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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: February 06, 2014, 03:32:19 pm »
you're the vert measurement doctor. i defer.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: February 06, 2014, 11:24:33 am »
those are good-looking jumps but i just can't quite believe they're 34". his feet don't look three feet off the ground. i could just be envious that the 6'3 guy with long arms jumps as high as i do with less apparent effort.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: February 06, 2014, 10:05:02 am »
meant to mention, i've been playing around with my kettlebell, mostly doing TGUs and cleans/snatches and OHP for a rep or two at a time. just getting a feel for the thing, i've never worked with KBs before. also, did some work with the captains of crush yesterday, playing around with hand positioning. i found a good hold for my left hand but not yet my right, although right is (obviously, i'm right-handed) much stronger.
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Basketball / Re: A WHOLE BUNCH OF DUNKS AND SHIT.
« on: February 05, 2014, 02:42:13 pm »
a cool animation of the insane posterization i posted the other day.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: February 04, 2014, 10:00:47 pm »
WEIGHT: 176
SORENESS: hip flexors, adductors, obliques, intercostals, quads, feet (yes)
ACHES/INJURIES: right toe
MENTAL STATE: okay
- warm up
- hip thrust 85 x 15,15,15,15
- paused squat 225 x 3,3,3
- superset x 2
-- dips x 15
-- pull ups x 6
- kroc row 65 x 18
- stretch
a garbage workout but that's to be expected when so sore. will work out again tomorrow and possibly thursday and am taking friday off. hopefully i'll be shipshape enough by then to get a good long workout in in the afternoon.
SORENESS: hip flexors, adductors, obliques, intercostals, quads, feet (yes)
ACHES/INJURIES: right toe
MENTAL STATE: okay
- warm up
- hip thrust 85 x 15,15,15,15
- paused squat 225 x 3,3,3
- superset x 2
-- dips x 15
-- pull ups x 6
- kroc row 65 x 18
- stretch
a garbage workout but that's to be expected when so sore. will work out again tomorrow and possibly thursday and am taking friday off. hopefully i'll be shipshape enough by then to get a good long workout in in the afternoon.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: February 04, 2014, 05:10:05 pm »
the potomac valley track club just announced their spring/summer meet schedule. there are FAT 100m and 200m races on may 19, june 9 and 30, july 20 and august 10. pretty soon it'll be warm enough to start training outside again and i'm going to head back out to the track. gonna sign up for one or more of these and finally learn just how slow i really am.
EDIT: avishek's gonna do one of them with me. more motivation.
spring workouts plan is to jump 3-4 days a week, train on the track 2-3 days a week, and lift 2 days a week. something like:
D1: ME jumping + lifting
D2: rest OR low-intensity track
D3: jumping + high-intensity track
D4: jumping + lifting
D5: rest OR low-intensity track
D6: jumping + high-intensity track
D7: rest
that may be overly ambitious. given that i'm making progress on my current set up and my overall goal remains dunking,high-intensity track will be the first thing to go if it's too much. i do think i reaped some benefits from the sprinting last summer/fall, and it'll be interesting to see if i can continue to do that after a winter that's seen me get closer to my goal than ever before.
high-intensity track would be various bounds and max-effort sprints. low-intensity track would be basically extensive tempo. i'll start conservatively, as always.
might get back to jumping before work, as well, as that'll allow me to get back on the track without having overly complicated evenings or being unpleasantly surprised by the court being filled with 8-year-olds.
EDIT: avishek's gonna do one of them with me. more motivation.
spring workouts plan is to jump 3-4 days a week, train on the track 2-3 days a week, and lift 2 days a week. something like:
D1: ME jumping + lifting
D2: rest OR low-intensity track
D3: jumping + high-intensity track
D4: jumping + lifting
D5: rest OR low-intensity track
D6: jumping + high-intensity track
D7: rest
that may be overly ambitious. given that i'm making progress on my current set up and my overall goal remains dunking,high-intensity track will be the first thing to go if it's too much. i do think i reaped some benefits from the sprinting last summer/fall, and it'll be interesting to see if i can continue to do that after a winter that's seen me get closer to my goal than ever before.
high-intensity track would be various bounds and max-effort sprints. low-intensity track would be basically extensive tempo. i'll start conservatively, as always.
might get back to jumping before work, as well, as that'll allow me to get back on the track without having overly complicated evenings or being unpleasantly surprised by the court being filled with 8-year-olds.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: acole14's journal - DUNK OR DIE
« on: February 03, 2014, 08:30:27 pm »Me neither. Maybe it's for the types of people that have muscles with too low of a fluid content and creatine improves on that and adds better "leverage" if you will for the muscle fibers to push against?
upvoted for sheer creativity.
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Pics, Videos, & Links / Re: beast
« on: February 03, 2014, 02:21:13 pm »
800 lb front squat:
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxZ2-q1c5UI" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxZ2-q1c5UI</a>
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: February 03, 2014, 11:46:38 am »
sure enough, i'm sore in most of the expected areas: the little muscles in my hips (adductors, hip flexors), lower back, obliques, and to a lesser extend quads and hamstrings. all the stabilizing muscles that are taxed for quick cutting and starting and stopping. tib anterior and peroneals are, unexpectedly, totally fine.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: February 03, 2014, 09:38:12 am »lololol! Good thing we know by now that those rants are part of your mentality, but so far they have proven to be incapable of affecting your training. Which training is on a constant linear progress for 2+ years and looks very likely to continue like that till 40'' and above.
+1
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: February 02, 2014, 04:55:58 pm »
the timinvermont 1RM calculator gets wonky at higher reps. 205 x 20 gives me a 1RM of 435. 
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: February 02, 2014, 04:54:47 pm »
WEIGHT: ???
SORENESS: none
ACHES/INJURIES: both shoulders (left before, right after i got whacked)
MENTAL STATE: great
- touch football x 1.5 hours
so fun. got an elbow or something to the right shoulderblade but it's nbd. i'm gonna be sore as hell tomorrow. worth it.
now time to watch the pros do it.
SORENESS: none
ACHES/INJURIES: both shoulders (left before, right after i got whacked)
MENTAL STATE: great
- touch football x 1.5 hours
so fun. got an elbow or something to the right shoulderblade but it's nbd. i'm gonna be sore as hell tomorrow. worth it.
now time to watch the pros do it.
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Pics, Videos, & Links / Re: beast
« on: February 01, 2014, 09:13:10 pm »
http://www.allthingsgym.com/clarence-cummings-112kg-snatch-at-2014-junior-nationals/
the kid is 13 years old and weighs 60.5kg.
the kid is 13 years old and weighs 60.5kg.