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lol florida is flat as shit.
That sucks mate. Gonna keep playing ball for the short-term?
Thanks mate. Yeah I plan on playing the season out and will assess from there. Am skipping this week and will hopefully be good to go next week.
Feel like I'm whingeing a bit but it seems like a 1 step forward 2 steps back at the moment.
Nah it's not about being soft or anything, you just have to be really smart and measured with this type of training. Can't neglect anything as there are just so many possible injuries you can't 'push through' no matter how big of a stoic you are. Even minor/moderate stuff can prevent you doing the meat of the program effectively (e.g. squatting big, jumping, sprinting, bounding). So don't feel bad about getting your ducks in a row. AELS and all that!
x2
aels!
i'd be curious to see if Coges sees any improvement in recovery once he's on a consistent 8 hour sleep schedule instead of ~6 hours. It could make a major difference eventually.. we'll have to wait and see.
AELS (anti ego lifting?)
I'm pretty conscious that two of my major flaws have been sleep and nutrition and I'm pretty sure that getting these two lined up would make a massive difference. Life changing.
^^^ The sad thing is that while I don't blame Bolt he probably just reversed the stereotype such that every 5'6" would be Trindon Holiday lookalike will now be doubted when they try to run the hundred because they just aren't tall enough...
I mean I get its human nature but the medias need to have things be obviously and simple is really part of the problem... The two most frustrating new stereotypes Bolt has created are:
1) Hes a poor starter cause his he is so tall.
2) His advantage is his long legs.
Both totally false.
1) He has the fastest recorded 30m, 40m, 50m, etc. Of all time (2009). He may appear to be a poor starter because of the stupid automatic dq after false start rule... Since it bit him in 2011 Bolt has decided to be extremely cautious - I mean why risk any chance of a false start when you can win without a good start... The new rule just ensures that faster people will "have" poor reaction times simply because the faster you are the more the risk reward ratio increases...
2) Bolt is fast because he has far more power than anyone else. At high speeds our stride is hardly limited by our leg length - in fact he performs worse in the one part of the sprint where long legs provide the biggest advantage - the back straight in the 200m. After already accelerating around the turn and fatigue setting in longer legs can start to make a minor difference in this part of the race (just watch Christophe Lemetrie long leg (his are longer than Bolt btw) his way to a bronze in rio)... Does Bolt have a great back 100? No. Yohan Blayke has run the fastest split of all time in the back stretch. Number two is still Michael Johnson. Bolt owns the record in the first hundred. By a ridiculous margin. He runs a faster turn than anyone else! The turn! The part of the race where long legs don't provide a disadvantage if anything! He is just simply more powerful than anyone else.
Maybe stereotypes get created partially cause we need to explain away others greatness because of our own ego?
Maybe it's just hard to say Bolt is simply the most powerful sprinter ever and I'm in awe of how much faster he is than me so instead I say "yeah he fast cause he has a huge advantage on me cause of his long legs".
Fine. Maybe we need this. I get it. But let's just agree to make our excuses based on reasons that are illogical enough that they won't stick. Bolt is faster than me cause he has access to magical yams.
Two words- sports analysts. Not sure how bad it is in the US but assuming it's way worse than here given the population, media outlets, number of sports televised, etc. Here we have complete channels dedicated to one sport and they over analyse the shit out of it and in the end create reasoning which ends up being mistaken for fact and is then regurgitated by others in an attempt to sound mildly intelligent.
Not really relevant but anyway-
I was having a conversation with my son the other day about being able to say "I don't know". With the amount of questions kids ask us as parents and ask other children the temptation is so high to create and answer of half truths or google it. What we don't actually do is say I don't know and then wonder what it might be. I've done this a few times with him recently and it has led to some wonderful conversations with some highly inaccurate hypotheses and some accidentally accurate thoughts.
Interesting to hear you talk about sports analysts! I thought that was an American problem.
I can't imagine it being worse than here... We have a guy called Bob Costas that basically announces the Super Bowl, World Series, olympics, etc. Basically if it's important he is on it and providing narratives so it makes sense to everyone. On one hand he is talented because he makes casual fans become more interested in all the stories he tells, but on the other hand it's like wtf your the expert on every important sporting event? And the stories he tells are interesting but not true!
Interesting how similar Australian culture sounds in some ways to American culture... Over here not only do we have terrible sports analysts but we also have far too much statistics. It can get a little ridiculous when they say things like "only 25% of teams down 2-1 who lost the first and third game of a series and had home court and had a record winning less than 59 games the previous year have come back to win."
Then you realize there have only been four instances of this and the statistic is worthless... But they always have a million stats for fans to muddle over rather than just enjoying the game and the fact that nobody knows who will win!
Slightly unrelated but I can't stand ESPN for the most part and have no problem with their demise. I really only wish for ala carte purchasing of sports games and anything that gets us closer to that rather than tv deals is good for fans. ESPN is also the male equivalent to watching reality shows about the kardashians... I know a lot of guys that give women shit for watching that kinda stuff on tv but then they watch ESPN. There is a show on ESPN where four sports reporters all compete in a sport/game where they talk about sports and earn points and are eliminated if their arguments are weak, in the end the last one standing gets to rant about his sports team for some amount of time. It's literally a sport about arguing about sports... If that doesn't show that makes are the stupider of the sexes I don't know what does...
just don't do what i did last winter and accidentally wear it into a secure government building. foolproof recipe for embarrassment.
just don't do what i did last winter and accidentally wear it into a secure government building. foolproof recipe for embarrassment.
lmao. story time?
here is a vid?taken-by=maxentr0py
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HY3pDs3iKfk" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HY3pDs3iKfk</a>
2 September 2016
Bodyweight@session : ~84kg
Soreness : none
Injuries/aches : none
HALF SQUAT:
5@22,5kg ( +2,5 kg )
5@42,5kg ( +2,5 kg )
5@62,5kg ( +2,5 kg )
5@82,5kg ( +2,5 kg )
5@92,5kg ( +2,5 kg )
5@102,5kg ( +2,5 kg )
-Great, they started feeling lighter already, despite upping load.
Plan is to stay consistent with them all year and get to a legit 5x160kg top set around end of June. That is 60kg in 10 months, 6kg a month, very doable.
DIPS:
7@BW ( +1 rep )
7@BW ( +1 rep )
6@BW
PUSHUPS: 20@BW
-Strong.
DEAD HANG 'CHINUPS:
8@BW
6@BW
6@BW
CHEST SUPPORTED HORIZONTAL ROW MACHINE: 15@45kg
-Strong.
SLANT BENCH LEG RAISE:
15@BW
15@BW
15@BW
-Hard.
That workout was done Friday night. Felt great. But then , late afternoon of Saturday, my lower back got wrecked. It is Monday morning now and it finally faints, but it was not good. Dunno what happened, i videotaped my half squats and they were pretty legit, i don't goodmorning at all. Maybe one thing i do wrong is that i do them very explosively, getting on my toes at the end, the bar practically leaves my shoulders, so as i go back down i guess the bar actually does a ~ 5'' free fall, then my spine has to absorb all of that ( oly shoes , locked knees from hyperextension ). SO, long story short, i should stop doing them explosively, the good things with halves come from the supramax load, if i want to do explosive lifting i should do it with less weight, as prescribed.
That sucks mate. Gonna keep playing ball for the short-term?
Thanks mate. Yeah I plan on playing the season out and will assess from there. Am skipping this week and will hopefully be good to go next week.
Feel like I'm whingeing a bit but it seems like a 1 step forward 2 steps back at the moment.
Nah it's not about being soft or anything, you just have to be really smart and measured with this type of training. Can't neglect anything as there are just so many possible injuries you can't 'push through' no matter how big of a stoic you are. Even minor/moderate stuff can prevent you doing the meat of the program effectively (e.g. squatting big, jumping, sprinting, bounding). So don't feel bad about getting your ducks in a row. AELS and all that!
SORENESS: none
ACHES/INJURIES: none (!)
MENTAL STATE: good
- DLRVJ x 10-12
both better and worse than saturday. wasn't getting as high -- residual fatigue from the squats and all the time in the car yesterday i think...
I truly believe one of your biggest advantages against a lot of people is that your an "urban dunker" - you spend very little time in cars. Driving long distances really does wreck us and it's something most people are not aware of... I put this together after performing horribly multiple track meets in San Diego where the morning would begin with a two hour drive to the meet...
Now coaching kids I think this is probably the bulk of home court "advantage" in track - the away team often sits in cars for hours before running...
Cars suck. If you can afford it it really does help to get a hotel near the location the night before you have a track meet or dunk contest or anything of the sort. I realize sitting isn't optimal but I can't figure out exactly why performances seem to suffer so much - it really makes a difference. Cars suck. Especially if your the driver.
.. we sleep for ~8 hours then get up and feel great.. albeit, our legs aren't bent like in a car .. but still, it's interesting in comparison.
