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you people are ridiculous. did you perhaps think that knowledge of what to do to reduce the likelihood of a hangover was not, um, common? yeah, of course drinking water helps. of course NSAIDs help. but sometimes they help a lot and sometimes not. prescribing something like "drink 1000mL of water and take a couple of whatevers" is completely beside the point.

here, go read joan acocella's history of hangover cures from a few years ago: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/05/26/080526fa_fact_acocella?currentPage=all.

WEIGHT: ???
SORENESS: none
ACHES/INJURIES: left hip a little
MENTAL STATE: good

- warm up

- SVJ x 3,3
worked on using arms more. remembered a thing raptor posted a while back about internally rotating the arms on the downswing, seemed to help.

- DSVJ x 6 (3 each side)

- one-step jumps x a few

- paused squat 255 x 3,3

- bench 200 x 5,5,5
stupid bro touched the bar on the last rep of the last set but i'm counting it anyway. might have had a rep or two more but i stopped after he touched.

- kroc row 55 x 25
more weight next time

- hanging leg raise x 10

Slam a pedialyte and two ibuprofen before bed the night you drink. You shall be cured.

This was my cocktail of choice in college and I was a borderline alcoholic lmao

that's the thing, though. i'm as inveterate a drinker as any non-abstaining american 20-something. i have my methods, like everyone else: if i've actually had a lot to drink (say, 6+ drinks in one "session"; rare now but it happens), sometimes i get a gatorade (adult pedialyte) and take some prophylactic aspirin or ibuprofen and sometimes i don't. and sometimes when i do i get a hangover and sometimes when i don't, i don't. no pattern.

on thinking about this more i realize that this lack of pattern goes back to college. when i binge drank in college i would sometimes get brutal hangovers that lasted until the following evening, lots of puking, etc. i missed one of the most amazing football games of my tenure at UM because of a nasty hangover* and have never forgiven myself. but sometimes i'd wake up the next day and be fine, despite the 10 or however many drinks i'd had.

so, i will track.

*to be fair to myself, i was already considering not going because i had just started dating a girl who wanted to fuck four times a day, and that is hard to say no to as an 18-year-old. still, made up my mind to go and then could not get out of bed except to throw up. no sex, no fantastic OT win. idiot. plus that girl ended up being nuts, which in retrospect i should have seen coming. but hey, 18.

two things:

1) jumping this morning was such a good idea.
2) i started keeping a booze log. i'm not a big drinker by any means, but i often have a drink or three friday and saturday night. much less than i used to even a couple of years ago, certainly. alcohol affects me very unpredictably: i occasionally get bad-to-really-bad hangovers, but i can't find any pattern as to why. it seems to have nothing to do with volume, or duration of drinking, or type of alcohol drunk. so i'm going to keep track and see if i can find any patterns.

Mizzou DE Michael Sam comes out, projected as early-to-mid-round pick, will be the first openly gay NFL player. That's courage for you, friends. This dude is a beast. 6'2, 255, 4.6-4.7 40, SEC defensive POY. Yesterday felt pretty historic, I gotta tell you.



<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZvG96-zDvo" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZvG96-zDvo</a>

did your PT not give you exercises to keep doing after you stop with him? some guy.

 

just when you think you'll never see a new dunk.

SVJ from yesterday. first jump nicked the rim, second jump just shy. 

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxTTRgJdD2w" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxTTRgJdD2w</a>

one-step, two-step, three-step. all pretty bad except the one-step. ultimate step and jump stop look even worse on video than it felt IRL.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4l5FQ8uyMA" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4l5FQ8uyMA</a>

couple of four-step. first one was ~33, second and third ~34. legs felt heavy the whole day. jumps are at 0:17, 0:55 and 1:36 if you don't want to watch me pace around. at the end i'm showing where my palm hit the rim.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gR6uQaLFxZE" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gR6uQaLFxZE</a>