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I had the bright idea to dissolve my 200mg caffeine pill in some coke to make it absorb faster. Well shit, the plan worked. I felt it kick in within a minute. Normally takes a good 10-15. I've read that caffeine is absorbed only 87% as a pill but 99% in the aqueous solution case. But the downside is, wow it tastes foul, so that's a reason why they put it in capsules, probably. Not that mine are caps, they're pills but you can't really taste them unless you chew lol. Interesting.

Man i think i've become obsessed with the MH-370 story. I can't get enough of it. been hooked every since i heard about it. that chick told me about it, and i made a joke initially "where did you last see it?" but since then i've been completely engrossed. The mystery of the decade for sure.

I trained today, but bailed when front squat warmups felt too hard. Will try again tomorrow. I benched, but i was shit at that too, failing 95kg which is bullshit. Not worth logging this shit formally. Tomorrow, i'm going to squat and play ball. Can't wait. Going to kick some ass. And have a birthday party in the afternoon, hoping there is good food, im gonna destroy it, if so. haha.

man you slayed the diet. nice job. btw intertube wisdom sez visible 4-pack means closer to 10% than 15%.

Thanks LBSS. I think so too. If only my starting point was about 5kg lighter, i would have actually ended up athletic. Not athletic in the usual sense but as athletic as someone mediocre like me can be. But because i started from 98kg ish instead of 93kg, i am not lean enough to be athletic. To give you an idea how much difference this makes - when i played ball on saturday, to start with i could barely dunk, almost missing even a max effort attempt. Then as i played ball, sweated a lot, got lighter, i started landing dunks much easier. Which means, i'm about 5-7lb too heavy because once i shed that much water weight, i can jump more or less at an acceptable level. I say acceptable which is far and away from ideal.

I havent been updating because it's a littany of failure now, i just avoid writing about it because it will only inevitably lead to moping.. haha.

I have just over 4 weeks left now. I'm taking more stock in the team i've put together against all odds. Got me an athletic 6'8" freak who is one hell of a forward, 2 6'5" guys, one strong, long and powerful as fuck as the center, and the other one a budding athletic freak in his own right, who can play anything from PG to C. He's good. Only 17. So much potential. If only i could get him squatting he might make it far as a basketball player.

It makes me so happy that I facilitated this team. Have 2 quality perimeter shooters to boot, and a decent SG although he's aging and injury prone, he still has the potential to shine as the best player on teh court. That's my team. Unfortunately i'm not playing with them, even if i was, i would be a backup on the bench. Maybe next year, i'll play with my guys instead of my usual interstate team. I'm a better manager than i am an athlete anyways. I can't jump, run, or lift, i'm just mediocre, but i'd strengthen this team coming off the bench, for sure.

Btw can anyone tell me how to get a tall guy dunking quickly? The 6'5" center mentioned above can't dunk, inexplicably. He's lean, has strong thighs and legs, but yet i can't figure out what's holding him back from dunking. Any exercise i should reccomend to him? Dont say squats, no one has time to learn that shit. I was thinking maybe his glutes could do with more strength, so perhaps BSS? easy enough to teach, and might do the trick?

what acole said, x10,000

also, i find it amazing that you went to the gym, had trouble jumping well, got really warmed up, jumped better, and then attributed the jumping better to losing weight. that's just, i don't even know why you would bypass the obvious explanation. you jumped better because your muscles and CNS were warm.

Yeah I've heard of a good fix for this: it's called 'go out there and practice trying to dunk'. 

Kind of, but kind of not. I'm not talking about someone who gets high enough but is missing dunks like LBSS or yourself. He's not, he prob needs what 25-26" to dunk? something stupid like that, and he can't jump high enough. Has big strong calves. I am jealous of them. But he can't jump. Why. Ihnfi.

what acole said, x10,000

also, i find it amazing that you went to the gym, had trouble jumping well, got really warmed up, jumped better, and then attributed the jumping better to losing weight. that's just, i don't even know why you would bypass the obvious explanation. you jumped better because your muscles and CNS were warm.

maybe man. maybe. but i used to being able to dunk cold, no warmup jumps. Now it''s a max effort thing, and i have to work up a sweat first

if the guy is in reasonably good shape, and it sounds like he is, then the answer is to practice jumping. simple as that. if he wants to, it can't hurt him to do some plyos, sprints, and/or leg strengthening stuff like BSS, RDLs, GHR, step ups, whatever. but the overwhelming focus just has to be jumping; secondary stuff should NOT get in the way.

I've had a friend who was 6'7 and could dunk, he could even dunk a 5 kg medicine ball at 10'2 (3.10m) off SVJ... but off a running jump, of any kind, he would suck so badly.

And no matter what I tried to do with him he was always like this.