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Finally had a good, full workout tonight. Gym was jammed and basketball courts all taken outdoors, so I found a tree on a side street with some leaves hanging down around 9'8" or something and jumped to those. Pretty ghetto, haha. Also the sidewalk wasn't exactly flat. Whatever.

Work
DLRVJ x~35
ankle hops to low box 2x10 - felt pretty dead
REA squat 4x3x95
MSEM squat 2x2x300
BSS 3x5x70 (2x35#), jumping on each rep

I'll echo what others have said about working on mobility and slowing down. Lots of stretching, hurdle walks, quad rock backs, etc. If you want some more ideas, I got 'em in spades.

You've got really long legs, though, so don't sweat it too hard if you don't ever get all the way down. Fuckers with short legs, like yours truly, can get low more easily. That said, you're folding at the waist too much. Keep your shoulder blades together and chest open and sit down, not back, if that makes sense. Your butt's gonna go back and shoulders are going to come forward somewhat as you fold up, but try to keep your torso pretty upright. Elevating your heels a half inch or so with something hard, like 5lb plates, helps with depth, too.

Worked late on Friday and all day Saturday, so no workouts cause I was freaking tired. 

Today:

Work
jog @easy-moderate pace x 30-32 mins, bit more than 4 miles
supersets x2 of
pushups x25, crunches x50
arm raises x15, rear leg raises x10

Cool down
stretch

It's humid as shit here today, and by accident I ended up running up a pretty long and steep hill at one point, so my HR was not as low as it should have been. But that's okay. Felt good to get out and get some exercise. I hadn't since I got sick last week!

What do you mean by "full squats"? Those are quarter squats.

Quote from: LBSS on April 29, 2010, 11:28:08 am

Food poisoning yesterday = no workout yesterday or probably today.  Diarrhea started around 6:30, puking around 8:30. In all I think I made 12-15 trips to the porcelain throne including six or seven times getting up in the night. I'm sort of okay now, but very dehydrated. And all I've eaten and kept down in the past 22 hours is a piece and a half of toast and some orange juice. Oh and a couple of saltines.

Also, I have epic DOMS in my glutes. From the BSS, I'm pretty sure. I think the food poisoning probably didn't help with this.

damn that sucks.. what gave you the poisoning, any idea?

btw when you are feeling better check pm hehe!

pesto at this restaurant near my office. my coworker and i both ate it, we both got sick. the other person we were with had something else and is fine. gonna go try to get our money back tomorrow.

saw your pm but what little brainpower i have at the moment is devoted to work. i'll give it a good look later on. thanks.

you are strong

Thanks mang. I think I'm one of the stronger people on the forum at the moment just in terms of weight, but that's small comfort cause pretty much everyone can jump, or at least reach, higher than I can. Oh well...

when you do vert in training do you measure it?

If not, I suggest starting, it makes it easier to track progress and at least for me sets a clear goal as an incentive.

Sort of, but we don't have a vertec at my gym and it's hard to measure running or approach jumps with a vert mat. Plus the manager keeps forgetting to bring the mat back from the other branch of my (small) gym. There's a strap hanging down from the ceiling with a kind of buckle on the end that's around rim height, although I'm not sure exactly how high. I jump to that, so I see how I'm doing mostly by how much above the buckle I can get my fingers. But you're right, it would be awesome to be able to measure every time. If anyone knows of a gym or place in DC that has a vertec, let me know.

Are you in college?

Nope.

Gotta find some pics of myself for comparison: the first thing I notice is how low most of them are. I don't think I get low enough to get real power. Too worried about getting off the ground fast. But if I try to get lower, I overthink it.

After tryouts on Saturday, a couple of the guys and I got in a big triangle (40-80 yards on a side...we were running around) and just practiced hucks for half an hour. Completing a big huck (aka a deep throw to a receiver cutting away from you towards the end zone) is pretty much the best feeling ever in ultimate, other than skying somebody or laying out past somebody for a big D. But my form is garbage after the winter so my throws were all over the place and my elbow hurt like shit yesterday. Haha, oh well, worth it. I'll get my groove back by summer, elbow shouldn't be a problem.

Couldn't work out yesterday so I'm gonna just push everything back a day for this week.