Author Topic: chasing athleticism (Read 940254 times)

maxent · « **Reply #2955 on:** June 26, 2016, 01:27:17 am »

Had a great time last night. Life isn't too bad right now! Am sore as fuck in the erectors, glutes and hamstrings from yesterday. But will still train. I think i need to, after the excesses last night haha. Then rest day monday.

Mikey · « **Reply #2956 on:** June 26, 2016, 01:51:24 am »

Weddings are the best! Great food and unlimited drinks. Great way to meet new people. I got my current job through talking to a business owner at a wedding I went to a couple of years ago.

maxent · « **Reply #2957 on:** June 26, 2016, 02:53:45 am »

BP 3x6x77.5(LPR)
WCU 3x104.2(LPR; +20kg), 5x99.2(LPR; +15kg), 6x94.2(LPR), 6x89.2

adarqui · « **Reply #2958 on:** June 26, 2016, 03:06:58 am »

Quote from: Mutumbo000 on June 26, 2016, 01:51:24 am

Weddings are the best! Great food and unlimited drinks. Great way to meet new people. I got my current job through talking to a business owner at a wedding I went to a couple of years ago.

hah nice.

i've actually never been to one.. eek!

maxent · « **Reply #2959 on:** June 26, 2016, 11:24:35 am »

Contn:

Sprints x 4
dips 2x8

then as i was waiting to get my breath back after sprints, contemplating driving to the bball courts for pickup, my phone buzzed and she asked what i was doing and i said blah and then she said there's this movie. and I just had the best date of my life. so yeah, nothing makes sense anymore. but i'll take it. surreal.

mutumbo, youre not wrong. that's how i met my ex last year. she was introduced to me by someone. adarqui .. awwy .. cant wait til you go to your first one, will expect you to log it .. !

ok next week, starting monday im eatinf chicken breast and oatmeal for at least 10 days. im making too many false starts, have to see thru this thing until the scale reads a consistent 79.0 or less. Then i can go maintain if i like.

T0ddday · « **Reply #2960 on:** June 26, 2016, 01:49:38 pm »

Quote from: maxent on June 26, 2016, 11:24:35 am

Contn:

Sprints x 4
dips 2x8

then as i was waiting to get my breath back after sprints, contemplating driving to the bball courts for pickup, my phone buzzed and she asked what i was doing and i said blah and then she said there's this movie. and I just had the best date of my life. so yeah, nothing makes sense anymore. but i'll take it. surreal

Not surprising at all! I'm a scientist - I don't believe in most superstition or magic...

But perspective is magic. Notice how she called you when you were doing you (American saying - you were working out and becoming beast) rather than at home moping about your situation with her. Your perspective and your outlook can be heard if your voice... Sure it's probably not really magic... Probably if your feeling self pity she hears it in your voice and subconsciously feels some need to ask you something like "oh did I leave my necklace in your car? Oh no? Musta been another guy then." Instead she here's your lactate filled voice and asks you to the movies...

However if it's not magic who cares, it's far too complicated to try and model as anything else but magic, and it kinda kills it and makes it seem no fun anyway to try and think about why perspective matters, but it does. Positivity, the benefit of the doubt, and acceptance go a long long way in matters of the heart.

maxent · « **Reply #2961 on:** June 27, 2016, 01:38:44 am »

I forgot to mention I did a quick bounds based drill before the sprints. It was interesting to be close to where I left off when i was doing these semi regularly .. haven't lost anything. Interesting..

But for tmr track session i'll do T0dday's workout:

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Quote from: T0ddday on June 21, 2016, 11:13:04 am
Workout:
1) 3-5 strides
2) 3-5 50m mobility runs to get warm
3) 5 30m dynamic walking stretches (knee to elbow lunge, hand to heel lunge, inchworm hamstring to handstand stretch, walking leg kicks, walking hip stretch holds, etc.
4) 3-5 10yard Locked knee ankle bounds to get warmer
5) Bounding:

a) 10 broad jumps (EASY - if you have yard markers and you max Broad jump is 3 yards you could just do 10 jumps that are over 10 yards. Jump reset. Jump reset, etc).
b) Multi Bounds - EASY. Again so imagine your best 5xbunny hop is 15 yards. So just hit 12 three times with good form. Same for single leg and alternating leg. After weeks of this you can add a yard. But there are not attempts to PR necessarily (when you are feeling great I am sure you will be tempted to - but think of these as submax bounds which WILL help your vertical jump and dynamic basketball jumping and get your warm).

6) Sprint workout.
7) Stretch/Cooldown

maxent · « **Reply #2962 on:** June 27, 2016, 01:42:01 am »

Quote from: T0ddday on June 26, 2016, 01:49:38 pm

Quote from: maxent on June 26, 2016, 11:24:35 am
Contn:

Sprints x 4
dips 2x8

then as i was waiting to get my breath back after sprints, contemplating driving to the bball courts for pickup, my phone buzzed and she asked what i was doing and i said blah and then she said there's this movie. and I just had the best date of my life. so yeah, nothing makes sense anymore. but i'll take it. surreal

Not surprising at all! I'm a scientist - I don't believe in most superstition or magic...

But perspective is magic. Notice how she called you when you were doing you (American saying - you were working out and becoming beast) rather than at home moping about your situation with her. Your perspective and your outlook can be heard if your voice... Sure it's probably not really magic... Probably if your feeling self pity she hears it in your voice and subconsciously feels some need to ask you something like "oh did I leave my necklace in your car? Oh no? Musta been another guy then." Instead she here's your lactate filled voice and asks you to the movies...

However if it's not magic who cares, it's far too complicated to try and model as anything else but magic, and it kinda kills it and makes it seem no fun anyway to try and think about why perspective matters, but it does. Positivity, the benefit of the doubt, and acceptance go a long long way in matters of the heart.

I think you were right that left to my own devices, i overplan the shit out of things and the build up all but destroys the chance of a natural organic time together. So it kinda worked out well that she just asked last minute and we winged it. I thought i have to plan things down so it goes smoothly, which is true i think, you have to make an effort to have a good time, but i can learn smoething from this, that planning is good but so is spontaneity, given my tendency to overthink things.

maxent · « **Reply #2963 on:** June 27, 2016, 02:10:34 am »

Just a note in passing, sprints didn't give me crazy doms like last time. So that's good. If naything i feel pretty fresh, tho maybe it's delayed yet. If i adapt and can sprint regularly without disrupting lifting and balling, i'm happy to continue regular track work, so this is a promising sign. Will know better tmr when i squat, if i can still get some decent worksets in, then ive cracked the magic mix of balanced training..

maxent · « **Reply #2964 on:** June 28, 2016, 01:03:16 am »

Was looking forward to track work today. Weather is terrible though, rain forecast all day. It's winter! We are lucky on the west coast that our climate is the so called Mediterranean kind, like Socal, winters are milder and still pretty nice. Which is true, however, in a given winter week, you might get a couple of days of sunshine, in some random order, and it doesn't have to correspond to your nicely laid out program. Will see how it goes...

Shud be good thurs and sat, thankfully.

maxent · « **Reply #2965 on:** June 28, 2016, 06:05:15 am »

BS 3x3x120(LPR), 3x2x120
Track w/o
OHP 4x57(LPR), 4x57.5(LPR), 3x57.5, 0Fx60, 2x6x50
CURL 3x6x45 (LPR)

BW: 80.7kg

Notes:
Surprising that i cud squat okay. was expecting my erectors to nope out but they were fine. I didnt have more than 3 sets of triples in me though and the doubles were rmish. But progress is progress. Saturday i'll go for 6x3x120kg. Will stick with this weight til ive mastered it for 6x6 then work up towards 130kg.

i did longer bounds .. like 15m or osmething. my sprint work cap is improved, managed to progress to 6 intervals of 20s on and 25s rest. so i sprinted for 2 minutes. Need to do better though, performance falls off around the 3rd one.

what else, im thinking of introducing bhts back and plyos but not sure if it's a good idea or a bad one. i guess i dont have to do everything all at once. but what wud i swap out later down the line? not sure.

maxent · « **Reply #2966 on:** June 29, 2016, 08:32:35 am »

So ... dunking tmr? I dont have any callout to fill in games. Can't really figure out what i wanna do training wise on thursdays. I dont fancy doing heavy jump squats or depth jumps or light squats or push presses. That wud take the fun away ... i like the freedom to just ball (if i get asked to play or theres pickup on) and do some dunks.. may just stick to that

maxent · « **Reply #2967 on:** June 29, 2016, 09:08:15 pm »

It's day 4 of eating clean .. so far so good. I find once i get through day 3 thru, im almost on auto pilot which is good. It's the first couple of days where i have to work the will power. Now staying the course til day 10, then i'll add in eggs and toast to meal 1, before maintaining that for another 10 days. By day 21 i shud start to resemble myself in acceptable shape.

I just wanna make a note in passing, as of yesterday ive started taking the train to work. Which is weird cos you're next to sick/coughy ppl .. and that's a bit disturbing .. but .. i walk i think about a km from the parking lot to the the train stop, then about half a km to the train stop to work. Over a period of weeks it shud add up to a bit of fat loss.. which is cool. Nothing amazing, just something. I lost my fitbit on sunday otherwise i cud measure it in terms of steps.

T0ddday · « **Reply #2968 on:** June 29, 2016, 11:02:59 pm »

Quote from: maxent on June 29, 2016, 09:08:15 pm

It's day 4 of eating clean .. so far so good. I find once i get through day 3 thru, im almost on auto pilot which is good. It's the first couple of days where i have to work the will power. Now staying the course til day 10, then i'll add in eggs and toast to meal 1, before maintaining that for another 10 days. By day 21 i shud start to resemble myself in acceptable shape.

I just wanna make a note in passing, as of yesterday ive started taking the train to work. Which is weird cos you're next to sick/coughy ppl .. and that's a bit disturbing .. but .. i walk i think about a km from the parking lot to the the train stop, then about half a km to the train stop to work. Over a period of weeks it shud add up to a bit of fat loss.. which is cool. Nothing amazing, just something. I lost my fitbit on sunday otherwise i cud measure it in terms of steps.

Really on the fat loss? 2 miles a day RT is about 1000 cals a week...

Would not be noticeable to me as my bmr when training is between 3500 to 4500 per day and a 1000 cals per week and the additional hunger would just get lost in the noise...

But then again you log your food w bodybuilding discipline so maybe it's noticeable for you... Too much free food in my life for me to reach that standard... lol jealous if your able to pull it off.

maxent · « **Reply #2969 on:** June 29, 2016, 11:24:41 pm »

Oh yeah! if it's 1000kcal a week, that's 4000kcal a month, which is half a kilo worth of fat. Def noticable if i lose that much a month without dieting it off. In addition to training and diet, it all adds up to a nice decent amount. I still prob struggle to get more than a kilo of fat loss per week, being realistic given my BMR but i'll take it if i can manage 1kg/wk.

Free food is terrible for diet compliance. If i can limit the temptations around me, i have a much easier time with this stuff. Much easier not having junk food around at all. But if you are dealing with regular tests of will power, i'll lapse way more often. But you can only do so much short of being militant or a hermit.

I must say the best thing ive done in terms of training is limit lifting to 2x a week. 3x was just bad, now i feel way more balanced. It took a long holiday to break my addiction to 3x lifting AND not much else but i'm glad i took your advice to do more outside lifting. I'd have to be crazy to claim it, but seems sprinting + squatting is getting me better at squatting than just squatting alone.

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