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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: A Journey to Running Fast and Jumping High
« on: August 26, 2013, 06:58:06 pm »
why didn't you run in spikes? if the answer is, "i don't have spikes," then why don't you have spikes?
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: August 26, 2013, 12:10:30 pm »what did you read?
Smiley's People, by John LeCarre, and The Sound of Things Falling, by Juan Gabriel Vasquez.
LeCarre writes the best dialogue of any novelist I've ever read, and it's not even close. It is indescribably awesome; even The Russia House, which isn't great, has some riveting scenes of characters just talking to each other for several pages. I've read three of his four towering cold war books now: Smiley's People; Tinker, Tailor; and The Spy Who Came in From the Cold. Only The Honourable Schoolboy remains.
The Vasquez book was also wonderful, if very sad. A total page-turner for such a serious book whose main theme (to me) is humans' profound and ultimately insurmountable isolation from each other, despite all our efforts to connect.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: August 26, 2013, 11:59:08 am »
beach was amazing, a vintage year. played a lot of tennis, swam every day, rode bikes, took long walks, got a serious massage, shot a handgun for the first time, won all three times we played mini golf, played beach volleyball, read two books. no jumping or lifting. today i'll be back on the track with a god-damn stopwatch again.
avishek, bro, you wanna come down to cardozo tonight? i found where the lanes are marked for distance. i'm planning to be there around 7 but i'm flexible any time after that.
avishek, bro, you wanna come down to cardozo tonight? i found where the lanes are marked for distance. i'm planning to be there around 7 but i'm flexible any time after that.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Two Hands Two Feet
« on: August 26, 2013, 11:21:16 am »Started off all good with seeing the Osteo on Friday. She worked some of her magic and the body was feeling v good. She's been experimenting with different techniques and strangely enough she did some work on my liver meridian around the rib cabe and arm pit which released my extremely tight IT band. Mind = blown!
i <3 voodoo magic PT shit. it's the best.
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Pics, Videos, & Links / Re: beast
« on: August 26, 2013, 10:31:11 am »
fuck yeah, that is awesome.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Age vs Vertical
« on: August 26, 2013, 10:12:31 am »
seems solid, man.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: August 26, 2013, 10:10:32 am »
too many posts in between your response to my last one to read through at the moment, but when you were like, "i'm eating enough for mass gain but not gaining any weight," i was like, "are you seriously, bro? if you are not gaining weight, you are by definition not eating enough to gain weight."
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: August 16, 2013, 08:32:47 pm »
WEIGHT: 175
SORENESS: none
ACHES/INJURIES: none
MENTAL STATE: good
- warm up
- low box depth jump x 3,3
meh
- jump squat 45 x 3,3
- squat 330 x 1,1,1; 285 x 5,5
strong
- bench 155 x 10+3+3+3
- paused DB row 55 x 10+3+3+3
- GHR x 2,2,2
really good glute activation the whole way through each rep but these were still hard. getting better at 'em.
- (pull up x 1 + leg raise x 2) x 5
whatever
- stretch
going to the beach tomorrow for a week. so excited. gonna play tennis and mini golf, swim in the ocean, read some books, hang out, and love life. i'll do some jumps and/or sprints and conditioning but i'm not going to hold myself to a plan or schedule.
SORENESS: none
ACHES/INJURIES: none
MENTAL STATE: good
- warm up
- low box depth jump x 3,3
meh
- jump squat 45 x 3,3
- squat 330 x 1,1,1; 285 x 5,5
strong
- bench 155 x 10+3+3+3
- paused DB row 55 x 10+3+3+3
- GHR x 2,2,2
really good glute activation the whole way through each rep but these were still hard. getting better at 'em.
- (pull up x 1 + leg raise x 2) x 5
whatever
- stretch
going to the beach tomorrow for a week. so excited. gonna play tennis and mini golf, swim in the ocean, read some books, hang out, and love life. i'll do some jumps and/or sprints and conditioning but i'm not going to hold myself to a plan or schedule.
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Injury, Prehab, & Rehab talk for the brittlebros / Re: Becoming a supple leopard
« on: August 16, 2013, 05:08:49 pm »
read the damn book.
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Pics, Videos, & Links / Re: beast
« on: August 15, 2013, 04:16:41 pm »http://vimeo.com/66473915
god damn.
ETA: for those who haven't yet watched that vid, MOTHERFUCKER DOES A PINKIES-ONLY FRONT LEVER.
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Pics, Videos, & Links / Re: beautiful squats
« on: August 15, 2013, 11:31:01 am »
how is this thread three days old and no one has posted a kf squat yet?
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U08pdMzjKUo" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U08pdMzjKUo</a>
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Injury, Prehab, & Rehab talk for the brittlebros / Re: Passive flexibility, active flexibility and mobility
« on: August 15, 2013, 10:04:34 am »
stretch to win, by frederick and frederick.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: August 15, 2013, 08:08:40 am »
if you are careful and deliberate about your diet, you can add a lot of weight without putting on a lot of fat.
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Article & Video Discussion / Re: Creating torque?
« on: August 14, 2013, 11:46:13 pm »
yeah rippetoe talks about this, too, in starting strength. "spreading the floor" has been a good cue for me in the past when i feel myself being a unstable.
btw i just realized that starting strength is currently the 741st best-selling book on amazon, which means it's selling something like 800-1000 copies a month. rippetoe publishes the book himself, so he's probably netting like $10k/month just on starting strength sales. not too shabby, especially if you live in BFE, texas.
btw i just realized that starting strength is currently the 741st best-selling book on amazon, which means it's selling something like 800-1000 copies a month. rippetoe publishes the book himself, so he's probably netting like $10k/month just on starting strength sales. not too shabby, especially if you live in BFE, texas.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: August 14, 2013, 10:41:39 pm »
WEIGHT: 175
SORENESS: none
ACHES/INJURIES: none
MENTAL STATE: good, ready
- warm up
- low box depth jump x 3,3
- jump squat 45 x 3,3,
- squat 325 x 1,1,1; 280 x 5,5
strong, second single best.
- GHR x 1,2,2,2
- bench 150 x 10+3+3+3
- BOR 150 x 10+3+3+3
- rear delt flye 12.5s x 10
- windshield wiper x 10,10,10
- double unders x 100 (took 3:10); x F(39)
- stretch
great workout.
SORENESS: none
ACHES/INJURIES: none
MENTAL STATE: good, ready
- warm up
- low box depth jump x 3,3
- jump squat 45 x 3,3,
- squat 325 x 1,1,1; 280 x 5,5
strong, second single best.
- GHR x 1,2,2,2
- bench 150 x 10+3+3+3
- BOR 150 x 10+3+3+3
- rear delt flye 12.5s x 10
- windshield wiper x 10,10,10
- double unders x 100 (took 3:10); x F(39)
- stretch
great workout.