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There isn't really a benefit to taking it heavily for me.  I'll turn into a zombie, wont be able to function normally if i take it heavily (600mg/day) every day for a while. The best thing i found for caffeine was limiting to 600mg/week, 200mg per training day. But whenever ive needed to cut weight i end up taking a lot more caffeine often. When it comes to health, i definitely believe caffeine is in some way protective. But too much, like any medicine can fuck you up more than it will help.

I think in Feb i might have overdosed on green tea b/c i was taking 1200mg of EGCG for about 10 days prior to the week of. Then i went cold turkey tuesday. Weds preworkout i had caffeine and L-tyro and induced flutter.  My working theory though none of my doctor friends will buy it (lol) is that i set myself up for a perfect storm of coming off EGCG which had been suppressing my thyroid and then taking l-tyro preworkout which temporarily spiked my thyroid just enough to mess with the heart. And boom, arrythmia. But doctors say if that was the case then i wouldn't have tested sublclinical hypo on friday. So my theory kind of runs into aground there according to them.

The stimulant effects of caffeine away pretty quickly with frequent use, as you guys know well. My plan long term is to to back to 3 training sessions a week, and take 200mg caffeine on those days only. Then it works and it wont disrupt sleep. Win win.

Watching Lebron go 1v5 against warriors wont be that fun (to me). It will be just frustrating to see the GoaT wasted on a platform and team like that.  Unless he scores like 70 points I really don't think i'd even bother looking at the highlights. He'd have to score at least 70 imho.

Celtics prob get owned but you know they'll have their moments where they're competing as a team. I might just boycott the western conference games cos KD destroyed the  playoffs. I was rewatching the Okc-Warriors playoff game and man those were fun. Did i tell you guys I watched the game live where KD drop 40 against warriors in his last good game before he left OKC?  The guy was/is amazing, now he's just playing on easy mode and no one cares. Russell Westbrook shud have been traded instead of Harden. I hate the NBA as a staff, league and crew. Maybe Curry will get bored and go to another team and get a 3 peat there. Maybe KD will do that and give his reputation a fresh start. But no Warriors will jsut keep winning for years and years, how exciting.

To undoubtable's point about Cav's role players, i dont really have much sympathy for them. They knew from the moment they signed the sheet that they're gna be role players and what was expected of them.  They shud practice catch and shoot and screening and cutting as per a lebron offence. All of those things which every good basketball player needs to do regardless of Lebron being on the team or not. In fact Lebron makes it easier cos you're going to get mo open shots than if they were on another team. If they can't catch a ball and shoot it clean without letting the moment overwhelm them then something is missing in their preparation. 100% it's mental though. Something tells me if Jalen or Tatum were turned into role players they'd just be fine because they're not covered by the moment, they just remain calm and play within themselves.

I'm probably wrong but it's fun to talk about basketball

Quote from: maxent on May 15, 2018, 11:35:54 am

Was showing off about my low HR on instagram yesterday. Today i realised i was bragging about something that was probably a symptom of hypothyroid. lol. lol. At the end of the 28 day cut, im going to get a thyroid test done.

Good to get it checked.

I had a test done in feb when i went to hospital for flutter. But since then i haven't had one but it showed i was subclinical hypo. I think if i get it done again i'll be defo clinical hypo b/c the previous test was done in the evening and i wasn't completely fasted etc. Interesting to read tho that green tea has been conjured to reduce thyroid activity by about 50%. Now im not sure if that was done on humans or just animals but it might be related because in feb i'd been taking EGCG 1200mg a day for about 10 days straight prior to the week of the episode.

Do you think, with the current issues you have been experiencing that dropping 400mg of caffeine daily is going to help you out? I don't know how serious your heart condition was but this doesn't really make sense to me.

No caffeine of that amount seems to be bad for my sleep which is definitely a major reason i had flutter in feb. I tolerate 200mg a day fine, 400mg and up (600mg if i take it 3x a day) seems to cause sleep issues which sets me up for having another episode. But being fat is worse, long term. I need to get lean and then figure out how to fix my thyroid issues and then hopefully i can address the heart stuff. It's all mess.

Was showing off about my low HR on instagram yesterday. Today i realised i was bragging about something that was probably a symptom of hypothyroid. lol. lol. At the end of the 28 day cut, im going to get a thyroid test done.

BW: 89.2
Activity: 11.5
Misc: n/a
Diet Compliance: 7/7
Supplement: (200/400 CEGCG 8:30am, 200mg C 3:15pm)
Mobility: T
Skill work: T

Training day.

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BS 6x120(p0), 1x152.5, 5x127.5, 5x125, 5x122.5
Bike intervals 6x15s on, 45s rest
Back Xtn - 3x5x95kg(PR?)
Recovery/Tempo Sprints 6x60m (reintro)
Bball hoops - see notes

Notes:
Some thoughts. Daily max squatting doesn't work. I have been doing EOD minmax squatting of 152.5kg for almost 8 weeks now and it's not getting easier at all. Im regressing not even maintaining..

So today was a perfectly sunny autumn day in paradise (West coast represent!) and i thought to do some tempo sprints after training to cool down. Remember the last time i did sprints i ended up in hospital (!!), so ive been a bit afraid to run. but tempos are alright. So happy to have some sort of athletic activity that i can incorporate at the end of training days as a warm down.

Finally i found out my local bball court at the park has a brand new rim with a net and now it's a joy to shoot on. Makes that sweet swishy sound! i'll take a vid on insta next time.  It actually looks lower than it used to be for some reason, i'd guess it's about 9'9"? Haven't measured. But i think in the past when i was better at dunking it's because i did a ton of dunking on this rim and somehow that volume and movement efficiency made me a much better dunker even despite it being a low rim. I used to catch self lobs etc on this rim and crush them and i havent done that in years.

ANother thing can you guys help me pick the right sort of interval periods for training my conditioning for the purpose of becoming fitter FOR basketball? How many reps?

BW: 88.2
Activity: 7.5
Misc: noticing some weird tendony thing on my left hamstring (.. maybe take it easy on the bike frequency?)
Diet Compliance: 5/5
Supplement: (400mg EGCG, 200mg caffeine - AM, 200mg caffeine PM)
Mobility: T
Skill work: F

Is that a whoosh? I got 3 different readings from the scale when i saw the 88.2kg, then 88.4 and 88.5kg. I'll still with the first one cos i usually only go by the first. But what a shock! Training today.

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BS 6x120(p0), 1x152.5
BP 2x90, 1x97.5, 5x1x96
Dips 5x112(+20kg), 5x120(+28kg;PR!), 5x125(+33kg;PR!), 5x112, 8x100(+8kg), 8xBW(91ish)
Bike 10km in 30 mins

Notes:
Squats are starting to get hard .. now im afraid of failing my EOD minmax but it went up today. Dips for reps seem to be able to drive my bench press singles. Didn't really anticipate that but lets see how far it takes me?

I think this series showed the glaring weaknesses in the sixers construction. you cant win a playoff series without long athletic wings in today's NBA. Was still a good series though. Next season they'll improve. Bring on celtics cavs, im going for celtics. lol.