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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: April 13, 2019, 03:27:09 am »
None of us have any idea about any of this. Im willing to investigate though.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: April 13, 2019, 01:45:33 am »
Do you see the problem with that though? In a clinical setting i'm not going to exhibit any symptoms. You telling me if James Harden walked into his primary care physician office and said yo i need treatment he'd get it? Doc will take one look at you and say you're in good shape and healthy and you should get going.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: April 13, 2019, 01:38:04 am »
Haha actually i used to go to the optometrist regularly and my numbers were always in flux and deteriorating with time.  I stopped going like 10 years ago and since then my vision has been stable at the same numbers. So there is something to DIY your health.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: April 13, 2019, 01:32:13 am »
I don't disagree. I'm just trying to figure out what's wrong with me. If the inhaler has little benefit then i don't have to persue it any further. If it has massive benefit (to me) then it would suggest i could benefit from treatment. But from what i've read so far (just cursory googling) it has little benefit in terms of performance enhancement.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: April 12, 2019, 11:17:15 pm »
nice! i counted 8? not sure if that's easier or harder without having to dribble the ball up. Probably way harder lol. But i'd rather do the sprint and dunk, but prob only get like 2 or 3 reps. Now i need to find some friends.

edit. If you think about it it's 8x30m = 240m sprint, where you dunk and change direction every 30m. The kind of metabolic demands are way different to anything else. But for someone like me who struggles to run fast over a straight 200m then this is a brutal workout indeed.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: April 12, 2019, 10:56:05 pm »
Bodyweight(AM): 85.9kg (13 March)
Diet compliance: 35/35 days
Daily Squat: 147/147 days
Activity:


Morning:
   

Noon:
 

Evening:
 


Notes:
  • Thinking rest the knees today and do a final hard training session sunday. Any suggestions on what to incorporate for tomr? Thinking a squat, a dunk and full court conditioning.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: April 12, 2019, 10:51:14 pm »
coast to coast layups is a great warm up for jumping as well IME.

sucks about the racist kid.

Yea i think the biggest benefit is it it's training to do stuff while moving fairly fast, eg pull up for a shot. dunk. in a way it's athletic training proper ..  need to implement more full court work in general b/c it makes everything more challenging and more gamelike.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: April 12, 2019, 10:46:52 pm »
I dont really agree with that haha. Is steph curry now using contacts, athletic enhancement? Yea. is it a big change, nah. But for someone who can't see very well (like you and me) contacts are going to have more than a neglible difference. But if you gave everyone contacts they'd not benefit nearly as much as someone who needs them.

I think if i repeat the drill and get 6 reps (b/c i expect +1 rep from adaptation) that's my baseline. If using the inhaler takes me to 10-12 then i need to figure out why i'm getting such a large benefit compared to what most ppl would get, maybe +1-2 rep since they've reported it hasn't shown performance benefit in studies. Read that on wikipedia last night so i dont know much about it at all. For performance athletes in running sports where every ms counts, maybe that's enough to change the result but still fairly minor in the big scheme of things.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: April 12, 2019, 08:30:30 am »
Not sure if I've asked this before but is this the Melbourne comp or a local one?

Nah you haven't, Melb. I literally might have peaked a week ago. Now i can barely squat my warmups or dunk. Lol.

Cool. We should catch up while you're here. Even just for a coffee.

Nah man have confidence. I saw your latest IG post. Shot is looking good. You'll be fine.

id like that. i'll send you a dm on insta!  :highfive:

also i did the full court coast to coast dunk drill. i could get 5 reps in before i died of cardiovascular overload. 6 if you include the first dunk starting from half court (i dont!). I did several sets of 5s. Actually a great workout. I wish i started doing it sooner! next time if i hav ea chance i'm going to take a puff of the inhaler .. i have one lying around b/c i thought i might have undiagnosed asthma but i never actually tested my theory out. would be interesting to repeat the drill but with using it.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: April 12, 2019, 07:19:38 am »
Bodyweight(AM): 86.2kg (12 March)
Diet compliance: 34/34 days
Daily Squat: 146/146 days
Activity:


Morning:
   

Noon:
BS 6x120, 0Fx152.5, OHP 6x50 

Evening:
 Bball shooting/dunking 


Notes:
  • Yikes, finally failed a squat, first time since i joined this gym sometime last year!.
  • Played a pickup game of 2v2 with some kids, i blocked the bigger taller kid a few times (they expected me to be slow and awful i spose?)- i was wearing my vest as well. Each time i blocked him one of the smaller kids would say 'no no no' in an indian accent. Casual racism is great. I didnt really care at the time, but in another universe i would taken my vest off and dunked on them, just wasn't that bothered. They complimented my game all the same, so it wasnt meanspirited but still bad form.
  • Icing my knee just in case it gets swollen again. Have to be proactive about this stuff. Hopefully i have one more solid training  session (thinking sunday?) ahead.
  • then i'm going to focus on R&R Mon-Thurs to peak up for the tournament which runs Fri-Sun. Really hope they have breakaway rims at the comp cos ive been spoilt AF lately with the nice breakaway rims we've got these days here in Perth, such a pleasure to dunk on.  I expect melbourne to have them too hopefully.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: April 11, 2019, 04:49:32 am »
Not sure if I've asked this before but is this the Melbourne comp or a local one?

Nah you haven't, Melb. I literally might have peaked a week ago. Now i can barely squat my warmups or dunk. Lol.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Two Hands Two Feet
« on: April 11, 2019, 12:08:03 am »
This is a thing. Throwing an oop is a skill .. ive had one PG i met for the first time who nailed it and it was refreshing. They make it seem so effortless in the NBA, makes me wonder what normal players are missing about throwing them.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: April 10, 2019, 11:08:35 pm »
Bodyweight(AM): 85.2kg (11 March)
Diet compliance: 33/33 days
Daily Squat: 145/145 days
Activity:


Morning:
   

Noon:
BS 3x120, OHP 8x20    

Evening:
 Bball shooting 


Notes:
  • A week to tipoff .. im close to my ideal bw ... knees feel better. hard training today and saturday then rest up.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: April 08, 2019, 10:48:54 pm »
Bodyweight(AM): 86.2kg (9 March)
Diet compliance: 1/11 days
Daily Squat: 141/141 days
Activity:


Morning:
   

Noon:
    

Evening:
  


Notes:
  • My R knee was swollen yesterday and today as well. Ive been trying to rest it but not sure what's bothered it

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: April 07, 2019, 05:35:58 am »
It occured to me check back in my (paper) logbook to what i was doing earlier this year when i was at a similar bodyweight. By the way ive logged everyday and the notebook is now full, not sure if i'll bother getting another one. But nevertheless I had done 14x120kg squats. I probably was able to do 8 reps with 55kg ohp without training for it. Training is ultimately futile .. im pretty sure ive achieved nothing overall. A dieted down 85kg as i am now is much weaker than the carbed up 85kg i was in january. Fucking lol.

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