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nice pickup. i fantasize about having a place to put a power rack. as it is, i don't even have a place to jump rope in my apartment. 

someday...

BW = ???
SORENESS = lower back, lats
ACHES/INJURIES = lats
FATIGUE = high

- warm up

- sprint
on first 60% sprint my right lat was like, nope.

- bounds LLLL, RRRR x 2

- SL MR tuck jumps 2 x 10

- DL bounds 2 x 5

- MR half tucks 2 x 15

- depth jump
nothing firing. did some drops.

- jump squat 2 x 3 x 95
lat and lower back were not about to support snatching

- squat
low back, CNS

- stretch

have not been sleeping well, so very tired/low motivation. low back sore and fatigued from DLs, lats sore from leg raises. stupid but there you go. will try again tomorrow.

They are just crazy claims to flog a book. The findings are not exactly scientific in any way so it's hard to say it's anything more than an interesting idea. The whole article is mostly based on anecdotes and inferences. Take the footprint thing for example. There are a whole bunch of assumptions in that measurement: they could have been taking longer strides or bounding at that particular time, or the hunter could have been taller than 6'5'' (there is always an error associated with estimating physical dimensions from fossils). Any of which would throw the estimations way out, so it's hard to take his claim that they'd beat Bolt seriously on such little evidence. The historical anecdotes about the rowers could have been wildly exaggerated, there's no way of knowing how fast they really went.

It annoys me too when anthropologists think they are also evolutionary biologists as well and make stupid statements like the one about "highly aggressive men" go to jail or get killed earlier and exclude themselves from the gene pool. That's not an example of a selective pressure. A selective pressure would be if the majority of "highly aggressive men" were wiped out before reaching reproductive age. Then you would definitely see a noticeable change in the gene pool. But I doubt it's the case that the majority of "highly aggressive men" are being killed in gang wars or in Iraq. It's just a vague hypothesis with no evidence to back it up.

amen.

BW = 171
SORENESS = none
ACHES/INJURIES = none
FATIGUE = low

- warm up

- sprint 2 x 15y

- DLRVJ x ~15
much better than it's been. also, sort-of  : dunked a dodgeball. PR for size of object dunked. got owned with it a couple of times and got one other jump where it went in but kind of off the backboard. so yay. would have needed at least 33 for each of those. the rest all 32-32.5.

- power snatch/drills x 15 mins

- squat MSEM 1 x 6 x 305
schnell

- DL 1 x 365 
lol. goofing off.

- SS1: suicide x 1
- SS1: tire flip x 2
- SS1: clapping push up x 10
- SS1: hanging leg raise x 10
- SS1 info: AMRAP in 10 mins. raced my friend henry. got 5.75 rounds.

- stretch

yay

followed through this morning. self-loathing dissipated. actually had fun. way more people at the gym than i was expecting, including a basketball game.

BW = ???
SORENESS = none
ACHES/INJURIES = none
FATIGUE = ???

- warm up
included lancests hip-ups 2 x 10e, focus on squeezing glute all the way through full extension

- depth jump 3 x 5

- line hop 3 x 20
8.3x, 8.6x, 9.3x (lol)

- squat MSEM 2 x 3 x 315
warm-ups flew, had to stop myself from clearing the ground on 185.

- SS1: OHP 10 x 95
- SS1: DB row 10 x 55e
- SS1: pull down x 15
- SS1 info: 3 rounds. all reps very fast, had to push press last 5 reps of OHP.

- stretch

i realized i'm leaving in basically a week, so i will switch to MSEM in hopes of having a couple of good sessions next week. west virginia a week from today for family reunion, then pakistan and afghanistan for three weeks. going to renew my search for a decent gym in islamabad.

Agree, no dunks.  There's nothing beastly about them...unless someone dunks with a 200lb weighted vest on or something.

word. so pretty much only chezkenney should be included here, for that insane video where he dunks over and over while strapped into a resistance band.

to wit:

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J50aWFUSVWk" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J50aWFUSVWk</a>

can we all take a minute and appreciate how great a couple of those dunks were?