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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Raptor's log
« Last post by Raptor on Today at 10:45:51 am »
Gym work 87:

Medium bar squat (with high bar movement pattern):

20x5
50x5
70x5
90x5
110x3 (medium-hard difficulty, explosive)
90x3 (half squat, extra explosive)
90x3 (half squat, extra explosive)
90x3 (half squat, extra explosive)


Bench press:

20x5
40x5
60x3
65x5
65x5
65x4 (will use same weight next time)

Hip thrust:

60x6
80x6
100x6
120x6 (pretty good form)
100x6

Seated calf raise with barbell standing calf raise:

15x10
30x10
30x10

Workout duration: 1:00 hours
Bodyweight: 88.6 kg when I came back from the gym
Workout time: ~15

Comments: Terrible headache and neck pain, felt really bad. Almost didn't want to go at all.
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that is a bit weird. wonder if raptor's missed days are similar, then it'd be really weird.

- SubT 5 x 6 mins
-- warm up
-- intervals @ 4:09-13
-- cool down
T+DI 141 but overcast and drizzly. felt good. wore AP4s, i'm trying to do at least one workout a week in them to keep myself habituated to supershoes.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« Last post by Joe on July 07, 2026, 01:09:53 pm »
feel off this morning, one of those days where my body is like, nope not gonna be doing any of that. hard to pin down what it is. anyway, no run today.

feel like our crappy/missed days have pretty much all been either same day or one day apart lately, weird!
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: warpspeed to the new scenario
« Last post by Joe on July 07, 2026, 01:09:16 pm »
07-07-26

Run/walk -- 29:39, ~2:1 ratio, felt okay
Incline Treadmill -- 11' easy, 10' @ 5.5/15% (146 hr, but ~29/30 RR)
Stairmaster -- ~30 mins, was like 8' + 4 x 3' of hard work, with arbitrary rest in between (hr in the 160s/170s)
run/walk home
Lift -- OAC neg, chins, dips, calves+rehab

Notes

cannot bear the idea of cycling into the void, so rejoined gym to have more options with cardio equipment. so much easier (for me) to get into a rhythm with treadmill walking or stairmaster. fitness is clearly a lot stronger compared to last batch of stairs/walking, which is nice, and i haven't even started getting the specific adaptations yet. (noting i did the 60 steps/min in 130s hr back in dec, will try that out soon and see where that puts me now, will try to dig up numbers of treadmill)

so like just under 90 minutes of cardio this morning, lol. keep waking up early because of the heat + new gig has a lot more flexbility with working from home means i have more time for 'luxurious' morning sessions.

yesterday felt like crap, weekend that was busy socially + a fair amount of training + introducing BSS meant I was super sleepy (i am rarely _sleepy_ as opposed to just tired) + quads were wrecked. got an extra 30 mins of sleep (all i could manage) and took an extra long walk in the morning, felt nice.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« Last post by LBSS on July 07, 2026, 06:42:15 am »
feel off this morning, one of those days where my body is like, nope not gonna be doing any of that. hard to pin down what it is. anyway, no run today.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« Last post by LBSS on July 06, 2026, 07:49:00 am »
- SubT 3 x 10 mins
-- warm up
-- intervals @ 4:18, 4:18, 4:19
-- cool down
T+DI 149, very muggy. at least it's not gonna be a hundred fucking degrees today.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Kingfush
« Last post by Dreyth on July 05, 2026, 10:21:29 am »
i actually thought about adding some light jump drills

No freakin way

Is this for real
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« Last post by LBSS on July 05, 2026, 09:02:23 am »
- run 1:41:13, 17.84 km
T+DI 155 but this felt really good. allowed myself to focus on feel and breathing and not worry about HR drift. still ended up averaging 129 bpm but maintained pace better overall and was faster than i'd have been if constantly checking the watch. hamstrings a wee bit sore from the RDLs yesterday. no stiffness or discomfort in lower leg, yay.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: warpspeed to the new scenario
« Last post by Joe on July 05, 2026, 08:36:31 am »
05-07-26

Cycle -- 1:10:00, 113 bpm
Lift -- some arms + delts + one-leg balance stuff
Run/walk -- 36:58, of which ~27 running, mostly about 2-3 mins reps

Notes

Yeah think BSS regularly are going to be good for me. Not that glutes are weak or anything, but RDLs don't hit them in the same way. Getting used to them in a low-running period seems sensible, since they're always brutal for first while of adapting to them.

Tried a different cue for the running today, thinking about leaning forward + sending foot backwards more on push-off, seen saga canaday and some PTs mention this one for similar issues. Felt good, also played around with just 'run light', which also felt like it had a similar effect. Was able to run 5:30-6:15 pace with those around normal cadence too.

8.5 hours cardio this week, though that includes 3 hours of run walking, so i guess that includes about an hour of walking. Holding steady at 49 fitness on intervals, at least.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: warpspeed to the new scenario
« Last post by Joe on July 04, 2026, 03:58:19 pm »
04-07-26

AM
Run/Walk -- 41:30, about 2:1 walking:running, pretty quick average pace, 4:30-5:00/km, focusing on cues from the session -- knee drive and forward lean kind of tricky to go super slow while emphasising; pretty minimal pain (almost 0), kept reps shorter though, which helps
Lift -- OAC negs, chins, dips, calves

PM
Cycle -- 6 x 6' (1'), 48:15 total
Lift -- RDL, BSS, Rev Nord, curls

Notes

BSS I just cut ROM a little bit to avoid the right hip pain. felt good. good to do one-leg stuff and glute-focussed stuff, esp one where i have room to load up more.

https://www.doctorsofrunning.com/2019/07/running-movement-impairments.html

eta: one interesting thing as that running with these cues did mean a drop in cadence. normally on easy runs i'm ~86-88, and threshold ~92-94. Today was 83-87, so easy or slower, while running 4:30-5:00 pace. interesting!

eta2: does seem like overstriding while also being a mid-foot striker with high cadence is an usual combo :wowthatwasnutswtf:
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