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Basketball / Re: Random basketball videos
« on: May 30, 2019, 05:14:42 am »
that kid is knock-kneed af. needs to work on that or he's headed down the RG3 path.
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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: Combining endurance and strength training
« on: May 30, 2019, 05:07:28 am »
jk
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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: Combining endurance and strength training
« on: May 30, 2019, 05:07:19 am »
CROSSFIT, BRO
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: May 30, 2019, 04:16:38 am »
i'm in belgium! new country for me. number 38, by century club rules (if you've been on the ground, it counts, even if just in transit -- by that standard i've been to qatar, senegal, and turkmenistan); number 35 by ordinary people rules (you've got to have driven or walked around outside a transit center).
spent the last several days in france, mostly in the small village where my gf's dad lives, a few hours east of paris, in champagne-ardenne. did two runs along the canal towpath next to the place we were staying:
monday
- run 8.52 km in 42:39
tuesday
- fartlek 8.8 km in 42:54
felt amazing, ran through the woods on an old track for a while, did a couple 500m stretches at 3:20-3:30 pace, some strides, some very light trotting. towpaths are the best.
plan is to catch up on a bit of work now while we digest breakfast and then go for a light run around the suburb where gf's aunt and uncle live outside brussels.
spent the last several days in france, mostly in the small village where my gf's dad lives, a few hours east of paris, in champagne-ardenne. did two runs along the canal towpath next to the place we were staying:
monday
- run 8.52 km in 42:39
tuesday
- fartlek 8.8 km in 42:54
felt amazing, ran through the woods on an old track for a while, did a couple 500m stretches at 3:20-3:30 pace, some strides, some very light trotting. towpaths are the best.
plan is to catch up on a bit of work now while we digest breakfast and then go for a light run around the suburb where gf's aunt and uncle live outside brussels.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: warpspeed to the new scenario
« on: May 23, 2019, 02:11:43 pm »
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: May 22, 2019, 10:52:09 am »
- frisbee x 1:10
gonna say i covered about a normal amount, so ~4.5 km total. today should have been fartlek today but it's the last chance to play ultimate for a while and i'm hitting the road friday anyway. thought about tacking on a short run after getting home then thought better of it.
- stretch
gonna say i covered about a normal amount, so ~4.5 km total. today should have been fartlek today but it's the last chance to play ultimate for a while and i'm hitting the road friday anyway. thought about tacking on a short run after getting home then thought better of it.
- stretch
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: May 21, 2019, 12:54:15 pm »
- run 11.56 km in 1:01:59
5:22 pace. and the rest was a good call: no shin issue at all. nice.
- stretch
glutes and upper hams a bit sore (and pecs). but nothing too bad.
EDIT (next day): day 2 DOMS always worse. glutes, hams and, oddly, right VMO but not left VMO. that's probably not a great sign. still nothing serious. it's just funny to groan like an old man when mounting and dismounting the porcelain throne.
5:22 pace. and the rest was a good call: no shin issue at all. nice.
- stretch
glutes and upper hams a bit sore (and pecs). but nothing too bad.
EDIT (next day): day 2 DOMS always worse. glutes, hams and, oddly, right VMO but not left VMO. that's probably not a great sign. still nothing serious. it's just funny to groan like an old man when mounting and dismounting the porcelain throne.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Scrawny to Brawny Journal
« on: May 21, 2019, 12:32:19 am »
good luck!
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: May 20, 2019, 11:30:24 am »
realized that the rx for today is strength. so i did strength. the mileage will come.
- warm up (jump rope + GMB mobility)
- SL pogo x 8,8/leg
- ME SVJ x 8
felt terrible but got one on vid and it looked around 27, which is better than i'd have expected given the two-plus year layoff from any kind of explosive training.
- superset x 2
-- BSS x 10,10/leg
-- SLRDL +10kg x 10,10/leg
rest ad hoc but minimal
- superset x 2
-- push up x 33,20
-- pull up x 10,6
rest 75-90s
- russian twist +10kg x 20,20
- band pull apart x 23,14
- stretch
- warm up (jump rope + GMB mobility)
- SL pogo x 8,8/leg
- ME SVJ x 8
felt terrible but got one on vid and it looked around 27, which is better than i'd have expected given the two-plus year layoff from any kind of explosive training.
- superset x 2
-- BSS x 10,10/leg
-- SLRDL +10kg x 10,10/leg
rest ad hoc but minimal
- superset x 2
-- push up x 33,20
-- pull up x 10,6
rest 75-90s
- russian twist +10kg x 20,20
- band pull apart x 23,14
- stretch
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Two Hands Two Feet
« on: May 20, 2019, 12:40:26 am »Another ball game last night. Another decent-ish effort. Was a bit hung over and didn't feel great. We won by a about 10 or 12 in the end. Had another game of guys hitting and hanging off me and then getting upset when they got some in return. Smh
Related to the above though new39 years yesterday. Feel every bit of that right now after a big weekend of eating and drinking.
Clean eating day 1 haha
HBD
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: May 19, 2019, 01:45:16 pm »
rested today, the left shin thing came up again a couple of times yesterday. it's still super light but the last time i had something like this i tried to run through it and ended up derailed. must be more careful. long slow run tomorrow, if everything feels okay.
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Basketball / Re: NBA 2018 - 2019 Season
« on: May 19, 2019, 01:24:16 am »
there's a story about milton berle, a mid-century hollywood guy who had a legendarily huge cock. a guy once approached him in a steam bath and challenged him to prove the legend true and compare sizes. a friend who was with berle said, "go ahead milton, just take out enough to win."
GSW is milton berle.
GSW is milton berle.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: May 18, 2019, 10:22:30 am »
- warm up x 2 km; tempo 500m x 6 [2:00, 1:57, 1:54, 1:52; 1:53, 1:52] w/75s rest; cool down x 1 km + 1 km walk
- stretch
good shit, bit too quick but that just means the workout is too easy as planned. learning.
- stretch
good shit, bit too quick but that just means the workout is too easy as planned. learning.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Party's Over!
« on: May 17, 2019, 08:58:31 am »
yeah that sounds familiar. put. everything. in. writing.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Party's Over!
« on: May 17, 2019, 06:35:11 am »
my gf spent a year in an absolutely toxic work situation, which she finally got out of when she quit last month. a big part of the drain on her energy and mood was the constant self-doubt, wondering if it was just her shortcomings that meant she wasn't performing as well as she expected of herself or doing as much as she was being asked to do. that was never the case: she's brilliant at the responsibilities she had (although they're not her first choice of professional work) but the company she worked for was shambolic in the extreme, not to mention corrupt. (by the way, folks: do your due diligence before you donate money to a nonprofit.) it was a strange relief when she realized that one of the only coworkers she respected told her that she was crying every day out of frustration.
not the same situation as yours in the details but sounds similarly shitty. good luck getting out of there.
also, yeah: i do not regret "retiring" from competitive ultimate. i was never as good at it as you are at rugby but i had a couple of years of being a respectable player before the sixth ankle sprain just pushed me over the edge. playing pick-up now, in tennis shoes rather than cleats, is just good fun. if i were you i'd think seriously about hanging up your cleats and sticking to activities that are less likely to derail you for months at a time.
not the same situation as yours in the details but sounds similarly shitty. good luck getting out of there.
also, yeah: i do not regret "retiring" from competitive ultimate. i was never as good at it as you are at rugby but i had a couple of years of being a respectable player before the sixth ankle sprain just pushed me over the edge. playing pick-up now, in tennis shoes rather than cleats, is just good fun. if i were you i'd think seriously about hanging up your cleats and sticking to activities that are less likely to derail you for months at a time.