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WEIGHT: ???
SORENESS: biceps
ACHES/INJURIES: right ankle is near 100%; right thumb >90%
MENTAL STATE: very tired

- warm up

- SVJ x 3,3
no glute involvement in first set, did some bridges before second set.

- ME pogo x 15,15,15

- rudiment hops

- squat 275 x 3,3

wack, feel badly.

last wednesday and thursday:

WEIGHT: ???
SORENESS: ???
ACHES/INJURIES: right ankle is near 100%; right thumb >90%
MENTAL STATE: ???

- worked out but forget what i did. first time that's ever happened except when i've been traveling. 

weekend was a waste, did nothing friday-sunday except some running around on saturday. it was match day last weekend for all the people trying to get to residency, so i went to baltimore for celebrations and shit with my gf and her family on friday (hello, four more years at johns hopkins) and then we went "camping" with a bunch of her classmates up north of baltimore to celebrate. i hate not working out for three days, i feel fat (ridiculous, i know, but there it is) and slow and bad about myself and lack of discipline and commitment. emo talk.

last night:

WEIGHT: ???
SORENESS: none
ACHES/INJURIES: right ankle is near 100%; right thumb >90%
MENTAL STATE: tired and extremely low motivation, down on myself

- warm up

- paused SVJ w/ no arm swing x 3,3,3
surprisingly felt pretty explosive

- donkey ankle bounces x 15,15,15
whatever

- paused squat 225 x 5

- asst natural GHR x 10,10

whatever. going to do a ton of KB swings the next couple of days to make up for the ones i've missed. tonight will do MSEM squats and upper, tomorrow active rest (lots of KB swings and band stuff) and then thursday max jumping.

i go through phases with this and right now i'm in a phase of beating myself up and feeling weak and shitty. i'll get through it, just have to keep showing up. and get good sleep.

Have you thought about thumbless grip for OHP or have you already been there?

Ok makes sense. I use thumbless for OHP and tried to switch back a couple of weeks ago and found it really uncomfortable. I'm using a bar though and haven't tried with DBs.

WEIGHT: ???
SORENESS: hamstrings a little
ACHES/INJURIES: right knee (WTF GOD DAMN IT) right ankle is near 100%
MENTAL STATE: so fucking pissed

- warm up
right knee not okay

- DLRVJ walk out + a bunch at 2, 3 and 4 steps
horrible. right knee out of it, CNS so dead and slow. what. the hell. only explanation i can think of for the right knee is KB swings but that would be weird, it has so little knee action, but nothing else has changed in my habits. current mesocycle not working, need to revert to the one i laid out and be more disciplined.

not that long, but i've been on the "directionless macrocycle" for a long time. need some direction.

no idea what's up with the knee, there's often some tiny discomfort in there but never anything like last night. it wasn't terrible, like i wasn't limping or anything, but it was definitely not allowing me to plant or project any power. fml.

some nice DOMS from the 225 rest-pause set.

also, 335/175=1.91. so that's a near-2xbw squat that went up smoothly without having focused on improving squat for more than a year. good to know, will probably use that as training max if/when i ever do a strength block again.

also, it's getting warm out. time to start sprinting and bounding again.

Yeah, so...more info on the knee? Is it inflammation or structural? I guess it can't be too bad if you could jump and squat. Good training lately! I have been reading and following everyone's training even though haven't been posting much.