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So you're not loading up on creatine the first 4-5 days? I took 20-25g the first few days and then maintained at 5g.

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.

Quote from: acole14 on January 29, 2014, 07:39:04 pm

Other nutrition news: Finally got around to buying some creatine. I've never tried it before but I've always had it in my head as a possible secret weapon to try when I need more inches. I know I'm pretty late to the party here because most members seem to be using it in some way. Got a 1kg of creatine monohydrate for $20 and figured it was time to try it already. From reading journals/bodybuilding sites, the current preferred loading method is just to take 5g a day consistently throughout the year after training or at any time during non-training days, rather than the traditional 20g for 5 days/3-5g for 8 weeks/4 weeks off cycle.

It boggles my mind that guys here like LBSS and acole aren't using creatines. Everyone gains instantly on it. And I agree i like the idea of saving things to push further when you reach your natural limit. I hope you're also using caffeine? It helps a lot in all facets, from performance to recovery. It's a must. For a while i was dabbling in dosing caffeine depending on the intensity of the workout, but now i realise that to be a mistake, because if you take less caffeine on a light day, it means you made that workout a lot harder than it should have been, and what's more, made it much harder to recover from! So now i think caffeine is just necessary. Get a bottle of caffeine pills from bodybuilding.com, it costs like $5 and lasts months. And yeah, creatine daily soungs good. I don't take 5g though, like 1-2g a day, we're just not that muscular (as in kilos of lean mass), but then i take about 1g preworkout and postworkout on workout days. Helps with workout performance, and postworkout for recovery too, taken this way.

Eating carbs before bed isn't bad, it's good! Helps sleep deeper better, so it's not something you should be guilty about. I'd cut out the sugar from breakfast though, just because i like psychologically to know i started off 100% clean, and it's easy to stick to the plan thru the day compared to if breakfast was dirty, just my 2c.

Your squat form, i envy it!