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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!

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)?

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.

Gumble with some solid final words to close out an HBO Real Sports episode:

“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

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.

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.

instead of adding another site for athlinks, i'll just consolidate them here.

strava.com
athlinks.com
endomondo.com