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Late update for Tuesday....we lost by 19. They had one small school D1 guy and two D2 guys and DESTROYED us on the glass. We stayed with them until about 12 minutes left in the second half and we went cold for a few minutes and went from down 7 to down 25 just like that. We battled back hard but their dominance on the offensive glass did us in. We had 4 points on 3 offensive rebounds lol! I landed on a guys ankle with 7 minutes left and sat the rest of the game. It's tender still but the swelling went down quickly with ice so I don't think its too bad. I bought a brace today and I'll wrap it and throw the brace on and give it a go tomorrow, see what happens.

Thats what my mom said (25+ years of ER nursing), then she gave me two ACE bandages, some tape and some gauze stuff lol! It was like a training room walked into my house last night lmao!

Its still sore this morning but the swelling appears to be all gone so thats a positive. Its not a high ankle sprain according to mom so thats good as well. Either way gameplan is wrap, warm up good and ibuprofen lol!

Not really unless we are absolutely killing whoever we play tonight. :/ I rolled it Tuesday night so its had 48 hours to get a little better (not great I know) but I can walk on it with a little soreness but almost no pain and I have a decent ROM currently so we'll see. I'll tape it and warm up slow, if it is painful I won't play (just a rec league anyways). If I play and it swells up afterward or the soreness/pain increases then I'll skip lifting Sat and rehab hard.

Skipped my planned workouts this weekend and focused on resting/rehabbing the ankle. After last nights game I believe I'm basically 100%. We finally played the #1 team in the league (record wise) and we put up a hell of a fight. We ended up losing in triple OT by 1. I missed two threes that should have ended the game, one in the first OT with 10 seconds left that was in and out and another in the 2nd OT that would of put us up 5 with 45 seconds left. On both they felt good, just unkind rims I guess. Other than those I played pretty good and our posts did a great job holding their own on the boards despite a significant height disadvantage.

I felt very energetic and bouncy last night, I think the skipped workouts let the rest of my body heal as well. Seeing that I'll probably take a week off or do light weights for a week after the season ends then hit.the weights harder than ever.

The end of the season tournament started last night, double elimination style (yea this is a short league, they have longer ones later in the year). We ended up playing two games. We mercy ruled our first opponent with 7 minutes left to play. Our backup wing played the best I've ever seen him play, just outside his mind on last night. Was awesome to watch. I played 10 mins and played like shit I feel. I'm obviously not over this sickness crap although I stopped throwing up early Monday. Jumper was off and I just felt drained energy wise. When I pulled myself out of the game I was pouring sweat like I'd been playing for an hour lol!

Our second game we ended up losing by 12. We were up for almost all of the first half and were down 6 at halftime. In the second half their post went off, I've never seen him play like that in all the years I've known the guy and we just couldnt guard him. He did have 2" and 70lbs on our post and he used it very well last night. I only played 12 mins to start the second half and I played better than I did the first game but I still was nowhere near my usual self. I pulled myself after 12mins because I literally thought I was going to pass out. I felt like I'd been playing all of both games and I look at the clock...nope, I played less in both games combined than I normally do in a single game lol! I wish I could say that if I was healthy we would have won but you never know. Oh well, I'm resting as much as possible and have upped the fluid intake today so hopefully I'll be more myself tomorrow. Our first game we should win very easily so I'm only going to play 5-8 mins to get a feel for how I am going and to try and conserve energy because our second game looks to be a tough physical match up judging by the bracket.

Sat Mar 30 2013

Alright, after 2 weeks of no lifting I was DYING to get back in the weight room!

My bodyweight seems to have stabilized at 177-179lbs depending on fluid intake and if it's before or after a game day for the last week or so. No injuries or soreness although I was a bit tired from work and I believe it showed later in the workout after the adrenaline of getting to lift again wore off. Anyways, I figured I would be weak after two weeks off so I did a light workout both in tonnage and rep/set scheme just to make sure I don't inure myself and my form is still decent.

Depth jumps/bounds (in series):
4 total circuits (20 total jumps)

Banded squats:
225x5 315x3 x3 225x5

Banded RDLs (4"deficit):
225x5 245x5 265x3  Form SUCKED on the RDLs, I'm strongly considering eliminating the bands on these as they don't seem to help like they are on the squats. I *think* they're hurting my form at the top ROM as I unconsciously round a little trying to drive through the extra resistance. Next session I'll try them without the bands and really focus on form again.

Jump squats:
5 w/ 50lbs, 5 at BW

Ham curls (120lbs):
5x2

Calf raises on leg press machine:
8x2 (500lbs)

Wow, I'm weak as shit. My approach work I usually do at the end of the session sucked. I sort of expected I'd get weaker during the season tho so I'm just going to maintain as much as possible and get after it hard after the season again.

Just joined a 24 hour fitness center chain with the woman. So now I can lift at the complex's clubhouse and at this gym. I think switching it up every once in awhile will help. The closest fitness place is 10mins from the house but it doesnt have a court...however, the one 20-25mins away does so now I can hoop and jump whenever which is great because my schedule isn't normal lol!

Anyways, back to full workouts tomorrow night!