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I have this pain on my left glute now, feels like a light strain. It started sometime previous week, went away, now that i run and redid lunges it aggravated. I am having some thoughts/fears that it may the be the spinal disc again, maybe it is herniating to the left side messing with some nerves. But i have no back pain at all, it has to be muscular. What i am saying is that the spine thing, even as a background or a subliminal thought is affecting my current training. Hope it doesn't screw it.

Yeah i've experienced that before. Try stretching hip flexors, when they're tight they'll cause it. If you're running check your cadence, if you're overstriding then it will cause it also, especially if you're reaching fatigue during your running (exacerbated i find if you do running after lifting) . Those two three things if you become cognisant of should help. Also get a TENS unit, it's probably my best friend and i use mine every day. Would not be able to train normally without my nightly back massage. Im actually having one right now as i type this message, ha.

Bodyweight(AM): 85.6kg (17 Jan)
Diet compliance: 2/2 days
Daily Squat: 61/61 days
Daily Run: 61/61 days
Basketball skill work: 

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Morning:

  TM Run 5km, 35 mins 

Noon:

  BS 6x120, 1x155, 20x110(PR)
  QL assistance - 1arm kb carries 
  BX 14x80kg(+band, PR)

Evening:

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Notes:

• Body feeling a bit beat up.
• Was informed today im expected to play the 4 position. This is not great news .. i was prepping to play as a lean athletic 85kg. Not sure I can even play as a PF without being undersized. Any advice?

Good job for actually testing. I'm not game to test in case it's too depressing. Ha

i dont get the swahili statement. lol. im too lazy to learn another language.

Fair enough. I thought you might wanna learn from your insta and love for Kenyan running. I'm the same, i'll prob find the reality of learning gets too tedious once the initial hype has worn off. But daily training has kinda opened my eyes on what you can accomplish by just doing a little bit every day, it just seems to 'work' even if you're not working very hard every time. Last night run i looked at my watch and around 4km i was maintaining a 5 min/km pace .. submax .. which is what my fast runs used to be like .. though it's been forever since i've done one of those outside. That's with a full days worth of eating and drinking and shoes clothes im prob around 87.5kg i'd say. So a lot heavier than when i started off with a gym weight of 82kg. It seems the fitness benefit of just punching the clock regularly and getting those easy miles in without straining seems to be the key. I've even found it affecting the way i do squatting now .. im finding that by building up higher number of reps with lighter weight that as i progress those sets the heavier weights are easier to rep and i guess that's the secret .. to just rep more with more over time. Really regret sticking to lower reps for most of my training .. it just doesn't work as well to be a bit more patient and build up reps instead even though it's not as sexy as pushing limit weights.

This is a round about way of saying im going to try the daily approach to other things including:

• learning a language (swahili and maybe swedish)
• writing code daily
• maths daily

and that's all i got for far but im going to keep looking for things to apply the same approach to that i've always wanted to get good at

Bodyweight(AM): 85.9kg (14 Jan)
Diet compliance: 0/0 days
Daily Squat: 58/58 days
Daily Run: 58/58 days
Basketball skill work: 

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Morning:

  TM Run - 9km, 62:37, 06:58/km pace

Noon:

  BS 6x120, 1x155, 16x112.5(PR)

Evening:

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Notes:

• Still a bit beat up from the weekend's basketball. Hoping i can resume normal training today..
• It's probably goign against common wisdom but im going to explore higher rep PRs for a while. Just wanna see what it can do for me. So the next few weeks might be about progressing to 15-20 rep PRs even though my stated goal is a heavy single of 170kg .. i think i need to see what reps do towards that goal.

Bodyweight(AM): 85.5kg (13 Jan)
Diet compliance: 0/0 days
Daily Squat: 57/57 days
Daily Run: 57/57 days
Basketball skill work: 

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Morning:

  Skipped run 

Noon:

  BS 6x120, 1x152.5, 0x137.5, 15x110(PR)

Evening:

 Track - 6x100m wind assisted strides

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Notes:

• Ok basketball needs to chill. I can't keep eating this much food just to recover from bball added to my training load. Need to get food intake and bodyweight in control.

daily calisthenics (unloaded) or alternating daily push/pull resistance training.

upper isn't meant for "daily pounding" like lower is, and has smaller muscles. can't train it with heavy external resistance daily like the lower body, IMHO.

can def alternate push/pull tho, with rest days inserted as needed.

if you walked on your hands you'd be able to do daily overhead press, etc. that's my perspective on it.

if you did daily bodyweight stuff, you'd still need to use a variety of exercises. ie pushups/pullups one day, dips/chinups the other.

my 2 cents.

frankly i think the russians might have got it right in the first place. when you focus on fundamental GPP / movement with young athletes you fix a lot of things that unlock the body's ability to maximise performance. If i had had an athletic coach growing up and i had a backgroudn of competitive sport / training i prob would have been in a far better position to achieve the most out of my body even if i never stepped foot inside a gym. I think my cadence being so bad meant i didn't get enough lower limb development, not enough glute work, inefficient movement meant i was never challenging my body the right way to become more optimal at athletic movements. Probably just doing pushups (as opposed to nothing) would have got upper body development most of the way there. Just found that when i dabbled in a daily pushup regime some months ago my bench actually got super easy even with my previous 1rm type weights. Weight training is definitely not always the answer or even a good answer if you haven't paid the dues with more humble, lets say fundamentals.

Quote from: maxent on January 11, 2019, 09:32:19 pm

Bodyweight(AM): 85.1kg (12 Jan)
Diet compliance: 0/0 days
Daily Squat: 56/56 days
Daily Run: 56/56 days
Basketball skill work: 

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Morning:

Noon:

Evening:

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Notes:

• Ate 3 slices of pizza last night so restart the diet counter. TBH it's really hard to eat enough to recover from my huge training load, 100% clean but still let me be honest with my logging

i ate ~2,500 kcal of milk chocolate almonds today.

lol. if i had any junk food i prob would eat it too. chocolate almonds are just great though. my sister brought some Haigh's from adelaide when she last visited and i ate the entire thing. They have really great rocky road too which I always look forward to but it's seasonal. In general,  just try to stay away cos i know myself too well. The other night i went to watch a movie with my brotehr and i ate an entire large poporn and a bag of maltesers. We were sharing but he'll have his bit and i end up over-eating cos my appetite is endless.  Not good. So much salt.

This was a summary of what i ate after bball last night:
- 2 mcdoubles (just cos i knew i wouldn't get enough protein) on drive home
- like 2 cups of chicken breast worth of chicken curry
- 2 cups rice
- 4 roti + 1 cup dhal
- 1 cup  allu methi (potato fenugreek)
- 150mL egg white
- 2 scoops whey
- 250mL reduced fat milk
- a mango
- 3 slices of pizza
- 1 diet pepsi

i think that's the lot