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Played 1v1 today with this over weight 62 year old white man. he beat me both games .. lol. prep is going great

With dunking, i feel hypoglycemic after one or two attempts. and im not in a position to be able to take workout nutrition. Right now being on the basketball court is 'cardio time' so im not trying to lose any fat loss benefit that it confers by trying to perform better. If i just shoot around my HR will be around 110. If i push the pace i can get it up to 140. it's like cardio that i can do for hours. Not sure i even want to be getting in the habit of sipping gatorade on the basketball court, that will mess with my heart .. sugar is def poison for me and at 25g a day of it during gym sessions (shake) im not able to add any more without risking bad health. I find when i start eating more junk (ie sugar and fat) my mental and physical wellbeing goes down and im at risk of getting arrhythmia problems. I've literally sworn off chocolate/cookies/cakes/sweets completely .. not just for a bit but never again just to stay out of hospital..

daily squatting makes my knees feel shit .. all the time.. now. it doesn't seem to matter if im resting or not .. ive tried 3 days of 'recovery' and i still haven't got them feeling good. it makes it hard to justify doing jumping tho when even light recovery squats are too much to make knees feel normal. may have signed a deal with the devil with this thing that i wish i could run back :/

If i was complaining about a 25" vertical last week .. then what do i say about last night w hen i was lucky to get 12" i couldn't even touch the rim .. was getting the net about halfway. and that's with 'rest'. so yea this is not about trying to train for a 40 without jumping. this is about trying to get back to 30

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Andrew do you think if i was fresher i'd jump higher? Hopefully you're right.

yes. if serious, questions like this from training veterans surprise me.

but .. you do realise if i was fresher and jumped 32" say, i would feel pretty disappointed still even though it would be a pretty huge improvement. My point is, if i was resting and getting 40" that would be one thing. To get levels i previously could get any day just thru training normally after peaking ...... is not ideal

the problem right now is i can't do a proper jump session because im either too fatigued from squatting or i've got to stay fresh for an upcoming squat workout. it's a bad place to be for jumping. i just need to keep making progress tho. something is better than nothing. The other issue is by the time i get to the court, im too hungry .. jumping needs carbs like crazy .. and for whatever reason, body doesn't tap into glycogen for dunking workouts .. weird thing. i'l have no energy to jump. yea i could eat but im fat

Wasnt there a study or paper claiming injury rates go up with temperature? So training this way may be harmful

Bodyweight(AM): 89.8kg (1st March)
Diet compliance: 0/0 days
Daily Squat: 104/104 days 

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Morning:

Noon:

   BS 7x120, 1x170(PR), 8x140(PR)
   OHP 10x50  

Evening:
    

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Notes:

• So summer is over as of yesterday. I decided to go for my summer goal of a 170kg squat .. it went ok. But probably cost me a rep or two of the actual workset with 140kg. That sucks, i could have forced the issue and ground out two more but at the cost of being too beat up to train normally after today.
• I went to the court straight after and did some  jumps hit probably halfway up on my palm which is around 25" or so. That's disappointing. My friend asked if i can do windmills now .. no.. not even close. After spending teh eintire summer focusing on squat ive got nothing to show for it except being fat and slow and can't jump

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this reminds me of the conversation we had in Coges log a few weeks ago

Him staying in Cleveland would have been ok if they had been good enough to put enough quality players around him. But they never could do that. That one ring he got in 2016 was from great fortune. Green getting disciplined, injuries, etc.  If you play that entire series again, GSW probably wins 8-9 times out of 10. One of the biggest factors that has been overlooked in MJ's career is how lucky he was with the players who were put around him, the Rodman's and Pippen's get the most due but everyone from Kukoc to Kerr and guys like Horace Grant don't get the credit they deserve. Jordan always had a top notch cast around him when he was competing for his 6 rings. I hate jordan though so i wanted Lebron to win the GOAT debate but he has messed up his legacy .. seriously lakers why? Hope he enjoys his time there he's basically where Jordan was with the Wizards.

Sometime this week i'm going to for the 12x140kg PR and then im done with strength accumulation. Will be switching up to lower reps (not straight away but building up for it) to see what i can peak up. It prob ends at 150kg for 8 reps.  Somewhere along the way i need to lose about 4kg of weight .. and i need to practice full court basketball without actually playing full court basketball. Really tempted to just say fk it, it's not happening this year.. i haven't got the same prep i had last year when we were actually playing ball regularly .. at least up to february. I can't even find a place to place half court pickup this year, im practising alone and it takes me 30 minutes to put up 30 shots lol.