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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Age vs Vertical
« on: July 21, 2014, 09:29:31 am »
well then big ups on the full plate chins! 
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: July 21, 2014, 09:27:11 am »Running repeat 200s definitely brings out the lactic acid!
Sorry if this has been answered before but what kind of spikes do you have?
asics that i bought on super-duper sale for like $25. i've still never screwed in the actual spikes. but i typically don't train in them, just in my racing flats. no real reason for that other than "t0ddday said so."
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Age vs Vertical
« on: July 20, 2014, 09:54:37 pm »
i forget, how do you load your chins? DB, or do you have a belt+plates?
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Chris' training journal
« on: July 20, 2014, 09:45:37 pm »
GHR is a great hamstring exercise. i like to mix it up with RDLs (alternating workouts) so you focus on both the knee-flexing and hip-extending aspects of the muscle.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: July 20, 2014, 02:34:46 pm »
WEIGHT: ???
SORENESS: none
ACHES/INJURIES: left shoulder
MENTAL STATE: good
- warm up
SL bounds x 5: 11.5, 12.5 R; 11, 12 L (yards)
- sprint 300m x 1; 200m x 3 w/200m walk recovery; 5 min rest, 200m
45; 32, 31, 32; 29. didn't have stopwatch so times are approx using an analog watch. had one false start with the 300 where i got to about 150 and my right knee was just too tight. pulled up, walked back, stretched and shook it out and massaged quad and TB a bit and then started over. hamstrings tightened up a bit after the third 200.
- stretch
didn't complete the full t0ddday Rx. legs were tightening up and felt pre-crampy so i cut it off. this was still a reasonably challenging workout. next time i'll do the full 2x3x200.
SORENESS: none
ACHES/INJURIES: left shoulder
MENTAL STATE: good
- warm up
SL bounds x 5: 11.5, 12.5 R; 11, 12 L (yards)
- sprint 300m x 1; 200m x 3 w/200m walk recovery; 5 min rest, 200m
45; 32, 31, 32; 29. didn't have stopwatch so times are approx using an analog watch. had one false start with the 300 where i got to about 150 and my right knee was just too tight. pulled up, walked back, stretched and shook it out and massaged quad and TB a bit and then started over. hamstrings tightened up a bit after the third 200.
- stretch
didn't complete the full t0ddday Rx. legs were tightening up and felt pre-crampy so i cut it off. this was still a reasonably challenging workout. next time i'll do the full 2x3x200.
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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: Supersetting Advantages
« on: July 18, 2014, 03:45:06 pm »uh, yeah. people superset stuff like curls and press downs all the time. i did it earlier this week. last night, i supersetted dips and lat pull downs. then i supersetted GHRs and leg press and calf raises.
I know it's done, but why isn't it almost always done? Why are there people that choose not to?
it depends on the exercise and the intensity, i guess. i don't think it has any significant advantages other than efficiency -- the training effect of working the agonists and antagonists one after the other is probably zero to tiny.
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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: Supersetting Advantages
« on: July 18, 2014, 02:59:43 pm »
uh, yeah. people superset stuff like curls and press downs all the time. i did it earlier this week. last night, i supersetted dips and lat pull downs. then i supersetted GHRs and leg press and calf raises.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: July 18, 2014, 08:27:03 am »seriously, i feel like entropy right now.
Haha, well I'm going to ignore that neg then.
yeah i feel a bit sheepish about that. undone.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: July 17, 2014, 11:43:38 pm »
seriously, i feel like entropy right now.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: July 17, 2014, 11:39:09 pm »Don't worry man the first time I entered a race was about 18 months ago and I ran 11.84. Within a month I got that down to 11.55 and after 6 months it was 11.37w before I tore my hamstring.
Same with the 200 I went from 23.95 to 23.18 within a month and after 6 months I got to 23.15 but that was my first 200m for the season so I was out of shape and everybody else that I ran against that week ended up runing 0.4-0.5 seconds quicker in the next race a couple of weeks later so I'm pretty fkn sure that I would've gone sub 23 if my fkn hamstring didn't tear.
Anyway the point is it's pretty quick to improve from your first race and if you've done sub 13 in training than it's only a matter of time before you hit sub 13 at a meet. Same for the 200.
right, the first time you entered a race you ran 1.5 seconds faster than i did. that is an eon.
Oh come on. It's not that bad really. So what if I ran faster than that at 12 years old?
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But seriously, low 13s is pretty much spot on based on your background and recent training. It takes a long time to build up the fitness to run fast for the full distance, as I found out when returning to the sport.
yeah i know it's spot on given my training, such as it is. it just sucks.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: July 17, 2014, 09:51:37 pm »
results of my race last weekend are up and i'm not posting that shit because it's straight-up embarrassing. 13.30. the more i think about it, the more i realize how terrible that is. i finished behind five women and three men 50 years old or older. the wind was -0.2 for my heat, so, negligible. my only consolation is that i beat one other young guy.
will post link to results when i've beaten all the 50-year-olds.
sub-12 would have gotten me into the top 20 out of the 97 people who entered. fastest time was 11.07; fastest 200 was 22.20. fastest woman ran 12.08/24.37.
will post link to results when i've beaten all the 50-year-olds.
sub-12 would have gotten me into the top 20 out of the 97 people who entered. fastest time was 11.07; fastest 200 was 22.20. fastest woman ran 12.08/24.37.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: July 17, 2014, 09:31:41 pm »
WEIGHT: ???
SORENESS: traps
ACHES/INJURIES: left shoulder, crick in my neck
MENTAL STATE: okay
- warm up
- depth jump 20" x 4
- SVJ/DSVJ x 12-14
quads were locking up a bit on these. weird.
- depth jump 20" x 4
all this felt slow and unexplosive/uncoordinated
- superset x 3
-- dip x 12
-- lat pull down 110 x 12
left shoulder tweaked during setup for second set.
- superset x 3
-- assisted natural GHR x 8,10,10
-- leg press 315 x 8,10,10
-- paused calf raise 315 x 8,10,10
- stretch
blah.
SORENESS: traps
ACHES/INJURIES: left shoulder, crick in my neck
MENTAL STATE: okay
- warm up
- depth jump 20" x 4
- SVJ/DSVJ x 12-14
quads were locking up a bit on these. weird.
- depth jump 20" x 4
all this felt slow and unexplosive/uncoordinated
- superset x 3
-- dip x 12
-- lat pull down 110 x 12
left shoulder tweaked during setup for second set.
- superset x 3
-- assisted natural GHR x 8,10,10
-- leg press 315 x 8,10,10
-- paused calf raise 315 x 8,10,10
- stretch
blah.
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Bios / Re: Animals
« on: July 17, 2014, 05:13:28 pm »
http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/what-are-new-york-citys-most-popular-dog-names-1600999708/+robharvilla
key takeaways:
- there are more than 200 dogs in new york named gizmo.
- there are 50 dogs in brooklyn named brooklyn. what the fuck.
- my brother's vision, to get a a miniature schauzer or a yorkie/poodle mix and name it weapon, remains original.
key takeaways:
- there are more than 200 dogs in new york named gizmo.
- there are 50 dogs in brooklyn named brooklyn. what the fuck.
- my brother's vision, to get a a miniature schauzer or a yorkie/poodle mix and name it weapon, remains original.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: July 17, 2014, 09:11:04 am »Maybe you should do a deload week of some kind in the very near future... don't let these injuries accumulate.
i'm going to new york and vermont for a few days at the end of next week and won't do any training then. you're right that i need to be careful with my knee.
the toes are a lost cause, though.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: July 16, 2014, 10:14:44 pm »
WEIGHT: ???
SORENESS: traps
ACHES/INJURIES: none at beginning (even left shoulder not noticeable without extending OH!), but during the workout right knee felt tight and then fuxored my left big toe
MENTAL STATE: good, contemplative
- warm up
starting to try to get farther with each bound/set
- sprint 30m x 5; 50m x 3; 110m
outside of right knee feels tight, even now a bit. shook it out, rubbed and stretched a little between sets. not too concerning but notable. left toe pissed the fuck off after the 110, decided to scrap the 150 and 200. i think i jinxed myself by talking about how the toes mostly don't hurt now. had to be ginger on the walk home.
- stretch
SORENESS: traps
ACHES/INJURIES: none at beginning (even left shoulder not noticeable without extending OH!), but during the workout right knee felt tight and then fuxored my left big toe
MENTAL STATE: good, contemplative
- warm up
starting to try to get farther with each bound/set
- sprint 30m x 5; 50m x 3; 110m
outside of right knee feels tight, even now a bit. shook it out, rubbed and stretched a little between sets. not too concerning but notable. left toe pissed the fuck off after the 110, decided to scrap the 150 and 200. i think i jinxed myself by talking about how the toes mostly don't hurt now. had to be ginger on the walk home.
- stretch