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Saturday 12/18/2010:

-Warmup
-10 meter sprints x 5
-Double leg bounds: 5x5
-MR Tuck jumps: 4x10
-MR Pogos: 4x5

-Squat: 205x2, 210x3x2. (fairly certain that's a  )
-DB Bench: 55x3x8, 55x6. (failure on 7th rep)
-Deadlift: 225x5. (after warmup. I tried sumo form today. It actually worked fairly well)
-Seated Row: 160x4x8 (While I wrote this I got really confused because it was higher than my DL... Then I realized I had written 260. haha)

-Cooldown
-Stretch + PWO


This is probably the best workout session I've had in a while. Squats were actually lower than usual with the higher weight. What I liked most was that today is the most even my left arm has been with my right on the presses since my injury. Felt pretty cool to be almost back to where I used to be. I'm think in the next month I'll be stronger in my upper body than I was before the injury. (Lower body is definitely as strong as it's been)

The PR was kinda cool. I did my first set with 205, went down lower than normal, even for my 3x5's, so I decided I could do better. My last set with 210 was probably better than my first with 205. Bar just bounced on both reps. I love the sound of the plates clanking when I do that. 

I was in Mexico this summer. Yeah, the whole place is going down the gutter with the cartels. I visit a lot of people with my family while I'm there and not once was it not brought up for at least ten or fifteen minutes. Usually the topic went on for a couple hours. You hear about people just down the street being involved or having someone kidnapped or murdered. Despite all the violence people need to go on with their lives, and that's really what you see. If you just stood in downtown (I'm pretty sure for any city) for a few hours and looked at all the movement, you'd think everything was fine. One thing that actually happens a lot during transport, is the cartels will have a semi-truck block a road while shipment is turned on it. I got to witness that happening in some backroads leading to the tiny farming towns where I'm from. Blocked for about 20 minutes. No one bother honking or getting out of there cars. If I remember right there were police there too, driving with the cartels almost like escorts. I witnessed corruption first-hand. The place is a cesspool.   

Tuesday 12/21/2010:

-Warmup
-4x10 yard sprints. (guaranteed more than 10 actually, I always overestimate 10)
-Double leg bounds: 5x5
-Tuck Jumps: 4x10
-Pogo hops: 4x5

-Jumps (see info)

-Squats: 200x3x5
-GHR: 1x7, 2x6
-BB Calf raise: 155x4x10

-Cooldown
-Stretch + PWO


After my warmup I looked out at some kids playing ball. Haven't ever really bothered much with vertical jump. (Probably because a little over year ago I could barely touch the net.) Decided to see how hight I could get, but I had no vertec so this is just an estimate. Got a few steps into the jump, got up... and I touched the rim. First time ever. Some refs for a basketball game that was gonna start on in the main courts walked by so I asked them how high the rim was. The one I was using gets tweaked around quite a bit but they both agreed it look like it was right around 10'. Went to a measure. Pretty certain I haven't taken an accurate reach or height measurement in a while. In shoes I measure at just under 6'. Reach is about 7'5". If the rim was actually 10' then that puts my vert at 31" today.  WOOT. Not gonna claim anything until I get it measured accurately, but I'm pretty sure that's a PR regardless of the exact height of the rim. 

Not much to say about the rest. Depending on whether or not the gym is open New Year's eve, I may have to condense this week's workouts. Oh well. For now I'm just happy about touching rim for the first time.

Oh, definitely. I did my warmup jogging upstairs from the smaller courts and saw some kids playing, so after I got my reactive work done I just kinda went, "hmmmm.... I wonder how high on the net I can touch now...." Wasn't really expecting to touch rim. Oh, and I confirmed (at least kinda close) the rim was at 10'. Tried doing it on the main courts after the basketball game was over. At first I didn't get it and I wondered why, so I just eyeballed it with my hand reaching towards the net, went to the one I had done it on earlier. Looked exactly the same. Couldn't get rim at first there either but then I realized I had finished squats about an hour earlier. Tried a couple more times and got it then, but only once. Still felt way cool.

Increased leg power ftw indeed.