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Re: chasing athleticism
« Reply #5010 on: June 26, 2020, 09:29:04 am »
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you should get this:  :lololol:

i love having tattoos but i'm glad i waited so long to start getting them (was 29 when i got my first one). i think i'll go in for my third once covid calms down here. thought about getting it in london but the thing i want to get is super tied to where i grew up so seems more appropriate to get it done here.

What was your first one and what are you planning to get?

first one is on the inside of my left bicep: a representation of the folds in a paper airplane i learned to make in preschool. looks like an origami diagram, but rectangular. it's a reminder to play and be imaginative and open-minded, and to revere good teachers like the guy who taught me that particular way of making airplanes. second one is on my left ankle: five interlocking circles (around one axis, not like the olympic rings), which my brother and parents all got after my youngest brother died a couple years ago. it commemorates him and the fact that our family of five is no longer intact except in ourselves. both pretty simple geometric designs.

the third is going to be a cross-section of the bedrock underneath the neighborhood where i grew up and am sitting right now. it'll be based on one i found by the maryland geological survey, just grayscale/fine-line rather than colored.* only thing that's holding me back right now, other than covid, is deciding where to put it. it's between wrapping it around my right thigh, right-side ribs, or right bicep/forearm.

*https://ngmdb.usgs.gov/Prodesc/proddesc_277.htm (the second drawing down in the middle, the one that looks like a bar. if you zoom in, you'll see georgia ave and piney branch rd: i grew up right in between those two.)
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Re: chasing athleticism
« Reply #5011 on: June 27, 2020, 06:42:13 am »
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Fri (26/6/2020)
Daily Activity:   
Daily Training:
BW:

BS 8x40, 8x60, 8x75, 8x90
Run ~ 2.5km

Notes:
Weather was good and i couldn't resist going for a run along the beach. was pretty nice, should do that more often (i know i always say that but)
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Re: chasing athleticism
« Reply #5012 on: June 27, 2020, 06:43:29 am »
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Sat (27/6/2020)
Daily Activity:   
Daily Training:
BW:

BS 8x40, 8x60
OHP 8x40, 8x50, 4x54, 8x50
Chinup 2x6xBW

Notes:
Yeah my body isn't used to doing ohp workouts so frequently but going 10 days between ohp or bp is not good for progress, but in the meantime i'll need to adapt to more frequent upper training.
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Re: chasing athleticism
« Reply #5013 on: July 01, 2020, 10:06:05 pm »
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you should get this:  :lololol:

i love having tattoos but i'm glad i waited so long to start getting them (was 29 when i got my first one). i think i'll go in for my third once covid calms down here. thought about getting it in london but the thing i want to get is super tied to where i grew up so seems more appropriate to get it done here.

What was your first one and what are you planning to get?

first one is on the inside of my left bicep: a representation of the folds in a paper airplane i learned to make in preschool. looks like an origami diagram, but rectangular. it's a reminder to play and be imaginative and open-minded, and to revere good teachers like the guy who taught me that particular way of making airplanes. second one is on my left ankle: five interlocking circles (around one axis, not like the olympic rings), which my brother and parents all got after my youngest brother died a couple years ago. it commemorates him and the fact that our family of five is no longer intact except in ourselves. both pretty simple geometric designs.

the third is going to be a cross-section of the bedrock underneath the neighborhood where i grew up and am sitting right now. it'll be based on one i found by the maryland geological survey, just grayscale/fine-line rather than colored.* only thing that's holding me back right now, other than covid, is deciding where to put it. it's between wrapping it around my right thigh, right-side ribs, or right bicep/forearm.

*https://ngmdb.usgs.gov/Prodesc/proddesc_277.htm (the second drawing down in the middle, the one that looks like a bar. if you zoom in, you'll see georgia ave and piney branch rd: i grew up right in between those two.)

That's very cool. Sounds like there's a ton of meaning in each of your tattoos.
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Re: chasing athleticism
« Reply #5014 on: July 11, 2020, 06:19:06 am »
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Fri (10/7/2020)
Daily Activity:   
Daily Training:
BW: 83.5kg


BS 8x20, 8x40
BP 8x40, 8x50, 8x60, 5x70, 5x72.5, 5x75, 5x72.5, 5x70

Notes:
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Re: chasing athleticism
« Reply #5015 on: July 11, 2020, 06:19:28 am »
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Sat (11/7/2020)
Daily Activity:   
Daily Training:
BW:


BS 8x20, 8x40, 8x50

Notes:
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Re: chasing athleticism
« Reply #5016 on: July 20, 2020, 12:23:11 pm »
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Sun (19/7/2020)
Daily Activity:   
Daily Training:
BW:


BP 6x6x70
Notes:
I'll just log bench workouts. Next time will go for 7x7. Goal is to get something like 10x10x70 before i add some weight.
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Re: chasing athleticism
« Reply #5017 on: July 22, 2020, 01:19:04 pm »
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Wed (18/7/2020)
Daily Activity:   
Daily Training:
BW:


OHP 8x40, 6x50, 6x52.5, 7x50
DB OHP 6x20, 8x17.5, 12x15
Chin 3x2xbw

Notes:
Assistance to bench ..
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Re: chasing athleticism
« Reply #5018 on: July 31, 2020, 12:13:13 pm »
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Fri (31/7/2020)
Daily Activity:   
Daily Training:
BW:

BP 7x7x70 (PR; failed last rep though)

Notes:
I found 60kg bench warmups not easy, so i thought today was going to be another writeoff but somehow i managed 6 sets of 7. On the 7th set, i failed the 7th rep. Gutted. That would have been a lifetime PR. i mean it still is, but it would have been a proper one. So i think 8x8x70kg is ways away yet. Not sure what to attempt next time?
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Re: chasing athleticism
« Reply #5019 on: August 01, 2020, 04:22:01 am »
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suprisingly, got whole body doms from that bench session, i didn't do anything else (for a while too) and today my right hamstring is still tender (cramped on the last rep), glutes, abs, and ofc shoulders, chest etc.

I reviewed video which i took of the last set and i noticed my lower body is kinda shaky. will try to get that down next time. enjoying training again, upper body will prob give me the best returns, in life terms, i wish i had done it earlier, i might look like i lift sooner. can't wait to get big!

wonder how long it will take to recover, hopefullly not as long as last time, but that itme i was doind daily training and i dont think that's as effective for upper body.
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Re: chasing athleticism
« Reply #5020 on: August 06, 2020, 12:44:32 pm »
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Thu (6/7/2020)
Daily Activity:   
Daily Training:
BW:

OHP 6x50, 3x5x52.5,  2x5x50
Chinup 3x5xBW
DB OHP 3x12x15

Notes:
Assistance to bench day done
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Re: chasing athleticism
« Reply #5021 on: August 10, 2020, 03:39:09 am »
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Stepped on the scales at home before showering today and it read 81.8kg. Gym weight with shoes, clothes, 2 meals is consistently around 85-85.5kg.

Have been carb cycling, where around the bench workout day, i ramp the carbs up the day or two before, and keep it up for a few days after, then taper off carbs til the next bench day (~10 days later). The idea is to eat enough carbs around bench to allow progress but the rest of the time i'm leaning out. On paper it should work, in reality it shouldn't, but let's see.

Need to mentally dial it in to go for the bench day, thinking weds, going to try for 8 sets of 7 with 70kg, since 8x8x70kg is too big a leap from last time's 7x7x70kg (with failed last rep).
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Re: chasing athleticism
« Reply #5022 on: August 11, 2020, 02:20:21 pm »
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Tue (12/7/2020)
Daily Activity:   
Daily Training:
BW:

70kg BP - 8,8,8,8,7,5,4,3
Incline DB BP 12x15,12x17.5,12x15
Row 3x12x40kg

Notes:
endurance fell off rapidly after set 4..
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Re: chasing athleticism
« Reply #5023 on: August 16, 2020, 03:32:18 pm »
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Sun (16/7/2020)
Daily Activity:   
Daily Training:
BW:

OHP 5x52.5, 4x5x51, 5x51
Chinup 5x5xBW
DBOHP 12x17.5, 12x20, 12x17.5

Notes:
assistance to bench day, done
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Re: chasing athleticism
« Reply #5024 on: August 21, 2020, 01:51:03 pm »
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Fri] (21/7/2020)
Daily Activity:   
Daily Training:
BW:

BP 6x8x70(PR)
IDBBP 12x22.5, 12x22.5, 8x25, 9x22.5
Curl 2x12x35

Notes:
Finally a legit honest to goodness, lifetime bench PR, no failed reps. That last rep was a max effort, i had to yell to get it up, sorry to the ppl around me but it had to be done! Next time i'll go for sets of 9 reps. Cycle goal is 5 sets of 10, then i can add weight.
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