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Raptor · « **Reply #75 on:** March 01, 2024, 03:02:40 pm »

Thanks, these are good suggestions. I hate water, I have a water phobia and dislike being near it, anything wrong goes on in it, you're dead. So I'm not exactly looking forward to any water stuff.

One of things that bothers me, though, is my pain in the left clavicle and left shoulder. That's been there for the last two+ months. I'm thinking of thoracic outlet syndrome, maybe caused by me doing kettlebell overhead presses for quite a while. But I don't know the term in Romanian and to whichever doctors I mentioned this they looked at me like I was crazy. It super pisses me off that you can't have an actual conversation with a doctor these days, they all think that their patients are stupid and that they are so much smarter.

Dreyth · « **Reply #76 on:** March 02, 2024, 06:28:32 am »

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He also gave me pregabalin, a medicine for chronic pain, to take for 2 weeks or so - maybe my body will "forget" that pain "needs" to be there. I will try.

My fear here is that you may be putting yourself in positions or movements that make the problem worse except you wont stop since you might not feel it due to the painkiller. The concept of “forgetting” the pain does sound interesting though. I dont know anything about it, would be curious to read up on it

+1 on swimming

+1 on doctors not making sense and/or not truly listening to the patients. My wife went through crazy stuff in labor due to the doctors and nurses “following the book.” We were very happy we hired a doula to push back on them. Thats a wholeeee other topic

Raptor · « **Reply #77 on:** March 05, 2024, 08:37:30 am »

Bench focus day 15:

Bench press:

20x8
20x8
40x8
60x7

High bar full squat:

20x8
50x8
80x8

Landmine one-leg deadlift:

empty bar x 8
bar + 10kg x 8

Bodyweight: 92.9 kg
Exhaustion level: 8/10

Comments:

First workout after doctor visit. Went... decent. Had to rush it because I had a job meeting. Some right knee pain due to the quad dominant squat style (narrow stance, high bar). Will monitor back issues after this, to see how my body reacts.

Raptor · « **Reply #78 on:** March 07, 2024, 10:27:35 am »

Squat focus day 15:

Low bar squat:

20x5
20x5
60x5
80x5
100x5 (felt strong)
100x3 (stopped intentionally at 3 reps)
60x5 (paused, super explosive)

Bench press:

20x5
20x5
50x10
50x10

Landmine single leg deadlift:

barx8
bar + 20 kg x 8

Single leg curl:

64x3++56x3++48x3++40x3++32x3 (a continuous superset)

Bodyweight: 93.2 kg
Exhaustion level: 8/10

Comments:

Incredibly strong today. Bar was flying.

in the bench press, never did two consecutive sets of 10 reps with 50 kg. Squat was very explosive, no idea why. Neck pain is also minimal after physical exercise, it gets worse if I stay in bed.

Raptor · « **Reply #79 on:** March 09, 2024, 10:10:21 am »

Glute/landmine focus day 3:

Hip thrust:

60x5
100x8
100x8
100x8 old age

Landmine squat:

barx8
bar+10kg x 8
bar+10kg x 8

Landmine kneeling press:

barx8
bar+10kg x 6
bar+10kg x 6 (each arm)

Landmine one-leg squat:

barxbad form reps (was muscularly tired)

Landmine standing press:

bar+10kg x 8
bar+10kg x 8

Bodyweight: 93.2 kg
Sleep rating: 3/5
Exhaustion level: 7/10

Comments: Felt super strong, for some reason. Hip thrusts were really good, minus the pain they give to my bony parts even with thick, double spounge padding.

Raptor · « **Reply #80 on:** March 13, 2024, 09:49:46 am »

Bench focus day 16:

Bench press:

20x8
20x8
50x5
60x3
70x3 (weak)
65x4 (weak)
60x5 (weak)
50x5 (explosive, weak)

High bar full squat:

20x8
60x8
80x7 (weak)
80x7 (weak)

Single arm overhead pulls to chest:

32x10
32x10

Leg curls + leg extensions:

56x12+56x12

Bodyweight: 93.1 kg
Sleep rating: 4/5 (see comments below)
Exhaustion level: 10/10

Comments:

For some reason felt super weak and exhausted. It was hot in the gym and I had a weird event trying to sleep last night: at some point, something made a loud noise, like a "bang". I went looking for what happened and couldn't find anything obvious, I initially thought my crows pushed a pack of liver from their place down and that made the noise, but I checked and it was still there. No obvious explanation for the loud noise.

But then I found something weird: a necklace on the table, in the living room. How did that end up there? Next thing I know, I find some weird circular "thing" on the floor that I can't figure out what it is.

Looking around, I find a few batteries on the table. One of them didn't have a bottom anymore - it actually exploded. That's what made the noise - the circular thing was the bottom of the exploded battery and the necklace was in the same spot as the battery so it was thrown up and landed there.

These phantoms have too much free time on their hands!

Raptor · « **Reply #81 on:** March 15, 2024, 11:26:53 am »

Squat focus day 16:

Low bar squat:

20x5
20x5
60x5
90x5
110x5 old age
125x1 old age
110x3 (could've done 5)
60x5 paused, explosive
20x10 jump squats

Bench press:

20x5
20x5
50x10
50x10
50x8

Landmine single leg deadlift:

barx8
bar + 15 kg x 8

Single leg curl:

40x10

Slow tempo leg extensions:

40x10

Bodyweight: 94.1 kg
Sleep length&rating: 9.5 h, 4/5
Exhaustion level: 9/10

Comments:

Felt super strong. The 125 kg old age

was close to a 1RM, I also twisted a bit to load the stronger left leg more, but it was good. Probably a 2RM at this point. Also, it feels like my legs did pretty much all of the work - I don't have any back soreness, just leg soreness. Bench was good as well, did 28 reps with 50 kg, I'm very close to doing 3x10.

All in all my best workout since I restarted training.

Raptor · « **Reply #82 on:** March 17, 2024, 03:15:49 pm »

Went in the park and played a lot of 3 on 3. Turns out my heart rate stays at about 170 when moving around the court and goes to over 180 when defending/jumping/penetrating. I don't think it's normal to have an average of 166 bpm for two hours of play... right?

Here's how my heart rate looks like for the two hours that I played:

vag · « **Reply #83 on:** March 19, 2024, 01:25:22 pm »

I see your 2 hours of 166bpm average with less than 1 hour over 168 and raise you to:
2 hours of 178 average, with 189 max, at 49.5 years old

( i think those numbers are fine , for both of us. But if in doubt, ask a doctor )

Raptor · « **Reply #84 on:** March 20, 2024, 09:56:01 am »

I find these values super high. People on the court doing similar effort as me (moving around at the same pace and so on) are barely at 100 or so. How could this be?

Glute/landmine focus day 4:

Hip thrust:

60x5
60x15
100x8
120x6
60x10

Landmine one-leg deadlift:

bar x 10
bar + 20 kg x 8 (side deadlift)
bar + 20 kg x 8L, 5R (front deadlift)

Seated cable rows:

40x10
80x8
80x8 (felt great)

Triceps cable pulldowns:

30x10
30x10 (felt great)

Bodyweight: 93.0 kg
Sleep rating: 5/5
Exhaustion level: 8.5/10

Comments: Felt strong again, although I didn't warm up too much when I started doing the hip thrusts and they were pretty exhausting. Still,

in the hip thrust, most likely, I don't remember ever doing 120x6, although I could be wrong.

vag · « **Reply #85 on:** March 20, 2024, 10:14:20 am »

100? Is it Usain Bolt or Kipchoge that you play with?

Here is the first paper that came up googling it:

Results. For the point guards, forwards and centers, respectively, HRmax (in beats•min) were 186±11.7, 176±8.3 and 177±7.7; and HRmean (beats•min-1) were 163±14.3, 151±10.3 and 155±9.4.

That is 160 average +-10 (which means some had 170 average) for professional basketball players!

So relax.

Raptor · « **Reply #86 on:** March 20, 2024, 10:40:20 am »

But that is playing full court, 5 on 5 basketball at high intensity, not making three steps and passing the ball in half court basketball. You can't compare these.

vag · « **Reply #87 on:** March 20, 2024, 11:14:30 am »

But also those are professional athletes that train 2*day all their lives, with elite trainers and perfect nutrition, in their mid 20s, not 40+ year old overweight and under-trained cardiovascularly software developers. No offense. Effort is relative.
Anyway, what i am trying to say is that for every level and sport, putting effort makes heart rate rise.
And then you can see that even for pro athletes the variation is +-10 , so for the same level and effort someone has 150 average , someone else 170.
But I won't insist more, i see you don't want to accept any argument that i give, either it is showing my own heart rate at 180+ for 2 hours at 50 years old, or pro bball players study for this exact topic.
Its perfectly fine though. Most important and im out, if you feel your heart function doing something is abnormal, 1) stop doing it immediately and 2) go see a doc ASAP.
pc

Raptor · « **Reply #88 on:** March 20, 2024, 04:40:13 pm »

Well, one thing that would definitely be beneficial is to lose weight - less weight, less effort moving that lower weight around. I'm pretty sure if I were ~85 kg right now I would see a difference.

vag · « **Reply #89 on:** March 22, 2024, 08:00:34 am »

Of course it would. Think of measuring your HR playing basketball normally, and then wearing a 8kg weighted vest. Or to make it even more graphic, with a backpack that includes 8 1lt oil bottles.
I need to lose some weight/fat too , running 10/21K races carrying a little over 15% of fat and a 86.5 kg body ain't exactly smart/optimal.

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