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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: May 06, 2020, 05:45:54 am »
Tue (5/5/2020)
Daily Activity: 
Daily Training: 38 days
BW: 

BS 6x60, 6x80, 5x110
OHP 2x8x20

Notes:

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: May 04, 2020, 11:21:13 am »
Mon (4/5/2020)
Daily Activity: 
Daily Training: 37 days
BW: 

BS 6x60, 6x80
OHP 2x8x20

Notes:
Change of plan. Going to focus on upper body and rehab lower body properly. I notice my right glute and hamstring are both significantly weaker in fact, unlike what i had reported. So going to add in RDLs, single leg back extensions, etc, in addition to SL work like split squats. Will still do squats but not stress progress anymore. BP is going to take focus i think.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: May 03, 2020, 05:50:16 am »
Sun (3/5/2020)
Daily Activity: 
Daily Training: 36 days
BW:  84.0kg (no shoes)

BS 2x8x20
OHP 2x8x20

Notes:
tapered off caffeine as well, 100mg yesterday, 0mg today. will start going up in weights tmr. not sure this was worth it .. i feel weak and sluggish .. but that's also because im trying to clean up my diet and probably undereating now.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: May 02, 2020, 05:20:53 am »
Sat (2/5/2020)
Daily Activity: 
Daily Training: 35 days
BW:  85.5kg (no shoes)

BS 6x50
OHP 2x8x20

Notes:
Continuing the supercomp. My plan is to start increasing the weights tmr, will do a 70kg topset. I messed aroudn with split squats and yea there is something there for sure, my right leg really struggles with just the empty bar. so make that a staple and lets see if it can sort out my right quad issues. my theory is that while my glutes and hams have bounced back, quads are not on the same level of progression. bi squats allow you to compensate for it b/c the other legs/muscles can take over it seems.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: May 01, 2020, 05:03:39 am »
My goal is to be a lean 85kg. I want to play basketball once covid subsides, i didn't realise i took it for granted that basketball would always be there, but now i can't play i want to, human nature i guess. So will spend the winter training hard to get to that 85kg ripped goal. in june i'll do a 3 week cut to get closer to 80kg (prob not getting there). Then gain to 82.5-85kg and cut, repeating that cycle as many times as needed until im lean and strong at 85kg. I want to play against guards, im done trying to compete with bigs, with my size and strength, i can bully any guard. if that's the only way i can dominate the game i want to dominate, not just sit on the bench watching worse players outplay me cos they're bigger and fatter and im not as good at being big and fat.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: May 01, 2020, 04:59:35 am »
Fri (1/5/2020)
Daily Activity: 
Daily Training: 34 days
BW:  85.6kg (no shoes)

BS 6x50, 6x80
OHP 8x20, 10x20

Notes:
Started super-compensation! Worst case, nothing happens, i end up giving myself a little break and can come back with aplomb, mentally rejuvenated.  Best case, i get stronger etc and come back to even bigger daily min/maxes. I'm a little excited because ive never peaked, never not even once. I regret that ofc, there were times i was prob capable of a 2xbw squat or a 40" vertical, or gametime dunking/beasting, but my obsession with training prob cost me those elusive peaks because i never backed off to peak. Time to try something different! Over may i'm also going to address rehab with SL exercises Coges put me onto but i got distracted with squats (as per usual). And it's time to jump to bigger plates, daily 110kgs is a step back to where i was last year where i was using 6x120kg to warmup every day.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: April 30, 2020, 06:15:55 am »
Thu (30/4/2020)
Daily Activity: 
Daily Training: 33 days
BW:  84.8kg (no shoes)

BS 6x75, 6x100, 3x120, 1x127.5
BP 6x75, 4x86, 1x94, 7x80, 8x76.5
Pullup 5x7.5kg, 8xBW;
LPD, Cable row, Curl: 15x22.5kg

Notes:
After years of afraid of sucking at pullups, im now doing them regularly on bench days. Starting to put a few things together, i noticed if i engage my right lat more, i can lock out a rep easier. Also doing regular assistance with pulldowns, cable rows and curls. If my squat is gone, it's ok, time to grow some upper body muscle and look like i actually lift!

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: April 29, 2020, 06:03:02 am »
Wed (29/4/2020)
Daily Activity: 
Daily Training: 32 days
BW:  84.9kg (no shoes)

BS 6x75, 6x100, 4x122.5, 1x132.5, 10x107.5
BX 20x15kg

Notes:
Last squat sesh for the month. I've started doing unracks with supramax weight .. just to remind my spine what we used to do back in the good old days in 2019.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: April 28, 2020, 07:26:55 am »
Tue (28/4/2020)
Daily Activity: 
Daily Training: 31 days
BW:  85.4kg (no shoes)

BS 6x75, 6x100, 3x120, 1x127.5
OHP 6x50, 3x59.5, 1Fx62, 8x54, 10x51
Chinup 3x15kg, 5x11.25kg, 7x5kg, 8xBW
LPD 15x21.25kg, Cable row 15x20kg, Curl 15x20kg

Notes:
I noticed something is off with my right hip, which is prob why my form has been strange the last couple of weeks. It clicks when i do side leg swings, cos the adductors (or abductors) seem to be too fatigued or something. need to get to the bottom of this before i get hurt, but it's why my squat bottom position has been so erratic .. with variable rom every rep/set

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: April 27, 2020, 06:18:42 am »
Mon (27/4/2020)
Daily Activity: 5
Daily Training: 30 days
BW:  ? (no shoes)

BS 6x75, 6x100, 3x120, 1x127.5
OHP 12x20kg

Notes:
Took a recovery day and didnt do upper body. I'm sick of the fatty i've become, time to clean up diet in a big way. If it means i have to be less ambitious with training, so be it, no point getting fat just to make progress in the gym.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: April 27, 2020, 01:48:33 am »
If i did a peaking thing to squat 140kg i'd be pretty embarrassed for myself .. i never did it once for when i hit my PRs last year all the way from 140kg to 170kg .. it was just regular training everyday, nothign fancy. I did a good honest workout every day. If im going to start doing 'peaking' to just squat 140kg, one, i dont care about peaking to squat 140kg (lol) but also two, and then what, immediately after, how do i go back to normal training from there?

i do agree with you friend, my goal was just to spend 50 days or so and getting quickly closer to where i was before getting hurt. Like a daily 150kg. And then switch to every other day. But when i ran the daily squat experiment last year my observation was yea it works remarkably well but it had diminishing returns beyond around day 100. in days 50-75, i had achieved most of the gains and should stop there b/c otherwise the joints just take too much of a beating. Last time after day 150, even after complete rest for 3 months, my joints were still not recovered. Never again. Day 100 is the absolute limit.

my goal with daily squatting is just get back to squatting 150kg ish and then focus on something else

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: April 26, 2020, 06:11:52 am »
Sun (26/4/2020)
Daily Activity: 5
Daily Training: 29 days
BW:  85.5kg (no shoes)

BS 6x75, 6x100, 6x115, 3x122.5, 1x130, 13x95
BX 20x10kg
Slow Run - 60 min / 7.75km

Notes:
I'm considering doing the supercompensation thing but i still dont know why someone like me would do it, because im not trying to peak for a comp or a PR or anything like that .. so why do it? I mean in terms of regular training, say even daily training, is there a place for such peaky manoeuvres? Suppose by going for supercompensation i actually end up being stronger/bigger whatever beyond the short term, then it's worth it but im not sure if that's something that happens when you rest? by that i mean not to artificially hit a higher peak right after, but as a way to become stronger long term. in my experience whenever i back off, say from injury or life getting in the way, i never end up stronger .. you end up having to take 2 steps back

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: April 25, 2020, 06:50:57 am »
Sat (25/4/2020)
Daily Activity: 5
Daily Training: 28 days
BW:  85.3kg (no shoes)

BS 6x75, 6x100, 3x120, 1x127.5
BP 6x76, 5x85, 1x92.5, 7x79.5, 8x76
Pullup 5x6.25kg, 7xBW, LPD 15x20kg, Curl 10x10kg

Notes:
Even though my squat is gone, upper body is coming around slowly. Think the back extensions have helped if that makes any sense, b/c my hamstring endurance is tested by longer sets of bench press, today i had no issue with hamstrings so that's a good sign. I should also mention prob the hardest part of the bench max single is unracking the bar .. getting off the chest is not so hard in comparison, just one of those quirks of benching alone i guess.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: April 25, 2020, 02:13:05 am »
Fri (24/4/2020)
Daily Activity: 5
Daily Training: 27 days
BW:  (no shoes)

BS 6x75, 6x100, 3x120, 1x130, 6x112.5, 12x92.5, 21x72.5

Notes:

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: April 23, 2020, 07:48:15 am »
Thu (23/4/2020)
Daily Activity: 5
Daily Training: 26 days
BW: 84.0kg (no shoes)

BS 6x75, 6x100, 3x120, 1x127.5
OHP 6x50, 3x59, 2x61.5, 8x53.5, 10x50.1
Chinup 5x12.5kg, 6x6.25kg, 8x1.25kg, 8xBW

Notes:
Come on abs, it's time to recover now, i got goals to reach.

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