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^lol. Fair enough. I'm convinced. I went to shoot around yesterday even though i decided it was going to be a rest day, it only extended to skipping lifting, not basketball. I hate how i have to rediscover how to shoot every time i get on the court. It's like that movie, 50 first dates, i go through the motions until eventually it clicks, but by then fatigue has set in and i can't continue for very long anyway. kinda annoying..

bw is stabilised at 80kg btw.. which i was hoping wud be closer too 79kg once i came off the diet. so yeah will keep posting that and make sure it stays at or below 80kg i guess

Quote from: maxent on July 11, 2016, 12:23:06 am

So crossroads ... embrace non-existing squat and go all in on athletic stuff like bball/sprinting/dunking ... or take a step back and try to get my squat going? Which way do I go? I just wanna get to repping 140kg and put it on maintenance .. not asking for too much am i? I mean i am, that's adding 20kg to my squat while not gaining any weight .. but maybe i could work harder/smarter/etc...

Keep up the bball/sprinting/dunking because that's the stuff you want to be good at. Squatting is just a means to an end. When I ran my fastest I didn't even squat or lift I was just really light and used to play sports a lot. Sport-specific is what makes you good at the sport. Getting into the mindset of thinking about your squat is making you sound like a powerlifter and honestly the biggest advantage of the squat is really the standing vertical jump.

thanks for the advice. you and todday are managing to drag me along, kicking and screaming, away from my obsession with liftng. i still cant believe or understand why my glutes are so damn sore and it's been 9 days since i had a proper squat/rdl session -- which btw-- wasnt even that hard -- and so the soreness is coming just from dunking and bball. that's crazsy to me. it cud be im transitioning into glute dominance which is a new direction for me, dripping with potential and excitement. we'll see how it goes!

I know i can get to repping 130kg while weighing between 75-79kg .. cos i was there in the summer. Maybe i cud get close enough to 140kg, as my bw -> 80kg, bs->140kg. I will prob just see how i go in the workout today. if it sucks then i'll forget squatting a while and just do lots of athletic stuff. i usually take these things too hard and get upset when i stall out. Part of me wants to find out what happens when i stop lifting and just focus on jumping, i think i will PR?

bw: 79.8kg today btw .. not bad after a weekend of binging.

I can't yet do tomahawks .. so have some room to get back to previous levels. But i'm worried bout my squat disappearing. Will try to force things today. I'm doing 20 reps with 120kg even if it's singles..

I dont get why hamstrings and glutes are so beat up.. maybe that transformation to glute dominant athlete already happened and now im suffering the consequences... just kidding. but really, thats what's holding back my squat at the moment.. dead hamstrings. cud that dunk workout have caused it?

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i binged big time last night .. pizza + 4 icecream drumsticks (australian sized ones not american - there is a big diffrence lol) and a bag of shitty cheesy snacks. feeling refresh otherwise. looking forward to starting the new week..

lol .. i just need a wicked argument convincing me to stop cutting

interesting to note that my glutes on the LHS are sore af froom yesterdays dunk workout.

Yeah, it's possible. I wasn't to worried cos hte overall trend is downward. Actrually im happy when my bw is higher on training days .. its almost like im wearing a weight vest

Speaking of which .. can yuo guys convince me that it's ok to maintain say 79-80kg bw for training sake, if it makes me a better athlete from working harder or whatever carrying that dead weight around? Im obsessed (i realise) attaining goals that i don't consider whether or not it's the best thing in the first place to chase them.

i do promise i'll keep eating clean and maintain or improve bodycomp by playing bball at a higher level. I mean instead of walking around on defence, fly around trying to chase boards or set picks or whatever the situation demands. That's really hard on recovery but it also makes you fitter and in better shape. I can't do both play at 10 rpe and cut, it has to be a choice.

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game tonight was good. we lost which sucks but everyone gave me props. i played the entire first, took a few minutes off the start of the 2nd and we lost the lead (bout 10 points worth). the momentum shifted and we never got back into it .. i needed a rest and i wanted to let the other guy play some, but i realise it may have cost us the game. i need to be fitter.

and yes mutumbo im leaner so bodyweight is just a herring .. my abs/ribs are starting to show pretty definingly( no such word).

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forgot to mention i had a quality dunk session, got my 3x6 dunks in. then did some max effort ones. total dunk attempts were prob around 36 today. good amount of volume.

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diet wise ate 2 chicken breasts for dinner. some rice. a protein shake. done. meal 1 was the usual shake. im adding eggs and toast on sunday as mentioned.

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A few things are coming up this month in terms of training/athleticism that i wanted to make a note of;

1. The team im filling in with has a big game tmr night .. against hte top team in the league, i guess it's a key game, im not too excited, just another game to me but i have some aggression against life to outlet against .. so watch this space

2. The young kid i 'discovered' a few years back is coming back home around mid july for a few weeks before he flies out to the states for his future career .. that's exciting. I wanna test myself against him, he's pretty good .. 6'5" athletic, sharpshooter. last time i balled with him was in xmas, and he dunked on me which was the first time anyone has done that

3. Playing for anotehr team on monday nights .. maybe .. apparently they have bigs already so i can play on the perimeter. which is exciting cos i was recruited for my 3pt shooting ability .. a first. I'm going to make sure i put up a shitload of 3s before monday. on this vein, if im a 40% shooter i shud take 5 3ptas to make 2 a game. That seems a lot ... i usually take one, and if i miss then i dont shoot again .. if i even take one so yeah 5!

4. i really should stop cutting if i wanna put in some decent performances above. the interesting thing is for the first time in my life im happy to skip lifting just to peak my vert .. and now i think i am already ready to put cutting on hold to peak too. This is huge .. i may just have PRs on teh horizon cause im willing to allow myself the chance to put bball first over everything else..