2012 IN REVIEW
SPORT-
As far as 2012 goes it was an average year. I completed my goal of dunking and I played pretty good rugby throughout the year and won a couple of awards. Team wise we missed out on the finals coming in 5th place despite our team having a lot of potential.
INJURIES-
I had to contend with a few injuries as well. Due to my goal of dunking I jumped hundreds of times throughout the past year and pretty much all of those jumps were straight onto hard concrete. I ended up suffering sore ankles, which than spread to my knees. My left knee was fuked for the majority of the year. Towards the end of the rugby season I started feeling my hamstrings get more soreness, which was strange coz I've never had hamstring soreness in my life except the day after deadlifting. Anyway after the rugby season my next goal was to compete in a few races (100m and 200m) so I started training for that. I ended up tearing my hamstring pretty badly so I've been unable to run at all since the start of November and it's still not 100%.
ATHLETICISM-
As far as strength goes it was a disappointing year. I added about 20kg to my bench and 20kg to my squat while remaining around the same bodyweight. In terms of physique I look almost exactly the same as this time last year except I have a bit more vascularity. I probably dropped about 1-2% bodyfat at most.
As far as speed goes I never got to race this year because of my torn hamstring but I'd guess that I havn't really improved my speed much if at all. The only thing I might have improved is acceleration.
In terms of vertical I improved my SVJ by about 6 inches. My RVJ improved by about 4 inches.
Overall-
In summary I made improvement but it wasn't as good as it could've been, which is probably due to a lot of factors such as injuries, binge drinking, poor diet, lack of structure in strength training routine etc. I got the motivation (it lacks at times but it's always there) but I just got to improve my dedication and discipline if I want to achieve my goals in the future. It's all inter-connected for me. When stuff is going well in my life I can train better and focus on my goals. But when stuff gets in the way like relationships or injuries or financial stress etc. it fuks me up and derails me from my goals. Like when I get injured instead of rehabbing I just end up getting depressed and catching up with all my mates and getting pissed most days of the week. When I'm not injured though I got no desire to drink and I just want to train everyday. I got like an addictive personality so it's like all or nothing which is good and bad. When I'm going good it's an advantage. But when I'm not going good it just spirals me into me just feeling sorry for myself and smoking and drinking all the time. With diet it's something I always struggle with coz I love eating fast food but again when stuff is going good than I'll cook myself and try not to eat takeaway more than 2 or 3x a week. When shit going bad I eat it everyday. With the strength training I think I been too keen just to try and add weight all the time rather than just getting used to a weight and than trying to progress. Like i been focussing too much on the short-term rather than the long-term. I'm not really a noob anymore but I still train like it by trying to linear progress all the time. So i got to try and rectify that as well. That said 2013 is a new start!!!
