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Daughter Project 5K run: Mission Bay

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Mission Beach 5K run

Distance: 3.1 miles

Organization: Daughter Project

A sample of the things I learned from V.Hui, studying performance physiology, this morning…

  1. Jam serves the same purpose as GU. Sugar energy…fast.
  2. It’s better to warm up by running a mile than stretching before a workout. Something about compliance and non-compliance.
  3. water + baking powder (in trace amounts of some quantity i forgot) transports lactic acid to type 1 muscles which break down lactic acid better than type 2 muscles.
  4. type 2 muscles = fast twitch muscles
  5. spoonful of pickle juice > bottle of powerade

There was much more. I forgot.

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許’s: K.Hsu, N.Hui, V.Hui, L.Hui

ILMN Basketball: Get Your Game On!

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End of March Madness’ll bring about a whole other round of excitement around here at work. Orthopedic surface + acrylic backboards = awesome! Double rim (boo).

Viewable by 2/3 of the company offices so no more 1+ hr lunches (boo)…hopefully more intense games now that the other guys’ll have some people to impress. Sand volleyball courts on the right (but who cares about those), and large grass field in back (for ultimate!).

Air Alert: Week 3 Update

Air Alert: Week 3 Update

Taking on all challengers. I’ve been fairly lackadaisical in my training and thought maybe a challenger will help me get going. Today my standing reach is ~90.25 inches and my vertical at week 3 of my air alert training is 118.5 inches…giving me a rough vertical of 28.5 inches. Yup not much. Unfortunately, I didn’t take a reading at t=0 so I don’t have a true baseline. Oh well.

I took a step before my jump, you can have a running start if you’d like just keep your approach consistent while tracking from week to week. If you wore shoes in week 1, use shoes ever week to test…and so on. You can use whatever training program you’d like; strength training, air alert, jump soles, polymetrics, whatever. Just be safe, do not over train, and in 10 weeks let’s see where we can get!

Leave me your standing and vertical jump and give me an update from time to time. Let’s see what you got!

**edit**

first responders!

C.Yih:

  • standing reach = 8’0″ or 96 inches.
  • jumping reach = 118 inches.
  • vertical = 22 inches.
  • methodology of training: crossfit

J.Wu:

  • standing reach =7’6.25″ or 90.25 inches
  • jumping reach = 116 inches
  • vertical = 25.75 inches
all measurements +/- 1 inch