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- shoot around x 45 mins

had a job interview (!) tonight for a gig in the philippines. i think it went pretty well. but it went late enough that i didn't have time for a full workout. so i'll just do it on saturday.

this morning:

WEIGHT: 172.5
SORENESS: none
ACHES/INJURIES: stiff all over, right toe pretty bad, 
MENTAL STATE: okay

- shoot around + layups x 20 mins
wearing glasses makes everything harder. i sort of couldn't believe how stiff and slow i felt, but i guess that's what happens at 7 AM. toe was bothering me a lot, even while walking. still glad i got up if only to get the juices flowing a little and refind the discipline to do it.

deliberate practice. search "t0ddday method" in the forum.

brain hurts badly. took some vitamin I and lay down for 40 minutes with the lights off but i feel no better. no gym tonight. damn it.

^^^yes.

yesterday:

- hard run x 10 mins
was thinking about what acole said about 8 minute 95RPE runs. i structured my morning (and my friday night) around being able to go to the gym at 11 and it was occupied by gay dodgeball, which was frustrating. so i took it out on myself by running very hard for ten minutes. RPE was not 95, maybe like 85, in part because of red lights. 95RPE you really need a track.

- stretch

this morning:

WEIGHT: ???
SORENESS: none
ACHES/INJURIES: right toe a lot, enough to impede movement sometimes
MENTAL STATE: mildly hung over

- warm up

- DLRVJ x ~15
not great but pretty solid considering how late i was out last night. a couple ~35+. and how much my toe was bothering me.

- stretch

quads too stiff to half squat? what are you, 85? that's weird.

also,

it's hard to say man. everything happens pretty quickly but there's not much to show how high you're getting. it looks like your approach is really inefficient: you seem to be shuffling your feet at the end and taking a little hop step before you plant. approach should be a smooth acceleration into the plant.

watch me at 0:23 and 1:15 here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaiZOr-tOcw

then watch scooby here: http://www.adarq.org/progress-journals-experimental-routines/scooby-2011-journal/msg104719/#msg104719.

see the difference? i'm not wasting any steps, each step i take adds speed, but not so much that i collapse or can't convert it into the jump. scooby got way better after this -- and i used to jump like that, too -- but in this vid he's chopping his feet and it's ruining his shit. read through the comments from me and chris and others about his approach over the next few pages of his journal.