bw = 152 soreness = shoulders moderate aches = hamstring tendons (from walk), back (from jump rope?), heels (from walk) injuries = right big toe blister is better BUT there's another one below it.. now that one is getting bigger. lmao.. was actually itchy when i was walking. feh.
CNS = completely dead .. couldn't get under 16 min/mi in the morning, dead beyond belief. evening was a little better.
morning walk: - 4.x miles in ? - completely dead
bw: some bw stuff
bw stuff + evening walk: - a little better for a bit, but then by the end, couldn't even get under 17 min/mi, TOAST - 9 miles in ~2:20 ?
just a quick post on something weird that happened today .. so earlier today i'm looking for the hat I wear during my walks in the sun - it helps keep my head/face blocked from sun, it's in the photo a few pages back.
anyway, the hat is missing. so I look all over, can't find it. Then start to get annoyed, thinking my dad put it somewhere, so I call him up and he says he didn't touch it, but the tennis racquet was on the ground this morning, a few feet from the table. He brought that up because that's where I normally keep my hat hanging from the rope to dry at night.
so I found that odd.. anyway, as the day went on, couldn't find it anywhere .. nowhere to be found outside.
long story short, someone stole it. now, that could be the end of the story like "lolz someone stole your hat". but, when you put it together with some other details, some dudes were basically in the back yard scoping out my dad's performance bikes, and when they realized they were locked to fuck (major locks everywhere), they snagged the hat which pulled down the racquet and then they dipped out.
not going to go into any more details but man o man, I really need to move to Iceland. I don't live in a bad area, it's decent around here.. but even then, America is very dangerous. Add this to the long list of weird shit that's happened to me in South Florida.
that wouldn't be the first time this happened either... one time I was actually outside at 4 AM when a sketchy car rolled up and parked out front to scope the bikes out. That could have turned into a rambo episode. creepy shit.
i'll probably finally move to Iceland then get hit by lightning.
6% bodyfat would be mean! Goodluck I know you can do it
thanks alot man! yeah the lowest i've been in ~7.x% caliper measured back at memorial sportscenter, when I was still boxing.. Was like ~144 then. Need to eclipse that this time!
This is awesome!!! Cannot wait to see how yo go.
thanks man!!
today has been rough, that morning jump rope workout in combination with that walking mile PR absolutely destroyed my CNS.. HEH!
I'm soo jealous of his training. Makes me want to add some lol but will not. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sDMQyqNZi4" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sDMQyqNZi4</a>
really nice vid, but, the intro has me suspect. so he does all of that stuff, then it comes down to SMFR? Instead, maybe he did too much "nonsense"? Maybe doing lots of that stuff with the de-oxygenation mask was completely useless?
I was actually going to create a thread a few weeks ago titled "There are too many damn exercises".
I've gone from a small set of exercise, to lots of different exercises, to a small set of exercises, to a very small set of exercises. Most people want to do cool fun things, or fun looking things, hard fun things, hard weird things .. how much of this is actually needed & how do you gauge the effectiveness of something when you have so much variety?
no idea of Blake's actual training & how it was composed, but it seems like we've been in a phase where monotony is no longer tolerated. We're also in a phase where "different stuff" gets more attention, more likes, more views, more respect etc: it's alot easier to do that with videos like you posted above.
I think the biggest "turning point" for me, was watching the *infestation* of "s&c coaches" in fight sports. That's what really started to really make me cringe. I watched it in person at ATT (American Top Team), I watched it on tv/online such as Brandon Rios doing a bunch of fancy lameness.. Instead of spending that time actually working on a counter, throwing more punches, working skill etc, these s&c coaches got fighters doing lame footwork drills on an agility latter then doing a few hops. IMHO, completely useless.. That kind of coaching permeates everything now.
When I did my second internship at Memorial Fitness/Rehab, there was this functional trainer there. Guy was "brilliant", knew his shit. Knew how everything fit together, anatomically/kinesiology/biomechanically. He was so impressive to most people. He's a good dude, but, the training I saw him provide athletes/elderly/out of shape people was just pure BS. He knew too much for his own good & carved out a niche, offering up sub-par training to individuals of all fitness/athletic levels.
I guess i'm just annoyed with the exercise variety out there. I'm subscribed to a few S&C IG's and every other day they are doing a new exercise, promoting some new ground breaking ISOMETRIC PAP lameness.
It's just interesting how some people approach training so scientifically, and can't coach/improve someone for shit. It's science right? All we have to do is <insert program here> because it worked before, and tweak a few variables. I think "the art" mixed with "some science" is far more effective. An example of "the art" is what I mentioned above, some seasoned boxing coach / track coach knowing pretty much what to do to get their athlete at their peak & address weaknesses for a specific event, who rely less on science & more on experience, instead of letting some S&C coach come in and try to act like a "human mechanic" and just screw everything up.
A really good example of that also, is "RJ" from way back. Dude was science to the max, seemed to ignore alot of people who had more "experience" (on elite track/charlie francis forum, db hammer forum etc) which contradicted things he'd learned in supertraining & evosport etc. Not to talk shit on him, but that's just potentially a good example. Not sure what happened to him, would be nuts if he's an olympic hopeful now or something, that'd be pure wreckage for me. lmfao. Searched him and found his book: http://xlathlete.com/xl/events/engineering-an-athlete.pdf .. it was awesome that he wrote a book but come on.. It's probably an amazing read, would probably derail my training completely and have me doing all kinds of crazy isometric awesomeness. On the other hand, it's probably poisonous. Stuff like that, without the proper experience, can fuck your brain up. However, if you believe in a training ideology so much, that's a very important thing. So believing in your training, no matter how mediocre or useless, is absolutely essential & can still improve performance. That belief coupled with brutal effort, can unlock things even if the training makes no sense - as long as you're still getting in enough of the event you're training for. If some extraordinary belief in sub-par training can unlock more confidence mentally & drive physically, that can definitely improve race/competition efforts & such. S&C is weird.
dno.. been thinking about stuff like that for a while now.
end tangent/rant.
I didn't really listen to what the guy was saying and I don't think all that training is his entire training but it's bits of different training he did or does. I was seeing the different variety exercises he does, just damn.
Nice, thanks for that. I have also been thinking about this also. There are so many damn exercises that are available, some fancier than others and you can see where would get it from, but there is something about training that is a little more complex than just training that movement loaded like the thing blake does from kneeling to jumping up to squat position they look nice and everything, but they really confuse people who want to train and they see all these workouts and it just destroys them mentally with too much material me included thinking wow I do a little and they have all these varieties I am so far behind, but after reading what you wrote, this is all just unnecessary, complex is not better simplicity is.
I can't rant on any more don't have more knowledge to add lol. But good points.
hah np. you basically triggered me. I could just picture you sitting there feeling briefly like your training is inadequate & you don't have access to some fancy stuff, but in reality, most of the stuff in that video is not needed & alot of it probably isn't too effective.
just think about the "beast" thread, what do we put in there? mostly raw lifts with impressive relative strength ratios.. so as far as lifting goes, i'd go with the basics & push those to the max rather than play around with all of the fancy stuff.
for you, the track is your #1 tool, weight room #2 .. and in the weight room, basics #1
basics #1 regardless.. lmfao.
most people that push fancy stuff are also pushing themselves.. like mr Glute Guy and his barbell hip thrusts, best example I can think of. Contreras is cool, seems like a good dude, but he thought he found the magic potion & he pushed it to the limit. It's probably more effective than not, but probably far less effective than pushing up your squat.. Also now he's kind of admitted he fell victim to being creative. just an example.
I could not get any of the shoes you recommended as I am still training in my asics trainers. I would like get some light trainers for training and for small meets.
cool!
can you link some sites that would be able to deliver shoes to you?
Deep squat: had video but never uploaded it or lost it or something. still bothers me. - during a warmup for half squatting at night - 315 x 1 @ ~150 lb? 29 years old
Rested max half squat off pins: (do not attempt, this shit is stupid & burns you out quick, too dangerous, but it's damn impressive if you ask me) - 315 lb x 5 @ 145 lb., age 29 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pevMW18KsLw
Single arm DB Bench Press: (wish I would have recorded this, bugs me that I didn't)
90 lb. x 5 (need to verify in journal) @ ~165 lb. (~31 years old)
RVJ: ~38-39", 29 years old, what BW? - LR-DLRVJ
L-SLRVJ: ~36", 29 years old, what BW?
SVJ: ~30", 28 years old?
BROAD JUMP: ~98" (9'2"), 28 years old?
Half Marathon: 1:36:13 (GPS WATCH), 34 years old
10k: 40:58 (GPS WATCH), 34 years old
5k: 18:12 (GPS WATCH), 34 years old
2-mile: 11:19 (GPS WATCH), 34 years old
1-mile: 5:06 (GPS WATCH), 34 years old
1-km: 3:03 (GPS WATCH), 34 years old
800m: 2:23 (GPS WATCH), 34 years old
400m: 61-63s (not sure) (GPS WATCH), 34 years old
200m: TODO
100m: TODO
40 YD: TODO
1-mile walk: 12:08 @ 4.94 mph, 35 years old
2 hour walk: 9.1 miles, 35 years old
CoC grippers: #1 RH, Trainer LH
pinch grip: 2 x 25's smooth side out, LH & RH
don't think i keep track of much else. posting this for now, need to figure out how to update the OP rankings/add more categories and such.
maybe we should change "videos required" to, if no video, asterisk'd. dno, the videos required aspect made this thread more legit, but it's also hard to video certain things if we expand the categories, and not everyone can get "official results" and such.
I personally think expanding it/opening it up more, but asterisk'n no vids/results/data/etc.
seemed to have quite a bit of traction! just wasn't maintained and/or stickied. sorry about that :/
not sure how I didn't contribute to that, I was still training hard during that time, weird.. edit: ooh I commented
I stopped training hard towards the end of Dec 2011, then completely detrained shortly after for ~4 years.
I went for quite a long period of inactivity on here while you guys held it down.
i'm kind of torn (well not really, leaning towards the initial rankings thread) since it already has tons of stuff in it..
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Hopefully this one does. But as it stands, and no disrespect, but it needs a LOT of work atm. Let us fix it. I mean, for one, I have trained to a 35'' SVJ multiple times and I cannot recall seeing maxent or scooby do a 34''+ SVJ. They probably have big ones but - I don't see why they're on there unless you've seen something I haven't. Here's a SVJ/RVJ list:
SVJ Kingfish - a good 40'' ... ... ... steven-miller - 36'' T0dddday - 35.5'' Me - 35'' ChrisM I think had a 34-35''? Taylor Horton and Rip must have had decent SVJ as well but can't remember exactly what
RVJ ChrisM/T0ddday - both 45'' (Joel Smith was technically a member for a bit and he had a 45'' easy, Jacob Hiller too) Rip - probably 42-43'' taylorhorton - ~41'' from memory Avishek and adarq both jumped ~40'', ARowe may have hit 40'', scoobychau hit 40''...lots of 40'' guys over the times. I'm probably forgetting people. LBSS, Raptor, me all around 37-38'', Mutumbo, undoubtable, FP, vag etc.
Lots of big squatters and sprinters too. When you did that thread of 'adarq.org' is full of hard-working guys from the bottom end of the bell curve...' it made me scratch my head, we have had a lot of serious athletes here...they just don't stay very long.
dreyth is high up on tons of lists also (squat/rvj). IMHO he could battle kingfish for picture perfect squatter.
yup, and for people who created journals but don't post anymore but go way up, there's also joel smith, hickson, smooth, nightfly, jard, mic, jr, cowed, rutgersdunker, RJ.
others who posted but didn't journal like adam linkauger (lmfao), jacob hiller (that was funny, dude gets up good), josh sherrod, kellyb, who else? dno.
When you did that thread of 'adarq.org' is full of hard-working guys from the bottom end of the bell curve...' it made me scratch my head, we have had a lot of serious athletes here...they just don't stay very long.
I don't know why I said that, I'm a retard sometimes.
By the way, I might have to simply forfeit our contest and give you the crown and buy you an online gift card...... i have developed this strange condition where my hips lock up suddenly or groin, happens every 5-10 minutes randomly than goes away if i do some kind of awkward stretch, but always comes back.
stop lifting so hard for now .. lift nice & light & less frequency, but focus more on continuing to get in better shape, drop fat, etc.
also make sure you are properly hydrated. People who are worried about body comp often end up drinking less fluids to feel like they are losing weight, being dehydrated will make you more prone to injury - especially strains and aches.
also make sure you aren't stretching TOO MUCH, you could be hurting yourself. I'm the king of hurting myself stretching: i've hurt my hip twice really bad from stretching, the worst was sitting with feet together stretching my groin, somehow wrecked my hip for like 5 months or so.
lock up suddenly sounds kinds of nuts.. hope you're ok.
just don't be like raptor - he was stubborn while injured and just kept lifting "hard", hurting himself more and more.. he couldn't just tone it down and do light stuff/get in better condition etc, always had to do something "heavy" and he just could never seem to recover. That was his biggest mistake IMHO, try and not do that.
stubbornly lifting through pain becomes more of a "mental illness" .. i've done it, we all have .. recognize it & put health first. You'd be surprised how fit you can get with the health first mindset too.
I'm soo jealous of his training. Makes me want to add some lol but will not. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sDMQyqNZi4" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sDMQyqNZi4</a>
really nice vid, but, the intro has me suspect. so he does all of that stuff, then it comes down to SMFR? Instead, maybe he did too much "nonsense"? Maybe doing lots of that stuff with the de-oxygenation mask was completely useless?
I was actually going to create a thread a few weeks ago titled "There are too many damn exercises".
I've gone from a small set of exercise, to lots of different exercises, to a small set of exercises, to a very small set of exercises. Most people want to do cool fun things, or fun looking things, hard fun things, hard weird things .. how much of this is actually needed & how do you gauge the effectiveness of something when you have so much variety?
no idea of Blake's actual training & how it was composed, but it seems like we've been in a phase where monotony is no longer tolerated. We're also in a phase where "different stuff" gets more attention, more likes, more views, more respect etc: it's alot easier to do that with videos like you posted above.
I think the biggest "turning point" for me, was watching the *infestation* of "s&c coaches" in fight sports. That's what really started to really make me cringe. I watched it in person at ATT (American Top Team), I watched it on tv/online such as Brandon Rios doing a bunch of fancy lameness.. Instead of spending that time actually working on a counter, throwing more punches, working skill etc, these s&c coaches got fighters doing lame footwork drills on an agility latter then doing a few hops. IMHO, completely useless.. That kind of coaching permeates everything now.
When I did my second internship at Memorial Fitness/Rehab, there was this functional trainer there. Guy was "brilliant", knew his shit. Knew how everything fit together, anatomically/kinesiology/biomechanically. He was so impressive to most people. He's a good dude, but, the training I saw him provide athletes/elderly/out of shape people was just pure BS. He knew too much for his own good & carved out a niche, offering up sub-par training to individuals of all fitness/athletic levels.
I guess i'm just annoyed with the exercise variety out there. I'm subscribed to a few S&C IG's and every other day they are doing a new exercise, promoting some new ground breaking ISOMETRIC PAP lameness.
It's just interesting how some people approach training so scientifically, and can't coach/improve someone for shit. It's science right? All we have to do is <insert program here> because it worked before, and tweak a few variables. I think "the art" mixed with "some science" is far more effective. An example of "the art" is what I mentioned above, some seasoned boxing coach / track coach knowing pretty much what to do to get their athlete at their peak & address weaknesses for a specific event, who rely less on science & more on experience, instead of letting some S&C coach come in and try to act like a "human mechanic" and just screw everything up.
A really good example of that also, is "RJ" from way back. Dude was science to the max, seemed to ignore alot of people who had more "experience" (on elite track/charlie francis forum, db hammer forum etc) which contradicted things he'd learned in supertraining & evosport etc. Not to talk shit on him, but that's just potentially a good example. Not sure what happened to him, would be nuts if he's an olympic hopeful now or something, that'd be pure wreckage for me. lmfao. Searched him and found his book: http://xlathlete.com/xl/events/engineering-an-athlete.pdf .. it was awesome that he wrote a book but come on.. It's probably an amazing read, would probably derail my training completely and have me doing all kinds of crazy isometric awesomeness. On the other hand, it's probably poisonous. Stuff like that, without the proper experience, can fuck your brain up. However, if you believe in a training ideology so much, that's a very important thing. So believing in your training, no matter how mediocre or useless, is absolutely essential & can still improve performance. That belief coupled with brutal effort, can unlock things even if the training makes no sense - as long as you're still getting in enough of the event you're training for. If some extraordinary belief in sub-par training can unlock more confidence mentally & drive physically, that can definitely improve race/competition efforts & such. S&C is weird.
dno.. been thinking about stuff like that for a while now.
i'm really addicted/obsessed with grapefruit now.. this is what I had after my early walk today:
I need to pro up and get me a grapefruit spoon:
kinda odd how i've just become so addicted .. i've had grapefruit off and on for a long time, but never have I been so addicted to it. Doesn't seem like i've gotten tired of it at all either.
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