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Ok i'll embrace my adipose weight vest and use it to get stronger/fitter/powerful .. but i shud still be getting 1.5-2kg fat loss over 4 weeks .. im THAT fat still, but if i can replace some of that with muscle my bodyweight will stay more or less the same, maybe as low as 77.5kg. Not goign to talk any more about this .. i think that's the resolution lol

I guess as a compromise i could aim to weigh 79kg almost every day .. but recomping and if my bodyweight gets lower than than (eg 78.5kg) i cud eat a bit more. I dont really wanna get too light cos it's fools gold.. being lighter makes you feel more athletic but you're not really.. things just become submax and i get complacent. Harder moving around heavier but it makes you a better athlete. i want to rep 160kg on the backsquat eventually which will mean i can weigh up to 80kg .. but lean. not fat as i am now.

Well this glute soreness hasn't subsided .. it's almost painful today. i'm almost sure it's to do with shooting practice now. It's the only "change" that cud explain it...

Quote from: maxent on July 12, 2016, 07:28:45 pm

When you say lhs or rhs doesn't matter in catch and shoot is that because a good shooter can adjust to either side not that the mechanics are identical.  Like i have two different feels and techniques depending on which side.  Have to consciously bring the ball closer to my head on rhs wing 3pt shot

Yep. Catch and shoot should be identical. The mechanics are exactly the same and should not change depending on the side.

But they do .. lol.. like handedness matters, i shoot with my left so it will look different coming out of the hand depending on which way the ball is going. I need to simplify things but right now i have  a long list of rules to go thru to get a shot off depending on a bunch of factors... it reminds me of when i was learning common lisp and i had this tenous mind model of how things worked and as i learned more, i added some bits but mostly removed a lot of misconceptions

Set shots are something i cue myself to avoid at all costs. . I have a tendency to turn game shots into set shots and come up short lol

When you say lhs or rhs doesn't matter in catch and shoot is that because a good shooter can adjust to either side not that the mechanics are identical.  Like i have two different feels and techniques depending on which side.  Have to consciously bring the ball closer to my head on rhs wing 3pt shot

BS 6x110(LPR lol), 4x120(LPR!), 2x125(LPR), 2x122.5
BP 2x6x80 (LPR), 5Fx80
bball ~ 2hrs (a few dunks but mostly jumpers)

BW: 80kg  / 176.4lb

Notes:
On a day when 70kg warmups were hard/heavy .. i didn't wanna be a pussy about this ..and forced some RMish local PRs. I had no idea what reps or weights to attempt .. but i knew 6x3x120kg wasnt in the cards. I'm ok with this. Next time i'll progress it a little and then some more the following session.

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^lol. Fair enough. I'm convinced. I went to shoot around yesterday even though i decided it was going to be a rest day, it only extended to skipping lifting, not basketball. I hate how i have to rediscover how to shoot every time i get on the court. It's like that movie, 50 first dates, i go through the motions until eventually it clicks, but by then fatigue has set in and i can't continue for very long anyway. kinda annoying..

bw is stabilised at 80kg btw.. which i was hoping wud be closer too 79kg once i came off the diet. so yeah will keep posting that and make sure it stays at or below 80kg i guess

Quote from: maxent on July 11, 2016, 12:23:06 am

So crossroads ... embrace non-existing squat and go all in on athletic stuff like bball/sprinting/dunking ... or take a step back and try to get my squat going? Which way do I go? I just wanna get to repping 140kg and put it on maintenance .. not asking for too much am i? I mean i am, that's adding 20kg to my squat while not gaining any weight .. but maybe i could work harder/smarter/etc...

Keep up the bball/sprinting/dunking because that's the stuff you want to be good at. Squatting is just a means to an end. When I ran my fastest I didn't even squat or lift I was just really light and used to play sports a lot. Sport-specific is what makes you good at the sport. Getting into the mindset of thinking about your squat is making you sound like a powerlifter and honestly the biggest advantage of the squat is really the standing vertical jump.

thanks for the advice. you and todday are managing to drag me along, kicking and screaming, away from my obsession with liftng. i still cant believe or understand why my glutes are so damn sore and it's been 9 days since i had a proper squat/rdl session -- which btw-- wasnt even that hard -- and so the soreness is coming just from dunking and bball. that's crazsy to me. it cud be im transitioning into glute dominance which is a new direction for me, dripping with potential and excitement. we'll see how it goes!