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Basketball / Re: NBA 2018 - 2019 Season
« on: November 03, 2018, 11:36:18 am »
derrick rose and two buddies broke into a drunk woman's house and gang raped her.

LBSS aka never4get. :highfive:

you know what's nuts, i hadn't even heard of those allegations at all until now (after searching what you mentioned). crazy.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/nov/02/no-derrick-rose-didnt-overcome-his-gang-allegation

god damn.

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Basketball / Re: NBA 2018 - 2019 Season
« on: November 03, 2018, 11:19:27 am »
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39Q3C_25ZzE" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39Q3C_25ZzE</a>

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: November 02, 2018, 09:54:33 pm »
rest day.

oh btw. rolled my right ankle SO BAD, but I have (historically) strong ankles and I don't think anything happened. did it while going to throw out some pizza boxes after work, stepped in a ditch in the dark. probably helps that i wear thin soled 0drop shoes, less torque during a roll. lucked out.



11/02/2018

<= 4:59 mile vs <= 2:59 km:
- 10 (sub5) + 11 (sub3) = 21 of 50, 29 to go!

top3 finishes:
2018: 26/35 (stay healthy!)
2017: 6/12
2016: 4/10
2015: 0/2
2006: 0/1

diet:
- orange juice + rxbar, big stir fry with cauliflower/broccoli/carrots/red chili pepper + beet juice, a bunch of pizza, cookies & cream milkshake w/ whipped cream, almonds + water


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our head of security just called me to tell me not to leave the house tonight at all. apparently the founder of one of the biggest hard-right (deobandi) madrassas in pakistan was just shot dead in rawalpindi. some shit is getting set on fire tonight.

also a buddy just texted to remind me that the main protesters so far have been barelvi, another very conservative sect. no love lost between the two. yikes.

damn dude stay safe. i've been hearing alot about it over here (on NPR and online). crazy stuff, really unfortunate.

hope Bibi is out of the country by now, that sh*t is ridiculous.

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800m+ Running and/or Conditioning / Re: Misc Running Videos
« on: November 01, 2018, 11:17:54 pm »
crazy fast, but brutal.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4D1rZVuCzI" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4D1rZVuCzI</a>

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: November 01, 2018, 11:02:36 pm »
i run good when i eat lots of salt (ie from salted almonds, or tons of salt in my cauliflower/broccoli stir fry). lmao.

also, woke up earlier (6:30 AM!)

hard speed day!

29 more sub5's or sub3's to go before 2018 is over!!!

11/01/2018

<= 4:59 mile vs <= 2:59 km:
- 10 (sub5) + 11 (sub3) = 21 of 50, 29 to go!

top3 finishes:
2018: 26/35 (stay healthy!)
2017: 6/12
2016: 4/10
2015: 0/2
2006: 0/1

diet:
- orange juice
- mod speed
- 1/2 chicken tender caesar wrap, plantain chips, rxbar
- black tea, entire bag of salted/roasted almonds (took a while to eat).
- lots of orange juice, bananas, beet juice (2x), chicken tender caesar wrap etc.
- banana, rxbar
- orange juice, rxbar
- hard speed
- orange juice, 1/2 chicken tender caesar wrap, 4 bananas



07:30 AM: workout: mod/dead speed: {1km @ 2:58 / 4:47 min/mi} + {52s @ 4:30 min/mi} ::: (grass, dead/tired) -> need to stop being wrecked in the morning
- https://www.strava.com/activities/1939370729
- https://www.endomondo.com/users/26420622/workouts/1223010062
- https://connect.garmin.com/modern/activity/3130679532
- 1km @ 2:58
- max pace on the 52s effort: 4:15 min/mi

went to sleep earlier/woke up earlier. trying to drift my schedule back a bit.






workout: 08:45 PM: hard speed: {0.70 mi @ 3:09.8 (4:35 min/mi), 1km = 2:50 (4:35 min/mi)} ::: (grass, spikes, felt good) -> started this off at 4:2X pace! /// basically one more lap and i'll get my 4:3X mile
- https://www.strava.com/activities/1940521214
- https://www.endomondo.com/users/26420622/workouts/1223264685
- https://connect.garmin.com/modern/activity/3132070054
- 0.70 mi @ 3:09.8 (4:35 min/mi)
- 1km split = 2:50 (4:35 min/mi)

exciting.

solid effort. started out really fast.. lost it a little at some point, but finished back @ 4:2X. most of the effort was under 4:40. sometimes I crack up when I notice myself losing it, i'm like come on breh man up.

the furthest i've held 4:3X that's for sure.

4:3X coming before 2018 is over. need to stay focused & stay healthy.

also need to do some of this in the mile races come December. we'll see!

peace!








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Bios / Re: Animals
« on: November 01, 2018, 10:55:25 pm »
LOL'D HAHAHAHA

this is amazing. <3 \o/

https://imgur.com/gallery/ZHSWEYY


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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Party's Over!
« on: November 01, 2018, 10:24:36 am »
smart move on resting this week. let the achilles recover and hopefully adapt/get stronger.

sucks about the shoes too. also hate when i make a shoe mistake. you ordered them online i imagine?

tighten up that diet, but make sure you still get enough calories/nutrients to recover.

pc!

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Basketball / Re: NBA 2018 - 2019 Season
« on: November 01, 2018, 07:18:30 am »
^^^ came to post this as well.

50. incredible. hope so much that he stays healthy.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yfPLXAnDwA" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yfPLXAnDwA</a>

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: October 31, 2018, 09:14:08 pm »
rest day.

halloween tonight, probably not smart to run. heh.

10/31/2018

<= 4:59 mile vs <= 2:59 km:
- 10 (sub5) + 9 (sub3) = 19 of 50, 31 to go!

top3 finishes:
2018: 26/35 (stay healthy!)
2017: 6/12
2016: 4/10
2015: 0/2
2006: 0/1

diet:
- lots of orange juice, bananas, beet juice (2x), broccoli/cauliflower, some egg & cheese wraps earlier etc

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Two Hands Two Feet
« on: October 31, 2018, 09:05:24 pm »
really glad it seems to be nothing.

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I know I've said this before, but I don't think my body has ever felt worse. Hips, calves and quads are super tight and resistant despite a good amount of time spent stretching/mobilising.

that's how i started feeling, despite stretching/mobility etc. sounds familiar.

i feel so much better when i don't stretch at all. it's crazy.

i have to try really hard not to stretch my calves/hamstrings. if i refrain, i feel good. if i do it, i feel like crap. it's nuts. i mean i feel good at the time when i'm doing it, but not to soon after, i feel like crap, especially the next day.

pc!

Yeah it is/was super weird. I think in my case it was just too much through the lower body. I walk around in dress shoes for work 90% of the time too and they're super hard on the feet and calves. I'm backing off the lower body work and am going to build back up slowly with way more single leg stuff in the next few months. I feel like my brakes are permanently on with regards to performance especially with jumping and running. If I can sort that out I'll get far more in return on the other end. Couldn't care less what my squat is when that happens too.  :o

gotcha. it's tricky.

in my case, could be due to stretching too much (in spurts) throughout my life, or just somehow related to getting older. because I do not remember, at all, feeling like this when I stretched say, prior to ~35 years old. heh. now I can feel it just wrecks my legs (upper seems ok), making them weak/tight/achy. it's nuts.. then I stop stretching for long periods, even when i feel the urge, and every day aches/pains just fade away. then once again, stretch, and boom they come back. it's really odd.

as a recent example .. i've been feeling great lately. several days ago, decided to give in and stretch my quads while walking the dogs. Just simple standing quad stretch, not holding it long at all. the next few days, achy knees (lateral knee pain) & my calves tightened up. felt the urge to stretch, made sure not to, and knees feeling better again.

flexibility has always been the big mystery to me. over the last year, it seems that every time i stop stretching, i start slowly feeling better & better.

these last 2 months where i've PR'd like crazy & legs/calves have been feeling better & better, I haven't been stretching at all. If I do a random stretch here & there, I feel it the next day - lingering effects. So I try as hard as possible not to give in and stretch anything.

i dno man it's just weird.

ok just blabbing. ;d

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Dreyth's New Journal
« on: October 31, 2018, 08:48:41 pm »
I miss Dreyth!!!

Hope you're doing well and update us on your progress / career soon.

Still around

I dont take weights as seriously anymore. Lately my body has somehow been letting go and ive been stalling. Knees are still kinda messed up from that injury a few years ago. Squatting 275x5 now. Would like to just get to 315x5 and maintain that at least. Hit like a 455x6 RDL or something like that a year ago, and then i stalled and regressed again :/ story of my life

My legs are way smaller than before even if my upper body isnt. I noticed my face is fatter! I guess the big muscular legs lowered my bf% to the point where it even had an effect on my face! I hate having a soft face, and i justttt came across a pic of how ripped i used to be a few years ago and now inwant that back. I actually just came to this site now to see what my numbers were in march 2015 because i had a decent body then and chiseled face. And by chance you guys left me a comment here haha

Lifes been good. Never better actually. Praying 5x/day now in fact. No more partying, much more respect for my parents, never ever have anxiety or depression anymore, my irritability is gone, patience is through the roof, i dont care at all who’s ahead of me in the corporate world at all i just care about myself. I cant believe what a difference *actually practicing* my religion has made on me. Wish i started sooner. I had no clue what i was missing out on. Such tranquility in my heart. Still working for deloitte cyber security consulting. Stilll trying to make moving to Macedonia a reality. Really want a wife. And to be extra ripped again (by my standards - i still look great compared to the average population)

awesome post, especially the latter part of it. happy for you man!

in the context of finding peace/tranquility, the same applies to training IMHO. it sucks about the knees so be safe, health is #1. with strength/athleticism, it's impossible not to progress, stall, regress, repeat. don't worry so much about the numbers as you do the consistency. i'm sure if your squat is "down", then most likely you don't lift as frequently/consistently. You definitely know how to get it back up there.

peace!

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Triathlon sprint prep
« on: October 31, 2018, 05:01:03 pm »
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNOCiWKUmSU" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNOCiWKUmSU</a>

Inspirational as fuck

yup that was great. beast.

seeing stuff like that is rough. absolutely gut wrenching that people have to go through stuff like that. that Schott 5k run is like that, tons of people with disabilities participating or being pushed in wheelchairs etc.. always rough & gives you a smack in the face.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Scooby 2011 Journal
« on: October 31, 2018, 03:34:58 pm »
Those videos were such a throwback!

You make the lobs look soo easy. I could dunk off the dribble but I've never been able to dunk from a lob.

thanks alot man!!

yea I became a lob master, lmao.

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Those high rep squats were also inspiring.

#Motivation.

hah thanks!

yea. something I found to be highly effective but, surprisingly didn't take off too much on here. fwiw, that kind of stuff doesn't take off much of anywhere. high rep squatting is brutal pain, but it works damn well. if one wants to throw their body into an adaptive roller coaster, that's an easy way to do it. get used to heavy 20+ reppers, and you won't feel the same anymore. legs start to feel godly.

i did sets until i could barely walk/stand, it doesn't allow any muscle fibers to escape unscathed. sets adaptation into overdrive.

fwiw, if i wasn't so into running now, i'd be into high rep squatting (like crazy high rep crazy shit). I really miss it/love it, but combining it with running has proven too intense the few times i've tried it. running can really beat you up, have to be careful. If you over-tax things in the weight room, they can become destroyed by a run. For me personally, it's intense enough to do by itself, to the exclusive of everything else. All the same principles apply, but it's just one exercise at varying intensity: ie, running itself is the barbell, the plates you put on it & set/rep schemes are just the intensities/pace & intervals etc.

pc!

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Scooby 2011 Journal
« on: October 31, 2018, 03:28:36 pm »
meant to post this a while ago.

to me the formula is simple:

If you want it bad enough, you can achieve it with a wide variety of training.. but, you have to really want it - which means you are truly obsessed with it, which means you think about it often, push yourself often, and push yourself hard. You can make mistakes, but you have to learn from them. You absolutely cannot take frequent time off.

personally i'd like to see him just take the approach of:

"fuck it. i'm just going to get strong as fuck. put some serious meat on my quads/legs/glutes. jump hard as fuck. dunk hard as fuck. sprint occasionally. eat good. get enough sleep. not overthink anything. not overanalyze anything. and just train like an animal."

 :ninja: :ibsquatting: :ibjumping: :ibrunning:

*applause*

lol thnx. :highfive:

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Scooby should ask himself: "Based on my training history, how complex can I make my training program before it becomes too hard to sustain for long periods of time?"

i wouldn't even consider complexity at this point, unless we're talking about removing all complexity.

keep it as simple as possible and grind it out, IMHO.

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