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sunday played tennis with my dad until it got dark.

yesterday worked until 11 PM so no workout. foam rollered and stretched and went to bed.

tonight:

WEIGHT: ???
SORENESS: none
ACHES/INJURIES: toes esp. left toe, left shoulder, front and back of neck, jaws -- i think i'm getting sick? feel fine other than this weird neck pain
MENTAL STATE: good but tired

- warm up

- LRLRLR bound x 4
getting smoother

- sprint 30m x 3; 60m x 2; 100m x 2
4.4 for the 30s, 13.2 for the 100s

then came lightning. 

- walk home

- stretch

i wonder if my focus should be on the longer stuff, 60s and up. i'm okay to 30m, 4.4 gives me a predicted 100 of 11.7, which would thrill me obviously. that's mutumb0000 speed, avishek speed. so clearly top speed and speed maintenance are bigger problems. and considering that sprinting is really GPP for me and jumping is the more important goal, shouldn't i be spending more time getting those max-effort ground contacts in? does that even make sense?

later in the evening:

- lacrosse ball work in shoulders

I don't think you're getting sick... I think you're sore from that tennis that you played

doubtful. this wasn't soreness, more like sharp pain on certain movements. and i've never had neck pain from tennis before, and the intensity on sunday was very low.

Meh,at least you benched my max 14 times.

Good luck with that. I've benched pretty consistently in the last 6 years, and my 8RM never exceeded 65 kg. Genetics, baby!

Why is it that hard? That's just how I've always been. Why aren't you bench pressing 4x? Why aren't powerlifters bench pressing 10x? Why not 10423842958 x?

You're just saying stuff like we're all the same and have the same built, CNS, and another 2578934534753847 parameters. The fact that I've been training SPECIFICALLY for the squat in the last 6-7 years CONSISTENTLY and I still haven't reached 2x should tell you a thing or two about my body.

Quote from: Raptor on May 15, 2014, 07:30:59 am

Why is it that hard? That's just how I've always been. Why aren't you bench pressing 4x? Why aren't powerlifters bench pressing 10x? Why not 10423842958 x?

You're just saying stuff like we're all the same and have the same built, CNS, and another 2578934534753847 parameters. The fact that I've been training SPECIFICALLY for the squat in the last 6-7 years CONSISTENTLY and I still haven't reached 2x should tell you a thing or two about my body.

...your body has been doing it wrong?

How wrong can you do a fucking bench press? Even more, how wrong can you do it when you are pressing only 65kg? He is NOT doing it wrong, he just ain't progressing. I am the same. Have been consistent with bench for years and i am stuck at the same numbers , 1RM around 85kg. Would i be pressing more if i did it more than once a week? Of course yes. Would i be pressing 15x85kg like LBSS? No, i will never be there. But i have been pulling with the exact same frequency and for some weird reason pulls keep improving, being able to chin 10@100kg and lat-pull-down 8x200lbs now. I didn't do anything special in either pressing or pulling, the pulls just respond better on their own. Different strokes for different folks!

The only that says is you're really weak at bench press, nothing more, nothing else.

Agree. That is what he was trying to say too though.

Look at the NBA draft combine scores for the 180lb bp test, and these are basketball players who are not build for benching, long wiry arms, small joints, etc.

I call bullshit!!!
Not only making the performance of NBA pro athletes and raptor comparable just because 'they have long arms' is ridiculous, but the results are not what you think either.
http://www.draftexpress.com/nba-pre-draft-measurements/?year=2013&sort2=DESC&draft=0&pos=0&source=All&sort=14
Only 20 got more reps than LBSS , 16 of them are over 200lbs too. Look at the bottom of the list, so many 200+lbs guys ( at SINGLE digits bodyfats , so pro athletes with over 180lbs of LBM ) getting less than 5 reps!

Yeah I'm MUCH better at pulling. It was always easy for me. Pulling of any kind. Deadlift, pullups, chinups, rows (though I never do barbell rows) of all kinds. I can do narrow grip cable rows with 120 kg (the heaviest the machine can go) for like 8 reps. I have seen only one guy in my gym doing that, and he's ~40 kg heavier than me (~90 lbs heavier).

Same with jumping - "pulling" myself in the air as in a one-leg jump where I don't bend my knees to jump is easy, whereas "pushing" myself up is very difficult.

:/ I love basketball and the NBA has elite athletes but their combine is a joke. Basketball isnt a game that can be determined in the weight room. Its soooo skill dominated.  That said yea...id bet some of those guys could benefit from a hard off season in the weight room but only if it doesn't diminish their skill set. Nit so easily done. I like looking at the skill position numbers from the NFL combine. Those guys are explosive. Train like them and you will see gains. Its just hard to do that and have the gas/recovery for a skills workout as well.

That said...no ones going to progress very far doing anything 1x a week. Also, it may not be that your body is doing it wrong but rather you're training it wrong? Just my .02