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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: January 31, 2015, 02:54:49 am »
I just find that hard to fathom! When i was stronger (and 15kg heavier lol), i was warming up with 140kg front squats and it seemed like the easy part of cleaning 140kg if i ever got there. The problem i'd have is being able to pull it up. And you're in the exact opposite situation where you can pull it up but can't squat it. Crazy! But it sounds like we're converging the same target of overall strength and power but from opposite directions. Very cool.

I think DL will help my squat a lot too as well as athleticism. Lets see where I am in a few months time. We'll compare notes then :) I should have a 90kg hang pc soon and from there getting to 100kg will be a (mental) challenge. My main motivation is not having to strip the bar so much after failing squats in the power rack if i can hang pc 2 plates a side :P


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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: January 30, 2015, 10:11:06 am »
140kg clean pulls! daym. how high up are you getting those? Nice. Yeah come to think of it, ive got a thicker bar, think it's 28mm or something. It's a terrible bar; but whatever, i shud just be able to clean 100kg with it which is good enuf for my purposes. I neglected doing a hip hinge exercise for a long time and now ive got one so thankfully i'm getting some athletic gains from it. And deadlifts another new exercise for me shud assist my PC too which will be cool. I should really have been doing this all along but i went all in on squats.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: January 30, 2015, 09:59:20 am »
That makes sense. Better to get started accustomed by making hook grip strong.  I tried hooking 120kg (for hook grip work) and it almost fell outa my hands haha. My hook is reallly bad but it made powercleans so much easier when I used the nice bar at the gym. At home, hook grip doesn't seem to help much, it almost feels like it makes things harder. Im not sure, i think cause i can't rotate the bar a little in my hands on the catch? Whereas wiht a good bar you dont need to do that so it's more comfy.

Yeah I use chalk for everythang even for curls. lulz.

By the way congrats on the crossfit date you've got coming up :P

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: January 30, 2015, 09:35:10 am »
Quote from: gukl on January 30, 2015, 09:32:13 am
do you hook grip for PC?

Sometimes; but not for worksets. I figure the longer i can delay hooking the better since it will build my grip better. WBU?

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: January 30, 2015, 06:43:03 am »
BW: 179

FBS 3x100
FS 1x122.5
BS 5x112.5
HPC 3x3x72.5 (LPR)
OHP 4x60, 5x60, 4x60, 4x60, 3x60
DL 2x6x100 (LPR)
CURL 10x40, 10x45 (LPR), 10x42.5

Squat notes:
Nothing felt right today, too fucked up to squat properly. Basketball i love ya but you ruin me in the gym :(

Hang PC notes:
Just punching in the worksets. Dont feel like doing anything else. These were kinda hard but mainly because my grip was weak and i felt even 60kg challenging in my arms when i was doing my squat prehab stuff.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: January 29, 2015, 09:55:10 am »
Food log. Tomorrow, I'm gonna lift and add that extra basketball training sesh i spoke about before. Last week i was too fucked up but this week i should be better since i've been eating more. 2000 kcal to my body is like going on a feast lol. It doesn't even feel like im cutting. I swear if i was a hard 80kg i'd a lot stronger than the soft one i am right now. Oh well, give it time. Still looking to get under 80kg/176lb first. Probably wont change anything until my bw is around 79kg at which point i might just maintain. We'll see how things are by then though.

I'll triple 122.5kg front squat tmr and maybe 130kg fs (i might save it for sunday though, we'll see.). Maybe a 10 rep pr of BS with 112.5kg? something like that. Nothing crazy just get in some decent quality reps.

Oh and i've got another basketball game monday night, filling in for a mate's team, so that's gonna be crazy with basketballl back to back sunday and monday but all of this shud make me a better player so it's all good.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: January 28, 2015, 10:44:30 am »
FBS 2x122.5
Basketball game

Squat notes:
New form improvements are making me happy. I considered tripling 122.5kg for a LPR but then said nah, better save it for whatever comes next. Turns out i just called it a day and went to the courts lol.

Basketball notes:
Ever have one of those days where everything comes together for you physically? i was an athletic beast today, doing drop step hammer dunks like they were nothing out of the blue. But unfortunately no one else on my team was hyped. We dropped a game we should have at least competed in. Blah. What a waste of a good athletic day. Wish i had just done lots of dunks on tape and shown off for guys on the internet. Oh well.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: January 28, 2015, 03:50:43 am »
BW: 177.58

Game day ! Gonna get a quick weights sesh in once it gets cooler. Still in the mid 30s after goign up to 40C earlier. Feel fuzzy - not sure if it's a heat thing or just poor eating today, i unwittingly fasted >18hrs; not ideal. Otherwise I prob wud have gone for some squat PRs! Anyway. We'll see how it goes.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Age vs Vertical
« on: January 27, 2015, 10:04:01 am »
I think LBSS meant that frame(s) is missing. Triple extension is where the magic happens. Haha.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: January 27, 2015, 01:47:11 am »
BW: 178.02 (2015 PR)

Got the <81kg milestone today (80.75). Next up is the big <80kg/176 one. Can't wait for that. I'm also stronger now so it hasn't cost me any strength or muscle, if anything i'm slightly up on mass.

Will be going to put up some shots later today to prep for tmrs game. I'm gonna treat it as my last game ever and bring everythang to the table.
Food log

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: January 26, 2015, 07:42:28 am »
BW: 179.24

BP 2x83.5, 2x88.5 (LPR), 5x82.5 (LPR), 5x80, 6x75
WCU 3x99, 1Fx105, 4Fx94, 5x90, 6x85

Upper notes:
Was weak as fuck but forced a workout anyways. I did ok but i wish i had been fresher.
Food log
Kinda glad I trained today. Now i have 2 sleeps to rest :) Feeling exhausted though. I am trying to convince my body if it gets rid of the next 2.5lb of bodyfat I'll give it a break and let myself eat more food to facilitate training.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: January 26, 2015, 04:13:46 am »
Blam, triceps are sore today. I couldn't think why until I remembered all those outlet passes I threw yesterday at training, in a fast break drill. TIL. I could delay the workout til tomorrow but i've been on a good 3 week run of training every other day - not sure if i wanna break that, or lift the day before game day. Will see. Body needs rest though. My erectors on the R side have already been aching (not in a good normal DOM way either).

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: January 25, 2015, 10:25:49 am »
A huge form breakthrough on my squats today. Basically my mindset for whatever reason was to descent into a squat decelerating into the bottom position. Why? I dont know. But that's what i'd been doing perhaps because i thought the alternative was too chaotic (a divebomb). THis is a false dichotomy however. I learned that it's perfectly fine to be slow down as long as I accelerate in the last moments just before hitting bottom position. Game changer, finally got a FS local PR - finally a BS local PR -  keep in mind i've been stapled to the bottom on these weights and today on a day my CNS wasnt crash hot, i still got the PRs. Great sign going forward. I can really build on this form improvement now.

So time to rest and then tomorrow another weights sesh, game and weights weds, lifting on friday and ball and weights on sunday. All while cutting the remaining 2.65lb of adipose which remains from my goal bodyweight of 80kg/176.


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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: January 25, 2015, 02:49:11 am »
BW: 179.02

Sunday is here and im feeling nervous about lifting. Grip is weak again :( CNS when will u b fresh?? But i'll still attempt some PRs and then get some heavy worksets in. Then go off to basketball. Though i think it's almost time for me to stop doing these heavy maxes - lately ive been failing more than i've been making.
FBS 2x122.5 (LPR), 1x129.5 (LPR!)
BS 1x134.5, 1x137.5 (LPR!), 1x140B, 0Fx147.5B, 4x132.5B (LPR), 5x127.5B
Basketball training ~ 2hrs

Squat notes:
Oh yesss, PRs. Will fill in details later, late for baskeball training.  So I got 129.5kg today! Finally a front squat heavy single LPR. I'm not sure if i'll go for 130kg next in 2x15kg plates or just add another kilo to 129.5kg next time. We'll see. Also progressed my raw BS to an LPR of 137.7kg ! Form improvements were the reason for both squat PRs.  I'll expand on this on a later post by the way.

 I wanted to local PR my belted squat by 2.5kg, squatting 147.5kg but by then i wasn't really fresh enough - so i  finished up with my 2 worksets and called it a day. I didn't get much out of the belt today - im between holes, 3rd one is kinda loose now and 4th one is too tight. Hopefully next sunday i can just use the 4th one and smash out a 147.5-150kg pr while weighing 80kg :)

Basketball notes:
That was a great training session but im spent! Now to eat loads of protein and hope im good to lift upper body tmr. Damnnnnnnnnnnnn. So smashed.  My fitness is improved!! Next game is do-or-die. Not really but it has to be, cause if we are to make finals we will have to beat this team in semis. So it's important to get a mental edge on them now. We'll see.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: January 24, 2015, 04:34:19 am »
BW: 179.35

I wish i was in the 79s in kilos not pounds, then i could stop cutting and just maintain <80kg while getting strong as fuck. But right now i'm not in a position to maintain  a fat unathletic 81.35kg/179.35lb since i'm not close to the bodyweight goal of 79kg/175lb. Blah.

Today i have some decent doms in the upper back area, lats and tarps. Cool. Goes to show these hang pcs aren't completely useless. To think i was ruiing skipping rows yesterday but it turns out i got a good workout anyways - i'll do em on monday though after chins.

Been thinking how to be a good basketball player. we have enough height and size on my team now that i can think about taking my preferred role on the wing. I just need to have a bit more skill though cause im  not good at or confident with the ball and i think ppl will yell at me if i shoot 3s. But i need to do this - i am not a post player and im sick of trying to become one esp with my low bodyweight and lack of athleticism, im not really good at it. I can shoot 3s and drive from the wings much better.
Food log. I omitted the 2 bowls of icecream i ate bc idk how much they weighed. Hopefully this will get me fresh enough to PR my squats. Been stuck a while now :(

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