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You should film your approach again because I think you still have a ways to go until you can say you're good at the run-up plant thing.

yeah i need to get some of these PR-level jumps on camera. and some miniball dunks. will try to do by the end of the week.

also, on saturday i'm going back to tajikistan for ~2 weeks. not looking forward to it, not least because training is going really well right now and the interruption will suck. i'm going to use the time there to work on drop steps, SVJ and short approaches, for some conditioning and to brush up on jump rope skills, and bodybuilding-style stuff.

Weren't you in Pakistan a while back too? Hope you don't mind me asking, but what exactly do you do?

WEIGHT: 179 - huh, guess i need to actually start watching what i eat, instead of saying i will and then not really doing it
SORENESS: hamstrings (?)
ACHES/INJURIES: head
MENTAL STATE: meh, headache

- warm up

- SVJ x a few
PR tie, touched rim twice

- DLRVJ x a few
out to three-step but these were awful. headache, very slow.

- explosive paused squat 255 x 3,3

- bench 135 x 8,8

- BOR 135 x 8,8

- random other upper body shit

- the end

- fuck it

- my head hurts

What are you trying to do with squats right now? Not going heavy and just working on explosive squats?

in a nutshell, yeah. i spent too long being distracted by trying to squat heavy. i got a 2x bw squat, whoop-de-do, but now i'm relegating myself to explosive squats (if the bar isn't popping off my shoulders at the top of the concentric, it's not fast enough) and focusing more on supplementary work for my p-chain. hence all the assisted GHRs, RDLs, and cable pull-throughs/hip thrusts.

i love squatting too much to abandon it altogether.

slipped and fell on my ass on the way to work. fucking hail, fucking brick sidewalk. at least i didn't actually hurt anything, but still: 

WEIGHT: ???
SORENESS: right triceps (?)
ACHES/INJURIES: none
MENTAL STATE: kinda stressed but otherwise okay

- warm up

- SVJ x a few
felt high but no measurement

- squat 295 x 1; 190 x 20
fun

- superset x 2
-- pull up x 5
-- dip x 5
-- DB RDL 60s x 5

really rushed because leaving today for tajikistan but glad to get this in before the trip. here goes nothing.

greetings from the one, the only, dushanbe. 225 x 20 would be a fun quaternary goal. or, once i dunk, a secondary goal. gonna go move around and stretch a bit now.

last night (1/14):

WEIGHT: ???
SORENESS: none
ACHES/INJURIES: none
MENTAL STATE: tiiiiiiiired

- warm up

- superset x 2
-- bench 60kg x 10
-- neutral chin up x 10

- some band shit

- stretch

yesterday sucked, worked from 7:30-9 without a break and jet lag was hitting me hard in the evening. made it up to the gym before bed but this was all i could manage. on the plus side, it looks like i'm coming home earlier than i thought. i've got some work to do right now but i'm going to get in a bit more of a workout tonight.