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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: August 27, 2016, 11:12:33 am »
Quarter squats are helping my backsquat!!!!!!!!!! My finishing strength on backsquats has improved incredibly. Im snapping them out piston like once ive gotten past the sticking point. Today my hamstrings were DED .. even warmups with 70kg indicated that much, however, so good is my glute/quad strength now i can still knock out a 6rm effort explosively (thanks to quarters). Fuck dogma .. fuck all that stupid 'ATG or nothing' bs .. it's complete nonsense.

Here is the plan for the next 8 weeks. I want 6x6x127.5kg @77kg bodyweight. I wont settle for 4 sets or 5 sets with 1 done with a belt. 6x6x127.5 @ 77kg rawdog .. no belt no wraps no creatine, no gomad, just balls.  A complete list of lifts:
6x6x127.5kg bs @ 77kg
200kg bht worksets
180-200kg RDL worksets
180-200kg quarter squat worksets


After 8 weeks, the following things will still be available, unused in my toolbox: 1. creatine, 2. belt, 3. knee sleeves,  4. stimulants like synephrine and L-tyrosine and 5. Not cutting and even gaining weight. 

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: August 27, 2016, 11:03:23 am »
Rain ruined my saturday training :( Fuck it. i'll try again tmr. Here is the plan if things go accordingly:

0. weighted chinups, lat pull downs, cable row, 60KG CHEAT CURLS
1. 100m sprints
2. dunks (if legs permit)
3. pickup

all of that shud be do-able so long as the sun comes out.. .

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: August 27, 2016, 03:20:16 am »
BS 6x110, 6x117.5(LPR!!; finally), 2x6x112.5(LPR), 2x6x110
OHP blah blah blah
BW: 78kg

Notes:
As i get my first hard 6x6 squat volume workout in almost 2 years, i wanted to make a note in passing that i dreamt Lance came back and posted in my log. I PR'd my vertical the followind day just from being hyped. Damn.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: August 26, 2016, 11:12:41 pm »
BW: 78kg

Maintaining ~78kg it seems but im leaner .. so i guess i can complain but it means ive gained muscle while getting leaner ;) Not a bad deal. Weather is not great today, cold and wet. I really wanted to sprint :( May do dunks instead

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: August 25, 2016, 11:50:12 pm »
BW: 77.9kg (!!!)

So this is prob the leanest ive been since summer, i think. Still fat tho but im on the right track. I have the pressing thoughts:

1. building up my squat without regular dunking is a terrible thing
2. i shud jump regularly so squat gains convert / carry over to dunking
3. make hay while the sun is out (or while im still a fatty) - 'weighted' dunking will help me which is what this layer of adipose around me serves as

wont go crazy and do loads of dunks all at once, will gradually build up to it. but will def do a few tmr (sat) and maybe sun if i play pickup

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: August 25, 2016, 10:55:16 am »
Game was bomb. We played the top team. Lost by 12 points in the end but the whole time i thought we were winning! score doesnt tell the full story tho, we kinda let it get away from us in the last 5 minutes, ppl werent playing defense and it made me sad. lol. im going to play every game as though we're winning, makes me more positive! We had 5 and they had 8 players. No subs for us. I was flat out protecting the rim. Got a few bs foul calls so i had to turn it down in teh 2nd half but we were right in there at the half, outscored them even. Ran out of steam though ... i had 2 fg attempts and made good on both .. set a load of screens for our shooters .. they were ono fire tonight ... thankfully otherwise it could have been a one sided carnage. Im pumped, will meet them again, hopefully in the finals and they're going to lose...

i played really well... im happy, prob the best game ive played this year. And that's with all this squat fatigue while cutting. Can't wait to peak!!!!!!!!!!

love the quarter squats btw .. oh and i landed my first dunk in 3 weeks, it barely rattled in, my ankle complained so i didnt tempt fate. it will take time to get to 100% so i will be patient

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Article & Video Discussion / Re: Quarter Squats Transfer to VJ and Sprinting
« on: August 25, 2016, 06:01:50 am »
In my case this summer gone i attained 1.8xbw but i didnt use partials .. i shud have tho to see if i cud break 35" .. esp since i was then and still am a quad dominant jumper. All good, have added them in now and will keep then in to see what effect they have.

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Article & Video Discussion / Re: Quarter Squats Transfer to VJ and Sprinting
« on: August 25, 2016, 05:47:29 am »
2xbw full squat then partials is a good thing to tell people. most ppl wont even bother trying for it but once you enter the journey then either you attain it or you dont. At some point it's fine to say, im going to use partials now to peak and extract the most gains out of my body right now. the alternative is never getting to 2xbw and never finding out how high you really can jump bc you save peaking for a day that never comes lol

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: August 25, 2016, 04:27:52 am »
BS 4x120(LPR), 1x125
¼BS 6x150(warmup PR), 5x180(PR), 8x160(PR)
JS 6x70, 6x100(LPR)
Push Press 3x6x62.5(LPR)

BW: 78.1kg
game to come

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Article & Video Discussion / Re: Quarter Squats Transfer to VJ and Sprinting
« on: August 24, 2016, 11:58:11 pm »
I do agree that its easy to fudge the depth on quarters .. however, if you use them as an assistance, who really cares .. as long as you're getting better at adding weight and can maintain or improve depth over time?

Im 3 weeks in into a quarter squat program .. i do them once a week ... too early yet to say yay or nay but im digging them so far. Wish i had tried them sooner.. will report back after a while to see what affect if any has been noticed

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: August 24, 2016, 11:56:31 pm »
^haha thanks Coges.

Startna come off that refeed .. 78.1kg / 172.2lb today. It's been like 3 weeks or more since i dunked (!!). I am thinking i shud force myself to try, just to see how bad ive gotten? Will try.

Have training scheduled today and possibly a game tonight ... shud be a good day ...

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Article & Video Discussion / Re: Quarter Squats Transfer to VJ and Sprinting
« on: August 24, 2016, 05:50:36 am »
tis interesting however i wonder how well using full squats mainly and quarters as assistance would go? or vice versa. I feel it wud work better in some sense

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: August 24, 2016, 02:17:01 am »
Yesterday's eating:
 
1 shake, grilled chicken burger from hjs
1 52g mars bar
250mL gatorade

1 shake
2 chicken breasts
triple cheeseburger from hjs (-2 slices cheese)
3 slices of pizza (2 chicken)
1 52g mars bar
1L of cookies & cream icecream

Loads of protein. Prob 250-300g? not sure bout calories but i prob went over maintenance there .. but since i was carb depleted it prob didn't matter fatloss wise. Anyway .. next refeed is saturday.
next day bw was 78.6kg (i think .. memory is hazy) .. so that's promising .. i usually gain a kilo of water weight following a refeed.. which means im on track to stabilise round 77kg ...
Today's eating (regular rest day meals)
fast til 5pm then have a shake
9-10pm i'll have 2 chicken breasts and a shake, some carbs (prob bread)

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: August 23, 2016, 10:32:24 am »
Got too late and i didnt get a chance to do curls.. was due to crack the big 60kg milestone ... lol.. will try fit it in next workout. Grow little mammals grow!

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: August 23, 2016, 04:20:01 am »
BS 6x110, 6x112.5(LPR), 6x110, 6x110, 6x107.5 (volume LPR at 30 reps)
BP 5x80(LPR), 5x79.5(LPR), 5x77.5, 6x75(LPR)

RDL 8x135(LPR), 6x140(LPR), 10x150(LPR; hook)
BHT 8x150(LPR), 6x160(LPR)

BW: 77.6kg / 171.1lb (LPR!)

Notes:
Last night before going to bed i caught myself in the  bathroom mirror while changing and i looked suddenly ripped ... cud see my abz and striatations  around my torso clearly .. so i knew something had happened. Today the scale registered and skinfolds are smaller too. Im not far from getting to 77kg now. Just have to keep trainign hard and eating clean. Also sprint regularly.

Forced myself to do a 5th set of 6. It's aite, it was messy but i got it. I want to do 5 sets of 6 above 110kg (2 big plates a side  milestone for me) on saturday. Then the following week i can go for the big 6x6!
In another news, we're playing the top ranked team on thursday night. Mean whle im gonna be coming off a volume workout while cutting and working long hours. Shud be interesting. I may not take it too seriously cos injuries can happen and i odnt need that shit right now

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