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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: February 12, 2019, 02:00:36 am » 
Bodyweight(AM): 87.4kg (12 Feb)
Diet compliance: 8/8 days
Daily Squat: 87/87 days
Daily OHP: 10/10 days
Daily Cardio: 5/8 days
Basketball skill work:
Morning:
   

Noon:
   BS 7x120, 1x152.5, 7x140(PR)
   OHP 8x40, 6x57.5
   DB incline BP 8x20, 8x25kg (new exercise)
   Dips 12xBW(90kgish)   

Evening:
 

Notes:
  • Realising im completely sedentary except when im doing exercise. Will try to keep an eye on daily steps and get my average step count per hour up. Exercise step count is not enough .. it has to come from an absence of inactivity + exercise to get some favourable changes in bodycomp and fitness. That's def an area i can address from here. It can be anything, dribbling a ball, going for a short walk, shadow fighting, shooting hoops, even just socialising etc

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: February 10, 2019, 10:51:42 pm » 
Bodyweight(AM): 87.6kg (11 Feb)
Diet compliance: 7/7 days
Daily Squat: 86/86 days
Daily OHP: 9/9 days
Daily Cardio: 5/7 days
Basketball skill work:
Morning:
    TM Run - 5km, 28:17   

Noon:
   BS 7x120, 1x152.5, 7x137.5(PR) 
   OHP 8x40 

Evening:
 

Notes:
  • Made it to a week of clean eating. Now it should be more or less automatic from past experience. Going to try get it to 20 til im confident it's permanent.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: February 09, 2019, 09:39:28 pm » 
Bodyweight(AM): 88kg (10 Feb)
Diet compliance: 6/6 days
Daily Squat: 85/85 days
Daily OHP: 8/8 days
Daily Cardio: 5/6 days
Basketball skill work:
Morning:
   

Noon:
   BS 6x120, 1x152.5, 6x135
   OHP 8x40, 6x55, 2x60, 1x65

Evening:
 

Notes:
  • loss of direction .. not good enough at anything, too many areas to address.. can't afford to focus on any in particular
  • doing smoething everyday is a good way to not enjoy it anymore. i dont enjoy daily ohp .. and if im going to do an exercise i dont enjoy, maybe something like bench would be better? not that i miss flat bench, but my pecs are gone so maybe my body misses bench even tho i despise bench press

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: February 08, 2019, 09:23:49 pm » 
Bodyweight(AM): 87.3kg (9 Feb)
Diet compliance: 5/5 days
Daily Squat: 84/84 days
Daily OHP: 7/7 days
Daily Cardio: 4/5 days
Basketball skill work:
Morning:
   

Noon:
   BS 6x120, 1x152.5, 5x147.5(PR)

Evening:
   BBall shooting session

Notes:
  • Stuck in a bad place. Not eating enough to train and recovery properly. Not lean enough to eat more. FML.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: February 07, 2019, 10:35:30 pm » 
Bodyweight(AM): 87.0kg (8 Feb)
Diet compliance: 4/4 days
Daily Squat: 83/83 days
Daily OHP: 6/6 days
Daily Cardio: 3/4 days
Basketball skill work:
Morning:
   

Noon:
  BS 3x120

Evening:
   

Notes:
  • Alright .. hopefully i'll be around the 86.5kg mark by day 8 of clean eating.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: February 06, 2019, 10:23:35 pm » 
Bodyweight(AM): 87.4kg (7 Feb)
Diet compliance: 3/3 days
Daily Squat: 82/82 days
Daily OHP: 5/5 days
Daily Cardio: 3/3 days
Basketball skill work:
Morning:
 TM run 3km, 20 min (94kg: +5kg vest, PR)   

Noon:
   BS 6x120, 1x152.5
   OHP 6x52.5, 2x60, 1x65   

Evening:
   

Notes:
  • Well one caveat of daily ohp is the unanticipated wrecked abs. they're really torched by daily training including squats and ohp. but overall it's probably something i need to put up with because it will carry over well to my sport. perhaps..

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: February 05, 2019, 10:09:02 pm » 
Bodyweight(AM): 87.4kg (6 Feb)
Diet compliance: 2/2 days
Daily Squat: 81/81 days
Daily OHP: 4/4 days
Daily Cardio: 2/2 days
Basketball skill work:
Morning:
   TM run 3km, 20min

Noon:
   BS 6x120, 1x155
   OHP 8x40, 6x50, 2x60, 1x65   

Evening:
   

Notes:
  • Priority to go sub 87kg asap .. then I need to stay no further than 1.5kg away from goal bw of 85kg. Otherwise i won't be able to get there in time for the comp. Not currently cutting just eating clean and doing the cardio thing.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: February 04, 2019, 10:30:57 pm » 
Bodyweight(AM): 88.0kg (5 Feb)
Diet compliance: 1/1 days
Daily Squat: 80/80 days
Daily Cardio: 1/1 days
Basketball skill work:
Morning:
  TM Run - 20 mins, 2.7km

Noon:
   BS 6x120, 1x150, 6x145(PR)
   OHP 8x40, 6x50, 2x60, 1x65, 1x67.5
   Dips 12xBW

Evening:
   Run 5km, 32:53

Notes:
  • Im doing daily upper training, today will be the 4th day. The idea is to eventually balance out my weight training because i've emphasised lower body over upper body training til now. If daily training can do for my upper body what it has done for lower, i'll prob end up athletic 85kg around Easter:  upper newbie /memory gains + daily training + cardio + 170kg ish squat = win.
  • So ive been on only 100mg caffeine preworkout for 10 days now and being htat it is day 80 of daily squatting, i'd previously been taking 300mg caffeine preworkout for a few months - which is to say 100mg is barely even noticable in this context. im basically getting these recent PRs in a state of low arousal: exogenous or endogenous. I'd put it down to daily training .. it's quite remarkable really.   

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Two Hands Two Feet
« on: February 04, 2019, 10:06:38 pm »
It's all mental, i agree. Now that i think about it in hindsight, I react differently to having defense around me when dunking compared to dunking alone. I get too upright which means you can't set up properly to take off. So i have to cue myself to dip down even though it feels unintuitive (you want to dunk UP but you're dipping DOWN? it makes no sense in that moment) cos you're trying to rush thru the dunk at that point because time is so critical. The other thing is being patient and waiting til you reach the apex of the jump, i feel like i rush it even once im in the air (few times ive got that far lol). And it's def about being aggressive, you need to make contact with the defender even if it's to make space and put them on their back so you can give yourself that (slightly longer) launching window. Aggressive is definitely the key here, cos if your defender feels safe then you've lost the've won, but if you put some doubt in their mind and they will instinctively go for self preservation (fuck this 90kg guy is gna knock me over, better keep my balance otherwise i'll look bad).. etc. I always lose the mental game though lol. 

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Two Hands Two Feet
« on: February 04, 2019, 09:49:51 pm »
I think there have been times where i've been close to the rim, got the ball on the way to me (from a team mate) and i know this is it, my moment. But the ball is taking foreever to get into my hands and I know the defence is already forming around me even before i have collected the ball. But the ball comes a split second too late, now the window if there was one to dunk has all but closed and ive lost the rare opportunity to in-game dunk. So i'll go up for some weak half-hearted layup and probably miss it cos im annoyed with the blown chance. That's a perfect time to premedidate a futile dunk attempt anyway. Suppose if you're aggressive enough the defence is gna move a bit but if you shy away first then they hold their ground.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Two Hands Two Feet
« on: February 04, 2019, 08:30:12 am »
Quote from: Mutumbo000 on February 04, 2019, 04:00:28 am

His dad in the stands thinkin, "I told that dang kid to stop watchin those, Ball is Life videos!

it's funny but i also foudn it a bit inspiring. next time i get to ball, i legit will try to dunk it even if it's a 0.0000% chance i'll connect with the rim, just to see what it 'feels' like to go for an in-gamer. that will prob help make it more tenable to actually do it eventaully?

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: February 04, 2019, 02:40:20 am » 
Bodyweight(AM): 88.3kg (4 Feb)
Diet compliance: 0/0 days
Daily Squat: 79/79 days
Daily Cardio: 0/0 days
Basketball skill work:
Morning:
 TM Run - 15 mins, 1.8km

Noon:
  BS 6x120, 1x150, 6x142.5(PR)
  OHP 8x40, 6x50, 2x60, 1x62.5, 1x65, 7x55

Evening:
  Run 3km, 21:06, 07:04/km

Notes:
  • Wow i got fat af.  :wowthatwasnutswtf: Time to mount a mini come back
  • I must admit not running has made running feel good again. My feet feel springy and meaty, the rest from running has done me wonders even though fitness has gone, i was doing a 150-160bpm HR on a 7/km pace lmao, used to be low 130s for that. But learning from my past experience with daily running, I prob overdid it before by marrying myself to daily running, not falling into that trap again .. less is more

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism - summer 19
« on: January 28, 2019, 05:08:54 am » 
Bodyweight(AM): 86.7kg (28 Jan)
Diet compliance: 0/0 days
Daily Squat: 72/72 days
Daily Cardio: 0/0 days
Basketball skill work:
Morning:
 

Noon:
  BS 5x120, 1x150

Evening:
   

Notes:
  • Being cautious and just trying to find a new normal

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism - summer 19
« on: January 28, 2019, 03:30:26 am » 
Bodyweight(AM): 88kg (26 Jan)
Diet compliance: 0/0 days
Daily Squat: 70/70 days
Daily Cardio: 0/0 days
Basketball skill work:
Morning:
 

Noon:
  BS 6x120, 3x152.5, 15x125(PR)

Evening:
   

Notes:
  • Last big squat session for the summer done.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: January 24, 2019, 11:28:58 pm »
Quote from: maxent on January 23, 2019, 05:08:05 am
Woah. Struggle squats! Looks like i did a fantastic job destroying my spinal erectors yesterday with that 150kg triple, 162.5kg PR and 15x122.5kg PRs. So now im at hte mercy of lower back recovery which in the olden days would take me a full week to occur. Today i was able to rep 152.5kg so in some sense ive got more than partial recovery already but it's probably not enough for what i had in mind for the next 6 days  (PRs every day lol).  In hindsight i prob should not have tried to make the move towards 160kg just yet but it would have been nice to be putting 160kg on a daily maintenance so all things considered it was worth a shot, just didn't work out.

still f$kd up. did a recovery workout yesterday with the empty bar lol. Abs still ded today. But tmr im going to just go for a PR. Lesson is don't mess with too heavy weights, it costs valuable training time and sets progress back

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