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Re: acole14's journal - DUNK OR DIE
« Reply #660 on: July 22, 2013, 05:24:43 am »
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7.4 60m is pretty fast. U gonna compete in any races later this year?
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« Reply #661 on: July 22, 2013, 09:13:09 pm »
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7.4 60m is pretty fast. U gonna compete in any races later this year?

Definitely. I was all set to join the Uni athletics club last year but in September/October I wasn't even sure I'd be around due to work/study changing. Then when I sorted something out I had that weird knee injury that took about 2 months to resolve completely. So by the time I was healthy the season was nearly done anyway. But all going well this year I'll be running some comps in November! Probably nothing longer than 200m and maybe long jump. Staying away from triple jump this time around.

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« Reply #662 on: July 22, 2013, 11:09:49 pm »
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Yeah it's good that the whole uni thing worked out. It's tough for young people in Australia atm. I got no idea what I'm gonna do work wise. I can easily get jobs for labouring but the whole point of me going to uni was to get an office job, which is what I want to do (hopefully generalist HR/consulting).
I'm planning on running again as well starting around November the same time as you so it'll be good. I'm just gonna run the 60, 100 and 200. I'm way 2 lazy to try 400m or any middle distance events and long jump isn't my thing. Triple jump is pretty hard on the joints ay.

Edit- I miss the summer! I took it for granted earlier this year how easy it was to train since it was always warm and dry. Apart from my injury and rugby the reason I havn't done any running so far since April is because of the weather. It's raining almost every day and when it's not raining it's like 10 degrees. Way 2 cold. I feel sorry for European people that have to contend with snow and cold temperatures year round. At least we're lucky that we only got this shit weather for a few months.
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Re: acole14's journal - DUNK OR DIE
« Reply #663 on: July 23, 2013, 08:41:11 pm »
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Yeah it's good that the whole uni thing worked out. It's tough for young people in Australia atm. I got no idea what I'm gonna do work wise. I can easily get jobs for labouring but the whole point of me going to uni was to get an office job, which is what I want to do (hopefully generalist HR/consulting).
I'm planning on running again as well starting around November the same time as you so it'll be good. I'm just gonna run the 60, 100 and 200. I'm way 2 lazy to try 400m or any middle distance events and long jump isn't my thing. Triple jump is pretty hard on the joints ay.

Edit- I miss the summer! I took it for granted earlier this year how easy it was to train since it was always warm and dry. Apart from my injury and rugby the reason I havn't done any running so far since April is because of the weather. It's raining almost every day and when it's not raining it's like 10 degrees. Way 2 cold. I feel sorry for European people that have to contend with snow and cold temperatures year round. At least we're lucky that we only got this shit weather for a few months.

Yeah it is tough alright...way too many people getting degrees for a handful of jobs, most of which require experience,  etc. Grad programs are the same mass application lottery system so it's hard to get experience. I've wormed my way into my 'job' through a bit of networking but mostly sheer luck. I say 'job' because I get paid very little and am mostly just doing pre-PhD research until November when I can start finally.

Yeah winter always sucks for track because Australia isn't quite cold enough/athletics not popular enough to justify having indoor tracks. In Europe/US, there's a lot more indoor facilities that people use when it's snowing, but we just have to put up with wet tracks/not run track during winter. I've been lucky so far, haven;t had any track sessions wash out but it'll happen at some point.

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Foam roll warmup/activation

Squat: Warmup, 1x8@50kgs, 1x5@50kgs (front), 3x5@100kgs

BSS: 2x8/leg@35kgs, 1x8/leg@20kgs

UB

BW: 76.5kgs

Common sense decreed that because I was wearing shoes that were changing my form, I should not lift heavy this session until I get used to them. I like common sense! The shoes felt great though, really solid and definitely feels like it's easier to get good depth. Looking forward to getting back past 2xBW with better form. Next time I'm in a quiet gym I'll do some videos with and without.

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Re: acole14's journal - DUNK OR DIE
« Reply #664 on: July 24, 2013, 12:59:49 am »
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Yeah it's really hard to get Graduate positions. I got through to the interview stage for a Graduate position at Fair Work Australia last year. Just to get through to the interview you need to compete against hundreds of other applications. On the day there was 6 people being interviewed and all of them had law degrees except for me. They were giving 3 positions throughout Australia. However, there was 6 people being interviewed in Adelaide. Than they also had another 6 being interviewed in Melbourne, Perth, Sydney and Brisbane. So it ended up being 3/30 chance of gaining a position. Needless to say I didn't get it.

I've managed to get through to the interview stage with the ABS as well for a graduate position. This time the interview is in Canberra next week so hopefully I have more chance of gaining this graduate position than the Fair Work one. I've had like 8 interviews this year for office jobs but so far I've had no job offers from them. The feedback I get back is always that 'we employed somebody with more experience'. But it's impossible to gain experience if nobody gives you a chance. In the past I've done volunteering for 6 months in an office but they just take advantage of you. I was driving 30km 1 way to volunteer and I wasn't getting paid anything. Than they didn't even use my skills or anything all day everyday they just had me doing mundane tasks like photocopying and scanning so I wasn't even gaining worthwhile experience anyway. Even with the 6 months volunteering the majority of companies all look for 2-3 years experience minimum for graduates anyway so regardless of the work experience quality it's fuked.

It's pretty disheartening. I've done hundreds of applications and haven't got shit so a lot of the time I just think university was pointless. It seems like the only jobs for young males in Australia are labouring or trades. I cringe every time I hear the Government talking about their 'education revolutions' and all that bullshit. What's the point of getting educated when there are no jobs available for you when you do graduate. Instead of dumbing down the schools and trying to get every kid to pass year 12 they should make school harder so you actually got to be smart to go to uni. But even than it doesn't matter if you fail year 12 here you can just go to TAFE or do some online pathway course and get into uni anyway. That's why you got soo many people at uni because half of them don't even deserve to be there. Of course the uni's and Government don't care though because it's in their benefit to enrol more students. The unis make more money and the Government doesn't need to worry about adding these people to the unemployment statistics.

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Re: acole14's journal - DUNK OR DIE
« Reply #665 on: July 25, 2013, 09:57:17 pm »
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Yeah it's really hard to get Graduate positions. I got through to the interview stage for a Graduate position at Fair Work Australia last year. Just to get through to the interview you need to compete against hundreds of other applications. On the day there was 6 people being interviewed and all of them had law degrees except for me. They were giving 3 positions throughout Australia. However, there was 6 people being interviewed in Adelaide. Than they also had another 6 being interviewed in Melbourne, Perth, Sydney and Brisbane. So it ended up being 3/30 chance of gaining a position. Needless to say I didn't get it.

I've managed to get through to the interview stage with the ABS as well for a graduate position. This time the interview is in Canberra next week so hopefully I have more chance of gaining this graduate position than the Fair Work one. I've had like 8 interviews this year for office jobs but so far I've had no job offers from them. The feedback I get back is always that 'we employed somebody with more experience'. But it's impossible to gain experience if nobody gives you a chance. In the past I've done volunteering for 6 months in an office but they just take advantage of you. I was driving 30km 1 way to volunteer and I wasn't getting paid anything. Than they didn't even use my skills or anything all day everyday they just had me doing mundane tasks like photocopying and scanning so I wasn't even gaining worthwhile experience anyway. Even with the 6 months volunteering the majority of companies all look for 2-3 years experience minimum for graduates anyway so regardless of the work experience quality it's fuked.

It's pretty disheartening. I've done hundreds of applications and haven't got shit so a lot of the time I just think university was pointless. It seems like the only jobs for young males in Australia are labouring or trades. I cringe every time I hear the Government talking about their 'education revolutions' and all that bullshit. What's the point of getting educated when there are no jobs available for you when you do graduate. Instead of dumbing down the schools and trying to get every kid to pass year 12 they should make school harder so you actually got to be smart to go to uni. But even than it doesn't matter if you fail year 12 here you can just go to TAFE or do some online pathway course and get into uni anyway. That's why you got soo many people at uni because half of them don't even deserve to be there. Of course the uni's and Government don't care though because it's in their benefit to enrol more students. The unis make more money and the Government doesn't need to worry about adding these people to the unemployment statistics.

100% agree with everything you said. Even in a 'good' uni like Melbourne Uni, there are still so many dropkicks just taking up space. And don't get me started on that education reform bullshit. Holy shit. The funny thing about that is, they want to improve student outcomes by raising the quality of teaching...but where do they think teachers are getting trained? Anyway, I could go on for hours about our piss-poor government and how little gets achieved.

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Re: acole14's journal - DUNK OR DIE
« Reply #666 on: July 25, 2013, 11:27:40 pm »
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Yeah it's really hard to get Graduate positions. I got through to the interview stage for a Graduate position at Fair Work Australia last year. Just to get through to the interview you need to compete against hundreds of other applications. On the day there was 6 people being interviewed and all of them had law degrees except for me. They were giving 3 positions throughout Australia. However, there was 6 people being interviewed in Adelaide. Than they also had another 6 being interviewed in Melbourne, Perth, Sydney and Brisbane. So it ended up being 3/30 chance of gaining a position. Needless to say I didn't get it.

I've managed to get through to the interview stage with the ABS as well for a graduate position. This time the interview is in Canberra next week so hopefully I have more chance of gaining this graduate position than the Fair Work one. I've had like 8 interviews this year for office jobs but so far I've had no job offers from them. The feedback I get back is always that 'we employed somebody with more experience'. But it's impossible to gain experience if nobody gives you a chance. In the past I've done volunteering for 6 months in an office but they just take advantage of you. I was driving 30km 1 way to volunteer and I wasn't getting paid anything. Than they didn't even use my skills or anything all day everyday they just had me doing mundane tasks like photocopying and scanning so I wasn't even gaining worthwhile experience anyway. Even with the 6 months volunteering the majority of companies all look for 2-3 years experience minimum for graduates anyway so regardless of the work experience quality it's fuked.

It's pretty disheartening. I've done hundreds of applications and haven't got shit so a lot of the time I just think university was pointless. It seems like the only jobs for young males in Australia are labouring or trades. I cringe every time I hear the Government talking about their 'education revolutions' and all that bullshit. What's the point of getting educated when there are no jobs available for you when you do graduate. Instead of dumbing down the schools and trying to get every kid to pass year 12 they should make school harder so you actually got to be smart to go to uni. But even than it doesn't matter if you fail year 12 here you can just go to TAFE or do some online pathway course and get into uni anyway. That's why you got soo many people at uni because half of them don't even deserve to be there. Of course the uni's and Government don't care though because it's in their benefit to enrol more students. The unis make more money and the Government doesn't need to worry about adding these people to the unemployment statistics.

100% agree with everything you said. Even in a 'good' uni like Melbourne Uni, there are still so many dropkicks just taking up space. And don't get me started on that education reform bullshit. Holy shit. The funny thing about that is, they want to improve student outcomes by raising the quality of teaching...but where do they think teachers are getting trained? Anyway, I could go on for hours about our piss-poor government and how little gets achieved.

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Re: acole14's journal - DUNK OR DIE
« Reply #667 on: July 26, 2013, 09:49:00 am »
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shit, wait. just kidding.
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Re: acole14's journal - DUNK OR DIE
« Reply #668 on: July 27, 2013, 02:54:29 am »
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USA #1!!!!!!!!!

shit, wait. just kidding.

Lol.  One of the first posts that actually had me laughing hard.

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Re: acole14's journal - DUNK OR DIE
« Reply #669 on: July 28, 2013, 07:03:54 am »
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Gym (Friday):

RDL: warmup, 1x5@60kgs, 1x5@80kgs, 2x5@100kgs

SL calf raise: 2x20/leg@27.5kgs

Back ext: 1x10@BW, 2x10@20kgs

SL ham curl machine: 2x20/leg@10kgs

UB, core (see prog tracker)

RDL felt pretty good. I feel my form is acceptable and didn't get major soreness in lower back. Lots of calf soreness, I think this was because I really slowed down the eccentric. Heavy eccentric makes my calves hurt good. Good ham soreness as well the next day and even Sunday.

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Gym (today):

I was planning on sprinting but the track was taken up by some kids soccer thing. Probably good to have a rest. I'm not in full-blown power/speed phase yet and still need to get stronger. So went to the gym to get used to my shoes some more.

Weighted box jumps, 4 SVJs (not bad, still a bit off a few months ago)

Squat: 1x6@40kgs x 2 (back and front), 1x6@60kgs (1x3@60kgs for front), 3x6@100kgs

Other random stuff (see prog tracker)

No real shock but the Romaleos have been great. I'm really noticing the increased stability and depth they provide.

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Re: acole14's journal - DUNK OR DIE
« Reply #670 on: July 30, 2013, 07:39:34 am »
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Gym:

Foam roll warmup/activation

Squat: Warmup, 1x6@60kgs, 1x6@80kgs, 1x6@120kgs, 1x6@80kgs

BSS: 2x8/leg@40kgs

TKEs: 2x10/leg@10kgs

UB (see prog tracker)

BW: 76.5kgs

Squat was easy today. I think I'm used to the shoes now. BSS was hard though.

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Re: acole14's journal - DUNK OR DIE
« Reply #671 on: July 30, 2013, 08:30:45 am »
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In the BSS did you use 40 kg dumbbells or 40 kg is the overall weight?

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Re: acole14's journal - DUNK OR DIE
« Reply #672 on: July 30, 2013, 08:44:01 am »
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In the BSS did you use 40 kg dumbbells or 40 kg is the overall weight?

Yeah overall weight (2x20kgs)...might have to move to barbell eventually.

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« Reply #673 on: July 30, 2013, 09:43:27 am »
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Well... the most I ever used was 40 kg dumbbells but could only do 5 reps because my hand would just unfold and drop the dumbbell... I even used 45 kg ones for 3 reps.

It's never been a leg strength issue for me with dumbbells. But I kinda like to use them because I also challenge my grip strength so...

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« Reply #674 on: July 30, 2013, 10:20:15 pm »
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Well... the most I ever used was 40 kg dumbbells but could only do 5 reps because my hand would just unfold and drop the dumbbell... I even used 45 kg ones for 3 reps.

It's never been a leg strength issue for me with dumbbells. But I kinda like to use them because I also challenge my grip strength so...

Yeah I imagine I'll be the same when I get there. I really like the exercise though, I definitely have some strength imbalances between my right and left leg atm and I think these will help iron them out. Last time I did these my right felt a lot more fatigued at the end, but yesterday the difference wasn't nearly as bad.