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got my NB Fuel Cell 5280's in........... man they feel weird.. but not nearly as weird & awful as the Vapor Fly 4%'s, so this is a great sign.

they also feel very fast.. keep you on your mid/forefoot and have a pretty hard sole, but are still fairly light.

they seem to force you into pronation more though, it's a bit weird.. i imagine it'll feel a little different when you're running at higher speeds tho.

the laces are kinda odd, and super thin. shoes fit like a glove tho.

plan to break them in sunday! might steel a segment around here for fun.. dno.

oh also: they have glitter on them. teh fuq? they look cool tho.

Quote from: adarqui on September 13, 2019, 01:04:55 am

yo man!!

Was really cool when I saw that you had joined up - lots of people on here know you. And a great way to start posting: progress journal post flood!

yea I think addressing body comp should probably be the biggest focus right now, especially given the knee issue. I remember seeing you get back into stuff a while back, then reading about the knee issue, was hoping it was completely gone by now - injuries suck.

I really like long walking for weight loss & re-strengthening. Nice and easy 1-2 hour sessions (after you're adapted). 1 hour more often, 2 hours once a week (like a weekly long run), say on the weekend. I've gone through some big blocks of long walking, always ends up fixing lots of nagging issues & improving body comp. Especially if I do most of it on soft surfaces (grass, dirt, mulch etc). It's def underrated IMHO.

Kingfish uses incline walking on a treadmill occasionally. He's a big fan of it as well.

But yea, the biggest thing really is diet.

Quote from: CoolColJ on September 13, 2019, 12:53:26 am

not too sore from BBall, but right ankle/heel is sore.
Gotta be careful with this, don't want it to get chronic, and achilles tear is the last thing I want...

yea def, that's always been my worst nightmare - almost a phobia of mine tbh.



Those ant videos you have are pretty cool!

pc man!

thanks

I want to get shredded

me too actually. trying to get leaner than i've ever been.. without much exercise tho. mostly diet based. I'm kinda surprised that it's going this well so far. It's slow but working.

, leaner than even my leanest back in my early 20s, where I peaked at around 69kg after a 3 week Keto style diet. So I think 65kg might just do it, but we shall see as you lose a lot of other weight like water and blood volume as the bulk comes off.

nice!

My left knee issue started a long time ago when I jumped after a long layoff while being fat, during the jump plant, it must chipped the cartilage from knee mistracking from bad mobility, flexibility, tissue tightness and all that stuff. I sorta forgot about that for a while, and didn't have any issue with it when I started hitting the weights hard, but after a year or so one day when squatting I think a chunk of it came loose and jammed into the joint. All caused by knee mistracking etc. I battled that for ages, but tissue work, stretching, and when I finally worked on my long and short adductors ( something you don't normally pay attention to that much) it got sorted - which also fixed the outer right hip issue I was having back then

I even had scans done of the knee and was prepared for surgery. Back then I thought it was my meniscus, but the MRI showed zip, and the doctor said I had great knees... turns out the scan doesn't show the damage under knee cap too well... anyway I know what it is now, as it does click once in a while from a bit of the cartilage lightly brushing against something, but doesn't hurt.

Only major issues I have now is my right ankle, that old ankle injury I had has all sorts of gunk in there, causing bad ROM, and impingement if the knee goes too far forward - it's been a bitch fixing it, but it's slowly improving.
And now my inner right hip somewhere near the short adductor aches a bit, but no issue when BBalling, probably from my last 6 months of long hours on  the computer, along with my right TMJ jaw ache... bad posture and joint tightness issues. Which are improving from all the work I have been doing, releasing and stretching

ah damn. nice tho that stuff is improving.

re flexibility/mobility: i've been gaining a greater appreciation lately for pool work.

I know walking well, if you recall I did those 6 hour long hikes through rough bushland around here
In hindsight too much work for so little gain fat burning wise, and I think it killed my hops a little as well.
I think my insulin resistance back then didn't help - so fasting right now is the key to resetting my insulin and set point bodyweight back down.
My body likes to settle around 90-100kg, whereas I was around 70kg in my early 20s

ya i like the fasted walks. gives it an extra kick. also re bushland etc - uphill walks (if you have elevation/uphill trails etc), also very beneficial imho.

fasted walk + elevation + soft surfaces = <3

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Yeah I got into ant keeping big time - goes well with bush walks, looking for ant queens 

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3p9-jc7GDA" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3p9-jc7GDA</a>

man that was fu*king nuts. looks so crazy zoomed in like that.

also that site where you can get ants is pretty cool, had no idea this was a thing until i saw your vids:

https://www.antseverything.com.au/store/antsforsale

pc!

Quote from: LBSS on September 13, 2019, 05:39:53 am

wednesday

- run 11.47km in 59:02
ran to and then around in victoria park. beautiful, got turned around a few times, went a bit farther than i intended.

This is where I do 90% of my running. It's gorgeous. Nice little food/produce market on Sundays too.

I actually ran there Wednesday too, maybe we went passed each other that day.

 

Quote from: LBSS on June 13, 2019, 06:28:21 am

two years to wait for surgery in the public system? yeesh. i wonder what non-emergency ortho waiting times are like on medicaid (public insurance only for low-income/poor people) in the US.

how much would the private surgery cost? and do you have insurance that would cover it or would it be out of pocket?

I went back to my GP yesterday because my Achilles is not feeling any better at all! He called the Flinders Medical Centre and they said I still have at least 2 years to wait because I was triaged as a semi-urgent case. Non-urgent patients have 10+ year waiting periods.

Private surgery would cost thousands and even with private insurance I would still be up for out of pocket costs.

fuck that's awful. god damn. :/

how much would private surgery cost? do they give you the estimates etc?

wednesday

- run 11.47km in 59:02
ran to and then around in victoria park. beautiful, got turned around a few times, went a bit farther than i intended.

- stretch

thursday

- walk a lot
spent most of the day wandering around london while gf studied. wouldn't ordinarily log but i walked at least 12-13 km over the course of the day, which is much above normal. the last time i walked that much and then tried to run a normal amount afterward i hurt my shin. hence no run yesterday on top of the walking.

awesome 

12-09-19

Plan going forward is something like this:

weighted chins 1x/week
OAC session 1x/week
run 3 or 4 x/week

Tomorrow will be a run, Saturday rest, Sunday weighted chins. OAC stuff for now seems to take too much out of me to be able to do it twice a week, and I feel like having some more rep work (even if it's just 3-5) on weighted chins is probably useful. Then as I get stronger and have adapted more to OAC worked I can drop the weighted chin stuff again.

OAC sessions will be focused on isometrics rather than eccentrics, since again they're a bit less draining. I'll do the 3-4x3-5s hangs w/ 40-60s rest session.

Feel a bit better having a vague structure again.

nice! it's an interesting combo: "run + climb (oac/pulls)". running keeps my pulls feeling decent, dno why. dips usually weaken but pulls stay strong - if i'm getting decent run volume / occasional speed work etc. the bf% improvements also help obviously.

just keep the running ez. don't go crazy with it and back off if you feel anything nagging - another one or two day's rest won't cause any setbacks. can always walk/run too, if you want to just stick to a schedule & aren't feeling too great.

pc!

yo man!!

Was really cool when I saw that you had joined up - lots of people on here know you. And a great way to start posting: progress journal post flood!

yea I think addressing body comp should probably be the biggest focus right now, especially given the knee issue. I remember seeing you get back into stuff a while back, then reading about the knee issue, was hoping it was completely gone by now - injuries suck.

I really like long walking for weight loss & re-strengthening. Nice and easy 1-2 hour sessions (after you're adapted). 1 hour more often, 2 hours once a week (like a weekly long run), say on the weekend. I've gone through some big blocks of long walking, always ends up fixing lots of nagging issues & improving body comp. Especially if I do most of it on soft surfaces (grass, dirt, mulch etc). It's def underrated IMHO.

Kingfish uses incline walking on a treadmill occasionally. He's a big fan of it as well.

But yea, the biggest thing really is diet.

not too sore from BBall, but right ankle/heel is sore.
Gotta be careful with this, don't want it to get chronic, and achilles tear is the last thing I want...

yea def, that's always been my worst nightmare - almost a phobia of mine tbh.



Those ant videos you have are pretty cool!

pc man!