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Happy birthday Andrew!!!
Here the most typical bday wishes are "may you have many years to come" , "may you make it to 100" , "may you have whatever you wish" , so there you go , Greek wishes directly translated!

16 August 2010

Vertical jump testing.
Weight at session : ~185
Jumping on concrete , 10' rim.
Was awfully hot again today , at 10pm that i came back home the local meteo station says temperature : 90'F / feels like :100'F
The burning concrete made it even worse , car's thermometer showed 95'F at court...

10' dynamic warmup , 2x10 sec DL line hops , bunch of low-mid effort jumps.

1x4 SVJs : 26'' to 27'' , one jump at 27,5''
1x4 dropstep DLRVJs : 30'' to 31''
1x4 1-step DLRVJs : 31'' to 32''
1x4 2-step DLRVJs : 32'' to 32,5'' , one jump at 33''
2x3 full runup DLRVJs : 30'' to 31'' , WTF?

Im guessing this dropoff was because of the heat. After seeing i cant get higher at full runup jumps i retried a few 1/2-step jumps , those were 30'' to 31'' too so i stopped.
Not bad at all , of course i didn't feel as powerful and explosive as 20 days ago but all jumps were much more fluid and high than what i expected.

Quote from: vag on August 16, 2010, 10:52:53 am

Quote from: LBSS on August 16, 2010, 10:05:02 am

You're lighter AND leaner after a vacation? Isn't it usually supposed to be the other way around for old farts like yourself?

Nah , on the contrary , think about it , in vacations being younger you consume much more junk food and alcohol... 

Yeah but you can get away with eating anything when you're 18 haha. When I was 17 and 18 I ate like a gallon of jello a week, sometimes with soft serve ice cream on top. Did not gain a pound that year.

Haha  i was referring to "younger" as mid 20's
Now besides joking , nutrients partitioning does change a lot , but you can still control things pretty well at my age. Takes much more effort for the same ( or actually a little worse ) results, but standard things/rules still work.

Haha that's awesome about Dolph Lundgren. What a g.

x2

dang that would be tough...but 50 by 50 would be certain failure....but anomalies are awesome!!

50-by-50... hmmmmm... tempting! 
Besides joking , 40-by-40 is almost certain failure too! Even the age-vs-vertical race is pretty damn hard to have the vertical as winner. But hey , it will be fun chasing it!

Fuck yeah, vag. Welcome back. 

Thanks man , glad to be back!


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Body measurements ( only for bodyfat )
Last measurements = 23 July.

Weight ( in the morning ) :  ~181,5 , ( -5,5 lbs )
Waist ( navel level , loose) : ~34,25''  , ( -0,35'' )

Bodyfat estimation (online calculator) : ~15,8% ( 0% )
Bodyfat estimation (BF measuring scale) : ~15% ( -0,8% )

Measurements may be a bit off as i am rather depleted , but the big picture is more or less ~182-185lbs / 15%.

Quote from: vag on July 29, 2010, 02:58:58 pm

Im off for summer holidays , will be back in ~3 weeks!

- Made my youtube videos/channels private for while im gone , will re-public them when i get back.
- Dont move this journal to the cemetery!!!

Keep up the good work everyone , talk soon...

ur still training?

Well on holidays ill try to keep up with some bodyweight stuff , plyos , pistol squats , sprints etc

If you mean if im still training generally , keeping journal , vids etc , OF COURSE YES!  

Thanks vag! Still can't jump, though. Gonna ask the PT about it tomorrow. Soon enough we'll see whether my lifting improvements will mean that I can grab rim net 

I had a bad ankle sprain on December 2008. I could walk normally even the next day but whenever i tried to push ( jump or sprint ) it would hurt like hell , maybe re-injuring!
I had to be really patient , in the beginning i wasnt , i would want to try to jump to see where i am and that would throw recovery back. After 1 month like that i decided to stop , i never jumped again , i was lifting normally , doing some self PT at home etc.
Finally , i went on a jumping session at end of April 2009 ( 4 months after the sprain ) and BAM , i was better than before.
It wasnt at 100% yet , but every week it was improving. So what im trying to say sharing my experience is be patient , dont push it until its ready , keep PT and lifts and when the ankle heals the vert gains will be there!