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Lol Thanks LBSS thats awesome.

Raptor....it does take the fun out of it. I never have these issues when playing pickup (usually) because Im very selective about who i play with. But these rec leagues...anyone can sign up. Just gotta keep your head on a swivel and now that sometimes...its not worth it and just bail. Shitty but its life. Im not going to stop doing something i like because I may get injured. Thats a horrible way to live. If i have a career ending injury then itll happen. It will suck ass but shit happens. Cant let it run your life tho!

Thanks also guys on the marriage thing! Shes amazing and im definitely ready to have her by my side always!

As for the back...it feels MUCH improved this morning. Still stiff a tad but the pain and soreness is gone. Going to heat it up and stretch again and repeat that throughout the day.

Lets see....did some back, bis, little bit of shoulders and some core on Wednesday instead of Tuesday....gahh. Had to skip the speed day or do it real late Wed and see if i could recover in time for the game Thursday.  Then got off work later than usual Thursday and didn't have time to do chest/tris before the game. Game sucked...we got blown the bell out. Both our bigs were out and we got hammered on the boards. Lost 131-90. I shot like Lebron in the finals...shitty. Prolly around 40-42% to get 52 points. But...i was still shooting better than everyone else. :/ We were out matched talent wise badly but itight have been competitive if we had our bigs. Knee started bothering me mid way through the 2nd half (had to play all 40 mins) and then went away a little. Got loose in the baseline with about 3 mins to go and went up thinking 2 hander but knee gave out and I barely got a clean one hander. :/ Crumpled on landing, knee definitely not happy. Finished the game with some apathy lol

Today....knee feels the same as it did BEFORE the game yesterday. Its like it quickly recovers to the same point then gets stuck there at like 75-80%.  So i lifted anyway. Top set PR on deadlift at 435. 3 rep PR at 385 for two sets as well. 315 3 sets of 5 for some volume. Did 2 circuits of BSS (135lbs 8 reps per leg), seated calf raises (125lbs 12 reps paused), seated ham curls (145lbs 12 reps) and glute kick backs (100lbs 12 reps) and did some box jumps between sets. Finished with some core work.

Extra stretching and two rounds of icing and it seems to feel a touch better. Really focusing on IT band stretches.

Well....i feel fucking weak as shit lately.

BW 182-183lbs.

Deadlifts....bleh.

Warmups 135 x5, 225 x3, 315 x1, 385 x1 (wtf...that was hard?), 435 x fail/x fail...got angry. Threw shit. Lifted it with probably the worst form in the history of people not included in crossfit. Got angrier.

Worksets
385lb 2x3.
315lb 3x5.

Scrapped assistance work. Because fucking shitty lifts.

Squatted Monday...

Felt better but still weak... 385 top ATG single felt more difficult than it should.

Sets:
355lbs 2x3.
315lbs 3x5.

Two circuits of assistance  (instead of 3 :/ )
Core/stepups/back extensions/core/box jumps repeat
core/calf raises/lunges/core/box jumps repeat.

I gotta get out of this rut. On a positive note...knee is feeling almost 10p%. Im beginning to think tendinitis is NOT an over use injury but a stretching/alignment issue...

Thats a great question Ive asked myself from time to time. What I've decided is the truth is somewhere in the middle.

I originally started deads to balance myself as an athlete absolutely. Now, I DO think its helped my DLRVJ...how much tho I'm not sure. My vert has increased since i started deadlifting and so has my SLRVJ (barely but I dont train it often if at all truthfully). Id like to think the extra glute and ham recruitment HAS to help in the jump. It certainly helps with cutting/directional movements.

Well...it USED to be quit quad dominant  (my squat) but lately itsuch more balanced; I feel it in my hams coming down into the hole, glutes coming out and quads take over at about the parallel mark. :/

Im still very much quad dominant when I jump ME IMO (dunking etc) but ive noticed more hip pop lately on my box jumps. Wondering how thats going to translate when I can jump ME again pain free.

Reactive in my books is just a translation of "my quad tendons accept a tremendous amount of load without shutting down the quads in the process".

Well of course it is. But it's depressing to think that stuff is more into the realm of genetics than it is in the realm of actual training effects. To get a training effect would mean, IMO, to do a tremendous amount of volume of plyometric work, a stuff that athletic/high jump coaches here in Romania do abide by.

Same thing with becoming a reactive "dunker" - go the Jordan Kilganon or Kadour Ziani "non stop dunking/dunk or die" route. But only those whose genetics were "right" to begin with will be able to go that route without getting injured, because someone with faulty mechanics/"bad structure" for jumping will take in so much damage from high volume jumping (using those bad mechanics combined with a bad structure) that they will get injured before any positive training effects will become noticeable.

It's really depressing when you think about it.

Dem glucocorticoid levels...