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I hit a new bodyweight low of 91.1kg yesterday, that's 200.84lb. Not long before I get into the 80s/190s now.

Training
FSB 1x130
BS 4x122.5, 4x127.5, 3Fx125
DUNKZ ~ 30

Squat notes:
Volume is good, i'm back on the right track. The thing killing me right now is core fatigue. I know it's a temporary hit i'm taking from working my core hard but it will pay off eventually. Then i'll be able to push my squats into new territory. In the meantime it's disheartening to be humbled by such light weights, my only fear is my legs will detrain in the mean time..

Dunks notes:
As hard as gym was, on the court was another story. I felt strong and explosive, dunking hard and felt i was jumping as high, if not higher than I ever have before. And this at a bodyweight over 90kg! It's crazy.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fredJ6s2PgE" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fredJ6s2PgE</a>

i'll ask vag to estimate my highest jump today, i might have gone on the good side of 35" but i can't be sure, i don't know for sure, which is frustrating.

It seems the best exercise i am doing for my legs right now is dunking overweight, really puts a burn in my quads lol. Whatever i have been doing in the gym has been paying off, i couldn't even dunk at all at this bodyweight before, and now i'm dunking so effortlessly, something is clicking, i dont know what but i'm slightly optimistic. I'll put it down to a combo of heavy calf raises, ab work, and being slightly lighter.

I must say a good intense dunk session is an excellent conditioning workout. Full body one, hits all your muscles, legs all the way up to arms, and gets a good sweat going with a pumping heart rate. I should do this more often.

Training
FSB 1x132.5
BS 1x137.5, 2x132.5, 3x120, 3x127.5, 3x125, 3x122.5
AbW 2x15

FSB notes:
Just fuck off. 132.5kg right now feels harder and uglier than my PR of 145kg only 2 weeks ago. Ridiculous..

BS notes:
I failed 142.5kg, i think that kind of sums it up. My PR is 157.5kg at the end of RSR2. Do the maths.

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Such a shitty session even though warmups felt absolutely brilliant, i just didn't have the juice to do anything with worksets. Not much more or to say, going to slowly rebuild up the volume and see where it goes, i think i've just been trapped in a low-volume weak phase which I need to dig myself out of.

I am also going to stop with fasting on training days, i think that might be contributing to horrors in the gym.

I'm having a crisis of faith. I don't think I can ever be considered athletic no matter what I do. It's to do with CNS, tendons, build, things I can't control. No one will ever call me quick. Have probably reached my ceiling with what I can do on and off the court. If you look at where i started, a legit 20" vertical, i'm not going to one day attain a 40". That's probably impossible and i don't want to keep thinking i can somehow get there by wishful thinking. Yes i can dunk ok at 90kg bodyweight but so what, doesn't mean i'll jump 5" higher when i weigh 10-15kg less? In fact it probably wont make any real difference to my jump PR; what it will do is make what was a max effort jump into a sub max one, and possibly my ME would be slightly, if negligibly higher.

What does everyone else who realises they're mediocre athletes do? Become mediocre powerlifters? That doesn't appeal. I need a new hobby.

Not to sound like the typical self delusional fat lifter on the internet, but my abs are coming out already.
Starting to look lean. I don't take it to mean anything other than i'm prob well under 20% now, maybe as low as 17 or something. Doesn't mean anything, still have potentially another 8 weeks of dieting ahead of me! It's quite possible that if i start doing ab hypertrophy work, i'll have visible abs while being over 15% (been there done that before last summer). I might just start hypertrophy today actually. It will go better now than later when i'm leaner..

Recovered suprisingly well from yesterdays basketball. Perhaps a sign that my body is adjusting to basketball. That's half the battle right there, post workout recovery. Al that's missing is peri workout recovery lol. I imagine as I get leaner and lighter, and my fitness gradually improves, as well as requiring less from my body being lighter, i'll quickly become in good shape?  I haven't been running intervals or anything crazy like that, only so much you can do while cutting. Which is another thing, i really hope i can wrap up cutting quickly so i can add more calories and do more training!

I guess you don't really want the salt but the electrolyres/minerals? How about those 'light' electrolyte drinks, e.g powerade zero? Value is an issue here, bottles are relatively expensive. I use gatorade powder, comes in much much cheaper that way. Second option, electrolyte capsules.

I don't wanna touch that gatorpowerade sugar water! I used to take the powder preworkout but meh, it finishes sooo quickly. Haven't tried the sugar free though. Apparently i found a good substitute vag! I squeezed some lemon into water and stirred in salt. Actually that reminds me, i bought some healthy salt back when i was doing Lyle's  keto diets, i could use that for more K. Will try that next time Got lemon trees growing at home so it's a very cheap and easy solution.

I wouldn't use anything while jumping that you aren't able to wear every time...IF it helps it'd just be a non repeatable disappointing PR. :/

lol! but don't you know bro, when your belted VJ goes up, so does your beltless VJ?? I wonder though, if do a set of jumps that are a few inches higher than your PRs using the belt. Whether this pushes your potential up. I think it might? I'll find out tomorrow.

solid progress is solid. keep it up.

Thanks bromide

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Diet update (day 14)

Bodyweight: 91.25kg/201.17lb



Today was the first day my waist is comfortably under 38". Hoping to make the trip in 37s and 36s as short as possible. I feel 35" is that sweet spot for me for going from a fatty to a non-fatty. I'm very motivated right now. Btw that right line on the graph represents day 15. I can't wait to get into the 80kgs.

Raptor, thanks, i'm hoping to start doing plyos sometime. But right now i'm just too heavy, and being on a caloric deficit, i don't wanna push my body too hard. Not being a pussy, i just dont want to risk chronic knee/back/ankle injuries from trying to push it too hard so far from my athletic bodyweight of (75-85kg). Maybe when i get into the 80s, i'll start doing one or two exercise. Will ask you guys for an exercise that will give the biggest bang for the buck.

Also everytime i go to the court i'm doing footwork drills now. It's part of my warmup.