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Soreness-
Left big toe 
I didn't log it in my journal but a few weeks ago I was messing around playing basketball and doing a few max effort single leg jumps (left leg). Out of nowhere I went for an attempt and immediately after my toe was sore. It got better within a day or two and has been relatively normal since but at the start of this week when I went back to work it got aggravated again (wearing work shoes). Today it was soo painful. How the fuck am I supposed to lose weight, train or do anything physically productive when I can't even fkn walk...shiiit!

I think I'm just going to rest for a few weeks. Last year I was injured throughout the entire rugby season because I always tried to push through the pain and train and come back as fast as possible, which did nothing but make the injury worse or lead to another one. Fkn hell

Edit- Rugby pre-season starts tomorrow on 20th Jan but I've messaged the coach and said I won't be at training for a few weeks but will play this season.

So I'm in my 4th week following the ATG coaching program. https://www.instagram.com/athletic_truth_group/ Wanted to give it a good shot before saying anything. Here's the reasoning and the review so far:

- I'm paying for it- main reason is I would routinely spend at least 10 hours a week reading fitness shit. Not even for my own programming but something I might "want" to do in the future. Also, I am hopeless with programming. I know enough to be dangerous to myself but can never decide on what to do and what not to do. The last few weeks I have spent next to no time reading fitness shit and have spend more productive time reading other shit. Anyway if I only work for one of those hours that I would spend reading fitness shit then it more than covers the cost of $50 pm.

- My body was almost at breaking point. Back, hips, knees and feel/ankles routinely felt like shit. Heavy deadlifting has done wonders for my back. Heavy squats...eh idk. Aside from some light lower back pain related to tight hip flexors I've had no knee pain the since I started. Legit no pain at all. During my 10 minute run yesterday- zero pain in the knees or ankles. I'm 39 in 4 months and this is a good sign for me.

- I had about a 45 min chat with Ben (@kneesovertoesguy) before I committed. Seriously nice dude and he reviews footage of all lifts to ensure the form is correct and will give you the ok to progress to a harder variation. He's pretty passionate about what he's doing and it really comes through in the coaching. From where I am right now there is so much room to progress which is pretty cool.

- From the looks of the IG accounts you could be convinced they don't really lift heavy and the probably don't in the traditional sense. They still do heavy deadlifts and bilateral squats but mainly focus on single leg movements.

- I'm going back to playing ball (again hahaha) and I have had the same conversation for what seems like the last 10 years. I seem to have pretty good vert but just can't put those forces through my knee at speed. A large element of of the training is building that strength and resiliency through the knee. All up there's some really interesting concepts to his training. One of them being to develop equal jumps through all plants and take offs. Wonder if I can touch the rim off my right foot haha.

Summary- yet to see any negatives. Body feels good. Going out for some jumps tonight after training today so will see how we go.

Also, there's footage of him dunking on YouTube from about 7-8 years ago and his dunks are a lot like mine. Baby dunks. Now, not so much.

Stinson, 26, had been working with Hudson in Boulder since 2016, but heading into Chicago, he felt it might be time for a change as Hudson increasingly shifted his focus toward Allie Kieffer, the 2:28 marathoner who has finished 5th and 7th at the last two New York City Marathons.

“It was just a small group and I thought it was great and I thought everything was going well,” Stinson says. “But at some point, Brad, he just wasn’t excited about our group anymore and he was really excited about Allie. And if that’s what he wants to do, if that’s what makes him excited, I can’t blame him. But basically when I moved out there, it was to create a group, it was to be part of a group. And then in the last six months, four months, that’s not where his focus was.”