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Nice to see another Aussie on this forum

 
Every thread you make just makes me go:

LISTED HEIGHT- 6'8

Those 30's were still pretty fast and like you said you weren't wearing spikes so if you were that would've made the difference.

Of course, i wouldn't believe he was on drugs.
if he was then ... that might explain his ability to maintain speed so well; loses very little speed and has excellent endurance
PED's (i don't know which one) increase red blood cell counts and helps endurance runners.

but to say everyone at the 100m final will be on drugs lol  that is just hard to believe, except for gatlin, he has previous history of PED usage.
but then i guess the playing field is equal now in terms of the finalist's
lol

There probably still are clean athletes, especially ones that are in countries with stringent drug testing policies or less resources (without high level resources you won't be able to get away with cheating). However, in Bolt's case I don't belive it basically coz of Yohan Blake and the other Jamaicans as well as their relaxed drug testing.

Like T0ddday said- "It's totally possible that Bolt is running ridiculous times cleanly if he is the extreme value.... But if all the other Jamaicans start putting up similar ridiculous times it suggests that something else is at play....". Blake has already showed in the past that he's not immune to the temtations of drugs-  http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/athletics/8167898.stm
Plus he comes out and runs a 19.26 200m, which is ridiculous considering that only 2 other men in history have gone below 19.5 and they are track legends- Michael Johnson & Usain Bolt.

Than you've got other Jamaican athletes that train under different coaches but still end up with some eye raising results. Like Asafa Powell and Shelly Ann Fraser train together. At 17 Asafa run the 100 in 11.45 than the next year he dropped it down to 10.5. Than within 3 years he managed to chisel that down to 9.87. http://speedendurance.com/2009/10/19/asafa-powell-and-carmelita-jeter-peak-training-age/
Shelly Ann Fraser runs 11.74 in 2006, which is actually a de-gression from her 2004 PR of 11.72. Than suddenly in 2008 she's managed to get that down to 10.78. http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=2630660
Steve Mullings tested positive for drugs after his times went from 10 down to 9.8 http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2011/aug/11/jamaican-sprinter-steve-mullings-positive
Than you've got other Jamaican sprinters like Michael Frater that from 2003 to 2007 managed to drop their time by only .1 of a second from 10.13-10.03 than suddenly from 2010 to 2011 they've managed to drop .1 second from 9.98-9.88. Isn't it supposed to be harder to drop your times once you get faster AND older- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Frater
But yeh I guess it's just bannanas and yams that's the reason Jamaicans are soo fast!

Drawing comparison to another country it used to be that Bulgarians dominated weightlifting and everybody wondered how a small European country of 6 million people could manage soo much success. Were they just naturally strong? Did they have superior training methods? Of course in hindsight it turned out that their advantage was attributed to superior 'restorative' (doping) methods.

^^^ thanks for the post. that's true, and i just read through the last couple of months of entries. here's what i see:

1. hit recent PR in jumps and all-time rep PR in squat
2. normal
3. went to afghanistan
4. came back, reset squats
5. got talked into upping volume on squats by kingfish
6. found out gym was closing, freaked out
7. talked myself into doing an explosive regime and not worrying about pushing strength any further
8. court is unavailable for jumps
9. struggle when it is available
10. got sick
11. came back and was filled with joy just by being able to work out again
12. repeat 8-9
13. crisis of confidence

so what's up? i was cruising at the end of august/beginning of september, before i left for kabul. that's when i was drinking milkshakes and working 3x5. i haven't weighed myself in a couple of weeks but i've probably lost a couple of pounds. i've been abroad, i've been sick. both of those things have effects past the actual event. yesterday i freaked out because my mom asked me to help her with something but wouldn't tell me what it was until i showed up -- long story but that sets up some easy and not illogical leaps into dark territory with respect to my little brother. i got wound up and then was kind of spent after that. probably played some role in my shitty attempt at a workout last night. life happens, in other words. it's not an excuse, it's a fact for an amateur with a sick family member and a full-time job that requires regular long-haul travel.

perhaps i should take a deep breath, keep pushing my squat and my weight, but refocus warm ups and supplementary work on glutes. and every once in a while, take an extra day off and try to PR on jumps the next day in the gym. maybe what was working over the summer was consistency and good health and lots of eating, and my brother being healthy.

True that (minus the long-haul travel/sick family member)!
I peaked in mid September and since than my strength has been down a bit as well and I imagine if I timed my sprints my speed would probably be down a bit as well especially my acceleration. For me it was just getting sick, than I had a break up, than I was sick again and dealing with other daily shit but I'm finally starting to get over it again and head back to where I want to be.

Also I think you got it spot on with what you got to do

That was a great cut. Losing 7kg and losing 5+% bf is really good.

What's your bf%?