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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: December 17, 2014, 04:59:47 am »
FBS 2x117.5 (LPR)
FS 1x125 (LPR)
BS 1x125, 2x127.5 (LPR)

Squat notes:
I wasnt sure if i could triple 115 on fs/bs so i just decided to go for a 117.5kg double instead and got it. Didnt fail anything though 127.5kg double on BS was v. hard. Friday hopefully i can consolidate and get some more (local) PRs.

Game tonight. Feel like shit today though; life stuff.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: December 15, 2014, 06:58:08 am »
FBS 5x100 (LPR)
BP 6x79.5 (LPR), 5Fx79.5

Squat notes:
Not as bad as I expected, went for a 5 rep warmup set with 100kg after the usual 6x60 with FS then BS. I half heartedly walked out 99.5kg thinking of going for a FS pr set of 8 but decided against it because my heart wasn't in it..

Upper notes:
Finally failed a set of bench. Did ok for benching only once a week but i need more freq now prob to make more progress. Idk if i can commit to that though.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: December 14, 2014, 10:54:15 am »
I didnt end up lifting today but went to basketball training. Probably a good thing but my body hates me now because im rinsed and will have to lift tomorrow :(

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Chris' training journal
« on: December 12, 2014, 10:53:57 am »
So before our last game a team mate asked me to pump up his ball and as I was doing so, I missed a crazy put back dunk off a free-throw miss. I was livid. And i imagine that's the kind of thing you get up to in games. Ive never felt so inspired/impressed at having (almost) witnessed something on teh court before. There is something special about dunking in a game. One day i'll experience it too!

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: December 12, 2014, 07:00:15 am »
FBS 2x115, 1x122.5 (LPR)
BS 2x125 (=LPR), 2x127.5B, 2x132.5B (LPR)
BS 6x115 (LPR)
FS 7x99.5 (LPR or PR but who cares, shud have got 8 at least to make sure it is a PR)
BS 8x107.5 (LPR)

Squat notes:
Bit sad that i didn't have a strong squat day but ive been training a lot and fatigue has set in. So all things considered i guess it's ok. I really wanted to triple 125kg on BS and 115kg on FS  but it wasn't in the cards :( oh well.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: December 10, 2014, 12:38:19 pm »
too much weight. dangerous for back, low benefit. less weight, more jump.

I cud post a vid of 20kg (empty bar), 60kg, 90kg and the other 100kg set but they all pretty much the same. i wasnt much for jumping today. my aim is to add 2.5kg per week from here and end up at 2x6x115kg by the end of this 6 week JS block. I don't believe this exercise will do anyhting good tbh but im gonna try it anyway. wud rather not do them if using lighter weight though, there are better ways to waste time!

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: December 10, 2014, 04:17:13 am »
FBS 2x115
BS 1x120, 2x125 (LPR)
JS 2x6x100 (PR)

Basketball Game

Squat notes:
Im pretty beat up so no PRs :( I contemplated tripling 125 on bs, or 115 on fs but it wasn't to be when the penultimate rep feels like a 10 RPE. Walked out 99.5kg for a possible FS 8 rep PR - that wasn't in the cards either, felt prohibitively heavy. Next time though, i'll probably get a whole bunch of PRs provided i can recover by friday.

Did my first jump squat sesh. Not sure how i feel about them, seems gimmicky. But i'll give it 6 weeks like i said.

Game tonight to come.

Won the game! wooho. i didnt score but it was a good game all the same. prob the best win we've had against a good team :)

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: December 09, 2014, 01:31:17 am »
Might move my workout schedules to accomodate for basketball as follows :-

Wed - Heavy squat, dunks/RFD work (jump squats etc), basketball game
Friday - Volume squat
Sunday - Light squat, basketball training

Hopefully that works better than 4 training days i've been on with back-to-back sunday and monday.

I want to start losing some weight again too. Might start tomorrow though, i need to dig myself out of this recovery hole first and as a result I've been sleeping badly.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: December 08, 2014, 09:24:57 am »
mainly 2 reasons - 1. I cant clean much and that's never going to get better with my stupid long arms. i dont know how to get into position for overhead stuff without cleaning. I know some ppl can take it out of the rack - ive tried that - it doesn't work for me. 2. on the way up, my body doesn't know how to stay put around my abs, it throws everything upwards from the waist up - including my core/back.. that just happens automatically i cant control it -> recipe for back injury eventually. and i just dont see me using a lot of weight on this lift without hurting either my shoulders cleaning the weight or my back pushing the weight up. it's just not meant for me

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: December 08, 2014, 09:17:39 am »
FBS 3x100
BS 15x90 (PR)
BP 3x6x77.5

Squat notes: 
lite day

Upper notes:
Tried push presses. Dont think we're gonna work out. We need different things. PPs need stability and rock rolid core. I can't provide that. It wasn't meant to b.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: December 08, 2014, 05:32:45 am »
I feel physically exhausted but going to try train today. Im not sure if this is sustainable though, basketball training sunday and lifting monday might not be do-able for long. I just dont see a way around it unless i change my lifting schedule of M-W-F to say W-F-S which might need to be done..

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: December 07, 2014, 09:06:18 am »
2 hours playing basketball at training. Im not happy with my game on either side of the court, damn unfit and zombie like (cue ali mummy impression of foreman). Cant wait to start dunking again, i miss being able to dunk with ease.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: December 06, 2014, 02:09:37 am »
Yeah. I wonder how good push presses wud be here also. I know L used to recommend them for athletes. I wud imagine having a kickass push press (~1.5xbw) wud do good things for no dip vert..

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: December 05, 2014, 12:30:47 pm »
There was a guy on pendlay's forum who was doing jump squats with 140kg and everyone told him it was a bad idea. I wonder how it turned out for him.

I never got hte point of doing jump squats with a lot of dip. It seems to me that using light weight is a consequence of wanting too much depth. When i tried them, they just felt so unnatural as a movement. Plus what's the point of using all the momentum out of the bottom towards the jump? The jump itself is a seperate part and if that's what you want or need to train then might as well cut depth there. I can't help feel i'll get more carry over by using minimal dip for jump squats as well as heavy partial squats. Maybe they'll re-inforce each other and make each other better too? It's pretty exciting to explore this. i'll give it a solid 6 weeks and we'll see what it did for my game..

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: December 05, 2014, 12:12:46 pm »
Your info is wrong, kellyb prescribes wave-loaded jump squats too with up to 30%RM.
Quote from: the kb link from the previous page
¼ rhythmic Jump squat with 45 lbs – 2 x 8-10

^ haha.

but regarding the suggestions, im less interested in jump squat variants that call for light weights like in the linked vids. If light weights worked why would anyone squat with anything more than 60kg? It has to be heavy enough to be useful that's why i feel these no dip squats might work for me not just cause they fit my need to use decent weight but also because they address my weakness where i dont have enough time to dip deeper during game time. imagine if instead of a deep dip, if i cud do a SVJ dunk with minimal dip. That improves me chances of getting a gametime dunk in the post or pulling a key rebound or important block. That's why i'm excited about no dip heavy jump squats ... provided they work.. but we dont know until i try so lets see


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