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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Party's Over!
« on: January 14, 2019, 03:39:06 am »
Quote from: Coges on January 13, 2019, 09:06:33 pm
Quote from: Mutumbo000 on January 12, 2019, 07:40:44 am
Training-
No Updates

Career-
I've applied to join the Australian Army on a part-time basis (Army Reserves) as infantry. I have a YOU session scheduled for Monday 21st January at 10 am where I'll have a medical assessment, psychological interview and an army interview. If I pass the interview I'll have to take a fitness test, which is a piece of piss (15 pushups, 45 sit ups & 7.5 beep test) and then get sent off for a training camp interstate for 5 weeks.

The reason I applied for the Army Reserves is because I want to keep my civilian job but I want to serve my country and learn new skills. In other developed countries, such as Greece and South Korea all civilians have to undertake military service for 12 months. Although, war and invasion in Australia is unlikely I want to be able to protect my family and country if required.

Good on you mate. Solid move. I would love to do something like this- Army, Police, Fire, etc but with kids I just can't bring myself to do it. Good luck with everything.

Thanks Coges!

My missus wasn't too happy but after I explained that it was part time she reluctantly supports me. Assuming I get in it could take months before I go off to Kapooka but the sooner the better.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Party's Over!
« on: January 13, 2019, 04:20:08 am »
Quote from: adarqui on January 12, 2019, 08:06:11 pm
Quote from: Mutumbo000 on January 12, 2019, 06:20:03 pm
Quote from: LBSS on January 12, 2019, 08:55:10 am
aren't you more likely to get shipped off to fight a war that my stupid bellicose-ass country wades into and australia supports reflexively? than to have to defend australia from some external threat, i mean.

In all likelihood yes. However, I still want to join to learn new skills, have new experiences, and also to receive the financial benefits- tax free income.

Who do you think the US will start a war with next :P

You mean other than the war Trump declared on the US a little over a year ago? dno, maybe Iran.

 :raging:

Possibly. He's pulling 30,000 US troops out of Syria.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Party's Over!
« on: January 12, 2019, 06:20:03 pm »
Quote from: LBSS on January 12, 2019, 08:55:10 am
aren't you more likely to get shipped off to fight a war that my stupid bellicose-ass country wades into and australia supports reflexively? than to have to defend australia from some external threat, i mean.

In all likelihood yes. However, I still want to join to learn new skills, have new experiences, and also to receive the financial benefits- tax free income.

Who do you think the US will start a war with next :P

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MUSiC anD SHeeT! / Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now?
« on: January 12, 2019, 08:46:11 am »
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGZsGX3B_BY" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGZsGX3B_BY</a>

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Party's Over!
« on: January 12, 2019, 07:40:44 am »
Training-
No Updates

Career-
I've applied to join the Australian Army on a part-time basis (Army Reserves) as infantry. I have a YOU session scheduled for Monday 21st January at 10 am where I'll have a medical assessment, psychological interview and an army interview. If I pass the interview I'll have to take a fitness test, which is a piece of piss (15 pushups, 45 sit ups & 7.5 beep test) and then get sent off for a training camp interstate for 5 weeks.

The reason I applied for the Army Reserves is because I want to keep my civilian job but I want to serve my country and learn new skills. In other developed countries, such as Greece and South Korea all civilians have to undertake military service for 12 months. Although, war and invasion in Australia is unlikely I want to be able to protect my family and country if required.

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MUSiC anD SHeeT! / Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now?
« on: January 11, 2019, 04:22:49 am »
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmIH8Sua0Yw" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmIH8Sua0Yw</a>

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Reading, Books, & Sheeit / Re: Book Journal
« on: January 09, 2019, 07:48:18 am »
Quote from: LBSS on January 09, 2019, 02:45:23 am
yo if you're interested in the growth delusion, check out doughnut economics, by kate raworth. goes way beyond the limitations of GDP to suggest an entirely new set of metaphors and basic measures for economic health.

Thanks LBSS I love reading books about economics.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/apr/12/doughnut-growth-economics-book-economic-model

The book sounds interesting. I'll see if my local library has it (if not I'll ask them to order a copy).

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: January 09, 2019, 07:29:12 am »
Quote from: Mutumbo000 on January 09, 2019, 07:13:54 am
Quote from: maxent on January 09, 2019, 02:22:27 am
Today i was too weak to squat a 3RM of 150kg (got 3x147.5kg yesterday) and im prob gonna put it down to the hard run this morning eating into my performance. However the funny thing is i was able to progress my 10rm just fine, getting 10x130kg which is a lifetime PR (and the 127.5kg was the same yesterday and so on forth). Plug in the 1rm calculator app on my phone and it says i shud have a 172.5kg max - lol yea alright, that's why i racked 150kg after the first rep cos i didn't think i would get a clean 2nd leave alone a 3rd. So what's going on? It's just the same thing we've been talking about -- the illusion of progress / productive training by doing something easier just to say you're making progress even tho there is almost zero translation between longer sets and runs to shorter more intense ones. I buy in to the longer rep sets though, cos it's nice to make progress regularly even if it's just fools gold to take it for anything other than what it is. something holistic would just make regular PRs as part of training and the problem with longer runs (and being specific here duration) just runs into the same problem that as you increase speed it becomes harder, so where is the progress?

For the squat if you have a theoretical max of 172.5kg based on 130kgx10 reps but struggle with 150kg it's probably because you're not used to lifting the heavier weight. Your body adapts to what you train it at. If you started practicing heavy singles and also worked on doing half squats with 200+kg to get used to the weight on your back I wouldn't be surprised if you came close to 172.5kg in a couple of months. However, in rare circumstances you might be an anomaly where you're just great at being able to push out 10 reps. When I first started lifting I was mentored by one of my mum's friends who was a bodybuilder. He could easily rep out 12 reps of 120kg on bench but would struggle with benching anything 140kg+ because he was used to doing 8-20 reps with short rests (<1 minute) between sets.

Edit- Congrats on the  :personal-record:. As for running I think you should just experiment and do what you think is best. If your goal is to run 5km in sub 20 then get used to running for 20 minutes and keep increasing the speed.

To run 5km in 20 minutes or less you need to be running at 15km/h (4:00 minute 1km speed).
https://www.depicus.com/swim-bike-run/pace-conversion-chart

Atm you can't run that fast so start off running at 10km/h for 20 minute.
The next session try running at 10.3, 10.6, 10.9 etc. If the 0.3 intervals are too much reduce it down to 0.2 or even 0.1. Once you stall you can start doing other things like adarqui suggested e.g. speed work and longer runs.

Just my opinion (I have no distance running experience!!!).

The pacing is easy on a treadmill. If you're worried about treadmill running being non-specific to actual running do it on an oval if you have a stopwatch/additional tech equipment you can replicate the strategy by adjusting your pace.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: January 09, 2019, 07:13:54 am »
Quote from: maxent on January 09, 2019, 02:22:27 am
Today i was too weak to squat a 3RM of 150kg (got 3x147.5kg yesterday) and im prob gonna put it down to the hard run this morning eating into my performance. However the funny thing is i was able to progress my 10rm just fine, getting 10x130kg which is a lifetime PR (and the 127.5kg was the same yesterday and so on forth). Plug in the 1rm calculator app on my phone and it says i shud have a 172.5kg max - lol yea alright, that's why i racked 150kg after the first rep cos i didn't think i would get a clean 2nd leave alone a 3rd. So what's going on? It's just the same thing we've been talking about -- the illusion of progress / productive training by doing something easier just to say you're making progress even tho there is almost zero translation between longer sets and runs to shorter more intense ones. I buy in to the longer rep sets though, cos it's nice to make progress regularly even if it's just fools gold to take it for anything other than what it is. something holistic would just make regular PRs as part of training and the problem with longer runs (and being specific here duration) just runs into the same problem that as you increase speed it becomes harder, so where is the progress?

For the squat if you have a theoretical max of 172.5kg based on 130kgx10 reps but struggle with 150kg it's probably because you're not used to lifting the heavier weight. Your body adapts to what you train it at. If you started practicing heavy singles and also worked on doing half squats with 200+kg to get used to the weight on your back I wouldn't be surprised if you came close to 172.5kg in a couple of months. However, in rare circumstances you might be an anomaly where you're just great at being able to push out 10 reps. When I first started lifting I was mentored by one of my mum's friends who was a bodybuilder. He could easily rep out 12 reps of 120kg on bench but would struggle with benching anything 140kg+ because he was used to doing 8-20 reps with short rests (<1 minute) between sets.

Edit- Congrats on the  :personal-record:. As for running I think you should just experiment and do what you think is best. If your goal is to run 5km in sub 20 then get used to running for 20 minutes and keep increasing the speed.

To run 5km in 20 minutes or less you need to be running at 15km/h (4:00 minute 1km speed).
https://www.depicus.com/swim-bike-run/pace-conversion-chart

Atm you can't run that fast so start off running at 10km/h for 20 minute.
The next session try running at 10.3, 10.6, 10.9 etc. If the 0.3 intervals are too much reduce it down to 0.2 or even 0.1. Once you stall you can start doing other things like adarqui suggested e.g. speed work and longer runs.

Just my opinion (I have no distance running experience!!!).


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MUSiC anD SHeeT! / Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now?
« on: January 09, 2019, 06:54:14 am »
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLV4_xaYynY" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLV4_xaYynY</a>

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Party's Over!
« on: January 09, 2019, 06:45:13 am »
Soreness-
Achilles- Stiffness
Hamstrings- DOMS

Squat-
60x6
90x6
102.5x5x2

Half Squat (probably more like 1/4 squat lol)
130x3

Pull Ups-
bwx9

Chin Ups (12kg)
6x3

Treadmill-
250 calories including 2:30 minutes at 17.4 km/h (3:26 km pace). It's getting harder and harder! Pace wise I feel fine but fitness wise I feel like coughing my lungs up as soon as I finish.

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Reading, Books, & Sheeit / Re: Book Journal
« on: January 07, 2019, 08:11:54 am »
Reading Xu Hongci's biography after reading 'Young Money' by Kevin Roose exemplifies the hedonistic treadmill all of us are on  as humans. Xu spent most of his life starved, exiled and in parts tortured despite being a doctor (he was studying Medicine but often worked/assisted doctors in the labor camps). After escaping the labor camp he fled to Mongolia and worked as a laborer for many years but was happy as he had his freedom and enough money to live on. In comparison in 'Young Money' we have Ivy League graduates earning 200k USD a year feeling miserable as they question their value to society, and the hours and dedication spent to their jobs prevent them from maintaining relationships with friends/family.


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Reading, Books, & Sheeit / Re: Book Journal
« on: January 07, 2019, 07:45:02 am »


This was an excellent read and makes you put life in perspective! Xu Hongci was a communist member studying Medicine but he became disenchanted with some of the policies of Mao Zedong and when he shared his constructive criticism with party members he was labelled as a revolutionary and sent to 20 years prison working in a labor camp. Trivial offences were enough to land anyone in prison. For example two 10 years old were sentenced to 12 & 15 years in prison for writing 'Down With Mao Dezong' on a toilet wall and craving 'Down with Mao Zedong' on a pumpkin respectively.

It's estimated that between 50-70 million Chinese citizens died during Mao Zedong's tenure. Many of these deaths were due to malnourishment and starvation as a result of Mao's policies of turning arable farmland into useless backyard furnaces. Conditions in the labour camps were even worse as prisoners were forced to do manual labour for 20 hours a day and fed with one meal a day- a bowl of rice. Prisoners often died of starvation and disease from squalor living conditions (sleeping on the floor 10 in a small cell). The ones that didn't die of disease or starvation were beaten and tortured depending on how sadistic the prison management was.

Xu spent 14 years in a labour camp until he managed to escape to Mongolia. Of the 550,000 labour camp inmates he is one of the only people (if not the only) who escaped and avoided recapture (execution was punishment) to tell his tale.

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Reading, Books, & Sheeit / Re: Book Journal
« on: January 07, 2019, 02:30:23 am »


Basically a book about the limitations of GDP and how GDP is difficult to calculate for developed countries as developed countries are increasingly becoming service economies. GDP for developing countries is also difficult to calculate and the author hypothesizes that GDP in developing countries is actually being underestimated.

The main premise of the book is that policy makers should look beyond GDP figures as the be all end all since GDP has limitations. Instead he likens it to a car dashboard where the GDP is the speed of the car but you also need to know how much fuel you have and the temperature to see how the car is tracking. Therefore, policy makers should also include GDP per capita, median income, inequality, net domestic product, well being and CO₂ emissions instead of primarily focusing on GDP.



The author shadows 8 entry level investment bankers from firms including Goldman Sachs, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, and Credit Suisse. It was an enjoyable book where the three year timeline coincided with the Occupy Movement. Spoiler half of the 8 entry level investment bankers left the industry after two years. The book questioned whether the financial industry will continue to attract the best and brightest young talent in the future and whether the GFC will have any lasting culture changes on the finance sector.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: January 07, 2019, 02:09:55 am »
Amazing job adarqui!

That race sounded epic! Congratulations on the win and the impressive ultra marathon debut  :)

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