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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: May 13, 2017, 04:19:44 am »
yeah i totally feel you about the form purism. i'll get to backflips and front flips when the program does, as i mentioned earlier i don't want to rush ahead now that i've bought (literally) into GMB. when i do, i'll see if i can find a spotter.

- GMB F1 W5 D5
phase one complete. made some good progress on pirouettes today. also filmed some kip-ups so y'all can see what i'm doing wrong. the ones that are slightly closer to success are where i pushed harder with my arms. unfortunately that's uncomfortable for my shoulders, especially the left.

reflections on phase 1: overall i'm happy. it's the most fun i've had training in a very long time, feels good to give myself over to a prescribed program and just trust to incremental progress. made huge strides on wrist mobility, cartwheels (done properly for the first time in my life!), crow, and handstands (also done for the first time in my life!). on the other hand, could not nail kip-ups and was discouraged by repeated banging on the ground, which gives me a headache and saps motivation to continue practicing and trying different things. they're just not explosive enough.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XApFs0LFNNs" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XApFs0LFNNs</a>


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Basketball / Re: NBA 2016-2017 Season
« on: May 13, 2017, 03:01:38 am »
john.
wall.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: May 12, 2017, 05:29:32 am »
nice! your technique is different than the one GMB describes. they have the arm throw as a key to getting the body upright, and the target is to land in a deep squat. i'll try anything, though. just want to get on my feet.

and not hassling at all, i really appreciate the tips and encouragement.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: May 12, 2017, 01:15:35 am »
i'm probably still kicking too much forward most of the time, and i'm not throwing my upper body forward enough. there's some kind of block, i barely come up from parallel with the ground, hence banging my back. i can't figure out how/when to throw my arms forward.

will post video once i get it.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: warpspeed to the new scenario
« on: May 11, 2017, 01:46:48 pm »
-hanging leg lifts/toes to bar (use straps)
-ab wheel roll-outs
-hollow body holds
-pallof press

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: May 11, 2017, 12:28:19 am »
last night

- yoga x 75 mins
got into the deepest bridge i've yet done. back feels fine today. cool.

tonight

- GMB F1 W5 D4
skipped crow because i did a bunch at yoga last night. could not get side crow during class because of some kind of mobility issue and didn't want to push it. friend pushes things a little too hard for her clientele sometimes, i think. most of them can't even really do crow. also, put handstand bailing and kip-ups together because i do both outside on the grass. felt a little bit of progress on kip-ups but i'm still not close to landing one. it'd really help to have some live coaching and a mattress. banged my back after a bunch of reps and it gave me a headache. stopped and moved on. just keep grinding, i'll get it eventually.

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Basketball / Re: NBA 2016-2017 Season
« on: May 10, 2017, 11:56:58 pm »
god damn it.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: May 10, 2017, 01:07:48 am »
well, let's see how well my intellectual awareness of it clicks with my body when i try them tomorrow! tonight's a rest day so i'll try to get out of work in time to go to friend yoga.

my brain has been scheming about setting up my spare bedroom as a training room. there are two twin beds in there, which i could probably put on their ends against the wall. then lay down some rubber matting, get a ton of cheap pillows for extra padding on top of one of the mattresses (for flips!) and build or commission* a chin-up station. this may be insane given that i may only be here for a year and a half more. still, i miss doing pull ups and i want to be able to consistently do muscle-ups. and the yard is soft but it's not soft enough to be unscary for flips.

*could probably find a shop in rawalpindi that would build one to spec for next to nothing. labor here is incredibly cheap.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: May 09, 2017, 12:29:08 pm »
- GMB F1 W5 D2
pirouettes all over the place, trouble balancing. better toward the end, still annoying. otherwise fine. cartwheels are pretty much there, practice is just to get closer to mastery, i've got the basics down.

here's the conditioning circuit at the end of the B days (i.e. cartwheels and piroettes).

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hllpgf8l8g0" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hllpgf8l8g0</a>

NB: my jump height has suffered but these are WAY submax.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Two Hands Two Feet
« on: May 09, 2017, 09:10:43 am »
SUCH A NICE PUPPY DOG YES YES YES

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: May 09, 2017, 08:11:33 am »
nope nope nope. went down a flip tutorial rabbit hole on youtube last night and i'm pretty sure i could do at least a back flip pretty easily if i had a safe place to practice or could muster the stones to do it on my lawn. must not rush, though. am enjoying the gradual, prescribed road.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: May 08, 2017, 10:53:49 am »
that video is hilarious. and yeah the training has different kinds of inversions -- cartwheels, wall walks, and wall kick-ups for starters, and the aforementioned bailing. not sure what you mean by too gymnastics centered. the goal is to master basic bodyweight moves. so far it's as much fun as i've had training since i was at my absolute peak of jumping.

- GMB F1 W5 D1
treating handstand bailing as kick-up practice makes a huge difference. got first legit freestanding kick-up today. frustrated with kip-ups, tried full movement and it just was not happening. got some video at the end, which will never be seen by another pair of human eyes. basically it looks like i'm just not kicking hard up enough, i think because of fear. on the plus side i did more reps than i'd done in any previous workout. right wrist bugging a little.

ETA: watched some more tutorial videos for the kip-up and the biggest mistake i'm making seems to be that i'm kicking forward instead of up. common mistake. will incorporate next time, along with taking the bridge stretch more seriously.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: FP's log
« on: May 08, 2017, 05:08:51 am »
you found out you have a near complete PCL tear and played basketball the next day???!?!?

 :uhcomeon:

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: May 08, 2017, 12:59:42 am »
workout fail over the weekend, too many social obligations and i was lazy in not making enough time before having to leave for stuff. that said, it was a great weekend. went to a water fight party at some rich folks' farm house on saturday and it was the most fun i've had in ages. and i warmed up, stretched, and did some stuff. just not full prescribed workout.

back on the horse this evening.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: May 08, 2017, 12:15:58 am »
hey T0ddday, welcome back! thanks for the tips. had gathered the bit about handstand bailing not really being a thing unless you can do an actual handstand from my own trial and error. am following a prescribed program at the moment and fairly happy to give myself over to it so i'm not gonna do front tuck bails for now. the program doesn't call for freestanding handstands yet, so i haven't been practicing them too much, although recently i have started to because of the aforementioned realization.

to answer your first question: training to be able to do basic gymnastics moves: handstand (i know, i know), cartwheels, kip-ups, and eventually more advanced stuff like backflips, flags, aerials, etc.

how you? how is the transition/move going? been training at all?

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