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WEIGHT: ???
SORENESS: none
ACHES/INJURIES: low back/SI joint
MENTAL STATE: good

- jump rope + lunges + joint circles x 25 mins

- some light upper pushing and pulling

- stretch

mostly just testing it out and breaking a sweat. back still stiff, bending over and twisting at the hips still not close to 100%, but feeling better. gotta remember to be cautious as it starts to feel good, reinjury is the absolute worst.

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they're super cheap, you can get pairs for $40. and they're adarq.org-approved light as hell. lotto quaranta.

And if I'm not mistaken I believe the 45's at full lockout misses the ceiling by about an inch or two lol.

plenty of space 

back has gotten progressively better over the course of each of the last two days, and it was easier to get out of bed this morning than yesterday. definitely worst in the morning, and it's pretty stiff and sore right now. if this rate of recovery continues i'll go to the gym on thursday just to get the juices flowing and stretch.

tbh I haven't seen much football. I thought it is just run and bump. In my mind the only technical part is the long distance passes, everything else is just out=strengthening/powering/sprinting your opponents. I would love to discover the technical side of this sport. Granted it is already VERY appealing without it, a technical side too makes me easily imagine why you go crazy about it.

ah, then you are missing the great beauty that football has to offer. i would actually say that of all the sports i watch it is the most technically complex and reliant on precision and timing on a play-to-play basis. to give you an example, here are diagrams of how to run one of the most fundamental base plays in the sport, Power, against four different defensive setups:



the circles represent offensive players and the letters represent defensive players. the circle with a cross in it is the center, who's holding the ball at the beginning of the play. the black circle is the running back, who's gonna get the ball from the quarterback.

the offensive linemen have the second-most complicated jobs on the field, after the quarterback.

it is also, of course, about out-strenthening/powering/sprinting your opponent.

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WEIGHT: ???
SORENESS: hamstrings a tiny bit
ACHES/INJURIES: none, then, well, see below
MENTAL STATE: good, then all over the damn place

- warm up

- DB jump squat 30s x 4,3
threw the everloving shit out of SI joint on the fourth rep of the second set. took me at least five minutes to be able to stand up. new experience for me; i had that prolonged back pain last year in the same place but it was dull and persistent, not breathtakingly sharp like this. i just put down 800mg of ibuprofen and will ice. the gym is closed the next two days anyway, so i guess it's rest time. fuck, i must be getting old.