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I also have issues with my right knee, pretty bad. It sometimes feels like a "beam" will exit my skin on the lateral side of the knee. I've been to a bunch of doctors and they don't know what it is - I have to do MRI which I'm not doing (yet) because it doesn't matter what it is - whether I know what it is or not doesn't really matter, it's still going to be there.

I took some "Genacol", a medicine for cartilages and stuff and it surprisingly seems to be better.

My squat is close to yours right now but it's low bar and a bit weaker than yours (I can squat 100x5, probably 100x7 if I really push it). Vert off one leg is about 60-65 cm at best, off two it's 50 cm or so but I'm not attempting that because it will aggravate my right knee - I'd rather continue doing strength work and jump off one (although I'm also jumping very little since I'm too heavy for jumping anyway).

How heavy are you now, by the way? I'm trying to get lighter (under 85 kg would be ideal).

Man i literally thought you might have died!

Welcome back!

I was close, several times. Took all the mental will that I had not to do it, for years.

Good luck, it would be interesting to see you train for vert again. Us old guys going wild

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Well, the passion for / joy of training vert and practicing dunks will never compare to anything else. I was still interested until early 2020 that i was still playing basketball, although it was obvious that the prime days would never come back. Then came covid, no squat, basket or jumping for 2 years, plus 2 years even older, also got into running in between, so bye bye vert.
I do have a 2-month strength block in mind right after the marathon in 2 weeks so maybe i'll go check where i am, just for fun.

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10 October

"Race pace" run

Run 5K @ 24:40 ( 4:56 pace )

Legs felt tired/stressed, because normally i have rest Sunday between sprints and tempos, but not i did sprints on Sunday so it was 3-in-a-row.
Still, got my easiest sub-25 5K ever. Even by a little, i got the lowest average HR, lowest max HR, lowest training impact and highest max speed for that "race-pace run". Very happy!

Did you get heavier during this time? Also, how many kcal do you burn doing these types of runs?

Leg day 3:

Low bar squat:

20x5x2
60x5
80x3
100x2
110x2 (old age PR)
80x10
80x7
80x6

Hip thrusts:

60x8
60x8
80x6
80x6
80x6

Leg curls (single leg):

40x10
56x10 (old age PR)

Leg extensions (5 second eccentric phase): 40x10x2
Leg extensions hold: 40x40s
Leg extensions: Full rack x 5 (probably a bad idea as it flares up my knee)

Barbell calf raise (slow eccentric phase): 60x10, 60x10, 60x10, 60x10

Bodyweight: 94.1 kg
Exhaustion level: 8.5/10

Comments:

Best (old age) workout ever. Did a lot of things: high volume squats, PR 110x2 squat, hip thrusts, leg curls, leg extensions, calf raises, stretching, you name it. Surprisingly, I'm not feeling that tired. Also surprisingly, this comes after eating cleaner, just 350 kcal for my morning meal. I did eat one chocolate biscuit before leaving to the gym to raise the blood sugar a little.

I'm eating very clean lately, trying to be under 2000 kcal per day (one day ago I was at 1850 and yesterday at 2090). My calorie burn per day is about 3000 or so. Target weight is 86 kg, so that's 8 kg less than where I am right now. Hopefully I can get under 90 kg by the end of the year if I keep this up.

Do you still care about VJ or have you now completely moved on to running and marathons?

Upperbody day 3:

Paused Bench Press:

20x10x2
50x3
60x3
70x3
50x10
50x8
50x8

Pullups: 5, 4
Chinups: 5, 4

Landmine push press: 15x8 (each arm) - good
V-grip pulls to chest: 32x8 (each arm)
Wide grip pulls to chest: 56x10
Wide grip pulls to back of head: 56x10
Ab machine: 10 pins x 10 reps x 2

Bodyweight: 93.2 kg
Exhaustion level: 7/10

Comments:

Easier workout, probably because I slept better and went earlier to sleep. However, it's crazy how bad the bench press gets as I get past the 6th rep or so. It's like the form is perfect and then boom, the movement becomes uncoordinated.

Upperbody day 2:

Bench press:

20x10x2
50x3
60x2
70x1
50x10
50x8
50x8

Pullups: 5, 4
Chinups: 5, 4

Landmine push press: 20x8 (each arm) - difficult
V-grip pulls to chest: 40x6, 32x8 (each arm)
Ab machine: 10 pins x 10 reps x 2

Bodyweight: 93.7 kg
Exhaustion level: 9/10

Comments:

Difficult workout, started feeling dizzy with some chest pain as soon as I did my first bench press work set. I start feeling really weird whenever I pass 5, 6 reps, maybe it's my breathing pattern or some sort of muscle exhaustion thing.