TL Health and Fitness Initiative 2012 - Page 157

On March 28 2012 01:11 Raidern wrote:
Kind upset because I failed squats again. 5-5-4 @ 90kg today I was going to a PR and was fairly confident I was going to do it. Meh. I'll eat/rest more and crush it next time though.

On April 02 2012 23:40 sJarl wrote:
Finally I am free again. Just finished my last exam and this hell of a semester is practically over, with only got one small immunology course left.

Time to get huge.

Kickass weather today doesn't hurt either.

On April 03 2012 01:11 Deadeight wrote:


Congrats. What do you study by the way? Medicine?

On April 03 2012 00:50 Raidern wrote:


I did it :D. 3x5 @ 90kg
It was really hard though T_T. I'm just coming out of a sucky Sunday where I felt kinda sick, so I wasn't really confident going into the gym. "Well let's see how it goes." When I got to the gym, some woman was squatting so I decided to do bench press first. That actually helped because by the end of the exercise I was feeling much better then when I arrived. After 2 reps in the first set though, I felt pretty bad. I thought I couldn't do it and during 1s I thought about giving up, but then I thought about something I read/watched recently "fuck it, it's just the mind giving up earlier than the body" and finished the 1st set. Afterwards I decided to just think about 1 rep at a time and did the whole thing. Left the gym feeling bossy, although the form in the last rep really sucked hehe.

On April 03 2012 00:50 Raidern wrote:


I did it :D. 3x5 @ 90kg
It was really hard though T_T. I'm just coming out of a sucky Sunday where I felt kinda sick, so I wasn't really confident going into the gym. "Well let's see how it goes." When I got to the gym, some woman was squatting so I decided to do bench press first. That actually helped because by the end of the exercise I was feeling much better then when I arrived. After 2 reps in the first set though, I felt pretty bad. I thought I couldn't do it and during 1s I thought about giving up, but then I thought about something I read/watched recently "fuck it, it's just the mind giving up earlier than the body" and finished the 1st set. Afterwards I decided to just think about 1 rep at a time and did the whole thing. Left the gym feeling bossy, although the form in the last rep really sucked hehe.

On April 03 2012 01:11 Deadeight wrote:


Congrats. What do you study by the way? Medicine?

On April 03 2012 09:44 Vitruvian wrote:
Early last week, started to feel really ragged; had trouble waking up even after sleeping 10+ hours, constant dull ache in my back/joints/shins, not much appetite, etc. Decided to take a recovery week: played some light pickup basketball on Wed/Fri, and "lifted" Sunday (just warmup sets on the big five.) Felt so rested and powerful during basketball practice today, that I managed to eke out a passable dunk.

This is something I've always wanted to be able to do, especially watching people around my height, such as Nate Robinson or Allen Iverson, get up to the rim seemingly effortlessly. In fact, I started lifting seriously with the sole goal of improving my vertical to a point where I could dunk consistently.

I'll probably need at least another inch on my vertical to make the dunks convincing (small hands means I can't palm the ball,) but being this close just means extra motivation for the coming months!

On April 03 2012 10:29 GoTuNk! wrote:
Had to split my gym in 2 cause I'm banned from deadlift at university (fuck them and they retarded rules, joined another gym by my house). I built my own deadlift platform there, so they said I could deadlift np. Gonna get a pic later.

Morning:

Bench 100kgx2x2, 110kgx2x2, 120x1

Afternoon:

Deadlift 152.5kgx1x5

Happy to press my max again, I'm sure I got a lot more in me
Deadlifts are obv very easy, Hopefully 152.5x1x15 by saturday is tough :p

On April 03 2012 10:52 Gatored wrote:


If you don't mind me asking, how tall are you and what are your workouts like?

On April 03 2012 10:52 Gatored wrote:


If you don't mind me asking, how tall are you and what are your workouts like?

On April 03 2012 12:11 phyre112 wrote:


Based on the heights he mentioned, just under 6'?

a big squat will get almost anyone to a dunk sooner or later though... I could barely do them in highschool when I weighed 135 pounds and had basketball practice or went running every day - but at the time, I could only quarter squat my bodyweight. I haven't grown an inch since then, but I weigh 190 lbs now and I can dunk on a jump from standing position ezpz - even after my lifting workouts.

On April 03 2012 13:25 Vitruvian wrote:


I'm 5'11". I do a heavily modified Starting Strength, which means slower gains than if I were Doing The Program. It's fine though, because I also play a lot of basketball, which in combination with the lifting, is pretty tough to recover from (because I'm not a freak like decaf.)
My typical week consists of the following:
Wednesday: 3x5 squats, 3x5 bench press, 1x5 deadlift, pickup basketball
Friday: 3x3 squats, 3x5 overhead press, 5x3 power clean, pickup basketball
Sunday: 3x10 weighted chinups, 3x10 weighted dips, Anusara yoga practice



I'd have to agree with this statement: I used to do all kinds of plyometric crap (box jumps, depth jumps, etc.), didn't take my lifting seriously at all, and saw essentially zero progress on my vertical. It wasn't until I started doing Starting Strength and got my squat/power clean up to a respectable level that I made gains on my vertical. YMMV, of course.