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RSR weighted chinups -- W1D1
WCU 6x2x103

Notes:
Using +20kg - really hard. I mean, i'm weak but hopefully my body responds and I can give this an honest shot.

how's your ankle? are you able to walk without limping? can you put weight on it when you stand on both feet? how's the ROM? swelling?

I'm on crutches for a while but right now i cud def limp okay. It would be fine til tmr when i'd know i fked up by walking so soon. Made that mistake several times already before learning not to. Just gonna use crutches and give my body a chance to heal up - no need to disrupt the healing process. ROM is kinda funny cause my foot swelled so much that at one point i cudnt even curl my toes. i can do that now that but significant swelling is still present. i can put weight on it just have to make sure to put it on the toes rather towards heels when walking.

in other news, i made it through date 3 today and she wants to see me on monday again. I must be doing something right though my self confidence has plummeted since injury. hopefully i dont mess this up from here.

Weighted chinup 5x83, 5x93, 3x98, 5x93
Pullup 5x83

Notes:
Only compound exercise that isn't contraindicated at the mo. Felt okay. Didn't use caffeine didn't wanna mess around with stimulants right now. It's been 10 days since I lifted. Feeling myself getting soft and weak. Hopefully htis will stem the tide somewhat. I have given myself the lofty goal of doing a weighted chinup at 140kg in 12 weeks time. Will program it using RSR and a training weight of around 90-100kg - haven't decided exactly which. If monday comes and i can handle having a 20kg plate hanging off my waist without much trouble - then that's what it will be.

Dude that sucks!!! Hope its minor!

sucks man. this is why i "retired" from ultimate frisbee. ankle sprains are a biiiiiiiitch.

That is some shit news. Sorry to hear that.
Good luck with the recovery mate.

Thanks. Hopefully will be able to train around it soon. But some days it feels better (i guess when i rest and ice and so on) and then the following day i'll make it feel much worse because I should have continued resting rather than taking it as a sign I am back on my feet. Im back on crutches today after yesterday being off them.

Vag I actually found my R leg really sore lately cause it's been working 2x as hard. My strong leg is the injured L one. So i guess one good thing about all of this is i'll be able to bring up my weaker leg! lol. I'll go see a physio tmr and get him to strap my ankle up. That should allow me better healing. I will try to learn from him how to DIY since I'm not interested in dropping mad $$ on physios over teh next few months.

Just as I was getting in the best shape of my life, did my ankle tonight. Pretty bad. Will get an xray tmr morning and see whats up. But anyways, this sucks.

We had our semi final game today btw. I went down around 3-4 mins into the game. My team played really well, scores were 2pts within the other team (they were favourites) while we were the last seeded team into the semis. So super proud of my guys, they played extremely hard.

That's a wrap.

I had a good game. We lost by one which sucks but we dominated that game for the most part. Lost our best player to injuy at around halfway thru 2nd half. I felt like we should have won anyway. I missed an and1 opportunity layup then hit 1/2 ft on that  - i guess if i had made the shot and the ft i would have helped us win. But I can live with that.

the day that i strain my elbow doing a windmill will be the day that i retire from training a happy, fulfilled man.

me too, bro, me too.

Makes it worse is instead of telling me 'dont think youll ever get one' ppl say, 'yea you should be able to do a mill' - smh fml - like that helps to motivate a brother. need to prove ppl wrong to have that fire to get myself there

Weighed 177.8 today. I'm a lot leaner now that I was last wk when I got 177 for the first time. Ive had a whoosh - no doubt thanks to the basketball ive been playing recently. I played sunday, monday, weds - and it just did amazing things to my bodycomp. Lower back, abdominal fat, even my fat ass is affected. It's kinda enlightening that I can achieve these changes to bodycomp just through bball. I kinda didn't need to do the whole hardcore dieting thing. My bodyweight hasn't changed much if at all and still such huge changes in fat loss. Hard to explain. Now feels like im about a kilo and half loss away from being pretty ripped. Can prob do it by 1st feb but im in no hurry to get there, happy to let it happen naturally while I keep getting better in the gym and on the court. Conditioning yall, it's the secret to bodycomp.

All this training though has not come without cons - I  strained my spinal erectors on the RHS yesterday on the first rep of a set of ohp. I jammed up my left elbow pretty good attempting a windmill the other day. So these things are starting to add up. Would like to get injury/nag free again.