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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: February 10, 2017, 05:53:50 am »
dumb question: the coding you're doing, is it just for yourself right now? or are you doing some contract work? combo?

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: February 09, 2017, 11:18:44 pm »
will be doing a variety of exercises whenever i feel like it, without worrying about not wrecking my muscles for a scheduled lifting session. to a point anyway. like it makes no sense to avoid doing pushups or jump rope cos you have to squat or bench that day or the following day or what have you, it's just a recipe for mediocrity.

^^^ this. I'm beginning to think work capacity is king. Once you get over that initial adaptation period it will help you in the long run (that's what I keep telling myself anyway  :D)

for real. i walked up a staircase today that ive gone up hundreds of times (maybe less tho lol) for the first time in a while and i felt unusually strong and stable. cross training has it's benefits. the sprints, weighted ones, etc, bball on hard court, treadmill work, i think it's made my joints stiffer. dont feel as beat up after a game now either!

right on.  :highfive:

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ACHES/INJURIES: waiting for right fingernail to fall off
SORENESS: glutes, upper hams
MENTAL STATE: great

- warm up

- superset x 2
-- plate jump squat +15s x 4
-- ME SVJ x 3

- squat 140 x 2,2
weighed ~74-74.5 after workout so this is about 1.9 times bw for doubles. neat.

- bench 75 x 8,8,6

- superset x 2
-- hyper +15 x 15
-- TTB (straps) x 10

- pull up breathing ladder x (1,2,3) x 3

- kroc row 36 x 10L; 10R

- tricep pressdown 90 x 10+3+3+3

- DB curl 12s x 8+3

- stretch

awesome workout

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: February 09, 2017, 05:00:29 am »
how's your hydration been during the fast?

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^^^ yeah i prob will. taking a little break from being in touch with her at the moment, just to sort myself out. but i'll probably say hi tomorrow. i talked with my best friend about this last night and he made a super interesting point about patriarchy and misplaced need to control that helped me take a step back from myself. just need to give myself a bit more time to chill the f out and then i think i'll be cool.

just now:

- warm up

- ladder x 50,40,30,20,10
-- double under
-- lunge
-- push up /2
finished in 9:30. not the strictest push ups. all i had time for under the circumstances. it's been an intense week here.

- stretch

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Triathlon sprint prep
« on: February 05, 2017, 12:53:44 pm »
Measurements dont mean shit today.  From what i tasted i threw up everything after my pre-workout peanuts.

Im guessing its the turkey sausage, will throw them out.

nasty. having just gone through that last weekend, my sympathies.

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ACHES/INJURIES: waiting for right fingernail to fall off
SORENESS: none
MENTAL STATE: good

- warm up

- squat 130 x 3,3
over moderate volume squatting. heavier and low volume for a while. still pretty effing weak. neither set was challenging but 276 x 3 shouldn't be.

- bench 72.5 x 8,8,8
one ME SVJ in the middle, palm flat on ceiling with elbow bent.

- superset x 2
-- pull up x 8
-- hyper +10 x 15

- TTB x 10,10
straps

- kroc row 32 x 20L; 20R
up to 36 next time

- tricep press down 41 x 10+3+3

- stretch

feeling a little shaky now. gonna eat and drink a bunch of water. decent workout.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: February 04, 2017, 05:54:52 am »
ahem ahem ahem ahem.

i told you so.

ahem.

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MUSiC anD SHeeT! / Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now?
« on: February 04, 2017, 03:40:42 am »
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DM9fGXHhlk" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DM9fGXHhlk</a>

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkIUnRRH6l4" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkIUnRRH6l4</a>

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Hard to call it a breakup because we weren't really dating but the chick I've been seeing broke things off last night because, long story short, she's not over her ex. That's probably good in the long run, but at the moment it sucks.

1. being rejected is shitty
2. being rejected in favor of another dude she also rejected but still has feelings for is shittier
3. being rejected after making it clear that the only red line was that she be working on getting over the other dude, her agreeing to that, then getting all weird a few days ago and lying about why even when i asked point-blank about it, sleeping with her a couple of times but not having sex because of said weirdness -- is even shittier

Texted with my friend about it this morning (her night, she's in DC), and she pointed out that it's not personal, for her (the girl here) it's about herself and her feelings for this other guy and the fact that she likes me -- which she does -- is in the background. Also that if the girl is dealing with internal shit then it's way better to have a clean break than be ambiguous about shit. That's true, but still feeling hurt/pissed.

I'll get over it, just feeling a little bit emo today.

ETA: After cooling down a bit, and FB messaging with the chick, I had an epiphany. Namely, that I have been taking our relationship way too seriously. She's leaving the country for good in May, it's not like we have a future together. And she's cool and hot and fun in bed and she likes me and wants to have sex with me, too. Would be dumb to throw the baby out with the bathwater. Sure, it would be weird if she invites her ex to Pakistan for a week or goes back to Bahrain to sleep with him for a week. But if I'm also not monogamous with her then it'd be less weird. Letting my internal expectations/status-meter get way ahead of where we decided to be at -- and we'd talked about it several times -- was not good. Didn't quite realize how far ahead I'd gotten until she hit me with the "I'm not ready to be done romantically with ex" yesterday.

Still need a bit of time to get over the shock of having my quasi-unacknowledged feelings scrambled. Not gonna rush back into bed with her, even though she expressly told me her door's open. But I think getting over it can, if I want it to, mean that we're FWB. I think that'd be cool.

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on the third hand, man one of these days i'm actually going to go all in on my squat and get to four plates like a big boy.

Make sure you do that when you are back home, so you also break the 400lbs milestone, 4 20kg plates is a tiny bit under 400.

my gym actually has 25kg plates so i could make it a REALLY strong four-plate squat if i did it here.  :ibsquatting:

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Two Hands Two Feet
« on: February 02, 2017, 02:11:51 am »
foam rolling never had any noticeable effect for me except being uncomfortable.

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ACHES/INJURIES: waiting for right fingernail to fall off, last remnants of food poisoning
SORENESS: none
MENTAL STATE: good

- warm up

- ME SVJ x 3

- SL SVJ x 3/leg

- squat 140 x 1; 145 x 1
145 was a wee bit grindy but ultimately not hard. no psych up.

- superset
-- pull up x 8,5
-- hyper +10 x 15
-- TTB x 5
weak

- stretch

took it super easy on myself given first day back from frustratingly prolonged food poisoning episode. 145 is eh, was harder than it should have been. OTOH weighed myself after and was ~75 (scale not super precise). so pretty near twice bodyweight after being sick and without squatting heavy in at least four months. on the third hand, man one of these days i'm actually going to go all in on my squat and get to four plates like a big boy.

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Basketball / Re: NBA 2016-2017 Season
« on: January 31, 2017, 08:30:27 am »
man i really hope russ keeps the triple double average. that would be so cool.

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it grew through the skin on either side of the nail bed and then through the skin at the tip. my toe was gnarly, if yours seem like they're healing fine then i wouldn't worry about it.

also, three days on i'm still feeling the effects from the bad chicken i ate (assuming that's what it was, seems the likeliest candidate). feel better now than this morning -- at least i'm not nauseated and heartburny -- but still minimal appetite and kind of weak. no workout tonight, here's hoping i feel better tomorrow.

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