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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Age vs Vertical
« on: November 13, 2016, 12:39:20 pm »10 November 2016
Bodyweight@session : ???
Soreness : none
Injuries/aches : none
1½ hours full court basketball.
Very indifferent day. Fitness was good but not better than last time, maybe a bit worse. Legs were looser than recently, so foam roll and stretch does work ( no shit! ), but not loose. Jumping felt a bit better than last time, but it was still bad. My game was bad too, i built my whole game ( offense and defense ) around high jumping all those years. Having a ~10'1'' max touch renders that invalid, so i get demotivated and also kinda useless.
Next day , legs are toasted again, VERY tight. OK, i am tired of this. I am making recovery ( stretch and foam roll ) #1 priority on my training. From now on, It will be OK if i miss a squatting day but it will not be ok if i don't stretch/SMR. DAILY!!! I will try to keep this up till Christmas, see what happens. If legs are still tired/stiff/tight/under-performing by then, i will go to check them at a sports doctor.
Word.
nice.. interested to see how this goes. it's the "psychology" change that'll make the difference.
I personally have just reverted to focusing entirely on my quads (with just a little calf/hamstring).. that seems to give me the best bang-for-my-buck. I have a few weird side effects of stretching my hamstrings: hamstring tendons can get achy or painful, calves can tighten up. Also stretching my calves seems "iffy", sometimes it helps, sometimes it causes problems. So the weird thing is, it seems that stretching my quads seems to be something that "always provides benefit" - it almost seems like a cheat code.. i feel so good when I loosen them up.
so ya I think that's the key, experimenting with several flexibility/recovery techniques and then finding the stuff that provides the MOST benefit.. once we find that, then we can focus more on that, and then just throw in a few other things to be safe.
