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if you're a couple inches taller (i'm 5'11 in the morning, lol) and have normal arms then yeah your reach is probably ~7'8-9.

this morning:

WEIGHT: ???
SORENESS: none
ACHES/INJURIES: left shoulder a little bit
MENTAL STATE: sluggish
STOPWATCH: ???

- shoot around, layups, DSVJ
very slow, legs dead. did not even attempt DLRVJ, would have been ugly. left shoulder bothering me a little bit, need to take it easy. it's so close to being healed. good that i forced myself up and to the gym even if this wasn't much of a workout. rhythm's gotta start somewhere.

- stretch

this evening:

WEIGHT: ???
SORENESS: none
ACHES/INJURIES: left shoulder
MENTAL STATE: okay
STOPWATCH: 12

- warm up

- DLRVJ
pretty bad, jumping with glasses instead of contacts always throws me a little.

- stretch legs/lats x 10 mins

- squat 195 x 20
very solid

- stretch quads

same here, adductors tight as hail.

mizuno wave musha:

last night:

WEIGHT: 175, somebody fixed the scale so it's not giving an 8-pound range anymore. good job, gym.
SORENESS: none
ACHES/INJURIES: jammed left wrist; left knee and hip, lateral side, in end-range flexion*
MENTAL STATE: good
STOPWATCH: ??? forgot

- warm up

- 3-on-3 ball
dudes needed a sixth for their last game and i figured why not. low level of competition so not too embarrassing for me, lol. 1's and 2's to 13, i had 4-5 points, bunch of rebounds, played okay D, no airballs haha. and my team won after my teammates had lost two in a row to the other three guys.

- DLRVJ x 10
rested a little bit, then went right to full approaches. dunked dodgeball cleanly once and back ironed a few more, jumps without ball were 35+. so not PR levels but very good for me. this goes without saying, but getting CNS fired up during competition makes a huge difference. jammed my left wrist at some point but it was okay. no pain today.

- squat MSEM 300 x 3,3
remembered to fire myself up a bit. weight flew, will go to 305 next time.

- stretch

this morning:

was supposed to wake up early this morning for jumps but i slept badly last night so i turned off my alarm and got the extra hour. sleep quality has been bad the last three nights. will try to do better tonight and get up early tomorrow but until i get on the new rhythm of earlier bedtime i think sleep is going to have to take precedence. chronic undersleeping -> illness.

tonight will jump more, will try ME jumps if the court is open and otherwise submax build-ups. and then upper lifting only.

*i.e., when doing a side lunge all the way down, like this:

you're not worried about those little nubs when you jump in the xc900s?

^^^word, thanks for the reminder to psych myself up before MSEM and MEBM. i've been focusing on lifting as fast as possible with good form but not on getting my CNS fired up and that's obviously an important component.

let me know about any suggested changes, thanks!

wrong analogy, dreyth. ankle isn't like your elbow, it's like your wrist. dorsiflexion can definitely be limited by stiffness on the back side of your leg, and while your foot gets in the way of extreme end-ROM, the limiting factor for most people is soft tissue. the classic illustration of this is people from places where chairs are not common, who spend their whole lives moving in and out of deep squats and are capable of a lot of dorsiflexion with minimal effort. e.g., this guy



similarly, wrist dorsiflexion can be limited (and often is) by forearm muscle/tendon tightness and immobility.