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best feeling. worst feeling is starting work sets and realizing you've got less on than you meant. but anyway, 

griiiiiind it out. just griiiiiiiiiiind it out.

last night:

- mobility work x 30 mins

this morning:

- basketball x 30 mins
shit warmed over. i was 0-5 with three missed layups. that's what i get for not even being on a basketball court in almost three months.

- a few submax jumps
oof, bout as bad as i expected.

i'm not sure this is going to be a viable way to train running jumps, light bounds, etc. i'm going to try again the week after next. three ultimate games next week in three days (two tues, one thurs).

anyway, good job luke. in any event i'm glad to have forced myself out of bed this morning. discipline > *.

tnation is a transparent front for a supplements company. just something to keep in mind when you read it.

squatted 345 with absolutely no psyche up and it was solid. not an absolute PR but for non-stim'd state that's a PR for sure. 1.95x bw with no stim. sweet.

I've gained 8

Quote from: UAcompression on February 20, 2013, 05:46:32 pm

I mean 8 lb's in 1 week is a nasty gain.

I've gained twice than that in one meal.

uh.

Quote from: LBSS on February 20, 2013, 04:24:31 pm

how do you know you lost strength? how do you know you gained 8 pounds?

Well about 10 days ago, I was down to 168 lb not totally wet, but not dry either.  I was able to manage 305 x 2, and 310 x 1.  Today, i weighed in at 176, and could not do 295 x 2.  Granted, I am sore from intense cardio on monday, but still, it is kind of demoralizing that your hard work is waved.

relax. strength doesn't come or go that quickly. i failed on 330x1 last week after hitting it for rest-pause sets of three two weeks in a row, and hated myself a little for a couple of hours. but it was just a fluke.

no idea about your weight but based on the tiny amount of information you provided my wild guess is that the swing is part water retention, part you underestimating how many kcals you ate and overestimating how many you burned, and part weighing yourself in different states (say, one time in the morning after taking a piss but before eating anything and one time in the evening after eating two meals and not taking a shit).

if you want to compare weight over time, you have to measure in the same "state" each time, and on the same scale (or on scales that you know to be equally calibrated). for example, i weigh myself on the scale in my gym's locker room after working out in the evening. no idea what you mean by "wet" and "dry" but my guess is that you were weighing yourself in different states when you weighed in at 168 and 176.

oh that looks quite different from "pavel's pin to pillars for back squat on the side." seems fine to me although again, that's pretty high-volume for squatting. i keep saying that one of these days i'm going to do smolov jr. again, and that tops out at 36 reps per workout.