunking off the dribble, but I'll take it either way lol.

Nice. A dunk is a dunk. You should take a vid.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: November 10, 2015, 12:40:04 am »
Quote from: adarqui on November 10, 2015, 12:08:15 am
oh also my spinfire pro 2 tennis ball machine is almost here.. dno who is more excited; me or my dad.. lmao!

Nice!

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Party's Over!
« on: November 08, 2015, 03:38:06 am »
BODYWEIGHT- 92.5KG
Waist- 41 inches around the top of belly button, 39 inches below belly button.
Estimated body fat according to Willoughby bodyfat calculator= 27% using 41 inch waist or 22.9% using 39 inch waist.
http://clymer.altervista.org/bmi/

SORENESS-
Calves/Achilles
Sore head- hangover

MENTAL STATE- Pretty good today but yesterday I ended up drinking a dozen beers. I also got a $483 fine from the police for failing to completely stop at a ‘STOP’ sign. $483 fine for a minor offence like that is unbelievable that's literally 3 days work just to pay off that fine. After the fine I was angry so I went to the botte-o , bought a carton and got pissed. I woke up today with a small hangover- slight headache and groggy.  I feel shit about drinking but what’s done is done and today is a new day. No point dwelling on it. Life goes on...

TRACK-
Stretching/Dynamic Warm Up
A couple of run throughs
1x300m- 46.8 seconds
15 minutes recovery
1x300m- 45.8 seconds
Warm down

300s are always a humbling experience. This time I managed to start feeling fucked when I got halfway around the bend instead of just approaching the bend. My aim is to reduce the recovery period down to 10 minutes and then I’ll add another set. Atm they take a lot out of me though to the point where I'm hunched over trying to spew.

I love running. If my body wasn’t so injury plagued/low work capacity I would love to run every day. For now I’ll just stick to training every 2nd day.

Lying Leg Raises-
10x3

Sit-ups-
20
16x3

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Bios / Re: Animals
« on: November 06, 2015, 08:04:56 am »

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Party's Over!
« on: November 06, 2015, 07:57:42 am »
WEIGHT- 93KG
I'm pleased. My aim is to lose 1kg a week. So far so good ;D

MENTAL STATE- Good

SORENESS-
Hamstrings- Felt a bit tight
Calves/Achilles Tendon

TRACK

Stretching/Dynamic Warm Up
Run Throughs

1x200m- 29 seconds
8 minutes rest
1x200m- 29 seconds
8 minutes rest-
31 seconds

Faded on the 3rd set but once again I reduced my recovery time by a minute so I'm building up the intensity. My glutes were soo sore after the 3rd rep- just lactic acid.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Party's Over!
« on: November 05, 2015, 07:51:05 am »
Sit-Ups-

21x2
13x3

Just a rest day but I did some sit-ups.

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Pics, Videos, & Links / Re: beast
« on: November 04, 2015, 09:18:56 pm »
Quote from: LBSS on November 04, 2015, 07:50:02 pm
Quote from: gukl on November 04, 2015, 07:22:59 pm
Quote from: gukl on October 29, 2015, 08:20:14 pm
https://www.facebook.com/tom.martin.79274089/videos/10102226840747069/

300kg deadlift x 10 @ 100kg

https://www.facebook.com/tom.martin.79274089/videos/10102232015362099/

350kg x 3 (3.5x bw) Wtf this guy...lives a few miles from me...insane

in his younger, lighter days he ran 10.53 in the 100 and 6.73 in the 60. freak.

 :o Blazing!

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Two Hands Two Feet
« on: November 04, 2015, 09:17:32 pm »
Quote from: Coges on November 03, 2015, 10:40:47 pm
Quote from: Mutumbo000 on November 03, 2015, 10:09:16 pm
Nice front squat :ibsquatting:

Cheers. Thanks mate. Hopefully a little cleaner next time.

Main thing is you made the weight.
A 3 plate front squat is on the horizon.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Party's Over!
« on: November 04, 2015, 07:07:49 am »
BODYWEIGHT- 94KG
MENTAL STATE- GOOD
SORENESS-
Calves/Achilles- I've been doing a few stretches at work while in the office and I'm being cautious with the volume/building up the intensity gradually.


TRACK-

Stretch/Dynamic Warm Up
Run throughs 

1x150m 95%
Full recovery ~20 minutes
1x150m 95%

I went to the track by myself tonight so I didn't have my gf timing me but these felt a lot better/faster than my 150s last week. 1st rep was decent but the 2nd one felt amazing. Am obviously still out of shape but I made it further without feeling fucked and I felt a lot less tight/more relaxed, which is the aim.

PARK-

Sit ups- 15x3
I was too lazy to do any pull ups/chin ups but I'm going to make core a priority, which means being consistent with sit ups. I'll start adding in some leg raises soon as well. 

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Two Hands Two Feet
« on: November 03, 2015, 10:09:16 pm »
Nice front squat :ibsquatting:

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Injury, Prehab, & Rehab talk for the brittlebros / Re: Achilles Tendiopathy
« on: November 03, 2015, 01:00:14 am »
Quote from: adarqui on November 02, 2015, 11:51:34 pm
i've never had anything officially diagnosed, but as a kid I used to have serious issues with my heels. So painful that sometimes I couldn't play sports for weeks. I also had issues with my knees but that's a different thread.

I sometimes get prolonged periods of stiffness/tenderness in my left achilles. It just takes one wrong "move" or bout of activity and it can flare up. I had this while dunking too (years back). I'm glad nothing ever happened, I used to worry about it alot. I think getting lighter & very lean helps me overcome lots of weird injuries/nagging issues that i've accumulated over the years. I'm starting to think it's somewhat of a "cheat code" where I can protect my body somewhat.

I just mention that because I know you have some fat you want to strip off & you want to improve your physical fitness considerably.. Improving both of those things can have a pretty significant (positive) effect on various injuries & the types of stress your body experiences during athletic movements. One of the main keys as we know is just really learning how to listen to your body & killing the ego when needed.

pc man!

Thanks for the feedback.
I think you've made some good points as far as general conditioning and getting lighter and very lean. I remember your posts years back about how you loved being 147lbs because it was like being a cheetah (or something motivating along those lines ;D).

My body is fairly similar. I've got a small bone structure and I wasn't made to be built heavy but I just bulked up for rugby. I can never remember having any issues with my legs until I started playing rugby and bulked from my natural weight of 65kg up to 85kg within 18 months. I would love to drop down to 75kg (165lbs) and hopefully that solves the problems.

On another note it's been interesting that ever since I started activity again my achilles/calves have been sore but they haven't really been that much sorer in comparison to when I was doing no physical exercise. I have been doing some stretches and taking it easy on the volume so hopefully my achilles/calves start improving with the stimulus because by the sounds of it, the condition is not something that will just heal by itself. I've also started taking Fish Oil again so hopefully that helps a little bit as well.

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