Yes it's going well! I've got another appointment with the physiotherapist on the 23rd October. I'm glad I went it's definitely improved the recovery with his recommendations of exercises.
thanks for recommending to me, not to do 20 x 400 @ 50-55sec with 60-90sec recovery, unless i've done it in "sets".
dude.
squatdr genetics. pure insanity.
Yeah I can recall you talking about some of the parents at Memorial Sportscenter years ago. Claims of parents formerly being able to run sub 4.5 40's and bench 315+ back in high school / college...
Next time the race director/timer talks about his workouts I'd be like
me "beef'n" with a race director/timer. he's the one who embellishes numbers/flat out lies etc.
yesterday he told me, in front of some people, that nacho ran 4:20 for the first mile, and stopped in the middle of the road making gestures like "where's everyone at?"
i called him out on it, on the spot, but he insisted.
anyway, sent him the link to the data and he comes back with some b.s.
to add to that, he told me his favorite workout while running D1 was:
20 x 400m @ 50-55s w/ 90s recovery
i'm like dude that's impossible.
plus, there's no record of him even running D1.
this dude is such a squatdr i really dislike him.
lmfao
spoiler alert:
he actually told me Nacho ran a 4:35 first mile, the day of the event.
people are insane.
WOW!
It's literally 5 years ago now but when I was running consistent high 22.x (never official) and low 23.x 200m (23.15 & 23.18 FAT) I was doing tempo 200m runs of 27-30 seconds with 2 minutes rest (120 seconds) and I would only do about 5-6 of them and I would be fucked!!!
27-30 seconds doubled is 54-60 seconds but unlike 100m you can't just double your 100m and convert it to 200m as where you should be if you have adequate speed endurance. The current 200m world record is 19.19 and the current 400m world record is 43.03. Therefore, most 400m times is a person's best 200m time doubled + 4 seconds assuming great speed endurance.
AND THIS GUY IS CLAIMING THAT HE DID 20 (not 5 or 6 BUT 20) 50-55 second 400m with 90 seconds recovery...if he could do that he'd be an elite/world class middle distance athlete with that speed and endurance!!!
People love to exaggerate and the exaggerations get even more grandiose with time. Brian Scalabrine aka the White Mamba GOAT sums it up great in a press conference:
Interviewer: How was it for you watching it from the sideline? Not able to play even one little second in the Finals. Was that hard? GOAT- Guess what? Maybe now you say maybe I didn't play a second. But in 5 years you guys are going to forget. In 10 years I'll still be a champ and I'll tell my kids I probably started. In 30 years I'll probably tell them that I got the MVP so I'm not really too worried about it.
Was amazing, loved the hype , the vibes, the race itself, everything. Also, FWIW , that race was at the most central/commercial roads of my city, it was amazing to run at them closed on a Saturday night.
Technical analysis: Traffic was much smaller than expected. Everyone with registered time below 30' was on the first block. Still lots of people but the second and third block were so packed that would ruin the race 100%. Total contestants were .... 18.000 , eighteen thousand, LOL. Was jammed at the beginning, i was just 50 meters away from the electronic timing start gate, yet it took me 45 seconds to get there ( gun time vs net time in electronic timing ). After that it was kinda jammed for another 200-300m , you could run but had to zig zag and occasionally break or accelerate. After that it was free, 100% clean race. As warned by adarqui i was going too fast. Goal was 5'30''/km to break the 27'30'' barrier and PR by 30''. However, around 1,5km i was at 5'10'' average but not feeling going max, it was kinda buffered. Found 2 guys that were pacing good ( looking at watch all the time ) so followed them. Long story short , kept that pace till the end, destroyed my PR by 2 minutes and 36 seconds !
25'19'' electronic ,
Mobile said it was 4.98km in 25'37'' , started it and finished it 10 seconds early/late too so it's fair. Last km logged = 4'56'' stoping it 10 seconds after finish, i can't log an accurate time for that but it is 1km lone and of course 1km in a race Basically , everything is PR, in any combination, lone 1km , 2km , 1500m , 2,5km, 3km, 5km every distance above 500m that i have ever time trialed was PRed/destroyed!
khabib_nurmagomedovI would like to address @ufc Why didn't you fire anyone when their team attacked the bus and injured a couple of people? They could have killed someone there, why no one says anything about insulting my homeland, religion, nation, family?
Why do you have to punish my team, when both teams fought. If you say that I started it, then I do not agree, I finished what he had started.
In any case, punish me, @zubairatukhugov has nothing to do with that. If you think that I’ll keep silent then you are mistaken. You canceled Zubaira’s fight and you want to dismiss him just because he hit Conor. But don’t forget that it was Conor who had hit my another Brother FIRST, just check the video.
if you decide to fire him, you should know that you’ll lose me too. We never give up on our brothers in Russia and I will go to the end for my Brother. If you still decide to fire him, don’t forget to send me my broken contract, otherwise I'll break it myself.
And one more thing, you can keep my money that you are withholding. You are pretty busy with that, I hope it won’t get stuck in your throat. We have defended our honor and this is the most important thing. We intend to go to the end. #Brothers
I went to the Physio after work and got my hamstring examined. I thought they were going to do scans and massaging etc. but it was different then I expected. The physio asked me about how I injured it and took some notes down on his computer. He then got me to lie down on the massage table and got me to lay down on my back and stomach in a few different positions testing the flexibility of both legs and then the strength of my legs.
After that we went to the gym and he showed me a few exercises that he wants me to do every couple of days. The exercises were romanian deadlifts, hip thrusts, calf raises, squats, and another exercise where you bend over with a DB and stretch your leg back and up. He also wants me to do some running and said he'll email the program to me.
After the gym I asked if there was any stretches he wanted me to do but he said that the literature isn't supportive of stretches and the gym work will be adequate. I asked about the massage and he said when I come back in a couple of weeks he can do some.
I have a rugby league tournament on the 27th of October so I'm hoping that I will be able to play in it but he said it's unlikely as it will probably take 6 weeks to recover and I should focus on the off-season for next year.
Just looking into the news and came across some footage showing mcgregor attacking one of team khabib's men when he tried to climb over the octagon after khabib but was stopped halfway by security. khabib's team can be seen on top of the octagon and gets hit by conor and then khabib's team comes and hits him.
McGregor was going to try and protect his jujitsu coach and he had security holding him back. If Khabib hadn't jumped over the octagon that wouldn't have happened. Khabib's team jumped in the octagon and hit McGregor from behind. Since McGregor wasn't expecting it that could have easily knocked him out and it was actually surprising that the punch appeared to have little impact.
As for those two guys never fight again in the UFC that could change. Initially after the whole bus incident Dana White said it was the most disgusting thing he'd ever seen and wanted nothing to do with Conor. Time heals. The UFC is starting to look like the WWE. I wouldn't be surprised if Dana changes his mind especially if they are talented fighters.