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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.”

Bodyweight(AM): 85.8kg (15 Jan)
Diet compliance: 1/1 days
Daily Squat: 59/59 days
Daily Run: 59/59 days
Basketball skill work: 

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Morning:

Noon:

  BS 6x120, 1x155, 12x125(PR), 17x115(PR)
  Track 5x100m strides 
  BX 13x80kg(+band, PR)

Evening:

  Run - 5.18km, 32:31, 06:15/km pace 

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Notes:

• Woke up feeling not so beat up. Quietly hopeful of recovery..
• One of those days where i was not sure which PR attempts to pick but somehow nailed it.
• Didn't run in the morning .. life kind of got in the way but also I couldn't be bothered. Im going to cheat (daily running count) sometimes by doing track sessions in lieu of actual running (sprinting is just too damn easy compared to running.. not even close)
• Was windy af - i was going to take a video of the flags waving but who cares. Saw the weather report said it was 35km/hr winds .. not sure if anyone in Perth has ever had a decent track workout with the prevailing conditions of this place .. i bet not unless it's like 100m and you're not running against the wind half the time.! I did a warmup 400m and it was exhausting. Seriously wtf.
• lol .. was sat at home at 8:30pm and thinking i could probably do that run now .. and i thought about it and the idea that i'll get fat af if i skip cardio just pushed me over the edge. but more than that, i think i felt like i 'had' to run. i guess im a runner now  . (btw ive been re-teaching myself swahili and i just missed the chance to use the word karibu which i read today after lunch. this gives me an idea. maybe andrew can become swahili buddies with me if he's that inclined? can i refer to the man in the 3rd person like that or is it rude? guess we'll never know)
• Good day of training over all. At some point i need to bump my daily single up but 157.5kg last time i tried it felt like a real max grind. i'll wait til next week.