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you should name him davey. don't ask me why.

had a friend whose family bred rhodesian ridgebacks. beautiful dogs.

I was part of a crew that had robbed an 18-wheeler because it had something very valuable stashed in it. In the dream I wasn't even sure what it was. The crew was kind of big, maybe 10-12 guys, and the two leaders were brothers. The marked contents of the truck were firecrackers, and before we got in the truck to escape, one of the brothers lit them inside the truck. We all got in, me up front with the two brothers and the rest of the guys in the body of the truck -- it was hollow and had seats like a city bus, so I guess the storage was just in a shell around the center. I remember thinking that was pretty inefficient.

Eventually we pulled onto some back roads. it was pretty, lots of trees changing to fall colors. Everyone was laughing and in a good mood. a blue van coming at us from the other direction stopped in the middle of the road and a woman got out. I had a premonition and got down as low as I could. She shot at the brother who was driving and the truck swerved and slowed to a stop. The brother was hit but okay, not gonna die. The woman then came closer to the truck. We were all kind of paralyzed, not sure what to do. Obviously she had beef with our stealing whatever the cargo was. She started picking up rocks and throwing the bigger ones at the truck. She wasn't very good at it, though, so there was no threat. We all got out of the truck and then the woman turned into a tiger and started rolling around in the leaves.

The end.

thanks lance. i'm not sure i get what you mean by moving the plate further toward the rear of my foot. i'm totally comfortable in dorsiflexion, so i can hang down off the edge of a plate from the ball of my foot, no problem. the issue is when i'm up on my toes.

interesting thought about iso's, i'll give that a try.

neither of you is adarq or lance, but thanks for the responses.

@entropy: it's not that my calves are small. my legs in general are pretty big.

@raptor: fair point. i might just be making shit up. i do think i go farther with four consecutive paused broad jumps than with four DL bounds. will retest tomorrow when i'm back in the gym.

i guess i'm just trying to figure out what it is really that's holding me back (down). i haven't had serious progress of any kind in months. part of that is travel and illness, but part of it has got to be specific weaknesses that i'm not working on well enough or hard enough.

need comparison vid. athletic anorexia vs. gunning for two bills. i can't imagine what you look like 45 pounds heavier

low back soreness might be related to your butt tucking at the very bottom. you don't NEED to go that low, you're way past parallel before the butt tuck starts. i notice more soreness when i can feel the tuck happen during squats (well, it hasn't happened in a long time but i remember it).

still, looks/feels cool to be true ATG.

WEIGHT: ???
SORENESS: right lat, right bicep and pec a bit
ACHES/INJURIES: right toe fuxored, not as bad as yesterday
FATIGUE: low to moderate

- warm up

- squat MSEM 295 x 8,8
weight was flying, FLYING i say. very strong, excellent form. 15-20s rests

- OHP 100 x 8,8

- pull up x 2,2
right lat was past soreness, felt wonky. decided to wait until thursday.

- shoulder mob stuff x 10 mins

- glute bridge x 10,10,10
paused reps

- hip mob stuff x 5 mins

- stretching

successfully avoided jumping. i did try a higher-intensity jump (than jumping rope, which i did to warm up) and the toe just said, no, go fuck yourself. more ibuprofen and some ice tonight and hopefully i'll be shipshape, relatively, by thursday. now time to go eat some food.