The Miseducation of Jimbo Slice

itsallaboutheL wrote: »

Has anyone got a gun i could borrow???

I HATE You.


*******

You need more than a gun buddy.

the drifter wrote: »

He signs onto gmail once a day to tell me he hates me....its not our fault were not fat :P

Heh... that's weird, cos you tell me you hate me at least once a day too...

brianthebard wrote: »

Nice work man, do you attribute all these improvements solely to added frequency, or has the added conditioning and fat loss of the previous months been a big help? also did any changes in lifestyle or diet play a part? Just trying to get a picture of how you're doing it, been some impressive stuff logged even by your standards in the past few months.

That's actually a stunningly good question.... and one which is gonna throw up a few surprising answers!!

First up - weight loss. I'm down around 10kg since May-ish - so strength should have suffered. It hasn't! Didn't go anything too special, just stopped eating as much fast food (down from 3-4x per week to maybe once every 2 weeks, if even). Less chocolate, no sugary drinks (maybe 2-3 cans of coke per week say). Bumped up protein and meal frequency too.

Secondly - cardio/conditioning. I think the biggest benefit from this has been my recovery has gone beyond even my own fairly high standards (says he modestly). I've always recovered well from session to session, but this has been accelerated over the last few months because my training frequency has increased from only doing 3-4 lifting sessions per week to 4-5 weight sessions per week AND 3-4 conditioning sessions of some sort.

Thirdly - and here's the kicker.... I've been suffering terribly from insomnia during the entire time. I've gone from sleeping 8+ hours per night in May down to 5-6 on average over the last 3 months. There's been nights where I've only gotten 3 hours too. I'd say I'm lucky to get more than one night per week where I sleep more than 8 hours.

Fourth - to confuse matters... I'm going out more, and to be honest drinking A LOT more heavily when I'm am out than ever before too. Keep in mind, that still might only be 1-2 heavy session every 2 weeks and maybe one night w/ 3-4 social pints in the same 2 week period, but when you take all the other factors into consideration, it should have a bearing on my recovery. Like I was out from 6pm on Friday and stumbled outta Zaytoon's at 4.30am. Got up at 10am and then went to Hercs to squat!!

So basically...
-I'm training more
-Eating less
-Losing weight
-Not sleeping
-Going out more
-Getting stronger
-Getting into much better cardio/Crossfit shape

I don't really have any concrete answer as to why things are going so well. I guess despite all of that, stress levels are down so maybe that's a contributory factor as well.

If you were to ask for the simple answer, I'd say my training is more well rounded now (power, absolute strength and hypertrophy focused), the structure and progression has improved, my conditioning is thru the roof (in all aspects - 1-5mins, 5-20mins, 20mins +) and my meal frequency, timing and composition is much improved. So inspite of all the other crap I'm making good progress.

I really doubt there's anything of worth in that answer I'm afraid!!

the drifter wrote: »

thats cause your an idiot......that is all

Guilty as charged.

Guys, I REALLY didn't want to do this, but you've forced my hand... time for some Nas;

Well you hate me I'm gon' hate you too
It's as simple as that
Die mother****er die mother****er die
You don't give a **** I don't give a ****
Go down any way you want it to go down (do it now)
Weak, jealous mother****ers (do it now, do it now)
**** y'all!

the drifter wrote: »

if you complete steps 2 and 3....you wont live to see FEB 2010 :P

Meh... dying a happy man with all the boxes checked so.

podge57 wrote: »

Nas FTW
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMtrClI7TJQ

Also, i nearly spat coffee on my screen when i saw carrot top

Posting your videos in my log... that's an act of war right there buddy!! :D

Coan-Phillipi - Day 1

Kipping Pull Ups (these were ridiculously non-kipped):
3x10

Power Cleans (ish):
60kg x3
70kg x2
80kg x2
90kg x2
100kg x1
107.5kg x1
112.5kg - 1x2 (1 power + 1 full), 1x2 (both power), 1x2 (1 power + 1 full)

Deadlifts:
112.5kg x3
140kg x3
*belt*
180kg x2
205kg x2
162.5kg 8x3 (60 second reset periods)

----start of giant set (60 seconds between exercises)----

SLDL:
120kg x8

Bent Over Rows w/ upper back arch:
80kg x8

Chins:
bodyweight x8

GMs:
80kg x8

----Done for 3 rounts - 90 seconds between each round----

Sit ups w/plate behind head:
15kg plate 2x12

The power cleans were suck-a-licious today. Caught all them well above parallel, but didn't "block" the weight on a few of them and had to ride it down to parallel to save them. I let it get out in front of me a bit on those reps too which wasn't the greatest idea ever. One of the sets was awesome tho

First day of the Coan DL cycle. It's got a great rep, so hopefully it holds my hand until the Hercs club champs, gives me a nice pat on the bum, and sends me off to pull a big PR!!

205 x2 this week, 217 x2 next week, 232 x2 the week after, 245 x2 the week following... then deload and do it all again. THAT's gonna suck.

The 162 8x3 pulls sucked... 60 second rest periods are the devil. Same goes for the circuit. Decided I'm going the entire thing strapless so my hands are shredded now. I'll bump up the assistance a bit next week.

Probably gonna have to ease off a bit on my squatting for the duration, might rotate between front squats and box squats w/ bands instead of doing both.

The weighted sit ups were nice... in an "owww my core hurts so much" sorta way.

ladowack wrote: »

Should the speed pulls not be done on another day? or is this the way the program is designed. I can see speed pulls being very tough after 245x2 in a few weeks!

I don’t think I said they were meant to be speed pulls?

I think they were actually called speed pulls in the program originally, but anyone who’s done it has basically said that after the top set of the day you just survive thru them and pull them at whatever speed you can manage. I think over the 11 weeks the progression will go (top set + “speed” deads):

1)205 x2 162 8x3
2)217 x2 175 8x3
3)230 x2 190 6x3
4)245 x2 205 5x3
5)217 x2 175 3x3
6)230 x2 190 3x3
7)245 x2 205 3x3
8)257 x2 190 3x3
9)262 x2 175 2x3
10)272 x2 162 2x3
11)Comp

I personally think it looks a bit mad and unrealistic, but I’m trusting Eddy on this one, and if I do crash and burn, at least it’s not coming up to an important comp. And if it works… then I know it will for next time too!!

Probably gonna do speed pulls on Saturdays before squatting as well. Just 130, 140 and 150kg 10 x1 rotating up and down weights in a 3 week wave.

Hanley wrote: »

3) My log broke 80,000 views - WOOT!

>1,000 views in 4 days... good stuff. Keep it up guys!!

Help me to 100,000+ before the year's out