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yeah i'm as interested as anyone else. i bought a nice vest so i can wear it under clothes, so it better be worth it lol.

ONE MONTH TO DUNK, TAKE ONE

[starting or recent PR/goal]

weight: 175/167
SVJ: 31/33
DLRVJ: 36/38
SLRVJ: 30/32
squat: 345/345

may add a couple of extra measurables tomorrow, depending on how practical it is to measure them inside.

today:

WEIGHT: 188 (175+10 vest+3 clothes and shoes)
SORENESS: none
ACHES/INJURIES: right knee a little, uh oh
MENTAL STATE: good

- warm up

- SVJ x 2
prob 28-29, have vid will post later

**remove vest**

- SVJ x 1
30.5, meh

- DLRVJ x 3-4
blah, not great, 34

**replace vest**

- superset x 2
-- pistol x 10/leg
-- SLRDL x 10/leg

- hip thrust x 10,10

- paused BSS x 10,10/leg

- hanging leg raise x 10,10

- stretch

that's my n=1 experience for both SVJ and RVJ.

back from holidays in connecticut. lovely times, tons of great food (and a bit of great drink, too -- my aunt and uncle who we were staying with are serious gourmets, both the best cooks i know and the only people i know with a purpose-built wine cellar in their house). worked out with my cousin last thursday and took a couple of medium-length but pretty hilly walks. otherwise it was mostly just good family time. will weigh myself post-workout later but i'd guess i gained 3-4 pounds.

starting today, i'm going to work out based off a template t0ddday sent me. not gonna copy-paste the whole thing here, but in essence it's a three-week block including jump training 3-4x/week, heavy weights 2-3x/week, and light weights up to every day, followed by a one-to-two-week block where the heavy weights are dropped and PRs are attempted. will also be at a modest weekly caloric deficit but keeping protein high, aiming to be very lean and in the low-to-mid 160s during the second block.

also, i bought a weight vest and am going to wear it most waking moments for the next three weeks, including during workouts.


ETA: just read t0ddday's last journal post. suffice it to say i will never be attempting 300 ME jumps in a five-day period. also i'll keep close tabs on my knees.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePwvZoXZu20" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePwvZoXZu20</a>

the dunk is tight, but click through to see trevor booker's reaction in the vine here: http://deadspin.com/the-incredible-dunk-is-only-the-first-half-of-this-high-1749266633.

lolololol

lol there's a reason radiologists are MDs with 8-9 years of training.

haven't had anything to drink since saturday. but yeah one of my recent really good jumping days was after drinking a fair amount the night before. a month ago or so.

there does not appear to be much rhyme or reason to when i get hung over, with the caveat that obviously i have to have SOMETHING to drink. but there are nights when i have four drinks and am wrecked the next day, and nights when i have seven drinks (very rare now) and am totally fine.

i don't get bent out of shape from drinking at all, but i'm mad at myself when i drink so much that it ruins the next day. no reason for that, i would have had just as good a time with three fewer drinks. doesn't happen as often as it used to. still, after new year's i'm going to go booze-free for a couple of weeks. will not drink heavily over xmas because that's not a thing my family does -- we're half sober at this point, actually, lot of alcoholism/addiction, which i'm glad i was spared -- but i'm not going to beat myself up over a glass of wine at dinner. once i'm back, time to focus.

on a related note, lu xiaojun snatches more than i squat at roughly the same bw.