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BS 2x110 (lol), 1x130
RDL 8x110, 8x150, 0Fx192.5
BHT 8x150

Anoda bad workout. I give up lol

1937
That trip last weekend really set me back. Injury and poor workouts and my motivation suffers, which I thought i could out-recover by eating but I should know better by now that it only helps a little and not as much. 

Scale read 82.9kg / 182.8lb.  ... i need to stop .. it's not worth it.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: April 30, 2016, 10:56:38 am »
Today i have asymmetric glute doms. On the RHS only. Not left. New exercise was the plate swings. That's kinda interesting

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: April 30, 2016, 10:51:22 am »
Beware the variance in the macros on the labels.  It is not trivial.  It's almost great enough to make logging at this level sort of useless if you eat a lot of labeled food...  They only way you can really log food is if your diet consists mostly of rice and chicken breasts.... Like a bodybuilder...

central limit theorem to the rescue? But i think it would be beneficial for raptor to do some tracking .. just to get an idea.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: April 30, 2016, 06:21:02 am »
It doesn't have them all, i often have to fill in entries. But yeah it's mainly US-centric. Theres calorieking.com.au -- that's out of date and poorly maintained so myfitnesspal is the best choice available, even though it's pretty bad too and often crashes, esp at busy times of the day.

You weigh. I got my digital food scales a while ago and weigh everything even protein shakes( is one scoop really one scoop? ALmost never).  But once oyu've done it for one day, the next day you can just copy the previous days. nd you can save meals to make it easy to load in cals for the day.

Ive tried doing it on paper but it's not as convenient. In future better technology will mean you can just scan a food item and get all the deets  easily and effortlessly .. we have barcodes now but that's not what im talking about, i mean actually getting the macros off a label automatically not by looking up an item in a database..

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: April 30, 2016, 12:49:45 am »
Can't figure out why i'm in a slump ... but last night this is what happened



So yeah, this is how i un-do months of hard work in a single stroke .. sometimes.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: April 29, 2016, 08:36:02 am »
I know everoyne complains about houston for various reasons but honestly I dont see what the fuss is about with Golden state either. Watched some of the series and i was sorely disappointed in both teams play. Curry is out but still, that's just one player. Def enjoyed the atlanta and celtic series so much more .. maybe more than any other series ive ever watched except for the historically great spurs dismantling miami a few years back.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: April 29, 2016, 06:06:47 am »
BS 6x110
BP 2x90(LPR), 5x82.5(LPR), 7x80(LPR), 6x81(LPR)
DIP 3x8x10kg, 8xBW

BS 7x70, 8x70
Plate swings
Medball throws 2x6x10kg (hit a PR of around 9m)
Curls

BW: 178.4

Notes:
Back didn't complain .. thankfully. But my legs were ded and i didn't force the issue by trying to do volume squats. Will do them sunday with fresher legs. That means i will skip track stuff today also. Took the medball to the park but soccer practice was on. I might do curls and more bench tonight though and maybe some recovery squats.


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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: April 29, 2016, 06:00:54 am »
You should search for similar footage from Russia

Yep, crazy!

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: April 29, 2016, 01:28:55 am »
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLAxWC6mKrM" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLAxWC6mKrM</a>

lmao trying to learn how to drive in the states from dash cam footage off youtube  :wowthatwasnutswtf:

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: April 28, 2016, 09:21:54 am »
So the Zen of emptying your glass first? I appreciate the message even though it's a tad patronising.  I admit I have been less than open to trying things that may help progress rather than spinning my wheels. In my defence it wasn't that I always want to avoid them forever but I wanted to achieve one or two things first before moving on to others. Am closer now than ever, for whatever that's worth.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: April 28, 2016, 06:18:37 am »
Plyos that involve moving across the floor though! Cause i do jump squats, depth jumps and dunks already and have that plane covered (up and down). Moving across the floor efficiently is where i'm lacking. It seems you're saying quickness will carry over in any plane but it hasn't / doesn't so it has to be trained specifically. Lets not conjecture about this, it hasn't worked so something different is needed

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: April 28, 2016, 05:42:53 am »
Well, speed is a manifestation of quickness combined with strength. Where strength is non needed, you have "quickness" (for example, how many spacebar key strokes can you get in 10 seconds? The best I got was 110,  I think). That's quickness. Speed is a manifestation of quickness + strength, or quickness + the force to overcome your own bodyweight to express that quickness. That's it.

Now, the movements in which you express that "speed" better or worse depend on the muscle strength that these movements depend upon, your natural quickness (CNS quickness), the muscle strength ratios and your movement efficiency in that particular movement (how often did you practice it with proper form).

So if you feel like you need speed... well... why don't you do sprints while also continuing to improve the posterior chain in the gym? Other than that, all these low level plyos that I suggested are reactive in nature, but submax, so the strength part plays less importance but the "quickness" part (CNS) plays more importance (trying to emphasize low ground contact times, even if you don't get up or forward maximally).

Combine training like this with the strength you get from the weight room and you get speed.

Speed for a basketball player isn't about sprinting though, is it. I mean fast breaks aside, it's about going from 0 to dunk as dt -> 0 kinda thing. I'm not sure. A better word than speed might be quickness but acceleration might be even better.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: April 28, 2016, 05:16:16 am »
Hmm but wait. I NEED more horizontal plane work. these sound like normal up and down jumps? I dont want to focus on jumping higher right now. I need SPEED, can resume working on maxing vertical once gotten faster..

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: April 28, 2016, 05:12:34 am »
lol... what I say, and what you take out from it...

"Low level" plyos would be great for you - you can do a high volume of them (which is what you need, in your case) at a submax intensity.

haha. sorry. so like tuck jumps? they  cool. what else? lets make a list

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