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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: New year new me
« on: January 06, 2021, 03:10:58 pm »
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: January 05, 2021, 01:06:05 pm »
- run 1:00:59, 12.24 km
struggle bus today, was breathing harder than normal for this pace. it's chilly but extremely humid out, maybe that's why.
- stretch
- push up x 25
- pull up x 9
struggle bus today, was breathing harder than normal for this pace. it's chilly but extremely humid out, maybe that's why.
- stretch
- push up x 25
- pull up x 9
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: fooz's Progress Log
« on: January 04, 2021, 11:43:31 am »
right on. if you can touch rim then you need another ~8" to be able to dunk. how far your feet are off the ground doesn't really matter, it's about how high above the rim your wrist gets. need at the very least for your whole hand to be over the rim. speaking as a (former) marginal dunker myself, at my peak of peaks i could get about an inch below my wrist and i managed to dunk off lobs a couple of times before i moved to pakistan and had to switch my focus.
VJB is a good resource, been a long time since anyone on here was working through it. will be interesting to see how you do. good luck!
VJB is a good resource, been a long time since anyone on here was working through it. will be interesting to see how you do. good luck!
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Age vs Vertical
« on: January 04, 2021, 11:37:19 am »
IDK, my past attempts to taper have all felt overwrought and it never goes the way i think it's supposed to. partly because i don't think my training has ever been consistent enough that a proper taper is really necessary. i think you should just carry on as you've been doing, take an extra day of rest before the first "race" day, see how you do, and go from there. in my admittedly limited experience, time trialing is its own thing, very unlike normal workouts. this is the first time you'll really be doing it, right? so just pick a day and go for it, don't overthink it. you'll know more about how it feels and what you need to do to prepare in retrospect.
my $0.02.
my $0.02.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: January 03, 2021, 05:09:10 pm »
- run 51:32, 10.50 km
fairly miserable out, 39 degrees and raining. got started too late to do the normal sunday long run so i'll just do it another day this week. last week of freedom before work starts on the 11th!
- stretch
fairly miserable out, 39 degrees and raining. got started too late to do the normal sunday long run so i'll just do it another day this week. last week of freedom before work starts on the 11th!
- stretch
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: January 03, 2021, 03:27:38 pm »
what's the purpose of the extended hang?
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MUSiC anD SHeeT! / Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now?
« on: December 31, 2020, 06:00:54 pm »
2020 would end with news that one of the greatest died (apparently on halloween). RIP.
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRHyBwNtkLA" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRHyBwNtkLA</a>
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: December 31, 2020, 11:22:54 am »
- circuit x 2
-- push up x 25,25
-- pull up x 10,10
makes a huge difference for elbow not to go for the last couple inches at the top of the pull up, so i didn't and won't.
EDIT: later
- run 57:48, 12.09 km
last run of 2020 was a great one. dad came along on the bike so i went a little quick, but split was exactly even so no worries.
- stretch
time to put the kirkland* champagne on ice and bake an apple pie. happy new year, y'all.
*aka $19.99 veuve clicquot, little protip for those of you who live near a costco.
-- push up x 25,25
-- pull up x 10,10
makes a huge difference for elbow not to go for the last couple inches at the top of the pull up, so i didn't and won't.
EDIT: later
- run 57:48, 12.09 km
last run of 2020 was a great one. dad came along on the bike so i went a little quick, but split was exactly even so no worries.
- stretch
time to put the kirkland* champagne on ice and bake an apple pie. happy new year, y'all.
*aka $19.99 veuve clicquot, little protip for those of you who live near a costco.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: December 30, 2020, 05:01:26 pm »
- run 59:48, 12.35 km
bit colder, mid-40s. wore t-shirt and gloves, worked fine. my right hand, for some reason, gets colder than my left. slight negative split, as i turned around exactly at 30:00. allowed breathing to shorten to three steps each per in breath and out breath on the hill that's right before the final km home, just for a few hundreds meters, so as not to slow down. good to get practice maintaining pace uphill.
- stretch
bit colder, mid-40s. wore t-shirt and gloves, worked fine. my right hand, for some reason, gets colder than my left. slight negative split, as i turned around exactly at 30:00. allowed breathing to shorten to three steps each per in breath and out breath on the hill that's right before the final km home, just for a few hundreds meters, so as not to slow down. good to get practice maintaining pace uphill.
- stretch
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: December 28, 2020, 08:59:49 pm »
- circuit x 2
-- push up x 20
-- wide grip pull up x 9
wide grip feels better in my elbow
- jump rope x 3 mins
- run 52:48, 10.77 km
perfect day for running, low 50s and sunny with no wind. felt great.
- stretch
-- push up x 20
-- wide grip pull up x 9
wide grip feels better in my elbow
- jump rope x 3 mins
- run 52:48, 10.77 km
perfect day for running, low 50s and sunny with no wind. felt great.
- stretch
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: December 28, 2020, 10:13:06 am »
suddenly i want to subscribe to kneesovertoesguy and get to dunking again. bad timing because covid means difficult to get to the gym consistently even if i had a membership. really what it means is i should resolve to double down on running in 2021 and get to sub-19 while running is the main thing i can do.
ATG does have some no-equipment programs it looks like. folks on here who are devoted to ATG: thoughts on those? or signing up in general if i'm not gonna immediately go back into training for strength/jumping?
EDIT: also, especially because i'm shifting away from programmed workouts and keeping most runs easy to very easy, i'm gonna stop programming rest days. burnout is not a worry right now.
ATG does have some no-equipment programs it looks like. folks on here who are devoted to ATG: thoughts on those? or signing up in general if i'm not gonna immediately go back into training for strength/jumping?
EDIT: also, especially because i'm shifting away from programmed workouts and keeping most runs easy to very easy, i'm gonna stop programming rest days. burnout is not a worry right now.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: December 28, 2020, 09:32:46 am »had an incredible evening with the girl, biking/roller blading around town looking at xmas lights. she's such a beautiful person. lots of laughs/great convo/"tough" questions.
not going to make regular posts about it, but just felt like mentioning it in here this time. important one. <3
gn!
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: December 27, 2020, 05:24:56 pm »
- run 1:49:47, 20.36 km
average pace 5:24 is a bit high but there were several stops and one section of walking that didn't register because i paused the watch. with those accounted for it was closer to 5:50 i'd guess.
- stretch
knees a little sore post-run. new shoes felt good though. not great. RIP good-era kinvaras.
average pace 5:24 is a bit high but there were several stops and one section of walking that didn't register because i paused the watch. with those accounted for it was closer to 5:50 i'd guess.
- stretch
knees a little sore post-run. new shoes felt good though. not great. RIP good-era kinvaras.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: December 26, 2020, 09:21:35 am »
merry christmas, y'all. took the last two days off to help my mom with some stuff and do many family zooms. did go for a shortish hike (1 hour or so) with my parents yesterday, which was nice.
it's 24/-5 here right now and high today is 36/2. we'll see about running later, might just be too cold.
EDIT: T+DI is 36 so at least i can't complain about humidity
it's 24/-5 here right now and high today is 36/2. we'll see about running later, might just be too cold.
EDIT: T+DI is 36 so at least i can't complain about humidity
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: fooz's Progress Log
« on: December 26, 2020, 09:18:58 am »
hey welcome to the forum. what kind of wrist pain was it? speaking from experience, it's easy to get excited about a new program or new exercise and dive into it too fast and then strain something. be careful, especially since it seems like you've jumped right into a fairly big volume of (low-intensity, but still) plyos.
what's your jumping baseline? i.e., how much higher do you need to get from right now before you can dunk?
what's your jumping baseline? i.e., how much higher do you need to get from right now before you can dunk?