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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: April 21, 2016, 08:41:12 am »
this is from two years ago, don't get any higher than this now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxmvy5eue7E
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: April 21, 2016, 08:19:46 am »
i try SLRVJ once a week or so, just a few jumps to see where i'm at. still barely touching rim.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: April 21, 2016, 08:05:16 am »
not even close.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: April 21, 2016, 07:50:13 am »
MORNING
WEIGHT: ???
SORENESS: none
ACHES/INJURIES: right knee, right toe
MENTAL STATE: good
- warm up
- skater jump x 10,20
- one-step RVJ x 5,5
first three reps of second set were pretty good
- DLRVJ x 5 w/vest
got out to three steps and could not get organized. took vest off.
- DLRVJ x 10
mediocre, best was probably 34.5. but the fact that my mediocre days are the same as last year's good days is great.
right knee bugging.
- foam roll and stretch
EVENING
WEIGHT: ???
SORENESS: none
ACHES/INJURIES: right knee pretty bad
MENTAL STATE: tired
- warm up
- one-step RVJ x 5
- DLRVJ x 1
CNS shut second jump down, knee bugging too hard
- MB OH toss x 5
totally wacked out. what a wasted week from a training standpoint. toe is bothering me again now after the workout, to boot.
WEIGHT: ???
SORENESS: none
ACHES/INJURIES: right knee, right toe
MENTAL STATE: good
- warm up
- skater jump x 10,20
- one-step RVJ x 5,5
first three reps of second set were pretty good
- DLRVJ x 5 w/vest
got out to three steps and could not get organized. took vest off.
- DLRVJ x 10
mediocre, best was probably 34.5. but the fact that my mediocre days are the same as last year's good days is great.
right knee bugging.
- foam roll and stretch
EVENING
WEIGHT: ???
SORENESS: none
ACHES/INJURIES: right knee pretty bad
MENTAL STATE: tired
- warm up
- one-step RVJ x 5
- DLRVJ x 1
CNS shut second jump down, knee bugging too hard
- MB OH toss x 5
totally wacked out. what a wasted week from a training standpoint. toe is bothering me again now after the workout, to boot.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: April 21, 2016, 07:48:03 am »I've given up on my diet, too. Tried it for 1 day and didn't see any effects.
+1 looool
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: April 21, 2016, 06:52:52 am »
two things:
1. you don't do exercises like bounds for their own sake. you do them because they teach your body something. you just started learning how to do them. be patient.
2. improvement doesn't have to be - and in fact rarely is - linear. you might struggle to get technique right for bounds for a while and then all of a sudden something clicks and you get a 50cm improvement all at once. you follow my journal, you know how long i was at 33-34 on my "good" days and then how suddenly that jumped up by 2-3 inches.
1. you don't do exercises like bounds for their own sake. you do them because they teach your body something. you just started learning how to do them. be patient.
2. improvement doesn't have to be - and in fact rarely is - linear. you might struggle to get technique right for bounds for a while and then all of a sudden something clicks and you get a 50cm improvement all at once. you follow my journal, you know how long i was at 33-34 on my "good" days and then how suddenly that jumped up by 2-3 inches.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: April 21, 2016, 06:41:57 am »
arthritis. usually it's just at low-grade background discomfort and it limits my ROM pretty severely, and i've adapted my gait and movement so that i avoid stressing my toes too much. but for whatever reason the last few days it was absolutely killing me, radiating pain up into the rest of my foot. happens once in a while. feels okay this morning, knock wood.
ETA: my avatar is an x-ray showing the arthritis.
ETA: my avatar is an x-ray showing the arthritis.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: April 20, 2016, 07:13:14 pm »
right big toe wrecked. i've been limping all day. fuck. did daily routine as best i could.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: April 20, 2016, 03:50:37 pm »
not the NSA, no. chilean women, though: yes. i dated a chilean for a couple of years. hot and freaky. she went full evangelical christian after we broke up. weird.
recommendation: do not get arthritis in your toes. it sucks. right foot has been killing me off and on this week.
recommendation: do not get arthritis in your toes. it sucks. right foot has been killing me off and on this week.
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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: Kingfush: SVJ 2-hand dunks 2.0
« on: April 20, 2016, 02:13:45 pm »This discussion makes me wonder about a hypothetical scenario:
- Athlete weighs 200lbs, squats 2x bw
- Athlete cuts down weight
- Athlete weighs 175lbs, squats 2x bw still
How would his DLRVJ, SLRVJ, and SVJ been affected, assuming all other factors were held constant?
depends.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Recovery from quadricep tendonitis
« on: April 20, 2016, 02:11:55 pm »
i wouldn't try to make your step as long as possible. i'd just focus on getting as high as possible and use that as your only cue. if a longer step gets you higher, then great. but maybe the longest step possible is less optimal than a slightly shorter one. mess around, the only rule is height.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Operation Save 2 dollars on Clothes at Walmart
« on: April 19, 2016, 07:57:04 pm »
trans people go to the bathroom because they have to take a piss, just like everyone else. more republican politicians have been arrested for sexual crimes in bathrooms than trans people.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: The PR's/PB's, videos, pictures, and daily achievements thread
« on: April 19, 2016, 07:54:28 pm »
those are really good RVJ numbers (discounting RL, obviously). how are you measuring, again?
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: April 19, 2016, 07:52:27 pm »
i lived in chile for a year. longest trips for work have been three weeks. this will be a two-year contract.
motivation to workout very low tonight. gonna drag myself to the gym anyway.
EDIT: dragged self to the gym. continued to drag. shot around, tried to warm up, could not get warmed up. weird. gonna foam roll and stretch now but geez. it's not lack of sleep. hope i'm not getting sick or something.
motivation to workout very low tonight. gonna drag myself to the gym anyway.
EDIT: dragged self to the gym. continued to drag. shot around, tried to warm up, could not get warmed up. weird. gonna foam roll and stretch now but geez. it's not lack of sleep. hope i'm not getting sick or something.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: April 19, 2016, 05:24:26 pm »For how long are you moving there? And what's up with you moving to these arab countries all the time? What job do you have?
I've actually only ever flown through Arab countries on the way somewhere else. Well, that's not true, I've spent a bit of time in the UAE (Dubai). Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan are not Arab.
I go because I work for a company that has a big presence there (it started in Pakistan, in fact).
Ooh ok, dolla dolla bills ya'll
Are your paychecks taxed? If our guards work over there at embassies they make like 80k half a year tax free.
Paycheck will not be taxed. We don't get danger pay. But still, getting a decent raise. And when you factor in the housing subsidy it could be up to triple my current take-home.