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What's your current weight, bodyfat, and max squat?

~76kgs, ~6-8% bf (calipers and mirror). I'm going to a biotech conf next week - last year they had some new body-fat measuring devices so will try and get a measurement again (was 5.5% last year). Max squat is tricky, probably around 135kgs maybe. Haven't done a 1RM test since last summer. It's why I'm generally pretty happy with my 100m time and start as I know they'll both improve once the squat goes up.

I haven't really been monitoring my weight at all, hadn't even gotten on the scales until recently. T0ddday's program has got me in great shape, pretty much as lean as I've ever been without the loss of power like last year. The weighted core stuff also gives you great abs! If I cared about aesthetics at all that is.

Training going OK. I actually got the dates wrong for the comps, they're starting out with four in a row, before switching to fortnightly-ish over the holidays. I was planning on doing the 100,LJ and 400 as described earlier but the program ran way over time due to the usual fuckups and the 400m got pushed back to 6PM, couldn't stay that long. Unfortunately it's likely to be like that every time the 400 is on.  I might do a 400m finisher at some point during track training and just hand-time it, should be accurate enough, and hopefully run it properly if things are on time next program.

100m - 12.38sec. I predicted around 12.2-12.3, overall felt pretty good given I've done one blocks session (earlier last week).

Long jump - 5.08m - awful jumping again. A weird cross-wind didn't help the runup but it was still shit. I don't know why my horizontal jumps are so bad atm. Too much vertical jumping?

Next day I managed to get time on the court, an incredible rarity on a Sunday afternoon. Did about 20-30 weighted jumps total. They weren't very high (rim-grazing) but...might have been a bit tired from the day before.

Please correct me if I'm off here, but based on 6x132.5kgs being an all-time PR, your 1RM atm is probably around 150kgs now, maybe 154-55 but prob closer to 150 (for example, I squatted 155 1RM after getting to 135x6 - you might be better or worse than me with your real-life 1RM effort...but IMO 6RM is probably overestimates 1RM slightly). You really think going from lifting 150 once right now to lifting that 36 times in a session in less than 3 months is realistic with minimal BW changes? An advanced lifter with a history of back issues? It might be possible maybe....you do get good squat gains from these sort of routines, because you're consistent. Prove me wrong, but personally I think you'll stack on more weight when you get close just to meet the numbers you've set yourself followed by the usual extreme fasting. As many people have said in this journal, this is unlikely to make you a better athlete without the rest of the program. You're skipping sprints and ball because you need the recovery to train for 6x6@150? 

That sucks about the timing for the 200m. I was pissed off when I didn't get a wind indicator let alone a time.

I got it in the end but yeah, it's annoying not to just get it straight after the race. I can count on one hand the number of times I've had a wind measurement! Haha.

Hehe sorry guys. 

Training last two weeks has been a bit disrupted work-wise. But got in at least one gym-track-jumps session each week, usually two gym, one track, one jumps.

My vert has plateaued a little bit just because again the jumps have been inconsistent. I found a nice little spot around 6PM just before games start at the gym where it's free-ish. Occasionally not, but usually get about 15-20 jumps in total on a good day. It's not ideal and I'm still working on the best solution to the perpetual lack of consistent rim time. Study makes it hard to be consistent with getting to the gym at the same time each week.

The first aths comp is tomorrow. My plan for the season is basically to continue following the program to the best of my ability and increase the use of the weights vest to practically every session as I adapt more and more. Lately I've just been wearing it for jumps, not track yet. For the actual competition, I like the idea of doing a poor man's 'power heptathlon': 100m, 200m, 400m, high jump, long jump, triple jump, shot put. I chose those because they require the least amount of extra training on top of what I'm doing already - the other throws are too technical and I can't practice them anyway. In that vein, I'll probably just scissor kick the high jump until I fail as I can't flop to save my life. I could replace the 400m with an 800m to get a test of endurance in there bu it's more the timing of the event, it's immediately after the 200m on the program so I'd run terribly anyway.

So the plan is to do every comp (~fortnightly on a Sat) and do the events above each program, and just try and improve them. Week one is [200m/triple/shot/high jump] and week two is [100m/400m/long jump] Some will be taken less seriously (high jump and 200m/400m mostly) but improving those should help the main game. Even though the amateur comp is poorly run I like being part of the club and competing, gives me something else to think about apart from study!

Predictions for tomorrow:

200m - 25.85sec (no feel for this AT ALL)
Triple - 10.50m
Shot put - 8.40m
High jump - 1.40m (scissor kick only)

^^ from LBSS's reply & maxent's reply to his reply, everything is cool.

Quote from: maxent on October 03, 2016, 04:41:15 am

Quote from: LBSS on October 02, 2016, 05:59:37 pm

trying to compare yourself to entropy is a fool's errand.

It is indeed depressing to anyone who respects your truly exceptional talents to see you of late apparently spending a great deal of time on shallow, negative polemics that contribute almost nothing in the way of real knowledge or deep truths to the subject matter they deal with. Instead of utilizing your major talents in the difficult business of discovering new viewpoints, and new understanding and techniques, you make a spectacle of yourself indulging your minor talent for innuendo and derogation. There are occasions on which it is desirable for a person with an outstanding reputation to devote some effort to pointing ·out the flaws ina significant proposal. But it is fatuous to waste time attacking one so weak that it can be demolished by high school debating tactics that avoid serious consideration of fundamental issues and deal only in hostile innuendoes, unsubstantiated arrogant opinions, and trivial nitpicking.

but wow god damn what a post. I feel like saving that and using it in case I want to make someone feel bad about a post on a forum/facebook etc. scathe factor 9001.

that's definitely overboard when you look at it from the perspective that LBSS does respect you, your consistency, your hard work etc.. (as you basically mentioned in your last reply to him). when I read his comment I personally didn't perceive it as an insult - seemed more directed towards your tendency to flip the script, go off on tangents, focus on things that many perceive to be insignificant (certain bodyweight goals etc).. stuff like that.

FYI, it's from a 1970s exchange between John Backus and Edsger Dijkstra about some high level programming shit, which is probably why it seems really out of context:

https://medium.com/@acidflask/this-guys-arrogance-takes-your-breath-away-5b903624ca5f#.lw8wqxtdx

dammit .. i was reading shit about reverses and windmill lobs then saw the video..  acole

loved your other video though, movement was looking niiice.

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there's a  basketball ring behind the camera and it's usually swarming with people. Hard to fling a 7.3kg projectile blind with the thought of nailing someone in the head. It actually nearly happened once when I was practicing shotput here a few years ago - some footy team was doing drills on the court and a guy who was late ran across the ring as I was about to throw with my back to him. Missed his head by about a metre. Closest I've ever come to seriously hurting someone.

s/hurting/killing ... crazy. that's what I was thinking when I saw your vid and heard the basketball stuff nearby.

i'd be worried about that.. maybe yell "fore!!!" or something.

Haha! Next time it'll be the real deal.

Yeah if there's a big group I usually go and tell a few of them what I'm gonna do but it's still stressful. They're almost always international students and sometimes it's hard to tell if the message has been understood, but once I start doing it they usually stay well clear.