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I think for the RDLs, you need to drop weight and improve RoM, you'll get a lot more out of it. Halfway down shins is right ^. Keep the chest up, that should help lock your lower back. Great training lately mate.

BW: 85kg
Activity: 8000
Misc: R knee a bit wonky
Diet Compliance: 6/65

Rest.

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Ended up doing a lot of walking. It was just a beautiful night for it. Goes to show how much my work capacity has improved lately. Nice.

BW: 85.2kg
Activity: 7500
Misc:
Diet Compliance: 8/65

Rest.

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Entropy, I remember you went from semi-weak and "fat and furious" like myself, to strong and lean. How did you do it? I am trying to go thru that process right now and I would appreciate some tips from you.

If i remember correctly, you lost a decent amount of fat and still gained a ton of FS strength.

lol. Good times. I prob would suggest taking a long term view on this. do 12 week cycles where you focus on fat loss, then take a break from dieting while shifting to maintaining your bodyweight but focusing on performance, then diet some more, continue until you're satisfied. Don't try to slog thru a huge cut in one long cycle, it's hard to stay motivated.

BW: 85.2kg
Activity: 8500
Misc:
Diet Compliance: 14/14, 0/5, 9/9, 0/55

Rest. If my friend wants to put up some shots i'll go down but otherwise im cool.

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I went to put some shots up and it was a mistake. got pulled into a pickup game and one dude was talking mad shit and i shrugged it off didn't lose my calm but i wanted to block him out of the city and i wasnt fresh enough to do anything. got one but he called foul smh. Came home pissed off (at myself for being shit) and binged on chocolate lol lol. start over tmr. just wait til im finished transforming into lebron. i will get my revenge haha

BW: ??
Activity: 10,000
Misc:
Diet Compliance: 14/14, 0/5, 9/9, 2/55

No such thing as rest days. Ended up playing outdoor ball with my friend running thru post drills. No big deal right? He's just one of the few guys who makes me feel like spud webb in the NBA. Im achy and sore .. concrete life lol.  Yea squat volume day tomorrow, good job dickhead!

this is true but im trying to train my ability to train even in suboptimum state. the days of doing only lifting and nothing else to preserve recovery didn't really serve me very well. im a better athlete now in that i can do more things in training without needing perfect sleep/rest to make it work. work capacity isn't just how much work you can do in a workout but also how much work you can do while not fresh and also how much work you can do and do other things very soon after without needing a lot of rest in between. i think. in the past i couldn't do as much work in a workout but i def couldn't do it in a compromised state and now i can, which is cool. will keep training that ability, i think there's more there for me to attain. Exciting stuff. PRs aren't just weight on the bar but also the amount of work you can do.

yup.

Quote from: maxent on August 27, 2017, 10:54:32 am

this is true but im trying to train my ability to train even in suboptimum state. the days of doing only lifting and nothing else to preserve recovery didn't really serve me very well. im a better athlete now in that i can do more things in training without needing perfect sleep/rest to make it work. work capacity isn't just how much work you can do in a workout but also how much work you can do while not fresh and also how much work you can do and do other things very soon after without needing a lot of rest in between. i think. in the past i couldn't do as much work in a workout but i def couldn't do it in a compromised state and now i can, which is cool. will keep training that ability, i think there's more there for me to attain. Exciting stuff. PRs aren't just weight on the bar but also the amount of work you can do.

Yep definitely. and it showed last night in the fight; mcgregor was more youthful and prob stronger and just as in shape, but come the 9th round, his arms were like strings while mayweather was still throwing like its the 3rd round. Something about mayweather's mind to body connection is different.

one thing people need to realize too though, is Floyd is a FREAK. He's that 40 year old guy you see at a 5k who dusts everyone, dropping an insane time. Olympic athlete, boxed his entire life, has so much experience that he doesn't "worry" in a boxing match such that worrying causes more stress & fatigue. He's "as cool as a cucumber". But the amount of work he's put in over the years, dwarfs Conor by several orders of magnitude. Conor is only 29, Floyd has ~8 more years of hard work he put in, fighting at the elite level. So although it seems like youth was on Conor's side, it was actually more of a detriment. His "youth" is an extreme experience disadvantage since he's crossing over from MMA to Boxing.

so, as much as it is important for Conor to achieve elite level ability to recover, round after round in a high paced boxing match; trying to do such a thing "for the first time" in a massive event like that, is absolutely impossible. He could have become the world's best 12 x 3 minute runner and Floyd would have figured out how to drag him into deep waters that Conor has never experienced before.

so back to maxent & just training in general .. our failures over time & staying consistent, teach us alot. Training hard for so long, that experience is important. And think about how much we're still learning even 10 years later in some cases... At the highest levels, everything comes down to "mastery". It's usually the smallest little details that pay out the most.

peace!

BW: 86.2kg (PR!)
Activity:
Misc:
Diet Compliance: 14/14, 0/5, 9/9, 0/2, 1/52

BS 9x5x117.5(PR)
BS 9x5x117.5(PR)

Notes:
First session out of the way, i wrapped it up in about an hour, just under. Will rest a bit, eat and then go back for sesh 2. It wasn't easy but i managed. Hopefully 2nd one isnt too bad. Btw i felt a bit of a dick doing this volume session at peak hour at the gym. I prefer when they fall on weekends..

2nd session was brutal but i dont feel as dead after as i did in the first. Now to recover..