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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / 138
« on: November 13, 2017, 11:24:16 pm »
BW: 88.5kg
Activity: 10.3
Misc: n/a
Diet Compliance: 39/39(PR)
Mobility: T
Skill work: F

Getting leaner. Training recovery lower & maintenance upper tonight.
Recovery BS 6x117.5(+2.5kg, good), 6x120(+5kg; ok)
Maintenance Semi Paused BP 5x88.5
Maintenance Dips 15xBW(92; maybe 14, idk)

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / 139
« on: November 12, 2017, 11:12:28 pm »
BW: 88.6kg
Activity: 7 (ok but should ≥8 everyday i think)
Misc: n/a
Diet Compliance: 38/38(PR)
Mobility: T
Skill work: F

Rest day. Im happy to be 88.5kgish for now, been cutting thiis whole week so about time the scale showed up. Bball really does do a number on my body in a variety of ways. Hard on the body but the benefits to bodycomp are noticeable quickly too. Waist is getting tighter etc. Cud just be it makes me happy which leads to reduction stress and  water retention? I think i stay cutting until the last high volume day (thursday) - and then eat hard to recover then stay maintenance a while. I'm thinking it's okay to allow my bodyweight to drift up towards 91kg and try get my BS 5rm to 5x160kg - as per KF advice. I will keep it below 91kg for psychological reasons though, dont wanna be freaking out if i wake up 92kg or something. And keep getting in better shape by playing ball regularly now, im running out of time at 139 days to tournament time.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Kingfush
« on: November 12, 2017, 11:53:37 am »
Hey KF thanks for clearing up the breathing. Worked a treat, game changer even. Honestly there's now only two people i listen to when it comes to squatting - yourself and clarence. I got distracted a little watching Omar usaf (he's a good bro but only got form ADHD from listening to him on squatting - had to unsub to stay focused). With clarence the main thing i take away from him is treating warmups with respect, trying to make every rep consistent and how hard he works on his sets of 5 to fight through them. Guy kills himself every rep and then comes back for set after set. Sometiems takes 15-20mins between them. I had to learn that grind from him. Big reason ive been able to do these marathon 20 sets of 5 every week and keep progressing the weight.

I have another question now though. Hit 160kg today at 89.1kg after a 155kg single; cant remember how it felt in terms of difficulty but it doesn't look like a 1rm - think rep speed was good?). I really want a 180kg single at 90kg bw. Should i continue to allow my bw drift towards 91kg and hope to hit 180kg along the way then  cut down to get a 2xbw ratio? Or shud i try to stay around 87.5kg and aim for a 175kg squat and i can tackle 180kg after that? I feel like it's two wildy different ways to go and i coudl use some advice on how you'd approach it yourself.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / 140
« on: November 11, 2017, 11:34:45 pm »
BW: 89.1kg
Activity: 13.1 (!!)
Misc: n/a
Diet Compliance: 37/37(PR)
Mobility: T
Skill work: T

More bball today and heavy training. Please dont break body, please..
Bball practice

BS 3x127.5, 1x155, 1x160(PR), 4x147.5(PR)
submax jumps
maintenance hill sprints x 5
Back Xtn 10x90(PR)

Notes:
Bball really beats the shit out of me when i get back into it :( But i said F it im going to lift whatever happens. Finally cracked the 160kg milestone. Only happened because i did the first rep of 3x155kg PR attempt and thought nope nope that was too hard to rep out another 2 times. So racked it and felt fresh and strong enough to go for 160kg. It's done. The only shitty thing was the 4th and last rep of that 147.5kg - yup hella squatmorninged it :/ so erectors will be fried af the next couple of days. Hopefully recovered for the last high volume sesh on thursday though.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / 141
« on: November 10, 2017, 09:28:39 pm »
BW: 89.7kg
Activity: 10+
Misc: R knee niggles
Diet Compliance: 36/36(PR)
Mobility: T
Skill work: T

Rest but will put up some jumpshots in the PM with a friend
my dumb ass ended up playing pickup for a coupla hours on concrete. i have to squat heavy tmr. good job. ha ha

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / 142
« on: November 09, 2017, 09:56:52 pm »
BW: 89.9kg
Activity: 7
Misc: n/a
Diet Compliance: 35/35(PR)
Mobility: T
Skill work: F

Recovery lower & maintenance upper. Might restart the tempo sprints but make them like tempo tempo tempo sprints to start with ha
Recovery BS 2x6x115(+2.5kg, good)
Maintenance OHP 2x5x60
Maintenance Chinups 8xBW
Band resisted Goblet KB squat  8x10, 8x20, 8x32 (PRs; strong!; new exercise, good for stability at the bottom of the squat. highly recommend)

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / 143
« on: November 08, 2017, 11:09:31 pm »
BW: 89.5kg
Activity: 11
Misc: Erectors pretty beat (ha)
Diet Compliance: 34/34(PR)
Mobility: T
Skill work: T

Rest. But see below post.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / 144
« on: November 08, 2017, 05:47:21 am »
BW: 89.3kg
Activity: 11
Misc: n/a
Diet Compliance: 33/33(PR)
Mobility: T
Skill work: F

Got that sick feeling just prior to the volume session. But all things considered my prep has been good this week and today i even had 2 meals before the session.  So lets see how it goes, brb.
BS 6x5x140(PR), 4x140, 3x140, 2x140, 2x140

Notes:
I only managed 6 sets of 5!  I should have done a 7th set of 5 and gone home but i reasoned out of the ugly 5th rep and bargained to attempt another pretty 4 sets of 4 instead, which didn't happen either - bird in hand etc. Nevermind. Im going to fucking repeat this workout next week and crush it for all 10 sets of 5.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / 145
« on: November 06, 2017, 11:40:02 pm »
BW: 89.3kg
Activity: 7.7
Misc: n/a
Diet Compliance: 32/32(PR)
Mobility: T
Skill work: F

Legit rest today; last high volume day tmr.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / 146
« on: November 06, 2017, 01:12:39 am »
BW: 88.7kg
Activity: 8.5
Misc: n/a
Diet Compliance: 31/31(PR)
Mobility: T
Skill work: F

Active recovery lower & maintenance upper body today.
Recovery BS 2x6x112.5(+2.5kg; good)
Maintenance Semi-paused BP 5x87.5
Maintenance Dips 17xBW(92kg; PRish)


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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: November 06, 2017, 01:10:32 am »
Quote from: Coges on November 05, 2017, 09:26:01 pm
Quote from: maxent on November 05, 2017, 09:06:43 am
Quote from: Mutumbo000 on November 05, 2017, 06:19:35 am
Bad luck about the 160 (352lbs) failing but congrats on the 152.5x3 PR. Honestly if you were fresh and didn't hit the 152.5x3 prior to attempting 160 I believe you would have got 160 easily. Theoretically with a 152.5x3 your 1RM for the squat should be around 167.5 or even 170 on a good day.  The way I calculated that is most people's 3RM for a bench, squat or deadlift usually equates to a 1RM of 3RM +10%.

thanks mate! i kinda only wanted teh 160kg if it was  submax, you know? like if it was a true 1rm, i dont want it b/c i know it would have been ugly af and it wud have wrecked my recovery for the rest of the week, which would disrupt my usual squat program. So i wasn't really looking for a make at that price. I did an ugly af 157.5kg (as in it was up on my insta for a few minutes before i decided it was too shameful lol) back when my volume worksets were (i think) 122.5kg for 5s. So i know i can always get an ugly PR around 160kg but i want something im proud of .. if i get an ugly 1rm max and im ashamed of it then i can't expect anyone else to care either if the person who cares the most doesn't even care for it. I have a lot of work to do. My dream, maybe not realistic is to hit 180kg this summer while making it a 2xbw milestone. I dont know if that's in the cards THIS summer but i will try my best to get volume worksets around 150kg to give myself a fighting chance..

Loving your success lately and this is an awesome attitude to have. I think you're like me and ugly reps have sent you in the wrong direction in the past.

Yup! I just reviewed the video of the fail and i was pretty relaxed during the rep even during the bail, i just wasn't going to force it that day b/c on the back of my mind was i can't mess myself up too much when i have to do 10x5x140kg in a couple of days time. When i compare it to the 3x152.5kg i was really aggressive on those b/c that was programmed PR for the day. 160kg was just an after thought cos i didnt think i could get a 5x147.5kg PR with how i felt. The right move would have been go for 4x147.5kg instead of the 0x160kg though. I find squat mornings are bad for recovery, it used to take me over a week to recover from a dirty goodmorning rep but these days i can do better than that but i'd rather not make my program a lot harder than it needs to be. In that vein ive been eating more carbs, esp before bed b/c i know better sleep gives better recovery and carbs are my friend. Not like im eating tons of carbs now but adding a banana to my whey/berry smoothie and an extra piece of bread to an already baseline intake goes a long way.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: November 05, 2017, 09:06:43 am »
Quote from: Mutumbo000 on November 05, 2017, 06:19:35 am
Bad luck about the 160 (352lbs) failing but congrats on the 152.5x3 PR. Honestly if you were fresh and didn't hit the 152.5x3 prior to attempting 160 I believe you would have got 160 easily. Theoretically with a 152.5x3 your 1RM for the squat should be around 167.5 or even 170 on a good day.  The way I calculated that is most people's 3RM for a bench, squat or deadlift usually equates to a 1RM of 3RM +10%.

thanks mate! i kinda only wanted teh 160kg if it was  submax, you know? like if it was a true 1rm, i dont want it b/c i know it would have been ugly af and it wud have wrecked my recovery for the rest of the week, which would disrupt my usual squat program. So i wasn't really looking for a make at that price. I did an ugly af 157.5kg (as in it was up on my insta for a few minutes before i decided it was too shameful lol) back when my volume worksets were (i think) 122.5kg for 5s. So i know i can always get an ugly PR around 160kg but i want something im proud of .. if i get an ugly 1rm max and im ashamed of it then i can't expect anyone else to care either if the person who cares the most doesn't even care for it. I have a lot of work to do. My dream, maybe not realistic is to hit 180kg this summer while making it a 2xbw milestone. I dont know if that's in the cards THIS summer but i will try my best to get volume worksets around 150kg to give myself a fighting chance..

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / 147
« on: November 05, 2017, 01:18:30 am »
BW: 88.9kg
Activity: 7.6
Misc: erectors
Diet Compliance: 30/30(PR)
Mobility: T
Skill work: T

Rest but will be actively trying to recover and getting around 8 activity.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: November 05, 2017, 01:15:26 am »
Quote from: adarqui on November 04, 2017, 01:59:19 pm
those jumps you did looked really good, and those shoes looked great to jump in, adarq approved from what I see.. :ninja:

your jumping should sky rocket when you start jumping more, and potentially reduce some of this fatigue by lowering the volume drastically and potentially just getting in some more non-MAX efforts, more frequently. Not sure how you are planning to transition, but you could easily handle more squat days after doing a routine like that, as long as you drop the volume & still do "heavy" sessions but, more of a focus on non-aggressive/non-amp'd up ones, so you're in the "training max territory" and not the "true max territory".

pc!!

Thanks! The shoes are def my fav. If they ever reduce the weight down it could be GOAT but they're light enough for me that i dont really mind. Love them.

The plan is to finish up high vol  (20 sets) adventures this coming week then start taking sets off each week. Thinking take off 2/2 the first week to 16 sets and then 14 the following week etc. That way as i release some fatigue, i benefit by getting a bit stronger each week as well. I can start doing more submax jumps once i feel like i can handle more training load as I go along? For summer i want to put my squats on maintenance (on say 5x5x150kg) and peak my athleticism / fitness / bball.

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Basketball / Re: This clip deserves its own thread - I get a tear in my eye every time - LEBRON
« on: November 04, 2017, 01:38:12 pm »
I cud have sworn you'd post this one

https://streamable.com/66qld

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