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didnt manage to hit the gym today, am in the middle of a 11 day stretch of continuous graveyard shift work...

eek !!

10/12/2010

bw = 153
soreness = none
aches/injuries = back a little, left knee a bit(still bugging from that 225 @ 4 x 15 session on squat, F that shit)
fatigue = low

workout #1: jumps + lifting
- jumps started out shitty, felt weak, focused though and got up better, still a bad session today, what can i expect though, havn't been jumping max in the last 5 days or so and bad sleep today (8am to 2pm).. whatever, will jump again max on thurs..
- hit 30" on RL plant from 2 step (which is good)
- hit 33" on LR plant from full runup (not great but i did hit it like 10 times, so at least happy with that.. took like 10-15 jumps just to get to 33 then i was hitting it more often.. thursday will probably be better, might caff up again dno.
- OH YA, my glute cramped/strained early on in the jump session.. might have had a little to do with it.. glute cramp is a good sign though.

- PIN 9 SQUAT (PARALLEL OR BELOW, dno): 205 x 3 (actually tough, but kept it light cause of my glute)
- pullups: mostly neutral grip, one set chinup:  5, 10, 10, 10, cup(10), 8, 8



workout #2:
- glute bridges, 1s pause at top: 4 x 100
- CURRENTLY DOING: calf raises: going for 10 sets of 50, glutes are dying hah


peace!

Damn nice on the video!
It's actually so good that it looks more like a bad pro work than like a great amateur one.
^^^
That's somehow a great compliment!

haha thanks!

if i had a team helping me, like, telling them the kind of shot i wanted etc, it would have come out alot better.. seems to be my recurring problem, shooting from too far away.. i need to go with my gut on how far to put the cam, THEN move in 10-20 feet closer hah..

i want to make some really weird/insane vids, it's kind of hard going out there and shooting that kind of thing by yourself, it feels a bit nutty hehe!@$!@ finally manned up though and got one of these videos done, that i have in my 'todo list'.. i have so much more, have to keep manning up and make some cool stuff.

it seems most of the stuff will be a bit eery/sadistic/creepy, dno why.. i'm kind of taking stuff i dream about, and put it on vid.. i mean if i could get good at doing that, i'd be very happy.. !!!!!

peace man

A.P. Day 8:

- Warmup: Light jog, sprint drills.
- SPRINT WARMUP: 2x15 yard sprints.

- DOUBLE-LEG BOUND: 5 x 5 bounds
- MR tuck jumps: 4 x 10
- MR pogos: 4 x 5


- SQUAT: 3 x 5 @ 190 lbs.
- GHR: 3x5
- CALF RAISE: 4 x 10 w/ 135 lbs.

- Stretch. (and crazy huge post workout shake because I got braces and eating hurts like hell. But I still ate later in the night anyway... cause I'm manly like that)

Hamstrings feeling all better. GHR actually felt pretty good. I've found 5 reps is usually my AF, can't get any more.

I think I'll be adding short box jumps for speed daily (or as often as possible) to my routine. It was suggested by one of my coaches, but of course I need to start light. "Athletes don't hurt themselves doing too much. They hurt themselves doing too much too fast" -Erik Bates, my head coach. (not the one who suggested box jumps)

Squats felt pretty awesome. I'm going slightly below parallel every time. I just don't feel comfortable going absurdly deep on them. Last year I could barely manage getting to parallel, now it's my comfort zone.

nice!! good workout today..

man i hated braces, so much.. hell

Sup everyone, my name is Martin (some friends call me guga). Ive been surfing the forum for over a month reading the journals and the funny theards (sexy pics, off topic and some of the hilarious crap that adarqui posts) but I was too lazy and too weak to register ( I wanted to increase my numbers a little bit first lol). Why I train, because my dream has always been being able to dunk hahaha.

welcome man!!!

So I guess that Im gonna add my stats and training background here and also on a journal.

Current stats.

Age: 26 (fuk)
Height: 5'11
BW: 150-152lbs
Squat (oct-2-2010): did 85kg x 6 reps (190lbs) (left 2, maybe 3 on the tank) so I guess my max is around 105kg (230lbs.. yeah it sucks badly).
Current VJ/CMJ: 24"
Current 2 leg running VJ: 26"

PRs
Squat around the same number maybe 5kg+
VJ: 26"
2 leg running VJ: 28" (crappy explosiveness even when at that time I was feeling smooth on my jumps)

well, you're not too far off your pr's, so make a good push & stay consistent, improving your strength / getting in max jumps, you'll get past those in no time.

Training background.

Ive been training (if you can call that training) for 5 years. Yes, only 1.5xbw crappy. Used to do only ATG Squats (I mean going downnnnn, not breaking parallel). At the beginning I was making quick gains, but at a certain poin, the lack of quality food (im skinny) didnt let me improve anymore, in short resume I was getting strong, then loosing weight (muscle mass ofc). so I got stuck.

At the beginning of 2010 I stopped lifting since I lost my motivation and I didnt lift for 4-5 months, then I bitch slapped me to stop being a pussy and started to lift again now taking more notice about my diet and adding supplements since a was lacking on proteins (using whey now). Still not as motivated as before but lifting. Now Im squatting parallel since I think it helps more with the force absorption, that is something that I always lacked when I was jumping (I just can jump at my max tacking 2-3 relaxed steps, not from a run).

have you ever done anything like MR tuck jumps/pogos/depth drops for improving your force absorption?

Since there isnt a single decent gym at my city I bought my own stuff to train at home (I havent found a gym with a squat rack) and I only have pins so I cant squat till failure.

I rarely train my upper body, well I do pull ups and push ups two times a week, sometimes some tricep/bicep.

I guess is too much shit for an intro.

it's alright man just look forward, forget the past.. btw, still improve strength on upper, even if it's just weighted pushups/dips/chins/pullups, it helps.

peace man

Quote from: adarqui on October 12, 2010, 06:52:34 am

workout: dunk session, caff'd up hardcore!
- drove 45 minutes to a court that should be open until 11pm based on the website (FAU outside courts), got there at 9:50, lights were already off.. fml

Yo I HATE it when that shit happens! You heard of Kevin Billerman? He coached FAU men's bball from 1995-1999. He now coaches a hs team in NC

nope never heard of him.. ya i ended up going to bed at 8:30am cause of those stupid shits not keeping the lights on.

boom, good, bad, wutitis?

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Unfortunately, I only have an audio and still pics...but in order to provide "proof" that I'm actually the one in the vid, I've included a "review" http://www.cvnc.org/reviews/2004/may/RSOFuture.html from the classical voice of nc...I'm mentioned briefly in the 3rd to last paragraph; they misspell my name as Sreeniker Ram instead of Sreeniket Ram, lol...

It was back in 2004, when I was 16 and I still played bball, could dunk a tennis ball, and wasn't on anti-depressants lol...

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