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thanks lance. i'm not sure i get what you mean by moving the plate further toward the rear of my foot. i'm totally comfortable in dorsiflexion, so i can hang down off the edge of a plate from the ball of my foot, no problem. the issue is when i'm up on my toes.

interesting thought about iso's, i'll give that a try.

neither of you is adarq or lance, but thanks for the responses.

@entropy: it's not that my calves are small. my legs in general are pretty big.

@raptor: fair point. i might just be making shit up. i do think i go farther with four consecutive paused broad jumps than with four DL bounds. will retest tomorrow when i'm back in the gym.

i guess i'm just trying to figure out what it is really that's holding me back (down). i haven't had serious progress of any kind in months. part of that is travel and illness, but part of it has got to be specific weaknesses that i'm not working on well enough or hard enough.

need comparison vid. athletic anorexia vs. gunning for two bills. i can't imagine what you look like 45 pounds heavier

low back soreness might be related to your butt tucking at the very bottom. you don't NEED to go that low, you're way past parallel before the butt tuck starts. i notice more soreness when i can feel the tuck happen during squats (well, it hasn't happened in a long time but i remember it).

still, looks/feels cool to be true ATG.

WEIGHT: ???
SORENESS: right lat, right bicep and pec a bit
ACHES/INJURIES: right toe fuxored, not as bad as yesterday
FATIGUE: low to moderate

- warm up

- squat MSEM 295 x 8,8
weight was flying, FLYING i say. very strong, excellent form. 15-20s rests

- OHP 100 x 8,8

- pull up x 2,2
right lat was past soreness, felt wonky. decided to wait until thursday.

- shoulder mob stuff x 10 mins

- glute bridge x 10,10,10
paused reps

- hip mob stuff x 5 mins

- stretching

successfully avoided jumping. i did try a higher-intensity jump (than jumping rope, which i did to warm up) and the toe just said, no, go fuck yourself. more ibuprofen and some ice tonight and hopefully i'll be shipshape, relatively, by thursday. now time to go eat some food.

^^^ who's that?

weekend was awesome. spent tons of quality time with friends, ate extremely well, watched michigan win a nail-biter from the student section, lost my voice from all the shouting, drank a bunch. good times. i was very active this weekend at low intensity levels, lots of standing, walking, bowling, playing catch, etc. no workout but i did stretch and foam roll at my friend's house and i played pretty intense 1-on-1 with my best friend yesterday morning for 45 minutes. we're very evenly matched -- he has much better ball skills (low bar) but i'm stronger and a better shooter. some good jumping, although when i tried DLRVJ after the game it was bad news. knees not having it. that usually means i'm tired and dehydrated, i think.

also, i fucked the fuck out of my right big toe. like bad. i think it started with the bowling. felt okay during bball yesterday but afterwards it was painful enough that i was limping for a while and then had to focus hard to not limp later. ibuprofen and several rounds of ice yesterday helped and it's better this morning but i got a shooting pain during a meeting and it's still sensitive. i will squat tonight but not jump even if i feel good, no sense in aggravating it. holiday season is approaching, going to be harder to be consistent in the gym. must maintain focus.

gym closes in two weeks. i think for the time being i will stay with my gym but shift to the 14th street location and just do CMJ, jump squats depth jumps and short-distance or stationary MR stuff. i called the church today to see about using the court even after my gym moves out. they guy i spoke to didn't know who's in charge of it but he's going to call me back. fingers crossed. if that doesn't work and i can't stand not doing DLRVJ every workout, i'll suck it up and pay the $146 for sports clubs LA as soon as they have another no-joining-fee deal.