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Re: chasing athleticism
« Reply #3180 on: September 01, 2016, 04:53:38 am »
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BS 6x110, 2x110B, 2x122.5B, 2x127.5(LPR), 0Fx132.5B
QBS 6x150B, 6x190B(PR), 8x170B(PR)
PP 6x63.5(LPR), 5Fx63.5
JS 8x70, 8x110(LPR)

BW: 78.1kg / 172.2lb

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last squat workout took its toll. cud not hope to PR so i thought to experiment with the belt and it was pretty awesome. I'm prob going to use a belt on thursdays from here, quarter squats respond well to it as did the heavier belt BS.
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« Reply #3181 on: September 01, 2016, 11:33:33 am »
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THere ws no game (The other team didnt show up) so we played 3v3. Was a good run. Got about a dozen dunks total (maybe). Not bad, decent effort.  Keen to peak in around 3 weeks, have orded a new weight vest too .. shud be interesting to see where i end up
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« Reply #3182 on: September 01, 2016, 10:44:06 pm »
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BW: 79kg (yikes)

Post refeed last night. Kinda sad, my childhood friend passed away yesterday, he battled drug abuse but it finally won. Couldnlt sleep, just reminiscing all the memories.
I didnt plan on it but ive settled into an EOD refeed fashion which is cool for sustaining progress, but i know deep down i can do without them too. Maybe once a week is good. Will sort it out for next week, this one has been too crazy
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Re: chasing athleticism
« Reply #3183 on: September 01, 2016, 11:13:31 pm »
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Sorry to hear about that mate. Horrible when we lose people so young.
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Re: chasing athleticism
« Reply #3184 on: September 02, 2016, 08:16:19 am »
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Quote from: Coges on September 01, 2016, 11:13:31 pm
Sorry to hear about that mate. Horrible when we lose people so young.

+1, i've talked about it on here before but my youngest brother struggles with drug addiction and i worry all the time that he's going to take that one fatal dose. sorry for you and for your buddy's family that he's gone.
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« Reply #3185 on: September 02, 2016, 09:06:37 am »
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really sucks man :/

sorry to hear.
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« Reply #3186 on: September 02, 2016, 09:17:50 am »
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 :( Sorry for your loss!

I hate drugs. I grew up in a low socioeconomic area and half my friends ended up involved with drugs. When I was in high school I lost a friend to an overdose. He took fantasy and had a few beers (alcohol + fantasy is a lethal combination) and he went to sleep and suffocated in his own vomit. My friends that haven't passed away have just wasted their potential by being drug fucked or locked up. Ice especially is pretty much an epidemic in Australia atm. It's such an easy drug to get addicted to, but people are just either ignorant or peer pressured into trying it socially and it spirals downwards from there.
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Re: chasing athleticism
« Reply #3187 on: September 02, 2016, 09:54:53 am »
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Bad way to go :( Most of my friend group in high school did dope

One of these former friends just got out from a rehab center. I talked to him over facebook, it's painful as hell. No matter what conversation I would try to strike up, it would always come back to his wanting to commit suicide and having nothing to live for. It's so hard not being able to do anything for someone you care about.
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Re: chasing athleticism
« Reply #3188 on: September 03, 2016, 04:11:48 am »
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BS 6x112.5, 5Fx120(LPR), 2x6x115(LPR), 2x6x112.5(LPR)

Sprints 6x100m

OHP 4x57.5, 4x57, 4x57.5, 3x3x47.5

Weighted Curl up 3x5x96.6, 2x5x91.6

Lall pulldowns 9,8,8
Cable row 12,12, 12
strict curls 2x8x30(LPR; new ex)

BW: 79kg

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Good squats, all things considered ... i'll take it.
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« Reply #3189 on: September 04, 2016, 01:23:12 am »
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Thanks guys. i lost touch with him when my family moved houses and i was thinkign how we were around then best mates, he lived 2 doors down the road. We used to have impromptu backyward dunk contests, play video games, listen to music, all of that stuff. spend a lot of time together. he may be the best friend i ever had. I remember when he started doing harder stuff when we were changing after PE class and a needle fell out of his backpack. I knew deep down he was on a bad path but i wonder if i hadnt moved, if i had the sense to say something to him then whether it would have had an effect. maybe i cud have told him i loved him and didnt wanna see him hurt. But as it is, didnt say anything at all, i just let him be. He never forced drugs on me, when others tried to peer pressure me he'd stick up for me and say no he doesn't do that stuff. I never tried to rekindle with him .. i thought we had noting in common anymore .. but i still remember all the good things bout him, how he lived his life without bound, jumping off roofs, surfing, he never walked almos always  on a scateboard, one which im happy that i had given him. such a waste of a life .. he was charismatic, good looking, decent, clever, funny, down to earth and a great friend and i will miss him. Drugs suck.
BW: 79.1kg
Ate a ton yesterday. I think ive got it out of my system. will be doing refeeds on saturday only, esp since im only doing squat volume then and tues will be less voluminous. Btw im in love with Mcdonalds hamburgers limited time promo of $2/each. I had 4 of them yesterday. Each time i go, I have 2 of them with extra meat and they're just so amazing i cant describe it. love the little onion and lack of cheese which i dont have to worry about macros. I think for my birthday (mid sept) i'll have like a dozen of them or something after training haha.
Need more fitness, think i will add a session of running on the treadmill .. once a week shud be better than noting just for covering GPP. Also keen to do bounds ... will fit them in this week. Happy with the balance ive got in training!
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Re: chasing athleticism
« Reply #3190 on: September 04, 2016, 09:23:33 pm »
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Giving myself 2wks to peak. I wont get 40" - i know that. I dont have enough 'stuff' accumulated to warrant that. But. If i do peak, it will be interesting to see where i can reach. The milestones mid sept are birthday/start of basketball season/finals of the current lax league are all pretty much the sme time together. I am not in shape yet, missing is fitness, a bit more strength and mass, a kilo or two of extra adipose than necessary and almost no skills whatsover. I cant even shoot a reliable 3 anymore, i havent practiced it since i got ill.

so will do the following things in the next 2-3 wks:
- continue to build my squat towards 6x6x127.5
- add a session of treadmill running (1x, 20mins / week)
- keep cutting towards 77kg (with 1x weekly refeeds on saturdays)
- add some quality dunking sessions (at least 1x a week of around 20-40 reps)
- peak around mid sept (for dunking/bball athleticism if it wasnt clear haha)
- use a weighted vest but be smart about it this time .. dont need to go crazy, weighted dunks around 85kg while remaining powerful is better than heavier but with too weird form to resememble/carry over to normal dunking

think that's the lot .. and oh yeh, i was thinking if i wanna strict curl 60kg i shud cheat curl 75kg or something, so will keep working on that too
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Re: chasing athleticism
« Reply #3191 on: September 05, 2016, 10:32:34 pm »
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BW: 78.3kg (!!)

This is the leanest ive been in ages even tho the scale doesn't register it, my skinfolds do. I didn't realise it but Mr Olympia this year is the same weekend as the milestones mentioned before. It's funny how motivating it is to see progress, makes me wanna work harder and get it done. But if i had looked softer / fatter / heavier today, i wud have been like fk it, but instead now im more dialed it than ever. Wanna peak by my birthday weekend for mr olympia / finals / start of summer season in the best league ive ever played in. Exciting times ahead.
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Re: chasing athleticism
« Reply #3192 on: September 05, 2016, 10:41:48 pm »
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A note on gear. I think my squat will benefit from using knee sleeves more than others b/c i have small knee joints and calves and hamstrings (near the knee). In comparison my thighs are HUGE. So as the weight gets heavier my squat overwhelms my knees but if i can use knee sleeves, while it wont get much assistance the way pls get out of wraps, i will still benefit from more stability provided by the sleeves, if that makes sense. Never used a pair of sleeves tho, so idk if this bears out irl. anyway, am not touching them yet but something for later. But the discrepancy btw my upper and lower leg is stark and it does suggest i will benefit from them.
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Re: chasing athleticism
« Reply #3193 on: September 06, 2016, 03:39:26 am »
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BS 6x110, 6x3x120(LPR)
BP 3x6x80(LPR)

DUNKS ~ 15 including weighted dunks (+10kg; ~92kg)
RDL - aborted
BHT -skipped
CHEAT CURL - meh

BW: 78.3kg

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When every single warmup was hard af .. im happy i got my planned worksets in. Woohoo.
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« Reply #3194 on: September 06, 2016, 10:18:46 am »
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I like the new vest, it almost feels like im not even wearing it (!) .. which i dont understand cos when i got my first one back in march it was a burden wearing it even with like 10kg. maybe it's cos my back is stronger now and i dont have a problem with +10kg? idk. the cons of this vest are that i CANNOT wear it in public discreetly. maybe with a big baggy hoody but maybe not even then. i dont know how im going to be able to use it outside lol. another downside is i cannot shoot or dunk 2 hands with it on :( so that means it limits the use .. but one hand movements (dunks, blocks etc) shud be ok. not that i cud wear it in a pickup game tho.

was able to dunk wiithout any problems at 81.4+10kg .. around 92kg total weight ..even tho initial unweighted dunks were challenging, i got enough movement efficiency quickly and was able to improve through the workout

i was thinking how do i make weighted vest training useful for me for vertical .. shud i be doing jumps w/o a ball but at a target or something? i might rig up a makeshift vertec i can PR every week and therefore improve ..
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