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2020-10-18

only 1 w/o today.

soreness: hamtrings/glutes/chest/forearms/hands slightly

w/o:

- 3-5 sec paused dead hang full neutral grip pullups: BW x 8

- full dips: BW x 6

- SSBAR half squat: 75 lb. x 20

- ring dips: BW x 5

- 3-5 sec paused dead hang full chinups: BW x 7



road the offroad/electrical bike around the area .. through swamp-ish trails and farm neighborhoods. was so much fun. that bike is awesome.

about to sleep early af.. trying to get in early wakeup mode again.. but instead of doing it for track/morning run stuff, now it's farm life.

pc!

High rep nation!

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plu9k_0BMXg" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plu9k_0BMXg</a>

yup!!

HRN leggo.

i'm only going to lift light + high rep .. so whatever becomes light, that i can rep 15+ times, i'll do it. nothing heavier than that on squats.

time to get my legs back. jaja.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSmq5IopKuo" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSmq5IopKuo</a>

high freq high vol adarq is back ! ;f

high rep nation is back !

2020-10-17

with the power rack now at it's new home, i did 4 small workouts throughout the day. each one:

3-5 sec paused dead hang ng pullups: BW x ? (8 ish)

full dips + burnout hold at the top: BW x 4-5 ish

ssbar "half" squats: 75 lb bar x 15 each time



also did some other stuff.. (chinups on the other bar etc)

just going to keep doing small high freq workouts for a while. i do good on it.

but ya.. plan is to try and put some muscle back on but stay light.



glutes/hams felt those empty ssbar bar squats .. feels good.

pc!

oh also .. just measured from "gate" to "walkway entrance" of house - 164m (537.x ft). fuckin solid sprint/stride area, it's nuts.

happy birthday man !!

three-oh is no joke.. all good though..

pc!

2020-10-13

w/o:

~150m stride x 1

~3 sec paused dead hang chinups: BW x 8



w/o:

paused dead hang chinups: BW x 10

pushups: BW @ 5 x 10

that's wild. i meant meeting jaco btw.

ya

and noted re: your algeria connection. guess i jumped to a conclusion because i saw somewhere that your dad had a french dad and an algerian mother. i have a new-ish buddy up here who's family were pied noir and fled back to europe before he was born. guess it was just on the brain.

ah gotcha.. i'll have to ask my dad about my grandma again - i forget that side of it. could have some pied noir roots.. sad that i don't know for sure ;f

pc man!

holy shit adarq i knew your dad was a piano player but that's a pretty amazing (and sad) connection.

ya man. even though I was very young, i remember when it happened. i remember it being rough for alot of people. my dad & jaco were really close.

the other piano player on continuum is...herbie hancock! cool.

wonder if you ever met him as a baby/toddler.

nope never met Herbie. I think my dad met up with him a few years ago, when Herbie was doing a concert in the area. they are still friends but seldom communicate.

my dad left that intense jazz scene around the time I was born, presumably because he wanted to have more of a normal family life. Some of his close friends (ie jaco) got sucked deep into that scene, unfortunately. Lots of shady leaches trying to buddy up w/ the musicians, no matter what the genre.

also, i was today years old when i learned that you're half algerian/pied noir.

hah nah !!

my grandpa (father's dad) was a Civil Engineer. he was building bridges or something in Algeria when my dad was born. Not sure if that still classifies him as pied-noir etc.

My grandpa was pretty slick.. He knew Arabic, Spanish, French, English, and Creol. He was the one I helped take care of (w/ my dad) during that most aggressive dunk period of mine, the 3 years of anger management dunk fest.



on a slightly interesting tangent: after 9/11, the FBI came and interviewed my dad - because of the Algeria connection. I remember when they were out front in a few SUV's talking to my dad. So I went out there and interrupted, and then they left seconds after.

but ya, my dad is pretty nuts musically. he's legit af with jazz. he's also got that "perfect pitch" stuff. iirc, he was playing jazz clubs at like 14.. pretty nuts. hah.

pc man!