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Nutrition & Supplementation / Re: I don't think i need creatine
« on: July 23, 2017, 10:54:58 am »
My goal is to reach 40 in SVJ and 44in RVJ, this will give me a lock at athleticism and a good training position for BBALL program to train elite players that are a bit raw and clueless but talented.

Should I take creatine or not?

I do have some health issues like obesity and very close to getting diabetes. I also had high liver enzymes that is slowly getting better.

get everything else in check first.. get fairly shredded, stronger, better physical condition, then re-evaluate. Also by that time, "diabetes" probably won't be much of an issue anymore.

sometimes you just have to think about it (and similar things) like a "cheat code".. imagine creatine is a cheat code.. do you use the cheat code on the first level? or do you wait until you actually need it? if you do the latter, you'll acquire more skills & understand your body at an entirely different level .. you won't even need to ask the question about creatine, you'll basically just know. I mean, I don't think most legal supplements are that effective for people who aren't experienced/don't know what they are doing. I can get just as strong without protein powder -> my diet is balanced/adequate. etc.. I don't need some crazy pre-workout amp fuel, but if I do need a pickmeup, caffeine in the form of coffee will do just fine. I'm mostly anti-supps though -> anti in the sense that I don't really feel we need them. Creatine has shown to be pretty effective, but why use it right now when you can make considerable gains/improvements without it? Instead, wait 6-12 months when you're dropped BF% way down and are considerably stronger, then maybe take it to experiment.

also, as far as coaching goes.. you don't want to be one of those coaches/instructors whose first instinct is to get a client on a bunch of supps. Making proper improvement yourself & then understanding better the effects of things like creatine etc, will give you much more insight when it comes to prescribing it.

my 2cents.

pc!

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Do you ever find jump squat to be better with resistance band than free weight?

Depending on what you are trying to achieve, using bands can help with explosiveness and elasticity and can be better than free weights. I have never used bands. As free weights has been giving me results.

nice. if it aint broke, don't fix it.

Do you ever find jump squat to be better with resistance band than free weight?

i'd be a little wary of jump squats with bands.. sounds like it could be better on the spine upon landing, but not when you take into account you're accelerating back down faster than gravity. curious about the physics of it. imho I imagine traditional jump squats are safer, even more so with dumbells. I like lighter jump squats though: going passed ~35 % 1RM just brings in too much risk vs reward debate.. especially 70%, F that. I'd personally stick to 25-30% 1RM (if I had to do them).

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Two Hands Two Feet
« on: July 23, 2017, 10:42:26 am »
22/7/17
bw- 88.6 (down again)

Rest day

Getting the new program sorted and will be doing a cardio/strength endurance based building block for 6 weeks. Not going to be lifting heavy at all which will be hard to do but should be a nice change up for the body. Wanted to get a cardio base and increase work capacity earlier in the year so pretty happy to finally bite the bullet and do it. See you in 6 weeks barbell.

Going to eat at or around maintenance during this time as no doubt the addition of cardio will do a lot for any calorie deficit I was planning.

nice!! what's the strength endurance stuff going to look like (generally)?

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back has gotten better, time to start over again. fuck my life.

well that's good news!! maybe cut out the paused squats for a while.. they are effective but obviously more risky than a normal squat.

I personally cut out paused squats, REA squats, jump squats, barbell lunges, front squats (loved those for vert, but they wrecked my upper back quite a few times) etc back when I was verting. Sometimes you just get to the point where it's like, fu*k the fancy stuff, pure basics.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Party's Over!
« on: July 23, 2017, 07:43:06 am »
Sorry Fam I been slack on the updates. My team has still only lost the 1 game all season and I've still been a slack bitch when it comes to going to the gym.

A youtube video of a try I scored a couple of weeks ago:
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1z1GYBjfzA" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1z1GYBjfzA</a>

smoked everyone. sick clip.

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Boxing / Re: Floyd Mayweather Jr vs Conor McGregor
« on: July 23, 2017, 07:40:58 am »
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8GybKGh1yk" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8GybKGh1yk</a>

Great interview. Hopkins is always on point. Thurman reminds me of BHOP. I can listen to both of those dudes all day.

ya man i'm amp'd for Canelo / GGG .. i'm def paying for that fight. That fight deserves way more attention. Too bad Floyd/Conor is sucking up that oxygen. I love both fighters but i'm hoping Canelo gets the W - I really respect Canelo, he's fought everybody. He has the biggest balls in boxing, and maybe all of fight sports right now. He doesn't have the size that GGG does, which is really going to be a problem, but he definitely has the skills (more than GGG imho), power, and heart.

It's a good thing in fight sports that it's pretty much unacceptable to be a 2nd-tier fighter or someone who has some L's, to talk shit like Floyd/Conor. I can personally give it a pass when they are arguably the best in their respective sports. But if everyone acted like this, ie, everyone acting like a Broner to get more $$ and turn every pre-fight promotion into a circus, i'd probably stop watching fight sports. I prefer the GGG/Canelo approach for example.

Dana White, Don King, and Danny Garcia's dad love when shit goes into the gutter.

If all of politics becomes Trumpian, and all of Fight Sports becomes Floyd/McGregorian, i'll give up. :ninja:

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Boxing / Re: Floyd Mayweather Jr vs Conor McGregor
« on: July 22, 2017, 05:20:17 pm »
Gumble with some solid final words to close out an HBO Real Sports episode:

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“The two combatants have for the past month lowered the bar for civility and eagerly swapped racist, misogynistic and gay slurs in desperate hopes of marketing their pay-per-view event. That they've leaned on hate and ignorance to sell their fight says a lot about them and none of it is good. What's it going to say about those who buy it?”

I could only find one site which took note of it.. really thought i'd find more:

https://www.outsports.com/2017/7/19/16000868/bryant-gumbel-floyd-mayweather-conor-mcgregor

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: July 22, 2017, 01:50:12 pm »
I created a barbell with my course today:



eyes still burning like crazy.. teh fuq.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: July 22, 2017, 11:46:19 am »
07/22/2017

man i am dead. quads are toast. feet sore.

edit:
- also a 1 hour dog walk (with poop/pee/sniff stops) prior to the session.. probably about 2 miles.

walk/read/run:
- 14.72 mi in 3h24m56s @ 13:55 min/mi pace
- felt really good .. but started too late (7:30 AM). I woke up at 5 AM, should have started around 5:45-6 AM.
- eyes burning bad: reading became almost impossible @ mile 7.. sweat in my eyes is fine, but I think the sun made it burn.
- best interval was my 2nd where I pushed it: 0.28 mi @ 4:55 min/mi pace
- overall decent.. need to get more of these under 5 min/mi "easier" like I was doing come last December.
- had some surprising runs, barely pushing it at all and still sub-6 or mid 6's, felt good.. i guess the surprising one was the 0.37 @ 6:45 min/mi, was really dead and just coasting, so, happy about that.
- i usually feel my right hip flexor/adductors late in the session, just seems tighter than my left.


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Boxing / Re: Floyd Mayweather Jr vs Conor McGregor
« on: July 22, 2017, 05:57:04 am »
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cr5FQRKL6I" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cr5FQRKL6I</a>

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sometimes I wonder if not being excited about movies coming out, are a results of me just "getting older".. but I really don't think so. The sheer number of shitty remakes of originals that everyone once enjoyed, proves Hollywood is a wreck. I mean, look at "Chips" recently. I didn't see it, nor do I want to. But they turned some old classic into some goofy joke of a movie, it looks like. They definitely need to chill with the butchered remakes, that's all I know.

The "Point Break" remake is such an awful tragedy.

I just search 2017 movies, omg Baywatch remake, Power Rangers remake, so many trash remakes.

https://www.google.com/search?q=2017+movies&oq=2017+movies&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.1062j0j9&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

That is a really shitty lineup.. wtf?

Most original movie in there is probably "Get Out". Heard that was good.

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800m+ Running and/or Conditioning / Re: Good running sites
« on: July 20, 2017, 11:54:18 pm »
athlinks.com just updated their UI, it's pretty nice. That's a good site to keep track of your races & see the results of races etc. I've always liked athlinks.

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800m+ Running and/or Conditioning / Good running sites
« on: July 20, 2017, 11:53:36 pm »
instead of adding another site for athlinks, i'll just consolidate them here.

strava.com
athlinks.com
endomondo.com

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Pics, Videos, & Links / Re: jump videos
« on: July 20, 2017, 06:53:54 pm »

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Pics, Videos, & Links / Re: jump videos
« on: July 20, 2017, 06:37:01 pm »
not a video, but funny/cool. vertbros


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