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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: warpspeed to the new scenario
« on: December 23, 2019, 04:01:38 pm »
23/12/19

On the plus side, have got my fiancee into strength training, on the down side I forgot the pan I took out the oven would have a hot handle and burned my right hand. Hopefully the latter heals up soon, as it doesn't seem _too_ bad...

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: warpspeed to the new scenario
« on: December 22, 2019, 01:06:05 pm »
22/12/19

Climb

~2 hours -- managed a "blue" route at the gym for the first time, and then climbed a second one. They're graded v4-6, fwiw. Very stoked on that. Amusingly my best style of climb isn't really strength based/big move routes, but ones where balance or leg strength are the main thing (the first blue one involved doing almost a pistol squat from an awkward position, so it's good I can still do those).

At the end of the climbing sesh, I did some OAC negatives, for fun. One @ BW on each arm, then two + 4kg on each arm just for larks. Doing weighted negatives is probably not super smart, especially while fatigued, but whatever I wanted to give it a go. Could control pretty well all the way down to the bottom. Have to say it is way nicer doing OAC work on a pullup bar that you have to jump up to, and which has loads of space to its sides, as compared to a cramped chinup tower...

Anyway, super awesome session.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: warpspeed to the new scenario
« on: December 19, 2019, 06:52:47 am »
Quote from: adarqui on December 18, 2019, 11:06:58 pm
Quote from: Joe on December 18, 2019, 11:20:17 am
18/12/19

Climb ~ 90 mins

90 min climb that sounds fun. at one of those walls?

yeah man, there's a ton of bouldering gyms around london, it's really a growing sport. My sessions are still a little bit incoherent, I don't quite go frequently enough yet to have a thorough sense of how to implement a more structured sort of training. If I want to make proper improvements I need to be going 2-3/week, which I might make an effort to do once I've got the OAC...

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: warpspeed to the new scenario
« on: December 18, 2019, 11:20:17 am »
18/12/19

Climb ~ 90 mins

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: warpspeed to the new scenario
« on: December 15, 2019, 12:25:52 pm »
15-12-10

BW - 67.7

Workout

Chins
BW x 3, 3
+8 x 2
+24 x 1

OAC negatives
-16 x 7s
BW x 10s, 10s, 7s

Assisted OACs
-16 x 2, 2  :personal-record:

Deadhangs
HC@24mm
BW x 5s
HC@21mm
BW x 5s
HC@18mm
BW x 5s
HC@15mm
BW x 7s, 7s, 7s, 7s, 7s

Dips
BW x 5
+8 x 8, 8, 8

Notes

Still sore from climbing. Still sad from Thursday, fucking apocalyptic result.

Anyway

10s negatives feels like a good milestone. Similarly, I had never hit a double on any OAC thing, no matter how assisted, and that feels big to me, since they were done totally deadhang. Being able to break that deadhang bottom position twice, even with assistance, feels like a strong step in the right direction.

Climb wednesday, may (should?) start running again before then.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: warpspeed to the new scenario
« on: December 11, 2019, 05:35:32 pm »
11-12-19

Climb

Bouldering for 2 hours

Notes

Still sore from Sunday. Forearms will be sore for days from this, I can tell. Was fun. Good to get mind off election stress.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: warpspeed to the new scenario
« on: December 08, 2019, 07:38:40 am »
08-12-19

Workout

Chins
BW x 3, 3, 3

Assisted OAC
-16 x 1

Negatives w/ ~1s hold near bottom
BW x 1, 1 

Assisted OAC
-16 x 1, 1, 1, 1

Notes

Back to logging properly, hopefully also back to training properly. Trying to build volume with those heavily assissted reps, need to get used to breaking out of the bottom in a deadhang, etc.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: December 08, 2019, 07:37:04 am »
Quote from: LBSS on December 07, 2019, 05:30:18 am
well, i fucking did it.

:personal-record: :personal-record: :personal-record: :personal-record: :personal-record: :personal-record: :personal-record: :personal-record: :personal-record: :personal-record: :personal-record: :personal-record: :personal-record: :personal-record: :personal-record: :personal-record: :personal-record: :personal-record: :personal-record: :personal-record: :personal-record: :personal-record: :personal-record: :personal-record: :personal-record: :personal-record: :personal-record: :personal-record: :personal-record: :personal-record: :personal-record: :personal-record: :personal-record: :personal-record:

- 5k race in 19:55
splits: 3:55, 4:00, 3:58, 3:58, 4:03

 :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-*

ETA: didn't print out a barcode so i won't get an official time, but that's okay. watch time actually took me past the course finish, so official time would have been a few seconds faster. incidentally, mapmyrun has a weirdly big gap between km pace and km elapsed time splits. the latter gives a time of 19:37. dunno why that would be, usually elapsed time is longer, if anything, because it accounts for stopping for road crossings. garmin site says 19:55 as well so let's go with that.

felt the pain especially between 3.5-4.5 km. pace was slowest around 3.6-3.7 but managed to surge enough that when i died in the last few hundred meters i had enough buffer to make it under the 20:00 mark. a little disappointed that i faded so badly and was slowing down at the finish but, under the circumstances -- first race in more than a year, run at all-time PR pace, at 9 AM after <7 hours of sleep -- not THAT disappointed.

woop woop woop! i sense bigger things coming now that the pressure is off a bit!

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: November 29, 2019, 12:11:25 pm »
Quote from: LBSS on November 26, 2019, 12:10:38 pm
signed up -- and actually made sure it went through this time -- for a race in victoria park on 15 december. joe/gukl, y'all gonna be around/interested? VP isn't as flat as battersea but i know it super well by now so that will hopefully help. 1.5 laps of the upper portion, no street crossing.

I should be able ti do this!

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: warpspeed to the new scenario
« on: November 29, 2019, 12:10:20 pm »
Training still nit been very structured, though OAC progress been good. Managed a successful BW OAC from 90 degrees on left, couldn't quite manage that on my right. Want to get back to running and structured training soon though.

Quote from: adarqui on November 23, 2019, 11:21:20 am
Quote from: Joe on November 12, 2019, 05:03:12 am
Quiz went well, got a bronze medal in the team thing and had a few other top 15 finishes.

damn nice!!

Thanks dude!

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: November 22, 2019, 05:20:09 pm »
Happy birthday dude! Backing you to crush it tomorrow  :ibrunning: :headbang:

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: warpspeed to the new scenario
« on: November 22, 2019, 08:21:11 am »
22-11-19

BW - 67.2

Workout

Chins
BW x 3, 3
+16 x 2
+32 x 1

OAC Isos @ 90*
-8 x 5s
BW x 5s, 3s, 3s, 3s
-5 x 9s

Assisted OAC
-8 x 1, F [only managed to pull to halfway]

Deadhangs [up to 10.5/13]
HC@24mm
BW x 5s, 5s
HC@21mm
BW x 5s
HC@18mm
BW x 5s
+8 x 5s
+13 x 7s, 7s
+10.5 x 7s

Notes

Sort of all I had in the tank for today. Been feeling pretty tired lately, hopefully energy comes back soon.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: warpspeed to the new scenario
« on: November 18, 2019, 11:45:53 am »
BW - 67.5

Workout

Chins
BW x 3, 3
+16 x 2
+32 x 1

OAC Isos @ 90* [R first, rest 30s, match L]
-8kg x 8s
BW x 4s, 4s
-5kg x 8s, 8s

Deadhang
HC@24mm
BW x 5s, 5s
HC@21mm
BW x 5s
HC@18mm
BW x 5s
+8 x 5s
+10.5 x 7s, 7s, 7s

Dips
BW x 5
+ 8 x 10, 10, 10

Planche Lean
BW x 10s, 10

Notes

Good to be working out again!

Felt strong. Satisfying AF to do OAC work like that without feeling like I'm wrecking myself.

Think if I can hit a 10s iso @ 90* with BW I'll be very close to an OAC.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: warpspeed to the new scenario
« on: November 15, 2019, 12:17:01 pm »
blah, had a cold last few days, looks like i'll be back to normal tomorrow, i hope.

have been doing "grease the groove" oac work, i guess you could call it. has been fun, feeling strong. looking forward to getting back on a normal programme for that though -- think i can profitably do oac stuff without it being hellishly taxing now, so will make that the main focus in strength stuff, with weighted chins weekly as supplement.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: warpspeed to the new scenario
« on: November 12, 2019, 05:03:12 am »
Am still here, dw.

Last week got a bit stressed out preparing for this competition i was going to (european quiz championships) in bulgaria over the weekend, so training time got consumed by cram revision time for that at, and that was pretty draining so I didn't have much energy for training. Did do a sort of makeshift OAC session last Thursday, just testing out strength in hangs are various points in the motion -- feels stronger than I've ever been before, and the soreness was not debilitating which suggests a comparatively high level of preparedness at this stage. Got back Sunday evening and was exhausted (about 10 hoours sleep from Thurs->Sun which isn't great), so didn't do any proper training, but just king of messed aroudn with OAC negatives/isos and assisted stuff through the day (probably slightly stupid to do OAC stuff withoout a full warmup, so will be a bit more structured going forward).

Will probably run later today.

Quiz went well, got a bronze medal in the team thing and had a few other top 15 finishes.

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