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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: January 25, 2011, 04:01:15 pm »
Cool. I know this is a ways off yet for you but if you find out more as you start your studies, I'd love to hear about it.

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Injury, Prehab, & Rehab talk for the brittlebros / connective tissue injuries and rest
« on: January 25, 2011, 04:00:12 pm »
In response to a certain journaler's account of a recent ankle tweak, I began to write this semi-coherent rant. And then I decided that it actually applies to a bunch of people around here, including me. So instead of singling out said journaler, here's a new thread:

The most important thing when recovering from a connective tissue injury is to REST THE FUCKING TISSUE THAT GOT INJURED.

Even Andrew "Rest is for pussies" Darqui is resting his toe now, kind of. Tendons and ligaments heal slowly and take time to recover their former strength (if they recover it fully at all) once they're healed. So if you sprain your knee or your ankle or your wrist: Stop playing basketball! Stop shooting jumpers! Stop doing anything that makes you plant on it or rely on it for reactive movements! Slowly reintegrate strengthening and balancing exercises once pain begins to subside! But don't push them too hard too fast!

DO NOT FUCKING RUSH, YOU WILL ONLY FUCK YOURSELF HARDER IN THE LONG TERM.

Trust me, I have years of first-hand experience of rushing back into playing after a sprain. This always, IME, ends with another sprain. You're not a pro athlete, you're not on scholarship somewhere to play sports. You're a recreational athlete. Just like me and almost everyone else on this forum. Therefore, you have absolutely no excuse to rush. And if/when you do rush, and you re-injure yourself, there are only two possible outcomes:
  • Your recovery takes even longer than it would have otherwise, or
  • You end up injuring yourself badly enough to cause long-term pain/damage.

It may sound a twinge hypocritical of me to say this after such a post, but relax. Let your body heal itself. You can always get back to playing basketball or jumping or sprinting or lifting later. The gym isn't going anywhere, the track isn't going anywhere, the hoop isn't going anywhere.

NOTE TO POTENTIAL HATERS: I'm not saying you should never play hurt, especially when you're in organized competition. You get bruised up? If you even complain about it, you're a pansy. Friction burn? Same thing. Jam your thumb? You'll be fine. But if you have an injury that disables you, like an ankle sprain, you're not being awesome by pushing through it. You're being an idiot.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: January 25, 2011, 03:27:51 pm »
Quote from: Sean0013 on January 25, 2011, 03:51:03 am
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SEAN0013: WHAT IS THE CURRENT STATE OF KNOWLEDGE/RESEARCH ABOUT UNCONSCIOUS APPETITE CONTROL IN LEAN VS. OVERWEIGHT/OBESE INDIVIDUALS?

To make a very long story short, scientists are starting to think that our bodies more or less have a set point for bf% and weight that our bodies really don't vary from that much. One of the things scientists are trying to figure out is why people's weight doesn't vary alot from the post-puberty stages until much later in life. The reasons would seem to be along the lines of what you're saying. People have differential tendencies in the low energy and high energy state. Theres a bunch of different ways to look at that last sentence I suppose but an easy example would be that in a high energy state alot of skinny people tend to be very jittery and move about alot. It's not just as simple as that though - fat people tend to have faulty mechanisms in determining what is a high energy state/low energy state eg leptin gene mutations, etc. To fully account for it you'd have to talk about ecology, psychology, genetics, biochemistry and physiology but to answer your question I'd say - you can manipulate your body weight (obviously) but it's an uphill battle and your body may resist you!

Yes yes yes yes yes yes. Set point, weight at end of puberty, high NEAT vs. low NEAT, etc. etc. etc.

I'm asking about the bold part. What do we know about why some people know when to stop eating and others don't? Biochemically, environmentally, whatever.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: January 25, 2011, 02:30:23 pm »
Quote from: LoopieMclooperson on January 25, 2011, 12:40:48 am
glad to see you got a scale and are hitting some  :personal-record:

+1 on the chipotle. That can de-rail a workout

De-rail? I know no better fuel (for the money) than Chipotle. If they didn't treat their employees so badly, I would probably say Chipotle is around the level of St. John the Baptist or at the VERY least St. Theresa of Avila on a scale from Stalin to Holy.

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: High frequency squat time approaching
« on: January 25, 2011, 01:39:46 pm »
Quote from: Eric on January 25, 2011, 11:39:18 am
Best thing to do is just count calories to start off with, go through a normal eating day and count that shizz, more than likely you will be surprised at how much you take in, also carbs earlier in the morning=better for you

when i fucked my ankle up i immediately changed my diet, no cardio for 2 weeks and i lost idk 15lbs, still the same supplements and workout.  I cut my caloric intake to about 12-1500 consisting of eggs, chicken breast, salads, fish etc etc and i managed to stay full and my workouts didn't suffer.

But like what shelby starnes says, dont just drastically change your diet, take baby steps, i didnt at first and thats why ive stalled right now and have to try a carb cycling diet to see if that will kick start my metabolism

really?

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: January 25, 2011, 10:14:42 am »
You fools, trolling is a hallowed and time-honored tradition of internet communication. Pissing off very dumb, very irritable absolute strangers in this way is as valid a pastime as stamp collecting or making foot fetish videos.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: January 24, 2011, 10:06:52 pm »
BW = 172.7 PR
SORENESS =  none
ACHES/INJURIES = none
FATIGUE = high
DIET = good

Was originally planning to do a real workout today but fatigue was high by the end of work. So I just did some good foam rollering, plantar flexor stuff, incline walking and stretching. Now I'm watching Roger Federer be a god damn genius and then I'm going to sleep.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: January 24, 2011, 12:55:24 pm »
Also, I've been doing all basketball shit and haven't picked up a frisbee in months. I think that instead of shooting around I'm gonna start throwing for my warm up. I know more about throwing than shooting or dribbling, anyway. It's hard when there's no space in the gym and no one to throw to, but when I've got the place to myself I should be able to set up a goal or net as a "receiver". When it gets warmer out, I can do the same thing in the park near my gym, or at the field where I do interval sprints. I've left ultimate to the side while I'm trying to get this dunking thing down, but that's no reason to abandon throwing.

EDIT: On a completely unrelated note, I'm pretty sure I've gained some weight (won't know how much until scale arrives) and I think a little bit of size, too: thighs and hips up 0.5", biceps up 0.25", waist up 1" (lol). Of course I'm an amateur self-measurer at best, so other than the waist, which is definitely bigger than it's ever been, those could be BS. Anyway, gaining weight obviously entails a bit of concentrated over-eating and now I'm finding my body in full-on "wtf" mode. In other words, I'm not hungry at 1 PM despite having had only a smoothie for breakfast. Sounds like body is saying, "We had enough calories over the weekend, thank you very much. Now please, lay off for a day."

When thin people think they eat a lot, or their friends think they do (my case), I suspect that what's really happening is that they eat a lot at a time, some of the time, but their body is good at then compensating later by having them eat less. People who are fat have, I suspect, a less high-strung shut-off mechanism.

If I weren't still planning to go to the gym tonight, I would say, "Okay, body, have it your way." As it is, I'm about to go eat some Chipotle. Fuck you, body, I want to be stronger.

SEAN0013: WHAT IS THE CURRENT STATE OF KNOWLEDGE/RESEARCH ABOUT UNCONSCIOUS APPETITE CONTROL IN LEAN VS. OVERWEIGHT/OBESE INDIVIDUALS?

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Pics, Videos, & Links / Re: adarqui gets trolled on youtubes by ultimate highlight
« on: January 24, 2011, 12:14:59 pm »
Quote from: Jard on January 24, 2011, 09:39:53 am

Not sure if serious?

Hahaha, I just watched it again. A+

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: January 24, 2011, 09:50:16 am »
haha that's good shit on bb.com forums.

EDIT: much better on tnation. that's some funny shit.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: January 24, 2011, 09:40:58 am »
Quote from: adarqui on January 24, 2011, 12:58:48 am
Quote from: LBSS on January 22, 2011, 07:49:30 pm
Oh, yeah, and the back of my neck hurts like a bitch right now. Not 100% sure how that happened.

bro. fuck is going on???????????!?!!?

maybe you did some crazy shit with your head when you were drunk.


Nah I doubt that. My suspicion is that I was straining it somehow during the squats or the OHPs. Felt totally fine by the next morning.

In other news, I did a deeply stupid thing last night and finished watching season 4 of The Wire, despite the fact that it was 12:15 by the time I started the last episode. So suffice it to say, I didn't get a huge amount of sleep last night. Probably 5.5-6 hours. On the other hand, good god what a show.

Screw you, gutts, if you read this.

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Pics, Videos, & Links / Re: adarqui gets trolled on youtubes by ultimate highlight
« on: January 24, 2011, 09:26:15 am »
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: January 22, 2011, 07:49:30 pm »
Oh, yeah, and the back of my neck hurts like a bitch right now. Not 100% sure how that happened.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: January 22, 2011, 07:44:59 pm »
BW = blah blah blah
SORENESS =  none
ACHES/INJURIES = none
FATIGUE = moderate to high, haven't slept well in days and my gf woke up at like 9 this morning, wtf. i tried to sleep more but no dice.
DIET = meh, gonna get better in a minute. didn't eat enough lunch.

s3: power
- RATING (6/10)

- warmup

- 10 yard dashes x 5

-ME jumps (~5-7 x 2)
12 jumps total, better than they've been but no PR's. 1-2 at 31.5, 1-2 at 31, the rest 30-30.5

- ME MR tuck: 5 x 5
i really just suck at these

- ME MR pogo: 3 x 5
i don't suck quite as bad at these

- SQUAT 3 x 8
235,235,235 == last set was hard

- OHP: 3x5
130,130,130x2 (fail), 125x1, 115x0 (fail LOL, I was done)

- DB row: 3x8 2x12
60,60

- UNILATERAL: 3 x 8e (BSS) gym was closing, so no

- OPTIONAL: CORE (Y/N?)
N

- STRETCH

Considering my shit diet the last 24 hours (breakfast this morning was good but I was drunk as hell last night and didn't eat lunch, really), I'm actually not too blown about this workout. Try again with 130 next time on OHP and I'm glad my jumps finally stopped sucking so bad. It really makes a difference for me for no one else to be in the gym.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: January 22, 2011, 07:40:00 pm »
you'se a weird dude, adarq. nice music choice around 9:15 haha.

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