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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: September 24, 2012, 12:32:45 pm »Nope, is it a character from there? I'm saving HP for when I have a child to watch it with haha.
ah well. if you'd read the books, i'd recommend an AMAZING fan fiction* of harry potter that reimagines harry as a math prodigy and dedicated rationalist who refers pretty frequently to bayes. it's actually significantly better than the original books. but not worth reading without having read those first, because you won't get 75% of the jokes.
*no, i do not ordinarily read fan-fiction. i used to read star wars novels as a kid but that was like 15 years ago.
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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: resistance bands and chains
« on: September 24, 2012, 12:29:41 pm »
on the other hand, bands are great for mobility exercises and stretching -- i recently started using one to warm up my shoulders and it's made a big difference in my comfort during warm up sets on the squat. previously i used my warm up sets to get my shoulders comfortable under the bar (tightness in posterior delts) but since i started using bands i've been discomfort-free from the first warm-up set.
also ab pull-downs, which i love.
but that's not the same thing as adding them to a bench press.
also ab pull-downs, which i love.
but that's not the same thing as adding them to a bench press.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: A Journey to Running Fast and Jumping High
« on: September 24, 2012, 12:25:14 pm »Not too bad. Everyone has their own thing. As long as it's somewhat organized. Your other posts looked a little too heavy on the banter before going into the workout description. Be very brief and precise when you're mentioning things like fatigue and stuff. Not sure what you would mean by rating the workout, but if that's your thing I guess.
+100. the thing you laid out looks fine but i think it'd help you to have a stricter template than that. go look at the way some other people organize their "workout done" sections: adarq's method is the archetype but people find the variation that works for them. dreyth's is good, mine is good, vag's is good.
people on here want to help you and give you advice, myself included, but sometimes it's difficult to understand what you're asking. you're in here putting in work and that's great, but speaking for myself, i don't respond because i'm often not sure what you're talking about. part of that is the language thing, of course, but we can work around that if you just try painfully hard to be clear.
here's one example of a way to organize your workout posts:
Quote
DATE
WEIGHT
RATING FOR CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM (CNS) STATUS (just a way to summarize what you meant by "sleep, fatigue, motivation")
WORKOUT:
- WARM UP
- EXERCISE 1 (sets x reps x weight/distance/height)
- EXERCISE 2 (sets x reps x weight/distance/height)
etc....
- COOL DOWN
- STRETCH
COMMENTS
PR'S
that would allow you and us to look at things in a consistent way and more easily make comparisons from day to day. also, you really need to time yourself with a stopwatch. the mississippi method is not a good substitute.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: September 24, 2012, 11:56:44 am »vids are private, can't see 'em.
try now
there you go.
also, re: bayes. you ever read harry potter?
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: September 24, 2012, 11:41:11 am »
vids are private, can't see 'em.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: acole14's journal - DUNK OR DIE
« on: September 24, 2012, 09:56:38 am »
1x4@147.5kgs
lol, this looked like a link to me so i clicked on it expecting to see video, but it was just firefox thinking "xxx@x.x" is an email address.
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Article & Video Discussion / Re: KETTLEBELL SWING TRAINING IMPROVES MAXIMAL AND EXPLOSIVE STRENGTH
« on: September 24, 2012, 09:35:06 am »
EXTRA! EXTRA! READ ALL ABOUT IT! RELATIVELY UNTRAINED MEN WHO EXERCISE IN A NON-STUPID MANNER IMPROVE ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE!
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: September 24, 2012, 09:32:27 am »On the metro tonight:
Two black men, one married, two children, the other, 31 years young, begin talking about the younger generation. The 31year old laments: "damn dees mothafuckas like, e'erbody be lesbians now, e'erbody be fags."
jaj what.
serious. not paraphrased. he also talked about skinny jeans in relation to this problem, and then the economy and something about how mothafuckas in this country who can't count to 10 in english should not be working here. said "mothafuckas" a lot.
get this man a cable news show.
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Basketball / Re: hah @ dunk glove
« on: September 23, 2012, 11:49:21 pm »
shit, i need one of those.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: September 23, 2012, 11:41:55 pm »
spent 45 minutes or so tonight foam rollering and then alternating bodyweight BSS for ~20 reps with stretching. also did some calf raises. did not do enough this weekend in general to get the juices flowing. need to be better about getting some exercise and stretching in on off days.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Scrawny to Brawny Journal
« on: September 23, 2012, 11:08:40 pm »
-Cardio (Roller blade across campus to use the crappy fieldhouse)
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: September 21, 2012, 09:47:09 pm »
BW = 176.5
SORENESS = none
ACHES/INJURIES = none
FATIGUE = low
- warm up
too much, waiting for crossfit to finish
- DLRVJ x 8
balls. i felt awesome going into this workout, great visions on the walk to the gym, but had crested by the time the bastards had finished their cross training. nothing over 32.
- MR half tuck x 20
- squat 300 x 5,5,5
solid, last rep a little grindy but not awful
- pull up x 8,8,6+2
- walk home
- stretch
apparently the gym closes at 9 on fridays now, so i got kicked out before i could get to core or stretching. gonna do that now.
SORENESS = none
ACHES/INJURIES = none
FATIGUE = low
- warm up
too much, waiting for crossfit to finish
- DLRVJ x 8
balls. i felt awesome going into this workout, great visions on the walk to the gym, but had crested by the time the bastards had finished their cross training. nothing over 32.
- MR half tuck x 20
- squat 300 x 5,5,5
solid, last rep a little grindy but not awful
- pull up x 8,8,6+2
- walk home
- stretch
apparently the gym closes at 9 on fridays now, so i got kicked out before i could get to core or stretching. gonna do that now.
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Article & Video Discussion / Re: So 50inch require you to be strong like this?
« on: September 21, 2012, 09:43:08 pm »i want to see scooby, hyperdunk and seifullaaaaaaah in a gym together for a group workout. who will make the first move toward following advice given to them on here and DOING AN ACTUAL EXERCISE?
i'll be taking bets.
seifullaah at 2:1
hyperdunk at 7:2
scooby at 12:1
Crap. I had just listened to kingfish and squatted 40 reps a day with 300lbs...
Hope thy didn't make u lose any bet...
-.-
luckily i only take long odds, i won $1.2 million from myself on this one.
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Article & Video Discussion / Re: So 50inch require you to be strong like this?
« on: September 21, 2012, 12:46:31 pm »
i want to see scooby, hyperdunk and seifullaaaaaaah in a gym together for a group workout. who will make the first move toward following advice given to them on here and DOING AN ACTUAL EXERCISE?
i'll be taking bets.
seifullaah at 2:1
hyperdunk at 7:2
scooby at 12:1
i'll be taking bets.
seifullaah at 2:1
hyperdunk at 7:2
scooby at 12:1