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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!

« on: January 18, 2012, 11:57:22 am »

rolled into gym on monday having forgotten shorts at home. could find none in lost and found (they wash the clothes and then leave 'em in a pile in a back room), although i did find a t-shirt i'd lost. knee has been bugging consistently for a couple of weeks now, anyway, so it probably wasn't a terrible thing to rest a bit. foam rolling IT bands hurts but i've actually been doing it, so that's good. need to set realistic goals in order to have any chance of follow-through. full-body SMR every day is not realistic for me.

went to dinner at parents' house last night so no workout. tonight, hopefully will make rim make loud banging sound over and over.

forgot to mention that on sunday i tried to dunk with a soccer ball and it threw off my approach so much that i felt like a complete tard. holding a tennis ball is weird enough. oh well, just got to suck it up and get used to it.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!

« on: January 16, 2012, 02:21:50 pm »

ADD THIS NOTE TO EVERY POST SO YOU KEEP REMEMBERING: JUMP EVERY WORKOUT. IF THERE'S NO SPACE, FIND SPACE.

FOAM ROLL/LACROSSE BALL/SMR AFTER WORKOUTS AND ON REST DAYS.

STANDING QUAD/HAM/CALF/ITB/PEC STRETCHING THROUGHOUT THE DAY, EVERY HOUR OR SO.

KEEP SWEETS TO A MINIMUM. MOAR PROTEIN. MOAR VEGGIES.

FRIDAY

BW = ???
SORENESS = none
ACHES/INJURIES = left knee stiff
FATIGUE = low

- warm up

- DSVJ x 3

- DLRVJ x ~15
meh, pretty bad

- MR half tuck x 25,20,20

- explosive box squat 8 x 2 x 225

- SS1: pull down 10 x 90
- SS1: DB bench 10 x 110
- SS1 info: 2 rounds

- stretch

SUNDAY

- warm up

- DSVJ x 4
possibly PR, probably the highest DSVJ i've ever done, ~31.5

- DLRVJ x ~25
just wasn't getting up well, approach was all off. did a few tennis ball dunks but not that well.

the gym was closing soon so i decided to cut my losses, will go work out again today.

(later)

- stretch

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Nutrition & Supplementation / Re: Cheat days on a weight/fat loss diet

« on: January 13, 2012, 05:02:01 pm »

yeah, refeeds are probably a good idea. from an article about AMPk:

Quote from: lyle mcdonald

having a refeed/anabolic phase at some point. You need to turn off diet induced catabolism (explaining why people often lean out after a refeed) and inhibiting it in the brain.

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ADARQ & LanceSTS - Q&A / Re: What kind of lunges and why?

« on: January 13, 2012, 09:25:41 am »

can't do lunges

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Age vs Vertical

« on: January 12, 2012, 05:28:58 pm »

yeah the "good improvements" part is what matters. keep on keepin' on!

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Loopie's Log

« on: January 12, 2012, 10:40:26 am »

don't you have a kid? just add weight crossfit style:

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!

« on: January 12, 2012, 10:19:22 am »

Quote from: LoopieMclooperson on January 11, 2012, 11:26:49 pm

rock and roll man!

I vote if you can get a tennis ball down you need to buy a mini b-ball and dunk that too!

thanks loopie! i'm gonna try a soccer ball the next time i'm jumping that well. there were too many people around yesterday, didn't want to get owned in front of all the crossfitters.

plus if the ball had bounced off weird it'd have hit someone doing kettlebell snatches or double unders or something, and for all my hatred of crossfit i like all those people and i'm not an asshole.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!

« on: January 12, 2012, 10:17:21 am »

^^^ lol, yeah, i thought about that. alright vag, i'll listen to your crazy advice.

maybe something a little texas-methody...

Day 1
jumps
squat 5 x 5 @ 80-85%
upper push/pull 3 x 5

Day 2
jumps
explosive box squat 8 x 2 @ 45-65%
upper push/pull 2 x 10

Day 3
jumps
squat MSEM 2 x 3 @ 90-95%
upper push/pull 2 x 10

okay, glad to have something to go on. here we go!

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: The PR's/PB's, videos, pictures, and daily achievements thread

« on: January 11, 2012, 09:52:28 pm »

DUNKED A TENNIS BALL OVER AND OVER, PROBABLY TRUE 34" VERTICAL AT LEAST ONCE OR TWICE. FUCK. FUCKING. YES.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!

« on: January 11, 2012, 09:51:39 pm »

ADD THIS NOTE TO EVERY POST SO YOU KEEP REMEMBERING: JUMP EVERY WORKOUT. IF THERE'S NO SPACE, FIND SPACE.

FOAM ROLL/LACROSSE BALL/SMR AFTER WORKOUTS AND ON REST DAYS.

STANDING QUAD/HAM/CALF/ITB/PEC STRETCHING THROUGHOUT THE DAY, EVERY HOUR OR SO.

KEEP SWEETS TO A MINIMUM. MOAR PROTEIN. MOAR VEGGIES.

BW = ???
SORENESS = none
ACHES/INJURIES = left knee stiff, toes a little
FATIGUE = moderate, just felt a little burned out, long day at work

- warm up

- sprint x 10y,10y
bad

- DSVJ x 3
okay

- DLRVJ x ~20

dunked a tennis ball repeatedly, probably 8-10 times. i've been able to jump high enough before but didn't have one on hand. anyway it's the first time i've ever actually put something through the rim. it felt awesome, i was giddy afterward. and i think i actually PR'd for height, too. true 34, for sure. sweet.

- squat 5 x 285,285,285
easing in, knee felt fine, good thing

- SS1: pull down 10 x 90
- SS1: DB bench 10 x 110
- SS1 info: 2 rounds

- stretch

so awesome.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: The PR's/PB's, videos, pictures, and daily achievements thread

« on: January 10, 2012, 09:26:49 am »

looked easy. nice.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Scrawny to Brawny Journal

« on: January 10, 2012, 09:25:54 am »

Quote from: creativelyric on January 10, 2012, 03:43:42 am

Good stuff, man. Nice PRs. How's that bulking going, btw?

+1

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!

« on: January 09, 2012, 10:33:19 pm »

ADD THIS NOTE TO EVERY POST SO YOU KEEP REMEMBERING: JUMP EVERY WORKOUT. IF THERE'S NO SPACE, FIND SPACE.

FOAM ROLL/LACROSSE BALL/SMR AFTER WORKOUTS AND ON REST DAYS.

STANDING QUAD/HAM/CALF/ITB/PEC STRETCHING THROUGHOUT THE DAY, EVERY HOUR OR SO.

KEEP SWEETS TO A MINIMUM. MOAR PROTEIN. MOAR VEGGIES.

BW = ???
SORENESS = none
ACHES/INJURIES = left knee stiff
FATIGUE = low

- warm up

- DSVJ X 3

- DLRVJ X 3
too crowded. apparently there's rugby on mondays and tuesdays now.

- depth jump x 5,5,5,5

- MR half tuck x 25,20,20

- explosive parallel box squat 2 x 275,275,275,275,275
lol, i have no idea what i'm doing. these felt cool, i guess. speedy. (?)

- SS1: DB bench 10 x 90
- SS1: pull down 10 x 90
- SS1 info: 2 rounds

- incline situp +35 x 10,10

- stretch

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