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Basketball / Re: A WHOLE BUNCH OF DUNKS AND SHIT.
« on: July 24, 2014, 10:23:40 am »
first one is cool
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Two Hands Two Feet
« on: July 24, 2014, 07:36:00 am »
yeah it's nothing against PC or (obviously) trying to make progress. but vag pretty much nailed it: don't chase weight room numbers at the expense of your main training goals.
but full cleans and power cleans are different movements -- full cleans are technically a lot more difficult to do. after all, a power clean can always be a little bit of an explosive reverse grip curl. if full cleans are something you want to add to your repertoire, then i think you should be drilling them now. but i don't know why you'd want to add them now, unless you're switching your focus to olympic lifting. spending a lot of time learning a technical lift, especially without coaching, just runs the risk of distracting you from higher-payoff activities.
but full cleans and power cleans are different movements -- full cleans are technically a lot more difficult to do. after all, a power clean can always be a little bit of an explosive reverse grip curl. if full cleans are something you want to add to your repertoire, then i think you should be drilling them now. but i don't know why you'd want to add them now, unless you're switching your focus to olympic lifting. spending a lot of time learning a technical lift, especially without coaching, just runs the risk of distracting you from higher-payoff activities.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Two Hands Two Feet
« on: July 23, 2014, 10:55:31 pm »
no. if you want to be doing full cleans, then you should be doing them now. there's not a magic weight where it makes sense to switch. those ratio things are a distraction in a lot of cases: witness the time i wasted trying to hit 2x bw squat...although i will admit to feeling awesome when i finally got it.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: July 23, 2014, 09:09:47 pm »
WEIGHT: ???
SORENESS: hamstrings but mild
ACHES/INJURIES: left shoulder, toes
MENTAL STATE: okay
- warm up
- some layups and DSVJ but all submax. legs dead
- bench 185 x 7+3+3+3+3
annoyed not to get the opening 10. wasn't close, though. huh.
- BOR 155 x 10+3+3+3
- shrug 275 x 10+3+3+3
- tricep kickback 17.5 x 10+3+3
- DB curl 30s x 10+3+3
- pallof press 70 x 10,10,10
- stretch
going to NYC then vermont for the weekend. back monday. if it's early enough, i'll jump and/or run. if not, back in business on tuesday. i'll probably do a couple hikes this weekend, as well.
SORENESS: hamstrings but mild
ACHES/INJURIES: left shoulder, toes
MENTAL STATE: okay
- warm up
- some layups and DSVJ but all submax. legs dead
- bench 185 x 7+3+3+3+3
annoyed not to get the opening 10. wasn't close, though. huh.
- BOR 155 x 10+3+3+3
- shrug 275 x 10+3+3+3
- tricep kickback 17.5 x 10+3+3
- DB curl 30s x 10+3+3
- pallof press 70 x 10,10,10
- stretch
going to NYC then vermont for the weekend. back monday. if it's early enough, i'll jump and/or run. if not, back in business on tuesday. i'll probably do a couple hikes this weekend, as well.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Two Hands Two Feet
« on: July 23, 2014, 09:06:56 pm »
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: July 23, 2014, 08:26:09 am »
that is the idea.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: July 22, 2014, 10:21:14 pm »
WEIGHT: ???
SORENESS: hamstrings but mild
ACHES/INJURIES: left shoulder, right knee but not as bad as last two days, left toe on the way home
MENTAL STATE: good
- warm up
- sprint 20m x 5; 55m x 3; 200m x 2
28.3, 29.3 on the 200s, ~7 mins rest between the two.
- stretch
was supposed to be upper body weights day but the dude texted me to see if i wanted to run and i thought, what the hell. might as well go hard because it's going to be a rest weekend. it's all about fitness at this point, anyway. hamstrings were sore. the dude is significantly faster than me (makes sense, he's a ~6'4, 21-year-old D1 soccer player considering whether to play professionally after he graduates next year) after about 25m, which is great. he's about 5m faster at 55m. i caught up to him on the first 200 and was less than 5m behind at the finish but he pushed hard on the second and beat me by ~15-20m.
legs = toast.
SORENESS: hamstrings but mild
ACHES/INJURIES: left shoulder, right knee but not as bad as last two days, left toe on the way home
MENTAL STATE: good
- warm up
- sprint 20m x 5; 55m x 3; 200m x 2
28.3, 29.3 on the 200s, ~7 mins rest between the two.
- stretch
was supposed to be upper body weights day but the dude texted me to see if i wanted to run and i thought, what the hell. might as well go hard because it's going to be a rest weekend. it's all about fitness at this point, anyway. hamstrings were sore. the dude is significantly faster than me (makes sense, he's a ~6'4, 21-year-old D1 soccer player considering whether to play professionally after he graduates next year) after about 25m, which is great. he's about 5m faster at 55m. i caught up to him on the first 200 and was less than 5m behind at the finish but he pushed hard on the second and beat me by ~15-20m.
legs = toast.
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Track & Field / USA Outdoor Masters Championships
« on: July 22, 2014, 12:59:08 pm »
USATF Outdoor Masters Championships were last weekend. PVTC, the club that organized the meet I participated in a couple weeks ago, finished fifth overall in the team standings and had seven individual national champs and one team championship (M70 4x100). One of them was the M60 winner in the 200 -- he ran 24.32 to beat his own American record! 24.32! He's 60 years old!
That's some inspiring shit.
Full results here: http://www.usatf.tv/gprofile.php?do=view_event&event_id=6668&mgroup_id=45365&year=2014
T0ddday, are you 30 yet? The M30 national champ only ran 10.97. The field is relatively small because it's all amateurs (obviously). Hell, if I can get to high-11s and maintain that until I'm 30 I could make the finals. I'm less than three years away.
That's some inspiring shit.
Full results here: http://www.usatf.tv/gprofile.php?do=view_event&event_id=6668&mgroup_id=45365&year=2014
T0ddday, are you 30 yet? The M30 national champ only ran 10.97. The field is relatively small because it's all amateurs (obviously). Hell, if I can get to high-11s and maintain that until I'm 30 I could make the finals. I'm less than three years away.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: July 21, 2014, 10:30:59 pm »
WEIGHT: ???
SORENESS: hamstrings, esp. right
ACHES/INJURIES: left shoulder, right knee but in a different spot than yesterday
MENTAL STATE: low motivation, otherwise okay
- warm up
- sprint 60m x 4, walk back recovery
- sprint 300m x 1
48.5 but i did not run 100%. wussed out on the back stretch instead of kicking as hard as i could. stupid.
- brianmac-style core circuit 30/30
-- plank
-- side plank L
-- side plank R
-- reverse hyper
-- bicycle crunch
-- plank
-- side plank L
-- side plank R
-- alternating leg reverse hyper
- stretch
meh workout. right knee was bothering me on the first three 60s.
struck up a conversation with a couple of howard soccer players who've been doing 800s and 1200s and such the past month or so at more or less the same time as i work out. turns out the taller one is a goalie and is down to do some sprint work once or twice a week while the field players do their six-mile runs. i'll get in touch with him next week. should be fun to have someone to race.
SORENESS: hamstrings, esp. right
ACHES/INJURIES: left shoulder, right knee but in a different spot than yesterday
MENTAL STATE: low motivation, otherwise okay
- warm up
- sprint 60m x 4, walk back recovery
- sprint 300m x 1
48.5 but i did not run 100%. wussed out on the back stretch instead of kicking as hard as i could. stupid.
- brianmac-style core circuit 30/30
-- plank
-- side plank L
-- side plank R
-- reverse hyper
-- bicycle crunch
-- plank
-- side plank L
-- side plank R
-- alternating leg reverse hyper
- stretch
meh workout. right knee was bothering me on the first three 60s.
struck up a conversation with a couple of howard soccer players who've been doing 800s and 1200s and such the past month or so at more or less the same time as i work out. turns out the taller one is a goalie and is down to do some sprint work once or twice a week while the field players do their six-mile runs. i'll get in touch with him next week. should be fun to have someone to race.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: July 21, 2014, 11:58:06 am »
oh, i wore them in the race. just not for training. hopefully i'll be faster next time but it won't be footwear-related.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Chris' training journal
« on: July 21, 2014, 09:43:46 am »
word. couple notes for when you try it: focus on maintaining rigid and neutral spine with glutes flexed. it'll be tempting to "cheat" by breaking at the waist, especially on the concentric portion, but resist. you'll probably have to assist yourself by pushing off the handles. cheating can still give you a great hamstring pump but you're robbing yourself of the "glute" part of "glute-ham raise."
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400m Sprinting or Shorter / Re: Sprint Videos
« on: July 21, 2014, 09:34:24 am »
i may have been feeling like entropy last week, but having just done 4x200m in 29-32 with >2 mins rest, at least i'm not insane enough to compare myself to carl lewis. something to aspire to, in the way that averaging 450 over the course of a 25-match scrabble tournament is something to aspire to.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Age vs Vertical
« on: July 21, 2014, 09:29:31 am »
well then big ups on the full plate chins! 
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: July 21, 2014, 09:27:11 am »Running repeat 200s definitely brings out the lactic acid!
Sorry if this has been answered before but what kind of spikes do you have?
asics that i bought on super-duper sale for like $25. i've still never screwed in the actual spikes. but i typically don't train in them, just in my racing flats. no real reason for that other than "t0ddday said so."