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back from holidays in connecticut. lovely times, tons of great food (and a bit of great drink, too -- my aunt and uncle who we were staying with are serious gourmets, both the best cooks i know and the only people i know with a purpose-built wine cellar in their house). worked out with my cousin last thursday and took a couple of medium-length but pretty hilly walks. otherwise it was mostly just good family time. will weigh myself post-workout later but i'd guess i gained 3-4 pounds.

starting today, i'm going to work out based off a template t0ddday sent me. not gonna copy-paste the whole thing here, but in essence it's a three-week block including jump training 3-4x/week, heavy weights 2-3x/week, and light weights up to every day, followed by a one-to-two-week block where the heavy weights are dropped and PRs are attempted. will also be at a modest weekly caloric deficit but keeping protein high, aiming to be very lean and in the low-to-mid 160s during the second block.

also, i bought a weight vest and am going to wear it most waking moments for the next three weeks, including during workouts.


ETA: just read t0ddday's last journal post. suffice it to say i will never be attempting 300 ME jumps in a five-day period. also i'll keep close tabs on my knees.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePwvZoXZu20" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePwvZoXZu20</a>

the dunk is tight, but click through to see trevor booker's reaction in the vine here: http://deadspin.com/the-incredible-dunk-is-only-the-first-half-of-this-high-1749266633.

lolololol

lol there's a reason radiologists are MDs with 8-9 years of training.

haven't had anything to drink since saturday. but yeah one of my recent really good jumping days was after drinking a fair amount the night before. a month ago or so.

there does not appear to be much rhyme or reason to when i get hung over, with the caveat that obviously i have to have SOMETHING to drink. but there are nights when i have four drinks and am wrecked the next day, and nights when i have seven drinks (very rare now) and am totally fine.

i don't get bent out of shape from drinking at all, but i'm mad at myself when i drink so much that it ruins the next day. no reason for that, i would have had just as good a time with three fewer drinks. doesn't happen as often as it used to. still, after new year's i'm going to go booze-free for a couple of weeks. will not drink heavily over xmas because that's not a thing my family does -- we're half sober at this point, actually, lot of alcoholism/addiction, which i'm glad i was spared -- but i'm not going to beat myself up over a glass of wine at dinner. once i'm back, time to focus.

on a related note, lu xiaojun snatches more than i squat at roughly the same bw.

Thanks to Antonio Brown's season-best performance last night, I made it to the finals of my fantasy league, where I will face off against my brother. Can't gloat on fb because I am a nice person and my old roommate, whom I beat in the semis after being down early, sent me this text last night: "I'm going to ask that you say nothing to me. Don't respond to this text. I'll reach out when I'm ready."

So I'm gonna gloat here: SUCK MY BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLS, suck my baaaaaaaaaaaaaaalls. I am the winner.

Of course I want to win it all but making it to the final guarantees that I'll come out in the black and I should win at least $150 because of ancillary prizes. Championship is worth $420, though. Time to scheme against brother.

good luck with the ACT, man!