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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: June 04, 2011, 11:54:29 pm »
Is it the Mexican looking dude 2nd from the right? I think that's the one who's out of place. NO. NO. It's the darkest one to his right... :P

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MOVIES & ENTERTAINMENT & SHeeT! / Re: She take.
« on: June 02, 2011, 12:55:46 am »
WHAT ARE YOU?!?!?!   :o

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Introduce Yourself / Re: I like running
« on: June 02, 2011, 12:47:46 am »
I would never claim to be an expert on any of this, I've only just graduated high school. I'm not a coach either, so take what I say with a grain of salt. The only thing I have going for me is that I've had to learn a lot about my sport to get good. As a freshman, my 200m was never under 27 sec. Always slower than 1 min on the 400m. But I loved the events so I worked crazy hard to get good. I never got amazing, but I made some pretty good improvements and I learned A LOT about running. (But not much over 800m)

From what you've said so far, at least from what I know, you're definitely a 400-800m guy. You have the speed and endurance for it, even if your start isn't so great. Good thing about that is you can only get better from here out on both events. Here's the deal, even if you think your 100m sucks and your mile is sub-par... you still have great legs for just about any kind of running. Which just means you can hold your in pretty much any of the running events. (though probably not in any of the jumps) So you'd probably be most competitive in the intermediate events. (conveniently the 400m and 800m, or maybe even the 300m hurdles if you got your technique down. ~36 or 37 is DAMN fast at your age)


I can't give you a lifting program. You'll have to talk to adarqui or Lance to get a custom program set up. What I can say is you definitely shouldn't be lifting right after a 12-mile run. Whether it was light or not, your legs still get fatigued pretty badly even if you don't feel it. Best time to do it would actually be before running or about 30min-1hr after running.

The major drop in your squat could just be because you're not used to that kind of work. (more likely because you ran for so long after squatting that day) The drop off after only a day of recovery seems reasonable, especially if you've not used to squatting.


ONCE AGAIN. I don't really know what to recommend for weightlifting. You'll definitely have to ask adarqui (though he doesn't check journals as often as he used to, that's still the best way to start) or Lance. They'll know how to work around the amount of running you're doing. Adarqui does some pretty ridiculous stuff himself. Your weightlifting will definitely be relatively light if you want to keep running as much as you are right now. (in your case, "light" would probably just be a few compound lifts and not necessarily light weights)


I can give you thumbs up on your work and critique your running or help you in knowing HOW to run a 400m (There are ways to do it more correctly...) but I'm not really in a position to tell you what you should be lifting. Squats should definitely be part of that though, IMO.

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Introduce Yourself / Re: I like running
« on: June 01, 2011, 09:48:30 pm »
That's intense, man. That is DANG good for a 16 year old. You got me beat by quite a bit even in the 200m, and I'm a sprinter... haha. If you moved to Utah (a relatively mediocre state speed-wise compared to some) where I compete you'd be probably be top 10 in any event up to the 800m. Not sure about the mile and that is of course assuming that 200m time is accurate.

So you're off to a great start! Keep up the work you've been doing. Adding some weightlifting can only help. Considering how fast your 200m time is, I'd say your a sprinter 800m runner. (That event, kinda like the 400m, is fairly split between ridiculously skinny endurance type dudes, and the buffer speedy guys)

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Introduce Yourself / Re: Asian 38" RVJ, Aimming to get at least 45" RVJ.
« on: June 01, 2011, 09:42:21 pm »
Your squat is actually pretty dang good. I'm 180cm and my bench max is 175 lbs... so that one is pretty weak :P

Not bad though. Welcome to the forums!  :welcome:

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Scrawny to Brawny Journal
« on: May 30, 2011, 12:45:23 pm »
Last two weeks of school after region were ridiculously busy for me. I'll lay it out fairly quickly.

Region finals:

110HH: 16.4 (Disappointed, but hey, still consistently better than than last year...)
4x100m: 44.6 (felt like I was flying on my leg of it, catching people all along the curve. Got the team a good start and we pulled into second for state qual)
300m: 42.38 prelim (close to pr) 43.19 Final (starting to feel terrible at this point during the meet. So drained)

4x400m: 3:39 (Interesting race... fastest guy pulled out so he could save his hamstring for state. Ran with a sophomore and a freshman. Wasn't even sure I could finish my opening leg. Switched to open to try to get us a decent lead but I felt like crap. Lightheaded and dizzy after practice start in the blocks. Got in and forced myself to calm down. Gun went off and I was FLYING. I was in lane 2 and I had the lead by the end of the first curve. Got the baton to our sophomore a good 15m ahead of any other team, gave the newbies the lead they needed and we ended up taking second for state qual on a skeleton team that we didn't even expect to take 4th...... 53ish SPLIT  :personal-record:)

Friday after region:
Shake out and stretch. Legs were burned out like crazy.

Monday:
Long warmup
Top speed sprints, 9 min rest between
150m
100m
80m.........  strained hamstring
40m

I was pissed. Felt like my hamstring was a guitar string and someone just plucked it at the end of the 80m.

Tuesday-thursday: (state on friday)

Long warmup. Extensive dynamic stretching for hamstring
3-5 strides only up to fastest comfortable speed. ~70%

ICING

Friday: State Track
Long warmup. Trying to keep hamstring loose

4x100m: 45.3 or something. Had the slowest leg I've had all season. Coach said it looked pretty okay but I was just slow.
4x400m: Ran a 55 split. Slowest I've ran all season. If it wasn't for my hamstring I could've had a 52 that day. Team got 3:41 and second to last. Last race in all of high school. I'm actually not angry about that. I did what I could and helped get some younger kids to state who otherwise wouldn't have experienced it.

School final week: Monday-Friday:

Just a ton of music rehearsals. Deloading from everything. Played some frisbee and stayed a little active so I didn't become a complete slob. :P Graduated on Thursday. Best week in all of high school! No doubt.


Monday 5/30/2011:

Planned on hitting weightroom seriously again. No more track. Since I don't have any obligations I can focus on just me and getting up weight again. I was pretty sick last week and I didn't do nearly as much as I wanted to for deload. Ham injury, sickness and in-activeness put me down to 130.8 lbs this morning. DAMMIT. Oh well...

Well.... I wanted to get lifting today, but I realized it's memorial day. Gym's closed. Luckily my track appetite has stuck with me despite everything. I've been getting crazy hungry even though I haven't been doing anything. I'll be doing some body weight circuit stuff and core later tonight to put some stress on my whole body so I don't feel like crap tomorrow morning when I lift.



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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: The PR's/PB's, videos, pictures, and daily achievements thread
« on: May 12, 2011, 10:44:59 pm »

Best of my high school career. (almost sadly considering top 10 in the nation are all under 14 sec and I never broke 16)

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43U0dqpmJMI" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43U0dqpmJMI</a>

53 sec split on my 4x400m relay today though. I'm happy with that one.





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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: May 12, 2011, 10:42:36 pm »
Quote from: JC on May 12, 2011, 10:31:43 pm
Quote from: Raptor on May 12, 2011, 04:18:07 am
That girl in the purple shorts will rock later on when she grows up :D



What a win.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Scrawny to Brawny Journal
« on: May 11, 2011, 11:25:23 pm »
First to first hurdle. Good. (Red in the middle... you can barely tell)



This is where my buddy from another school almost lost it. Body turned pretty bad.



Top three in the pack, I'm still leading.



This is the hurdle that broke the race for me....



Coming over 3rd to last. My buddy is now tied with me.



Hips broke really bad coming out towards the end of the race....



But I make a decent recovery



And my running looks awesome. (Except my face. probably my favorite picture, though I love how my lead leg looks in the next one.







I love how I can tell a whole story about 16 ridiculously short seconds through pictures. No wonder Andrew always posts stills. Now I just need a better camera so the stills can look super nice


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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: May 11, 2011, 10:50:34 pm »
Woot. Nice PR's.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Scrawny to Brawny Journal
« on: May 11, 2011, 10:49:25 pm »
Video of my 110m race.

Getting some stills of important parts of the race up as soon as they finish uploading.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43U0dqpmJMI" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43U0dqpmJMI</a>

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: May 11, 2011, 08:38:37 pm »
Cool stuff mang. The eggs look delicious.

Get on irc when I need to bloat my ego with PR talk and summer plans. :P

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Scrawny to Brawny Journal
« on: May 11, 2011, 08:30:09 pm »
Haven't posted in a while. Busy keeping up with school and training for region. (prelims were today) Anyway, here's the last couple days worth of stuff leading into region.

Tuesday 5/10/2011:

-Progressive warmup
-Leg swings
-4x100 (for handoff practice, just one)
-3 110m hurdle starts over first 4 hurdles.

-Nighttime extensive stretching

-Wednesday 5/11/2011:

-Progressive warmup
-Hurdle lead/trail drills (not too many)
-3 starts over first 2 hurdles
-Rest and wait for heat

-110m Hurdles: 16.27  :personal-record: (currently seated 5th into finals. I'll be much faster tomorrow)
-300m Hurdles: Updating tomorrow, had to leave before the times were posted on this one, not sure if i'm in finals.

-Light jog ~3-4 min

-Planning on doing extensive stretching at night again.

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Pics, Videos, & Links / Re: beast
« on: May 06, 2011, 09:14:33 am »
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfFFKDR7X3o" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfFFKDR7X3o</a>

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: May 03, 2011, 08:43:05 pm »
No need to carry a knife around your neck when you can carry a guard dog around it. :highfive:

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