26/08/2016 - 1pm
Track Day
3xstrides
SL Supine Bridge x 10
Knee to Elbow Walking Lunge x 10
Knee to rear foot walking Lunge x10
Walking Spiderman x 10
Rev Walking Lunge with posterolateral Reach x10
straight Leg skip
Rudiment Hops (all legs)
DL hops (3x10)
L/R leg bounds (2x5)
Alt leg bounds (2x10)
Speed Bounds
5x20m sprint
3x40m sprint
3xflying 30m sprint
2x60m sprint
2x3x100m sprint
Back to the track for the first time in weeks. Bloody thing was being used by school kids again so I was relegated to the soccer field next door. All things being equal I didn't do too bad. Have some footage of bounds which I may upload if I can get over my embarrassment. 2x3x100s were brutal as I didn't take too much rest between. No real point till I get fitter anyway. All in all felt good though.
Edit- Just looking at footage and I look so damn slow. It's ridiculous. I think I'm going to change my name to Glacier. I'm white and slow as fuck! 
Lol. Got no problem with you making fun of your whiteness or slowness... But if u make a nickname that sounds like two go together then you will be suggesting that racist and ruining athletics in America so stick to one!
Lol can't tell if serious or not.
I'm not sure how it could be racist though. I'm white which is a fact and I'm also slow which is a fact. It's also self imposed which is more self deprecating than racist imo.
Half joking...
Noticing that your slow isn't racist...
Noticing that your white isn't racist...
Getting a nickname that combines those isn't racist...
The belief that both of those traits occur together because of some innate relationship is racist!
And it is frustrating because I deal with it a lot. I got a chance to train a basketball prodigy recently... Was humbling how good this kid was. White kid. 6'3" 140 pounds. Amazing jumper, hesitation, dribbling, smart little moves with his hands, sneaking push offs and pull backs... Amazing. Training him for speed... As much better as he was than me I could still guard him in drills pretty well... He splashed a few deep threes right in my face but I also got a piece on a bunch... Simply put he is too slow and weak... I did play pretty handsy and redirect him a little but he would still get me on moves and I would recover everytime and keep him from getting by... I am pretty fast laterally (it's probably my best sports skill is lateral on ball defense in basketball or man defense as a cornerback in football) but any other player with even a bit of athleticism would dust me if they had this kids moves...
But I mean 6'3" 140. 15 years old. Can't touch the rim. I'm 5'11 215 and I was scared to body him cause he might break... I was explaining to his dad how fuckkng amazing he will be if he just has a tiny bit of strength and speed and his dad kept insisting that I don't know what it's like to be white and that he is slow cause he is white... His dad even had the audacity to tell me that I got my leaping ability from my fathers side after I reminded him I'm Irish! Ridiculous. His kid heard it all and it's a racist message and it's bad for everyone to propagate that stereotype...
Of course your in Australia... I dunno what it's like there... The stereotype is definitely more pervasive in America. It's why you see the third place in the 200m in the olympics by a white guy and lots of great white sprinters and athletes but they are never from America... If they are from America they never grew up around white people...
But here it's a bad sterotype... The dad is gonna make his kid more of an Adam Morrison than a Manu Ginobili - you think if Manu had grown up in America being told he is white and slow he would have been shamgodding people and dunking on them? Lol. Let that stereotype die! It hurts us all!
Great stuff.
This quick point is related to T0ddday's post about dads, stereotypes, culture etc..
If we are subjected to those stereotypes as we grow up, there's a good chance we will believe them. And by simply believing them, it goes from being a stereotype to a "physical barrier" in our brains. I think our brains are full of those barriers, in all kinds of different forms - not just athletics. So if all of a sudden we want to "defy our genetics", which might actually just be - realize our true genetic potential, we have to destroy such barriers in our brains as we attempt to progress. I've been guilty of it myself by saying "defying my genetics". I try not to mention "whiteness" as being a limitation, though it is somewhat implied when I say defying my genetics. As a coach, I would make sure not to use such stereotypes in front of kids/athletes, and also make sure to call out athletes or their parents for using these stereotypes etc.
TLDR: stereotypes become physical barriers in our brains if we end up believing them. I'm not a neuroscientist, but I imagine an "inefficient series of dendrites" and such that weaken the "go get it" signal.
As for myself, I often think about my brain being a limiting factor: especially for running. For jumping/sprinting, I often tell my brain to "let go" and "give me more". Maybe i'm just nuts, but I really feel like my brain holds me back more than my muscle/tendon physiology. One reason I think this is, when i'm feeling REALLY GOOD MENTALLY, I can get much more out of my jump/sprint/run sessions. If I let any self doubt creep in, the quality of jumps/sprints/runs decrease dramatically (sprints less so, jumps/running more so). So I kind of feel like i'm in a battle with not only the physiological factors related to muscle/tendon/nervous system, but also with my brain. I feel like there's things in there "blocking me" from turning it up a notch ... perhaps protective mechanisms given my current fitness/strength etc. I mentioned a "governor device for engines" in a previous post... that's kind of what it feels like.. how to remove the governor and inject the NOS???
