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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: September 19, 2012, 05:10:14 pm »
Doesn't gay means "happy"? I was watching a documentary film about WW2 and there was an American army song going "and they were gay that they come home" or something like that :D

archaic usage. no one uses "gay" to mean happy anymore. vag is right, word meanings change. he's just wrong about the current state of that particular word.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: September 19, 2012, 05:09:11 pm »
dislike gay slurs and the use of "gay" as an insult. please to be using them elsewhere but not here.

BULLSHIT!
That's hypocritical and too politicaly correct. Ive got nothing against gays. It is the same like calling someone a pussy, it does not make you a mysoginist and does not mean you inimidate women etc etc etc. Of all people i thought you would be more open minded. I do understand how you see it, i just believe that some expressions lose their etymological origin, just like the pussy example i mentioned! We could argue about how clear that borderline is though, i'll give you that.
Anyway it's your journal and i will respect your personal sensitvity on the subject, not being sarcastic or mocking here, true talk.

no, you are wrong on this. you are right that some expressions lose their etymological origins and become inoffensive. for example, i guess, "suck" or maybe to a lesser extent "bitch." some do not. for example, nigger. but the word "gay" in american english (can't speak for the brits) is still used as a term FOR GAY PEOPLE. calling something gay in a pejorative context associates things you think suck with gay people. therefore, it implicitly denigrates gay people. i'd guess that "gay" as an insult is probably moving in the direction you're talking about, away from its origin and toward a generic insult like "stupid." but, for the time being, but it hasn't lost the etymology yet. calling something "gay" or calling someone a "faggot" to put it/them down contributes toward making the world a more difficult place for gay people to live. do not like.

calling someone a "pussy" is the same. you suck, therefore you are like a person with a pussy, therefore you are a pussy. we all know who has pussies.

Quote from: aside
full disclosure of my own guilt: sometimes i call things "retarded." i never did that growing up, nor all the way through college. only picked it up in the last couple of years, probably from spending too much time on the internet. but it's in the same category as "gay," in that using it as an insult makes the world a worse place for people with mental or psychological disabilities. so i decided to stop doing it.

also, fuck putting me or anyone down for being "politically correct." that's a term used by bigoted people who don't like to be made to feel uncomfortable in their bigotry, so they invented a term to invalidate the viewpoint of anyone more compassionate than they are. you can't say anything after someone has called you "PC." they've taken you out of the conversation. everything you say from that point on can just be cast aside as "oversensitive."

there is such a thing as being oversensitive, but i draw the line at casually insulting, as a straight white male, members of oppressed groups. even indirectly.

also, as a point of clarification, you don't have to have anything against gays or even be homophobic for your use of the word "gay" to be offensive.

in the end, if you disagree with me, that's fine. i appreciate your respecting my personal sensitivity.


will spend some time at work today procrastinating by making a spreadsheet so i can track shit a la The Bearded Statistician. i love his weight chart.

The australian front squatter ain't got shit on me, this is how you do it ( 2,5 years ago ) :

http://www.adarq.org/forum/progress-journals-experimental-routines/vag%27s-journal-age-vs-vertical/msg5442/#msg5442

 :P  :headbang:

true, true. forgot about that chart. will use it as a model.  :highfive:

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: September 19, 2012, 09:52:55 am »
dislike gay slurs and the use of "gay" as an insult. please to be using them elsewhere but not here.

otherwise, true, true. still, helped to write it all down, as i said. just reinforcing what i already knew. if i had a coach i'd follow what he said, but as it is you're right, this seems to be the routine that i find easiest to follow consistently. it takes me about 2 hours all told, give or take depending on how much time i spend jumping and how much time i spend talking with people. i like being in the gym and have no other obligations on most days i work out, so that's not a problem.

will spend some time at work today procrastinating by making a spreadsheet so i can track shit a la The Bearded Statistician. i love his weight chart.

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yeah! midgets guys! shoulda throwed that guy through a window! that'd show him. that midget.

god you're exhausting. REST UNTIL IT GETS BETTER. lift upper body if it doesn't involve putting weight on your ankle. rehab properly. worry about strength when you have two healthy legs.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: September 18, 2012, 03:58:31 pm »
***WILL EDIT MORE LATER BUT HAVE TO LEAVE NOW SO PUBLISHING ANYWAY***

NEW PLAN.

goal: dunk a basketball

intermediate result 1: improve strength
intermediate result 2: improve leaping ability/reactivity
intermediate result 3: get/stay sexy*

IR 1
activity: squat 3x/week, adding weight as frequently as possible
activity: supplementary exercises for core
activity: exercises for upper body
activity: explosive strength exercises
activity: supplementary exercises for lower body

IR 2
activity: double-leg vertical jumps
activity: depth jumps
activity: supplementary exercises for movement efficiency (MR half tucks, bounds, line hops)
activity: short sprints
activity: jump rope

workout composition:
- warm up (incl jump rope)
- low volume, high-intensity DLRVJ/depth jump, depending on court availability
- (optional depending on CNS level) moderate volume, low-intensity supplementary movement efficiency work
- explosive exercise low volume
- squat low-to-moderate volume
- upper push moderate volume
- upper pull moderate-to-high volume
- upper supplementary (GUNZ)
- anterior core high volume
- posterior core high volume
- (optional depending on day's squat volume) lower body supplementary exercises

indicator 1: DLRVJ height
indicator 2: squat weight
indicator 3: week-to-week trend in other exercises
indicator 4: CNS "feel"
indicator 5: bodyweight
indicator 6: mirror test

this is essentially what i've been doing for quite a while. i just wanted to write it down to see if it still made sense. also, i feel like it'll help me plan the day-to-day. the track thing was a pipe dream -- with no reliable track nearby and no way to reasonably get to ones farther away, i'm gym-bound. that's okay.

* 8)

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Introduce Yourself / Re: Hello, new member trying to dunk again
« on: September 18, 2012, 12:45:24 pm »
If you're a one-leg jumper you probably want to take care of your bodyfat :P and bodyweight

At 6'5 you probably need something like what, ~25 inches do dunk no problems on 10 feet.

read the original post, breh. his reach is 97", which does hardly seem possible. and i thought i had t-rex arms! but anyway, assuming it's true, 127-97=30. (assuming 127" touch is required for dunking. which, looking at my own hand, is about right.)

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Loopie's Log
« on: September 18, 2012, 12:13:23 pm »
9/5/12 Wednesday BW=160.4

jumps ME ~15
squat 5x185, 2x225, 1x250, 4x240, 7x210, 7x210
deadlift 5x225, 5x245, 5x245

Did a good warm up and some sub-max jumps then tested SVJ.  Hit 9'11" for a new PR of 29"  :headbang:

somehow just saw this...nice! almost touching rim from standing!

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: Modified JackM split
« on: September 18, 2012, 11:59:32 am »
MORE VOLUME OF SQUATTING. if your squat sucks, why are you only squatting once a week?

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ADARQ & LanceSTS - Q&A / Re: vertical jump bible 2.0 vid
« on: September 18, 2012, 11:57:50 am »
@entropy: yes, of course you can improve your sprinting through training. and of course, if you've never practiced it before, you can get a lot better.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Scrawny to Brawny Journal
« on: September 18, 2012, 09:34:01 am »
 :highfive: :highfive: :highfive:

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Kingfush
« on: September 17, 2012, 10:13:55 pm »
god damn it, i'm hanging out on the bottom edge of the 175-180 range and not even close to 200kg. must continue pushing squat and gaining fats. what was the heaviest you ever got to?

Why do you think you have to gain fat to get your squat up?  If your bodyfat is high enough you should be able to up your squat while keeping your bodyfat roughly even, in fact it might even be easier this way.

the "gaining fats" thing was a joke at myself. i have been upping my squat while keeping bf roughly even, at least by the eyeball test. and it's not like going from 172 to 182 is even that much weight gain. but i'm vain. so i have to force myself to acknowledge and accept that any weight gain comes with at least a little extra fat -- unless you're on drugs there's no way weight gain is purely lean. weight training and keeping caloric surplus in check skews the ratio of gain in favor of lean tissue. that's what i plan to keep doing.

now if you'll excuse me, i have to go back to making some pork chops and praying that somehow matt ryan and demaryius thomas combine for 80 fantasy points in the second half tonight. it's not looking good.

/hijack (i hope)

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: September 17, 2012, 10:00:03 pm »
BW = 175
SORENESS = quads
ACHES/INJURIES = mid/upper back
FATIGUE = high (?)

- warm up

- squat 275 x 5 | 285 x 5,5

- OHP 105 x 5,5,5

- chin up x 8,8,8

- ab pull down x 20,20

- stretch

shit workout. no idea why i was so wiped out to begin with. tried a couple of DLRVJ during warm up but they were so bad i decided to just bag it and go straight to squats. kept those light so as to stroke my own self-confidence. reps were all strong and solid, which you'd expect at those weights. OHP and chins were weak, in part i think because of the back tightness.

whatever, better luck next time. time to eat some food and go to sleep.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Kingfush
« on: September 17, 2012, 04:23:52 pm »
god damn it, i'm hanging out on the bottom edge of the 175-180 range and not even close to 200kg. must continue pushing squat and gaining fats. what was the heaviest you ever got to?

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: September 17, 2012, 11:59:02 am »
went to the gym yesterday but it was closed at 5:15! >:(  usually doesn't close until 7 or 7:30 on sundays. don't know what happened. went to HS track near my house, which was open because of the latino dudes playing soccer, but then they all started to leave and i was afraid i'd get locked in, so i stopped.  jogged and stretched before that.

also, i found out my gym is closing for good at the end of november. apparently they couldn't renegotiate their lease and so the whole branch is shutting down. my guess is the landlord wants to put some townhouses or condos in place of the gym building. it's a VERY high-rent, high-property-value area.

anyway, this makes me legitimately sad. kind of ruined my day yesterday.

 :(

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Kingfush
« on: September 17, 2012, 11:44:30 am »
YOU ARE GETTING WEAK, BRO. WEAK.

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