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Re: chasing athleticism
« Reply #4950 on: April 10, 2020, 08:51:18 am »
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Fri (10/4/2020)
Daily Activity: 5
Daily Training: 13 days
BW: 83.1kg (no shoes)

BS 6x50, 6x80, 6x105, 3x120, 1x132.5, 8x107.5, 12x97.5(belt)
BP 8x40, 8x57.5
Slow run around block ~20min

Notes:
Abz pretty beaten up. that set of 8 with 107.5 was ugly and brutally hard. didn't feel up to doing the set of 10x97.5 after that, walked it out, was heavy, felt deflated and put it back. Then thought to try a belt instead of ending the workout and it worked, not just a placebo  .. i really want to explore cycling belt training with my normal raw.
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Re: chasing athleticism
« Reply #4951 on: April 11, 2020, 03:00:41 pm »
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Sat (11/4/2020)
Daily Activity: 5
Daily Training: 14 days
BW: 84.1kg (no shoes)

BS 6x50, 6x75, 6x100, 2x120, 1x125
BP 6x70, 6x80, 3x85, 1x88.5, 7Fx75, 8x73
Pullup 6xBW

Notes:
been binge/comfort eating thru the blues, need to shake it off
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Re: chasing athleticism
« Reply #4952 on: April 12, 2020, 08:49:38 am »
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Sun (12/4/2020)
Daily Activity: 5
Daily Training: 15 days
BW: 84.1kg (no shoes)

BS 6x50, 6x75, 6x100, 3x120, 1x135, 8x110, 10x100
OHP 8x27.5, 8x37.5
Run - 2.75km, 17:18, 06:15/km pace

Notes:
Pulled out the new GPS watch for the first time (my old one died last year) and timed my standard run around the block. Surprising to find it's only 2.75km and im in such bad shape that 15 minutes seemed like a good goal lol. Yeah got work to do.
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Re: chasing athleticism
« Reply #4953 on: April 13, 2020, 10:22:02 am »
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Mon (13/4/2020)
Daily Activity: 6
Daily Training: 16 days
BW: ? (no shoes)

BS 6x50, 6x75, 6x100, 3x120, 1x127.5
OHP 6x50, 4x57.5, 2x60, 7Fx53, 9x50, 10x47.5
Chinup 5x10kg, 8xBW

Notes:
Bumped the daily min up by 2.5kg to 127.5kg and added a rep to the 120kg warmup set.
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Re: chasing athleticism
« Reply #4954 on: April 14, 2020, 08:19:09 am »
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Tue (14/4/2020)
Daily Activity: 6
Daily Training: 17 days
BW: ? (no shoes)

BS 6x50, 6x75, 6x100, 3x122.5, 0Fx137.5, 1x127.5, 10x102.5, 15x90(belt)
BP 8x40, 8x57.5
Run - 17min

Notes:
I've fallen into this trap where squat workouts are very hard mentally and to recover from and so i'm trying to make up for it by eating junk, which is a mistake in the first place but especially when im going to undo all my hard work to have got leaner. so a new plan is since im around day 20 now, it's time to focus on something else for the next 20 day block.

over the years ive tried it all, oly squats, front squats, pause squats etc. but i haven't seriously tried belted squats. i did use them initially before i knew what i was doing with horrible form but now it will be with better technique. this will stop me from burning out by trying to chase my old maxes which im far from (tonight i failed 137.5kg and i can easily see myself getting injured if i keep this up).
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Re: chasing athleticism
« Reply #4955 on: April 15, 2020, 07:17:46 am »
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Wed (15/4/2020)
Daily Activity: 5
Daily Training: 18 days
BW: 84.6kg (no shoes)

BS 6x50, 6x75, 6x100, 3x120, 1x127.5
BP 6x75, 5x82.5, 1x90, 7x77.5, 8x73.5
Pullup 5x2.5kg, 6xBW

Notes:
trained earlier and having a reflection really makes my squats feel stronger, it helps nail the bottom position which keeps everything locked in. i need to do that regularly. still set on using the belt for the next 20 day block. not 100% sure i'm going to set it up but on lower body emphasis days, i want to do a workset with the belt every time.
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Re: chasing athleticism
« Reply #4956 on: April 16, 2020, 07:46:06 am »
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a strong squatter on lyle mcdonald's mean forum swore by standing ab pull-downs for squatting core strength. he did 'em with bands and cables both, iirc. n=1 but something else to consider if you're concerned about your core.
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Re: chasing athleticism
« Reply #4957 on: April 17, 2020, 07:44:25 am »
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a strong squatter on lyle mcdonald's mean forum swore by standing ab pull-downs for squatting core strength. he did 'em with bands and cables both, iirc. n=1 but something else to consider if you're concerned about your core.

did always like those ab exercises, they make abs bigger that's for sure, i never noticed what effect they had on squatting but something to try. thanks.
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Re: chasing athleticism
« Reply #4958 on: April 17, 2020, 07:47:25 am »
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Fri (17/4/2020)
Daily Activity: 5
Daily Training: 20 days
BW: 84.8kg (no shoes)

Recovery BS 6x50, 6x75, 6x100, 3x120, 1x130
OHP 6x50, 3x58.5, 2x61, 8x53, 10x50
Chinup 5x11.25kg(shit form though, repeat), 8xBW

Notes:
Drained but new block here we go. Was pretty ambitious to bump daily min to 130kg but just cos it's a challenge now doesn't mean it will be in a week, so lets stick through the dark times and see what happens.
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« Reply #4959 on: April 18, 2020, 07:05:29 am »
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sorry to bother you guys but im doing a project for grad school and im conducting some kind of user experience surveying. The app i've chosen is for runners. you're probably already using garmin connect (etc)?  my question is what sort of features would you like to see in a running app, if any, or what would you remove that exists in your current app but you've never found useful? apart from features what do you look for in a running apps (bare minimum) in terms of user experience? any other feedback welcome. thank you.
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Re: chasing athleticism
« Reply #4960 on: April 18, 2020, 07:07:25 am »
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Sat (18/4/2020)
Daily Activity: 2.5
Daily Training: 21 days
BW: 85.2kg (no shoes)

BS 6x75, 6x100, 3x127.5, 1x132.5
Back Xtn 12xBW

Notes:
I was lucky not to get injured today. That 100kg warmup felt precariously dangerous. Didn't end up doing anything after the 130kg single though i did load up 107.5kg then 110kg, then 95kg then 90kg then 85kg. Just wasnt feeling it today. Weird day.
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Re: fao runners (vag, adarqui, lbbs, gukl, joe)
« Reply #4961 on: April 18, 2020, 11:21:39 am »
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sorry to bother you guys but im doing a project for grad school and im conducting some kind of user experience surveying. The app i've chosen is for runners. you're probably already using garmin connect (etc)?  my question is what sort of features would you like to see in a running app, if any, or what would you remove that exists in your current app but you've never found useful? apart from features what do you look for in a running apps (bare minimum) in terms of user experience? any other feedback welcome. thank you.

i don't have as many complaints about the garmin app as i do about their web interface, which is astoundingly bad and almost completely useless.

the main feature i'd like to see in the app is to be able to review the workout by distance, not just time. as it stands, you can look at minute-by-minute pace, elevation, and HR, but not trace any of those against where you were at in a run. mapmyrun kind of allows that (online, not in the app) but still not very well.

i'll keep thinking about it.
Muscles are nonsensical they have nothing to do with this bullshit.

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Re: fao runners (vag, adarqui, lbbs, gukl, joe)
« Reply #4962 on: April 19, 2020, 12:49:12 am »
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Damn that's an awesome idea! breaking down splits by distance, kind of how an engineer can look at a signal in the time or frequency domain depending on whichever is more insightful can be very enlightening, it makes sense a runner would like to view the same run in different domains. I'll think about it some more too.
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Re: chasing athleticism
« Reply #4963 on: April 19, 2020, 08:13:01 am »
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Sun (19/4/2020)
Daily Activity: 2.5
Daily Training: 22 days
BW: 84.6kg (no shoes)

Maintenance BS 6x75, 6x100, 3x120, 1x130
BP 6x75.5, 5x84, 1x91.5, 7x78.5, 8x75
Pullup 5x5kg, 7xBW
 
Notes:
After 3 weeks of daily training with eod upper body workouts, my right bicep/tricep is getting pretty beaten up, which is a good thing cos i'm left handed and it's a sign the right side of the body is being worked hard to catch up.  This even applies to my right quad and hamstring! overall, im struggling, squats have hit a hard wall, every rep is hard now, not sure if that is something to train through or back off, lets give it a couple of workouts and reassess
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Re: chasing athleticism
« Reply #4964 on: April 20, 2020, 06:44:04 am »
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Mon (20/4/2020)
Daily Activity: 5
Daily Training: 22 days
BW: 84.2kg (no shoes)

BS 6x75, 6x100, 3x122.5, 1x130
BX 15xBW
Run - 2 laps (5km)

Notes:
My body is not dealing with daily squats all of a sudden im not recovering. Those 130kg singles might be the reason, maybe im being too damn greedy doing it every day? But afterwards even walking out the bar with 87.5kg feels heavy and my abs/core/spine just nope out. In hindsight im thinking this is a waste of a training day, surely it's better to drop the daily max and do some worksets than keep the max where it is and be unable to do any work afterwards.
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