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Re: chasing athleticism
« Reply #4980 on: April 30, 2020, 06:15:55 am »
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Thu (30/4/2020)
Daily Activity: 
Daily Training: 33 days
BW:  84.8kg (no shoes)

BS 6x75, 6x100, 3x120, 1x127.5
BP 6x75, 4x86, 1x94, 7x80, 8x76.5
Pullup 5x7.5kg, 8xBW;
LPD, Cable row, Curl: 15x22.5kg

Notes:
After years of afraid of sucking at pullups, im now doing them regularly on bench days. Starting to put a few things together, i noticed if i engage my right lat more, i can lock out a rep easier. Also doing regular assistance with pulldowns, cable rows and curls. If my squat is gone, it's ok, time to grow some upper body muscle and look like i actually lift!
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Re: chasing athleticism
« Reply #4981 on: May 01, 2020, 04:59:35 am »
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Fri (1/5/2020)
Daily Activity: 
Daily Training: 34 days
BW:  85.6kg (no shoes)

BS 6x50, 6x80
OHP 8x20, 10x20

Notes:
Started super-compensation! Worst case, nothing happens, i end up giving myself a little break and can come back with aplomb, mentally rejuvenated.  Best case, i get stronger etc and come back to even bigger daily min/maxes. I'm a little excited because ive never peaked, never not even once. I regret that ofc, there were times i was prob capable of a 2xbw squat or a 40" vertical, or gametime dunking/beasting, but my obsession with training prob cost me those elusive peaks because i never backed off to peak. Time to try something different! Over may i'm also going to address rehab with SL exercises Coges put me onto but i got distracted with squats (as per usual). And it's time to jump to bigger plates, daily 110kgs is a step back to where i was last year where i was using 6x120kg to warmup every day.
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Re: chasing athleticism
« Reply #4982 on: May 01, 2020, 05:03:39 am »
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My goal is to be a lean 85kg. I want to play basketball once covid subsides, i didn't realise i took it for granted that basketball would always be there, but now i can't play i want to, human nature i guess. So will spend the winter training hard to get to that 85kg ripped goal. in june i'll do a 3 week cut to get closer to 80kg (prob not getting there). Then gain to 82.5-85kg and cut, repeating that cycle as many times as needed until im lean and strong at 85kg. I want to play against guards, im done trying to compete with bigs, with my size and strength, i can bully any guard. if that's the only way i can dominate the game i want to dominate, not just sit on the bench watching worse players outplay me cos they're bigger and fatter and im not as good at being big and fat.
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Re: chasing athleticism
« Reply #4983 on: May 02, 2020, 05:20:53 am »
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Sat (2/5/2020)
Daily Activity: 
Daily Training: 35 days
BW:  85.5kg (no shoes)

BS 6x50
OHP 2x8x20

Notes:
Continuing the supercomp. My plan is to start increasing the weights tmr, will do a 70kg topset. I messed aroudn with split squats and yea there is something there for sure, my right leg really struggles with just the empty bar. so make that a staple and lets see if it can sort out my right quad issues. my theory is that while my glutes and hams have bounced back, quads are not on the same level of progression. bi squats allow you to compensate for it b/c the other legs/muscles can take over it seems.
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Re: chasing athleticism
« Reply #4984 on: May 03, 2020, 05:50:16 am »
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Sun (3/5/2020)
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Daily Training: 36 days
BW:  84.0kg (no shoes)

BS 2x8x20
OHP 2x8x20

Notes:
tapered off caffeine as well, 100mg yesterday, 0mg today. will start going up in weights tmr. not sure this was worth it .. i feel weak and sluggish .. but that's also because im trying to clean up my diet and probably undereating now.
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Re: chasing athleticism
« Reply #4985 on: May 04, 2020, 11:21:13 am »
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Mon (4/5/2020)
Daily Activity: 
Daily Training: 37 days
BW: 

BS 6x60, 6x80
OHP 2x8x20

Notes:
Change of plan. Going to focus on upper body and rehab lower body properly. I notice my right glute and hamstring are both significantly weaker in fact, unlike what i had reported. So going to add in RDLs, single leg back extensions, etc, in addition to SL work like split squats. Will still do squats but not stress progress anymore. BP is going to take focus i think.
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Re: chasing athleticism
« Reply #4986 on: May 06, 2020, 05:45:54 am »
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Tue (5/5/2020)
Daily Activity: 
Daily Training: 38 days
BW: 

BS 6x60, 6x80, 5x110
OHP 2x8x20

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Re: chasing athleticism
« Reply #4987 on: May 06, 2020, 05:48:48 am »
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Wed (6/5/2020)
Daily Activity: 
Daily Training: 39 days
BW: 

BS 6x60, 6x80, 3x110, 2x122.5, 1x130
OHP 6x40, 6x50
Split Squat (SS) 8x20

Notes:
The Split squats make the right quad feel good. Whatever they're doing, im liking, do them daily. OHP felt stupidly hard and heavy. The backoff week has been abject failure .. i think it's because daily training gains vanish super quickly. It makes me think daily training only works if you can keep doing daily training, which seems to be a bad thing. It's better to take gains from a weekly session which last better long term. I'm def off the daily training bandwagon, it's dumb.
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Re: chasing athleticism
« Reply #4988 on: May 08, 2020, 03:58:54 am »
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Thu (7/5/2020)
Daily Activity: 
Daily Training: 40 days
BW: 

BS 6x60, 6x80, 3x110, 2x120
Split Squat (SS) 8x20, 8x27.5, 8x30

Notes:
Kind of excited about SL training. I'm keen to see the payoff down the road.
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Re: chasing athleticism
« Reply #4989 on: May 08, 2020, 07:46:00 am »
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Fri (8/5/2020)
Daily Activity: 
Daily Training: 41 days
BW: 

BS 6x77.5, 4x107.5, 2x120, 1x130, 15x90
SS 8x32.5, 8x35
BP 6x75, 6x82.5, 2x87.5, 1x92.5, 6x80, 7Fx77.5, 8x72.5
Pullup 3x10kg, 5x7.5kg, 5x5kg, 5xBW
LPD, Cable Row, Curl: 15x25kg

Notes:
Interestingly .. today it wasnt so difficult for the CNS to do the split squats, last time my HR was high just from 20kg ones but today my HR was much more relaxed, come to think of it, the same is true for that 15 rep set on BS, which would normally become cardioish. In between i also tried to do some walking lunges which i liked as well, so will do those regularly too. BW is unknown, battery died on scales.
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Re: chasing athleticism
« Reply #4990 on: May 08, 2020, 09:25:44 pm »
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Quote from: maxent on May 08, 2020, 03:58:54 am
Thu (7/5/2020)
Daily Activity: 
Daily Training: 40 days
BW: 

BS 6x60, 6x80, 3x110, 2x120
Split Squat (SS) 8x20, 8x27.5, 8x30

Notes:
Kind of excited about SL training. I'm keen to see the payoff down the road.

Interesting thinking about the payoff. For me the absolute payoff of this type of training is the ability to train and play pain free which allows more progress.
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Re: chasing athleticism
« Reply #4991 on: May 09, 2020, 02:12:14 am »
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That's got to be up there for sure. At the moment i'm only using SL training on the R leg which was my injured / operated / rehabbing one. If i can bring it up to symmetry with the L i'll be happy. When they're equally as strong, i'll prob be a better squatter and DL jumper and SL jumper (i almost only jump off R). But will be interesting to see if it allows me to go past my previous athletic levels b/c i prob had some sort of imbalance even before the injury as well. Now i'm also curious what would happen if i use SL training on my stronger L leg as well, make it even stronger? Maybe.

I want to do a few things actually in addition to SL training, explore the alternative plant LR and SL jumping off L which are both things i've scarcely done, just for balancing out. Some jumping training like bounds (especially SL but DL too) are so much fun compared to normal training it's fun to mix it up. But when i talk about payoff im wondering if  can improve all these from SL training. Maybe, maybe not
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« Reply #4992 on: May 09, 2020, 06:02:32 am »
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Sat (9/5/2020)
Daily Activity: 
Daily Training: 42 days
BW: 

BS 6x75, 6x95, 4x110, 2x120, 1x130
BSS(R) 8x20, 8x27.5

Notes:
I added the reverse deadmill drill as a warmup  since yesterday. I do 3 mins highest incline walking on the TM then go to failure on the reverse deadmill, i experimented with incline and i still dont know which is more beneficial 0 incline or max? Wasnt feeling like doing split squats today (the right foot doesnt like being flexed so much) so tried BSS and what do you know, BSS seems to be way harder. I worry about balance tho cos if i stack it with a bar that would be a wreck! Also i experimented with adding an extra warmup set because i was finding 100kg to 110kg is too challenging to be called a warmup. Adding the 95kg made it less challenging but i still am not strong enough to warmup with 110kg .. so need to experiment some more there also.
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« Reply #4993 on: May 10, 2020, 09:01:42 am »
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Sun (10/5/2020)
Daily Activity: 
Daily Training: 43 days
BW: 

BS 6x75, 6x92.5, 5x105, 2x120, 1x130
OHP 6x50, 2x57.5, 2x60, 6Fx54.5, 6x55, 6x54.5, 7x52.5, 8x51.5
Chinup 1x17.5kg, 3x10kg, 5x5kg, 5x2.5kg, 5x1.25kg, 6xBW
LPD, Crow, Curl 15x27.5kg

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« Reply #4994 on: May 11, 2020, 07:47:05 am »
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Mon (11/5/2020)
Daily Activity: 
Daily Training: 44 days
BW: 

BS 6x75, 6x92.5, 6x102.5, 4x112.5, 3x120, 1x127.5

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