Creation of an Explosive Mofo - My Training Journal :)

[coolcolj]

Feel a bit battered, sore all over, especially in my quads, hammies and calves.
Don't feel drained but I definitely sapped my nervous system yesterday, non-powered steering wheel in the van is quite a bit harder to turn today.

I am beginning to notice 3 separate types of fatigue - one that can be measured with the waking pulse, one by the drained feeling and another by the perceived level of effort in doing or lifting things. And they don't seem to have an correlation with each other.

 

[coolcolj]

Chinese Oly gym clip

So I'm training at this other gym now. It's the number one weightlifting gym here in the province of Hubei, which has about 1/20 the population of the whole country. They've been exceedingly kind and enthusiastic about my training with them.

The clip here is sort of crappy, just some random stuff. The guy you see squatting in the red shirt, he's a nineteen year old 77 kg lifter and the last time I asked, he was lifting 150kg snatch 180kg Clean and jerk.

I wanted to get a clip of this awesome guy doing perfect jerks, but I was busy talking to the head coach, who is a VERY interesting guy. He took me out to dinner tonight! Anyway the guy jerking was like a freakin machine, a wonder to behold.

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http://www.members.optushome.com.au/coolcolj3/Movies/Chinese gym.wmv

 

[coolcolj]

Need more sleep, damn dog! feeling Ok though, not much soreness left, but not feeling that strong. Right inner ankle is a bit achey though when I stretch it back a bit, hope its ok for BBall today.

 

[coolcolj]

from Dan H. again in China

I went to a meet today. The lifters are around 16 years old. Just a friendly local meet.

My coach buddy tried to allow me to compete in the meet (spontaneous thing, I would have had to borrow someone's shoes and stuff), but the head official regretfully said I couldn't. Would have been my first meet. But I got to do some lifting in the warm-up room, just for fun. The coach said my technique is ok

Check it out - (last part is me lifting in my previous gym)

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http://www.members.optushome.com.au/coolcolj2/Movies/China meet.wmv

 

[coolcolj]

Sunday 22nd May - Cycle 3 Get Lean+Maintain Strength - Week 2 - Day 1 - BBALL - Microcycle 2

Went to the lower rim outdoor court. Sunny, but somewhat chilly.

Bodyweight at home - 217lbs
Workout time - 1hour
Workout rating - 8/10

started with easy dribbling and shooting for 20 mins to warmup.
Then progressed to more intense stuff. Lots of post up moves and drives around the hoop, intermixed with jumping and dunk attempts

I pigged out yesterday and bodyweight was up 2lbs!
But my jump was back up to my peak so far, well one step jump anyway, didn't test the other types. So I guess my power is up a bit?
That's all and well, but I need inches..another 3 inches and things will be so much more fun on this rim!

Felt snappy and springy today. Jumping felt a lot more effortless, much less knee bend, and way less quad recruitment. Felt pretty reflexive, no muscling it up, very calfy. Nice hang time as well.
See what happens next week when I bring in the bands and keep the squats moderate at 265lbs. And hopefully 3lbs lighter than today...

 

[coolcolj]

You know ever since I took this glucosamine msm chondroitin powder, the bodyfat loss has slowed down quite a bit. I think it maybe due to the sugar in the powder...

Also I don't think the starch blocker is all that effective

 

[Extra_Strong]

i like all of your links.. good stuff..
i like to have examples.
I think you can go a little deeper on some of your squats though

lookin pretty good .

 

[coolcolj]

i like all of your links.. good stuff..
i like to have examples.
I think you can go a little deeper on some of your squats though

lookin pretty good .

Its just the camera angle - I always go down all the way, hams to calves,
even then it's not as low as some guys with skinny legs. I have 29inch legs with big hamstrings

Just look at where the bar ends up at the bottom, right at my where my hip joint is when I'm standing. My butt is about 12inches away from the floor.

 

[coolcolj]

Better sleep today, feeling quite good. very minimal drained feeling, slight aches all over, calves and psterior chain mostly, plus shoulders and traps.
Bodyweight back down to 215lbs out of bed this morning. Waist back to 38inches...

anyway check this sprinter out, Jason Smoots, he is stacked. Especially in the last pic at the bottom, 187lbs?
I hope I look somewhat like that when I lean down to 185-190lbs at 5'9"
http://www.nccu.edu/campus/athletics/tfsmoots.html

http://www.nccu.edu/campus/athletics/Jsmoots3.jpg

http://www.nccu.edu/campus/echo/archive8-0001/s-ciaa.jpg

His coach says he only squats 385lbs...same as me for now anyway

 

[coolcolj]

interesting stuff - staggered stance squats!

http://home.comcast.net/~joandbryce/bsquat.html