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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: June 30, 2019, 09:42:04 pm »
regarding the long stretch sessions: i've always liked them, but sometimes have gotten wrecked by them - so it turns out being a love/hate relationship. i'm starting to learn how to do them more safely.

but it also reminds me of that Goggins interview. he just felt so bound up, that he couldn't take it anymore, and started stretching for 2-6 hours etc. until finally he "unwound himself". i've felt similar for a long time.

i get very frustrated when i just make a "normal movement" and I feel so much tightness or literally tweak/strain something. it pisses me off beyond belief. trying to see if I can truly improve my flexibility/mobility for once.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: June 30, 2019, 09:24:12 pm »
i'm also doing weird things with stretching now too (1-2 hour sessions). even with the injury to my right hip/glute/sacral spine, my hip/hamstring/glute flexibility is way better than it was pre-injury. my legs feel great on these light runs. feeling really loose. i just need the small injuries (tears/tendonitis/whatever) to disappear, then i'll feel great.

so this injury has caused me to:
1. do some extreme experimenting with my diet
2. do some semi-frequent extreme stretching

i'm doing stuff with stretching/mobility that would have wrecked me months ago.. and now it has no effect on me. it's kind of mind blowing.

have to be careful with that stuff for sure tho.. i try and stay very relaxed and just slowly melt into the stretches. everything is a "long hold".

I have a few stretches which "trigger" my right glute/hamstring injury (rope hamstring, standing single leg hamstring). I have a few positions which trigger my sacral spine injury (standing bent over double leg hamstring), and i have lots of little positions which trigger my right hip pain - which i've actually "attacked" and that's what's lead to some crazy hip mobility improvements.

in the end i'm hoping i've added new stuff to the arsenal. it'd suck to be permanently injured, but if my left glute/hamstring/sacral spine could "magically heal" out of nowhere, in literally one day, i'm holding out hope that my right can do the same.

I had made my right injuries disappear with some extreme stretching, but I re-aggravated it badly by doing the standing double leg bent over hamstring stretch. I think that's how I injured something in my sacral spine initially, by holding that position too long. Then I think there was a chain reaction of issues which just blew up after that. It all seems very related, it's very weird.

and here I can run 1 hour up and down a hill today in a great workout, but completely relaxed/not pushing it, and feel fine during the workout.. if I had pain during runs, I wouldn't run. so that's why these injuries are frustrating. If I go FAST, then ya I can feel stuff, so that's why I can't race etc.. but most of the "pain" I feel, is when i'm just moving around and bend over to pick up a dog toy to throw it etc. it's odd. I don't get how I can run like I do, pain free, and then do some simple stuff and it feels like my glute/hamstring is ripping. It's some weird shit.

loool

pc!

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: June 30, 2019, 09:14:02 pm »
Quote from: adarqui on June 30, 2019, 09:07:22 pm
Quote from: Coges on June 30, 2019, 09:05:59 pm
Quote from: adarqui on June 29, 2019, 11:24:23 pm
been doing weird stuff with my diet for the last month or more, which is making some of this stuff possible now.

Anything worth sharing?

not eating.

 :trollface:

but ya seriously.. not eating.

like waking up around 9 AM, drinking water until about 2-3 PM, drinking some OJ, more water, then maybe running later at night, then eating a meal (rice + sauteed veggies etc, or fruit etc). semi-frequent milk. not-so-frequent chicken/meat etc. staying very hydrated.

so like crazy light.

way diff than i've ever eaten before.

basically trying to become accustomed to going long bouts without eating meals. drinking much more water.

i guess it's kinda IF-ish, but not IF.

i'm def getting leaner again. my BW was up to 163-ish before i started re-focusing hard on diet. down to 153-ish 1-1.5 months later.

in a nutshell i'm just trying to destroy the craving of being hungry. after a month or so of this, it seems like it's working. yesterday i wasn't hungry at all, even during my run, and i hadn't eaten for 24 hours. that's unusual for me. i can't run hungry at all, so the fact that my run was so good last night, having not eaten in so long, is remarkable. lol.

so ya nothing special.

i want to get my BW back really low, potentially under 140 again.

still being injured, i'm trying to become as light as possible. if i can't train as hard as I want due to injury, then I can try to tackle something like becoming "leaner/lighter than i've ever been" in the meantime. It's fun and I don't care how much I weigh or how I look etc, so it's not a problem for me. Beyond that, I always feel way better when I get very thin/light/lean. Taking load off of my knees/hips/back by getting very light again, will also help with injury prevention/recovery (i mean it usually does for me). I gained a bit too much weight towards Feb, and my run volume was way up, and i could feel it on some runs, and I eventually got hurt. Reminds me of trying to dunk at 160-170+. dno tho. curious to see how I feel when i'm ~140 again.

pc man!

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: June 30, 2019, 09:07:22 pm »
Quote from: Coges on June 30, 2019, 09:05:59 pm
Quote from: adarqui on June 29, 2019, 11:24:23 pm
been doing weird stuff with my diet for the last month or more, which is making some of this stuff possible now.

Anything worth sharing?

not eating.

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800m+ Running and/or Conditioning / Re: Misc Running Photos
« on: June 30, 2019, 08:00:07 pm »
amazing finish, incredible shot.


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Basketball / Re: NBA 2019 - 2020 Season
« on: June 30, 2019, 07:24:01 pm »
free agency is so exciting.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: June 30, 2019, 07:19:28 pm »
Quote from: maxent on June 25, 2019, 02:28:52 am
Thanks guys. I just got the MRI back. Good news is i know what's wrong. Bad news is it sucks. It doesn't look like it's treatable or fixable in any way. When doc told me it hit me like a huge wave of sadness realising i've probably trained myself into this and i can't train myself out of it. Ive worn out the cartilage in my knee and the loose bits get stuck and cause the soreness, weakness, loss of stability ive been experiencing. It all adds up, amazing how a single can tell you so much. Not sure what i will do for health now .. i needed to do more cardio now i dont know if i can.

absolutely sucks man. really hoping you can bounce back from this eventually.

any plans yet on maybe a second opinion? looking at potential cartilage repair techniques/operations? you mention it's not fixable in any way, but there might be some options out there.

your last statement is important: "Not sure what i will do for health now". Sounds like you're dealing with some major stuff right now, so it might be hard to focus on health, but it might be more important now than ever. I imagine the last thing you'd want to do is "let yourself go" and get out of shape + put on tons of weight, which would put more stress on your knee(s). I mean you could still focus on nutrition, potentially still do some "cardio" via walking or swimming/pool workouts (like LBSS mentioned), just anything you can find under pain threshold which could facilitate healing/strengthening/health benefits as well. You could also strengthen upper body, core, and even legs - but i imagine you would want to avoid "knee bends" under load (ie avoiding squats, lunges etc). You could still potentially do RDL's eventually, calf raises, upper, core, etc. BUT, you're going to have to drop the "aggressive approach to strength/performance training" and instead do everything safe, controlled, light-moderate and literally everything under pain threshold (not pushing through any pain), at least for a long while. toning down the hyper-aggressiveness will help you make less mistakes that could further injure you.

these moments suck and they can seem like there's no way out, but if you slowly re-focus on health itself, there's alot you can do and it'll help you keep your sanity. this stuff is awful & happens to many athletes, but the resulting "tangents" can sometimes be very rewarding.

hope you're doing ok man.

peace!

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: New year new me
« on: June 30, 2019, 06:29:53 pm »
Quote from: gukl on June 30, 2019, 02:44:16 am
What a week.

Flew to the alps last Sunday, currently in the airport coming back.

Climbed two 4000m peaks, gran paradiso (highest entirely in Italy) and Mont Blanc (highest in the alps and western Europe at 4810m) via the Italian route (1800m in one go for summit day). We had dinner at 7pm in the hut, breakfast was served a few hours later at midnight and we left at 12.45 ( didn't sleep a second due to anticipation), climbed through the night with the sun coming up once we were well over 4000m. Summitted after around 6 hours and got back to the hut at around 10.30am the following day.

By far the hardest thing I have ever done both physically and mentally. On the summit push my legs were on fire, at that Altitude oxygen is 50% less so the body goes into anaerobic mode, full of lactate, gasping for air. Coming down was even worse, one of the hardest things was having to focus so intensely for such a long period of time on zero sleep, a wrong step could be the end.

God damn what a week.

damn dude that's nuts. those photos are incredible. i wasn't thinking about how hard it was when i saw them, sounds scary but what an experience.

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Basketball / Re: NBA 2019 - 2020 Season
« on: June 30, 2019, 06:26:12 pm »
BKN Nets to sign Durant, Kyrie, AND Deandre Jordan.

WTF.

MAJOR.

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800m+ Running and/or Conditioning / Re: The Misc Running News Thread
« on: June 30, 2019, 06:24:18 pm »
glad Shelbo got beat today in the 1500m. her sit & kick style is awful.

hangs near the back of the pack until the last lap then goes hard the last 200m.

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800m+ Running and/or Conditioning / Re: The Misc Running News Thread
« on: June 30, 2019, 06:11:33 pm »
the 2 mile was great:

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3XSLJH31j4" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3XSLJH31j4</a>

lots of videos on there.

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800m+ Running and/or Conditioning / Re: The Misc Running News Thread
« on: June 30, 2019, 06:10:58 pm »
Sifan Hassan, gutsy 300m. man she gives everything. always completely spent by the end.

Cheruiyot wins the bowerman mile. Great finish to that race.

Coleman, 9.70 100m.

lol @ people thinking Norman was going to break the 400m WR today, gtfo. people are nuts. he ran like 44.60. How's he going to break the WR without people helping him (ie a crazy fast race). Just don't see it happening unless he's pushed.

Castor 1:55 800m.

Emma with another huge 2nd place in the 300m steeple.

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800m+ Running and/or Conditioning / Re: Middle to Long distance physique pics
« on: June 30, 2019, 05:53:16 pm »
Lomong shred.






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800m+ Running and/or Conditioning / Re: Middle to Long distance physique pics
« on: June 30, 2019, 05:52:31 pm »
Centro shred.


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800m+ Running and/or Conditioning / Re: nfl local running scene
« on: June 30, 2019, 05:51:22 pm »
Enoch

4:05 road mile, in the heat/humidity.

dude is on another level right now - and he's MARATHON TRAINING. wtf. crazy how for some people, that volume is really what they need. i mean this dude is PR'n mile, 5k, etc, and he's mostly doing marathon workouts/volume. bet he wishes he did this in college lol. now he's like 33.

he could probably sub4 a mile up north, especially on a track.

https://www.strava.com/activities/2491424215

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