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Well that was a pretty good vid. How'd you measure it?

Just my opinion but I don't like the way you drop down from your paused position, it's loading the the lumbar spine in flexion, which is not great if you can avoid it. Also a bit of squat morning on those heavy attempts but I guess you know that. I have no doubt you can get to 42'' in a year but you gotta watch the back!

Well im happy with the results so far in that ive gotten stronger and put on some muscle. But along has come some fat and the eating for performance thing is a bit too openended. It wont end well, i can see me getting up to mid 80kgs moving some okayish weights but having 10kg excess fat to to lose, not that keen on that situation.

Deal with that when it comes and you want to peak. T0ddday has given you great advice for that stage over the years throughout this journal. Without the muscle gains on those chicken legs of yours, you won't sniff 42'' regardless!

Yesterday was one of those days which changes everything. Playing pickup with my mate was a game changer. He's 6'6" about 115kg and he blocked the shit out of me on a drive from behind, aka lebron james. I have work to do. Want to be a lean 85-90kg playing against him and holding my own. So um, if you had to add 40kg to your paused squat workset, how wud you do it? Asking for a friend.. haha.

That should not be a game-changer. Putting 40kgs on your back squat will not stop that. Anything happening to you from behind on the court is awareness and body position. It's the same as when you get stripped from behind after you drive past someone and they tap the ball out behind your back: in the absence of extreme speed gains, you have to get your body between the ball and the defender to stop that happening. Same with getting blocked from behind. Get your body in the way so they can only foul, or reverse it. You can dunk easily with your current vertical and height, so why not make those open layups --> open dunks or unblockable finger rolls at the rim? That's pure skills practice, one dribble layups from the 3-pt line, nothing weights will do for you there. On top of that, everyone, including LeBron, gets blocked from behind occasionally, but they'll go hard at the rim the very next play. It's nothing to get one shot blocked in a whole game ...unless you let it affect you mentally.

Thanks Acole14,
I rested up a bit, skipping quarter squat day, and only preformed 2 jump session last week.  And it is monday today, I skipped my Squat again... and head to my lunch jump session.

My right knee still have issue, the dull sore pain is still there. and it is affecting me, I can not jump Freely with 100%...
Stretching, and foam rolling does not help.. this is confirmed.  I am going to take out the old philips infrared therapy lamp... and see if that can help.

I had not have any knee injury for loooong time.. consider myself lucky.. i am eating gluosamine everytime i experienced any sort of pain... but this time it seems to be not enough.

The concrete out floor court is what i have easy access to... everyday...
indoor court is.. luxurious in my city...  and grass land is not easy to find too.

Yeah I'm the same, hard to get good court access when you need it. General stretching/foam rolling is not helpful for this injury, but I found this one was very helpful as the strain can come from knee/hip misalignment when you jump:

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYOGKlr505U" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYOGKlr505U</a>

It might help. Ice packs followed by heat packs is good for healing. Infrared......probably does nothing tbh.

170422 Knee alert (right knee)

being left right plant, my left is my dominant leg, however since i changed my angle of my jump, the first thing I notice is my right knee start to be sore.
Last week is a mess. with daily rain, busy work schedule, I only manage to Jump twice and Qtr Squat once.

However, after my 2nd jump session, my right knee start to be real sore with dull pain above my knee cap on the right.  I have trouble walking down stair, or standing from sitting down with force on my right. 

I started to foam roll right away, but pain still exist.  Being real caution now.

I am still spending time at rim 2... hope to get better at it.. before Russian Squat Phase 3.

Are you sure that rim isn't a bit higher? Must be the angle.

It sounds like chondromalacia patellae, I had that last year for a bit. If that's what it is, it's a simple overuse injury and you just need to manage the load of jumps. Foam rolling isn't going to do much but heat packs will increase the blood flow and make the cartilage heal faster. It does heal pretty well. Do you have to jump on concrete all the time?

That's awesome to hear. Sounds like you've been extremely busy on the study/work front and congratulations on the family news!

Thanks mate. How's yours coming along? I forgot to say congrats on making that Aus team. Nice work! Will the games be streamed?

Damn acole you been slack on the updates!

Fill us in with what's been happening with your training or even just life in general.
Hope you've been well and Happy Easter!

Thanks mate, hope you had a good one. Yeah I've been meaning to update for ages so I appreciate the bump. I've still been reading everyone's training and happy to see everyone is killing it. Just been slammed with finishing up the old PhD. Training's been put on the backburner for a bit for sure but the end is in sight.

Last time I did anything of note was at the final round of aths comp. The last training session before i went hard and definitely irritated my bicep femoris tendon....wasn't feeling good to flex the knee at all. Probably shouldn't have run but people were dropping out like flies so felt obliged. Flared up again in warmups and ended up running a painful 12.52 100m, not very good. Should have called it there but needed to just put in a token LJ effort....big mistake. I jumped pretty well considering but it was game over from then. Really exploded the next day so I just shut down everything for the next month, just did UB/core at the gym. Been doing that for the last two months, been a bit demotivated and the BFT is still sore. That's the problem with tendinopathies - if you ignore the pain it just gets exponentially worse and takes forever to go away (similar to my foot, which I kept training on and took a year to heal!).

Once I've finished up (probably end of May), I'll be working for a bit here getting $$ until end of July. My partner and I are having a baby boy due around then and decided that because I don't have a FT job lined up immediately that it would be nice to get out of the city for 6-9 months to save money and just have a break from city life and working 40-50hrs/week, just for brief interlude. Moving back to my old home in Geelong as my parents have moved out to the country and were planning on selling, but we'll live there until the end of the year or until I sort myself out. Will be good for the first tricky 6mths of having a new child and also training. Big vert training plans for that period. Training for vertical jumping has always been awkward  in Melbourne compared to just lifting or running due to lack of available facilities to get in jumping practice. But back home that won't be an issue. It won't be forever, planning to sort myself out job-wise over that time and move back to Melbourne or elsewhere for 2018 so it'll be a nice deadline to get something respectable achieved before I get timed out.

Sub 74kg at 6'3 and feeling suicidal... hmm better diet down some more. I really don't understand your reasoning behind this... given you seem to be a pretty intelligent guy.

The most common statement in this journal: maxent is a smart, hard-working guy, why does he do this crazy shit?

Let's stop making excuses for him. He might be intelligent, but he's obsessed with all the wrong aspects of athletic training.

For years, the most knowledgeable forum members have tried to convince him that:

- he has some degree of body dysmorphia;
- he needs to stop obsessing over intractable 'hormonal imbalances' and accept that he's just a bit fatter than your average athlete (nbd btw);
- following these extreme fasting diet cycles to cut a bit of fat is counter-productive to long-term athletic gains.

They have all failed. I'm at the point where I really don't know why I would waste my time posting any more on this journal except that I'm worried about his mental health.

Just read this sample page from FOUR YEARS AGO:

http://www.adarq.org/progress-journals-experimental-routines/chasing-athleticism/msg84160/#msg84160

Nothing has changed except that maxent is older, probably weaker and definitely less athletic than he could have been with the same training effort redirected. Now he can't run or jump on this diet.....that's OK though because it's only 'short-term'. Unfortunately as soon as a bit of adipose goes back on, it'll be back to pmsf and no meaningful training volume. He can talk about long-term planning for muscle gain and setting strength baselines while getting to x% bf all he wants....he's been doing it for well over four years.

Again, I always say these things with the caveat that I want him to succeed and be proven wrong. Happy to put ideas forward but not if it's just falling on deaf ears constantly.

Shoulder/wrist imbalances if you use over-under a lot apparently:

https://www.t-nation.com/training/tip-dont-use-a-mixed-grip-when-deadlifting

Thoughts on Coges' post or.....?