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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Reboot - get lean, get hops
« on: February 10, 2024, 05:52:24 pm »
Damn, a new facility opened 15 mins from my house -
combo indoor courts, shooting machines, performance style gym!
They have a Vertec and force plate for measuring jumps
And open 24 hours

I even spotted some wall mounted isokinetic machine

Very rare combo of features and hours for Sydney, Australia
$25AUD a week upfront for a year for both BBall and Gym facilities membership, pretty reasonable compared to my previous commercial gym only membership.
Although I do have my own garage gym.
Definitely tempted...

https://www.ausafacility.com/chatswood

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1suIwASPQY" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1suIwASPQY</a>




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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Reboot - get lean, get hops
« on: January 11, 2024, 11:20:44 am »
I took some time off and got lazy over winter.
Kept doing sporadic ISOs here and there, and it seems all my Patella and Quad tendonipathy have healed in both knees.
Lower sartorius tendon still achey in both knees but improving

Right plantarius muscle has flared up when here and there when squatting down, seems more like compression pain only on the eccentric
around the above parallel knee position. Never hurts above or below or on the concentric.
baffled how to heal this one, it just comes and goes.

Both achilles insertion and lower plantaris tendons still flaring up a little, so I'm avoiding any major rapid movements and jumping for now

Have started training again 5 weeks ago, and have made big increases in strength and muscle mass

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So I was eating Keto and got addicted to cashews and blew up to 94kg bodyweight at my peak, waist to 40 inches.... was hitting like 3000-4000 calories easy
My autoimmune skin conditions and psoriasis got worse.
I cut out all the cheese months ago and it didn't make any difference, then all nuts a month ago and that helped.
Carbs under 60g, with that single serving of stir fried veges.
Weight stablised and started trending down.

Then when I switched to full carnivore - just steak/pork/lamb, eggs, hotdogs, bacon and sausages and lots of salt.
Twice a day, sometimes 3
Carbs well under 20g
The fat starting melt off rapidly, even while I feel so damn full all the time and it's hard to eat over 2000 calories
But it does vary I just eat when I'm hungry and when I exercise more, I eat more.

And my skin just completely changed already - my scalp and hair feels smooth and soft, and no longer mass flakes when I run my hand through it.
Psoriasis patches are starting to flatten down and no longer feel inflamed.

Even coming from Keto there was an adjustment period, and watery poo.... but coming to 2 weeks and it feels like its over now.
And I have cured all my food addictions.
I no longer eat for enjoyment and entertainment, food is mere fuel and building material.

Muscle mass is piling on, and feel full, strength is gaining and I feel OK energy wise, so carbs and fiber are overrated :)

Goal is get shredded, back to full health, and back to BBall and jumping

Bodyweight is down to 90.8kg, and waist 38 3/8 inches inches as of this morning
The before and after pics are going to be epic!

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Reboot - get lean, get hops
« on: June 01, 2023, 12:03:34 pm »
Quote from: FP on May 26, 2023, 05:47:28 pm
Hey so I do keto for mental health and it helps with weight loss.  But what I have found works for me is 2 days on keto, 1 day eating regular. It gives me the lower cals on the keto days and I can still enjoy whatever food on my off day. I have done full keto before and I know it can be kind of a grind, since sugar is my way of dealing with stress, so just wanted to throw that out there. However to be fair my weight loss has been a pretty mild with the 2 on 1 off approach cause I end up overeating on my off day

I'm fine with keto now, been so long on it my body has adapted.
Just been eating so many cashews that the calories have soared, but I have finally dialled it back and getting back to a good balance


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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Reboot - get lean, get hops
« on: May 20, 2023, 09:34:17 pm »
Still hitting the ISOs, and some light resistance training.

Body is slowly getting better.
Feeling better than in a while, but have also gained a lot of fat/weight :/
Around 90kg now... up from 83kg
On the other hand, eating as much as I did, my TDEE has shot up to over 3000 calories, just sitting on my ass and not doing much ... some how

I really messed up my right leg and knee, a while back, from all those altitude drops and continous jumps in place.
Not just quad tendon, sartorius, and upper plantaris tendinopathy, but my whole right knee swelled up and was hard to bend for a while.

Got my range of motion back, but still some puffiness and fluid in there.
Still some pain


Lesson learned, will stick with what I know best for myself and not try and follow programming from "experts" out on the net...


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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Reboot - get lean, get hops
« on: March 28, 2023, 09:00:32 pm »
Took the last week or so off, to let my body heel up
Also ate well above maintenace...

Just doing my usual ISOs daily, slow tempo stuff, and added some new variants.
Right quad tendon has improved a lot
And right knee has improved ROM so I can now full squat evenly on both sides



Tuesday 28th March 2023

Moderately achey feeling all over
Sore in my lower Sartorius, inner hamstring region on both legs - finally hitting the problem spot

Waking mobility work and upper body stretches - lat, thoracic and pec stretches,
Snatch grip behind the neck press + dislocate/stretch

Tendon Rehab - Recovery

Evening

Lying on back, leg extension ISO, using weight of opposite leg: - 3 slow reps with 10 sec holds at bottom, middle, top x 3 sets
No pain

Hammer curl overcoming ISO: - 30 sec hold, plus 3 slow reps in top half using opposite arm as manual resistance  x 3 sets

Calf raise ISO push against wall corner/foam roller, single leg : - toes out - 30 sec push, plus 5x3 sec burst pushes

Sitting on floor, back on wall,  single leg press push against wall : - 30 sec ISO push, plus 5x3 sec burst pushes x 3 sets  -  3/10 right VMO/quad tendon pain

Sitting on floor, back on wall, single leg press calf raise ISO push against wall: - toes out - 30 sec ISO push, plus 5x3 sec burst pushes x 3 sets

Bulgarian Split Squat - arm supported -  4 secs down, 3 secs up - 3x6
No pain on working leg, but rear leg has some discomfort from stretch and loading


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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Reboot - get lean, get hops
« on: March 28, 2023, 08:43:34 pm »
Sunday 19th March 2023


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Soft tissue work for whole body

BBall, Jumps, Plyos session at WLC outdoor courts - Cycle 2, Week 3, day 1
Bodyweight with shoes -  85.7kg

general dynamic warmup

Split squat ISO on balls of foot, rear leg straight: -  x 45 secs
Calf raise bounces : heels off the floor - x20


Dribbling and ball control drills - 19 mins
Shoot around and practice moves - 22 mins

Below average feeling

Plyos - rotating sets

Low stiff pogos x40, x40 Rotating on the spot, alternating directions each full spin x 4
scissor skip/hop in a star pattern - 2 rotations - 2x15
Speed hops: - 10 forwards/backwards, 10 side to side x2 sets


Jumps - 10 single leg jumps

medium effort. Didn't do much else to let my right quad tendon heal.

Box jumps: to 20 inch wall
LR, RL, plants and standing  x 3 each x 2 sets

Pogos - medium effort - 2x30

Easy hops complex - 30 secs rest between legs and series, 2 mins rest - 10 forwards/backwards, 10 left/right, 10 zig zag forward/backward each leg, Rotating on the spot, alternating directions each full circle 4 times

2 sets

Straight bar dips: BW x20 sec ISO and 3 semi resisted reps, BW x3
controlled 2x8  @ RPE 4/5

Inverted row: - Leg at 90 degrees, supported inverted row - BW x 20 sec ISO and 5 partial reps. Right lower bicep area hurts at top

reverse grip - controlled x8, x8 @ RPE 5


Jogging - walk combo - on concrete netball courts area - 30 mins

40 secs medium jog, walk 1 min, repeat 2 times between chin/dip sets

Chins/Pull ups - 

L hang Chin up: - BW x1, x1, x1, x3
4x6 @ RPE 7

Chin Up: BW x5 @ RPE 8

Bar hang - Pull up grip on thick bar x 40secs

Dips: on corner of fence railing. Controlled  -  BW x10, x12, x12 @ RPE 8
BW x8 @ RPE 8

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stretch

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Reboot - get lean, get hops
« on: March 28, 2023, 08:18:44 pm »
Sunday 19th March 2023

Fat loss cycle 4 - Week 11
Height - 5'8.5"
weighed - 83.7kg (+0.8 ), 184.5lbs

waist - 33 5/8  (-1/8) inches
hip = 40
upper thigh = 25.5 (+0.25)
Right calf = 15 5/8 (+1/8)
Neck = 15 3/8 (-1/8)   
Chest = 41.5   
Right Arm (flexed) = 14 7/8
Wrist = 6.5

Tanita scale bodyfat % = 20.5% (+0.5)

Total loss so far - weight 3.6kg Waist 2 5/8 inches BF% Tanita -2.8%

Macrofactor app true trend weight 83.4kg, (-0.1kg from last week)
Macrofactor TDEE is at 2778 average for the week

Keto intermittent fasting style - averaged 2721 calories over the week, 197g protein, 189g fat, 71g carbs


Ate close to maintenace this week due to a few pig out days, balanced by a few deficit days, so ended up not losing much


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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Reboot - get lean, get hops
« on: March 18, 2023, 06:13:52 pm »
Saturday 18th March 2023

Still achey

Waking mobility work and upper body stretches - lat, thoracic and pec stretches,
Snatch grip behind the neck press + dislocate/stretch

Tendon Rehab - Recovery

Afternoon

Walk - 22 mins

Evening - 6 hours later

Lying on back, leg extension ISO, using weight of opposite leg: -
45 Seconds 3/10 right quad tendon pain
45 Seconds 1/10 right quad tendon pain
45 Seconds x 3 - no pain

Lying on side, knee bent at 90 degrees, sartorius raise ISO against weight of opposite leg: 4 x 45secs

Hammer curl overcoming ISO: Near closed position - 3 x45 secs

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Reboot - get lean, get hops
« on: March 18, 2023, 06:07:48 pm »
Friday 17th March 2023

Moderately achey feeling all over
Sore in my lower Sartorius, inner hamstring region on both legs - finally hitting the problem spot

Waking mobility work and upper body stretches - lat, thoracic and pec stretches,
Snatch grip behind the neck press + dislocate/stretch

Tendon Rehab - Recovery

Morning

Lying on back, leg extension ISO, using weight of opposite leg: -
x 45 secs  - 2/10 right quad tendon pain
x 45 secs  - 1/10 right quad tendon pain
2x45 secs  - no pain

Lying on side, knee bent at 90 degrees, sartorius raise ISO against weight of opposite leg: 4 x 45secs


Afternoon  6 hours later

Semi sissy squat on step ISO, single leg, other foot on step below :
45 Seconds 2/10 right quad tendon pain
45 Seconds 1/10 right quad tendon pain
3x45 Seconds  - no pain

1/4 squat ISO :  3x45secs,
60 Seconds On ball of feet

Evening - 6 hours later

Calf raise ISO push against wall corner/foam roller, single leg : - toes out - 3x45 Seconds

Sitting on floor, back on wall, single leg press calf raise ISO push against wall:
45 Seconds Toes out
45 Seconds Toes in
45 Seconds Toes in
45 Seconds Toes out

Lying on back, leg extension ISO, using weight of opposite leg: - 5 x 45secs  - 1/10 right quad tendon pain
45 Seconds 2/10 right quad tendon pain
45 Seconds 1/10 right quad tendon pain
45 Seconds No pain

Lying on side, knee bent at 90 degrees, sartorius raise ISO against weight of opposite leg: 4 x 45secs

Lying on back, single leg press ISO push against wall :
45 Seconds 3/10 right VMO quad tendon pain
45 Seconds 2/10 right VMO quad tendon pain
45 Seconds 2/10 right VMO quad tendon pain
45 Seconds 1/10 right VMO quad tendon pain


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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Reboot - get lean, get hops
« on: March 18, 2023, 05:49:40 pm »
Thursday 16th March 2023

Mild drained feeling - I think the RDLs from yesterday did the most damage
Achey all over.
Moderate soreness in posterior chain and rear obliques

Waking mobility work and upper body stretches - lat, thoracic and pec stretches,
Snatch grip behind the neck press + dislocate/stretch

Tendon Rehab - Recovery

Afternoon

Lying on back, leg extension ISO, using weight of opposite leg: - 5 x 45secs  - 1/10 right quad tendon pain
Lying on side, knee bent at 90 degrees, sartorius raise ISO against weight of opposite leg: 5 x 45secs


Evening  6 hours later

Lying on back, leg extension ISO, using weight of opposite leg: - 5 x 45secs  - 1/10 right quad tendon pain
Lying on side, knee bent at 90 degrees, sartorius raise ISO against weight of opposite leg: 5 x4 5secs

Hammer curl overcoming ISO: Near closed position - 3 x45 secs


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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Reboot - get lean, get hops
« on: March 18, 2023, 05:35:44 pm »
Wednesday 15th March 2023


Waking mobility work and upper body stretches - lat, thoracic and pec stretches,

Tendon Rehab - Lower Cycle 2, Week 2, Day 2

Body Weight: 84.9kg with shoes

snatch grip behind the neck press + dislocates with broom

Split squat ISO on balls of foot, rear leg straight: x45 secs

Glute bridge hold: x35 Secs
Front plank hold - 35 secs
Side plank, Side plank, staggered stance, opposite leg and hand in the air x35 secs - hard

Bird Dogs - hold at top - x12 each side
Heel touch downs, single leg, off 8 inch step: slow tempo - BW x10

Rotating sets

External rotation ISO, band between forearms, moving from waist to overhead and back down: 3x45secs
Suitcase carry, unilateral, marches in place:  each side - 35lbs x10, 40lbs 2x10

Lying on side, knee bent at 90 degrees, sartorius raise ISO against weight of opposite leg: : 4 x 45secs  - hard

Trying this out, does seem to hit my lower Sartorius problem area pretty hard

SSB single leg Calf raise ISO: - 2 hands supported, held at slightly above neutral -  Horizontally staggered stance, slight opposite foot support, toes pointed out  -
45 secs x BW, 30kg, 50kg
45secs x 70kg - Moderately hard. 1/10 achilles insertion pain both sides
45secs x 80kg x 2 sets - 2/10 left achilles pain, both sides

Leg extension ISO, single leg - end of unit elevated 5 inches - 5 sec concentric, 10 sec hold at top, 30 sec hold at 60 degrees, slow eccentric - 15kg,
20kg, 22.5kg, 22.5kg - 2/10 right VMO/quad tendon pain

Dumbbell press, rotating grip: - inline with ears - 15lbs x10, 25lbs x8, 35lbs x6, 45lbs x5,
50lbs x10 @ RPE 9
50lbs x8 @8

Rotating sets

SSB single leg Calf raise: - 2 hands supported, 3 secs down, 1 sec up - flat on floor, toes pointed out - 50kg x10
60kg x10
65kg x10 @ RPE 7

High Bar squat - 4 secs down and up - BW x10,  half squat - 20kg x10, 40kg x6,
half squat - 50kg 3x6 - 3/10 right quad tendon pain

Still pretty uncomfortable...

Tibilias Wall raise - against side of car, in oly shoes - BW x 10,
dip belt+15kg x11, x8, x7 @ RPE  8 

Preacher Hammer curl ISO. single arm: - 5kg plate, on bench, stretch range  3x 45 secs

Romanian Deadlift - 20kg x10, 6
deadlifted off floor for first rep
60kg x10 - belt, hookgrip
80kg x8 - belt
100kg x8 - belt, hookgrip

Straps, Belt - 110kg x8, x10 @ RPE 7

High angle barbell row: - Pulled to sternum, With hold at top -
40kg x10 @7
40kg x10 @8
40kg x8 @8 .   3/10 right brachialis pain

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stretch

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Reboot - get lean, get hops
« on: March 18, 2023, 02:35:47 pm »
Tuesday 14th March 2023

Feeling a bit more achey today
Didn't feel like doing anything so rested


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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Reboot - get lean, get hops
« on: March 13, 2023, 01:53:39 pm »
Monday 13th March 2023

Not feeling too bad at all. Just some minor aches on my lower achilles insertions that goes away when warmed up.
Not much muscle soreness as well.

rest

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Reboot - get lean, get hops
« on: March 13, 2023, 01:32:25 pm »
Dual monitor goodness -  :derp:

My old 12 year old Eizo FS2331 23 inch VA panel  monitor on top - 58k hours and still going strong!
And my newly acquired 34 inch Dell S2422DWG ultrawide screen VA monitor - so much space :)




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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Reboot - get lean, get hops
« on: March 13, 2023, 01:05:22 pm »
Sunday 12th March 2023

OK, not fresh, but not bad

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Waking mobility work and upper body stretches - brief
Soft tissue work for whole body

BBall, Jumps, Plyos session at WLC outdoor courts - Cycle 2, Week 2, day 1
Bodyweight with shoes -  84.5kg

general dynamic warmup

Split squat ISO on balls of foot, rear leg straight: -  x 45 secs
Calf raise bounces : heels off the floor - 2x20


Dribbling and ball control drills - 15 mins
Shoot around and practice moves - 20 mins

Good energy

Plyos - rotating sets

Low stiff pogos x20, x40 Rotating on the spot, alternating directions each full spin
scissor skip/hop in a star pattern - 2 rotations - 2x15
Speed hops: - 10 forwards/backwards, 10 side to side x2 sets


Jumps - 20 of all types, plus a few trick dunks on 8 feet netball rims

With relaxed hard effort. Did not try to jump as hard as possible.
Still lower than current bests

Easy hops complex - 30 secs rest between legs and series, 2 mins rest - 10 forwards/backwards, 10 left/right, 10 zig zag forward/backward each leg, Rotating on the spot, alternating directions each full circle 4 times

3 sets

felt good, soft, easy and relaxed

Straight bar dips: BW x20 sec ISO and 3 semi resisted reps, BW x3
controlled 2x8  @ RPE 4/5

Inverted row: - Leg at 90 degrees, supported inverted row - BW x6 - 3/10 right lower bicep area pain
20 sec ISO - 3/10 right lower bicep pain

reverse grip - controlled x7, x8 @ RPE 5


Jogging - walk combo - on concrete netball courts area - 25 mins

40 secs medium jog, walk 1 min, repeat 3 times between chin/dip sets

Chins/Pull ups - 

L hang Chin up: - BW x1, x3
3x6 @ RPE 6.5/7/7

Chin Up: BW 2x6 @ RPE 7/8

Bar hang - Pull up grip on thick bar x 40secs

Dips: on corner of fence railing. Controlled  -  BW x8,
BW x10, x10, x12  @ RPE 4/5/6

Felt very easy and smooth, bodyweight felt like nothing

Calf raise, single leg: - Full range. 3 secs up and down - 3x10

toes out on last set, minor ache on left inner achilles area, plantris tendon

Squat, bodyweight : - 4 secs down and up - 3x10
right quad tendon pain on first few reps then ok

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stretch

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