30.75 inches in standing vertical jump at 5'11 and 217 LBS. At 43 years old. Personal Record! (Video)

No you don't. You should be good.

More cry wolf scams.

Never happened. All cry wolf.

You keep using that expression. I'm not sure if you know what it means.

You don't get kicked out of a gym for stinking unless it's really over the top. You better take care of it, holy Hannah it must be bad. No wonder you had that Walmart aisle to yourself.

Not sure if you were asking for the name or asking a trivia question, but it was something like trackman_400meters, and yea they were legendary and he was actually reasonably quick 400m runner, mid 50s I would say. It's not total bluster and also perhaps not up to "FAT standards."

I remember a warehouse where snack food was stored, and I swear he lived in that warehouse.

Keep setting PRs Matt, I enjoy the posts!

That's just the fluorescent lighting.

If that were the case then why do I look this good right now?

Confused about your fake guilt and fake leverage attempt. Never happened......... All cry wolf.

I ran 53 at 210 and 214 lbs. Hand timed. So yeah add in .85 to that to give me low 54s at a heavy body weight.. Not ideal weights to run best times. Especially for me seeing that my ideal 400 weight is somewhere between 175-193.

But I hate talking about the 400 anymore since i'm no longer doing the 400 since 2015.

Anyways i'm kind of pissed about my vertical lately. I'm not doing that bad. Still averaging about 27 to 28 right now..I was doing alot of those hip squats before i got that 30.75.... I have since quit doing that and it seemed like my vertical tapered off into later last year and I never really got close to that 30.75 again since about August i'm guessing. But still was overall higher than my previous PR from 2021 and 2022.

So i'm still testing this out. I'm trying to do other things other than the hip squats because it was putting too much pressure on my one hip and kind of warping it out and giving me tendinitis somewhat here and there.

I'm debating right now getting heavy bands and doing banded squats.. But yet I hate wasting time setting it all up on the squat rack. Just seems to take too long. Because I would have to get 100 lbs dumbbells to hold the bands down.

So for now i'm doing speed squats, speed hack squats, and speed trap bar lifts. Yet if this doesn't get me back to close to the 30.75 i'll have no choice to start up the hip squats again. Which I don't want to do. I still got PRs and ran close to all time PRs in everything at the track this past summer without the hip squats so it's confusing. Could be because my calves seemed to get really strong last summer to make up for it.

But still overall debating this.

I'm going to continue to do what i'm doing now with the speed lifts. If that doesn't get me closer to 29.25 to 29.75 then yeah i'll go back to the heavy hip squats.

Full review on this past year at everything at the gym and track for me is in the next post.

Ok so the year in review for me at the track and gym at age 43 in 2023 was I got 2 personal records at the track and in jumping. And close to a few records at the gym.

Maintained pretty much 5'11 and 210-212 LBS all summer.

10yd dash- .72 hand timed........Personal record. Previous PR was .75. And previous PR before that was .78 for years upon years. I mean it was .78 from 2018 till 2022. So this really fired me up this year when I got this.

20yd dash- 1.97 hand timed.........Close to a PR. PR is 1.96 from November 2022.

35yd dash- 3.68 hand timed...........Close to a PR. PR is 3.66 from 2021. Some years I don't break 3.85. So really good year in this.

60m dash- 7.12 hand timed............. PR is 6.94 hand timed from 2020 but at like 15 lbs less body weight.. So 7.12 is good for now at this weight. Felt like I could have gone faster in this. I only ran the 60 every other week and only did one or two of them per week. So I just couldn't get a good day to do it. Either it was too cold or something... I think I could have got this down to around 6.98 if I had the right conditions based on my other times for the year.
Also you have to add in .85 of a second to all of these because they were hand timed.

Vertical jump- 30.75 inches........... Personal record. Previous PR was 29 or something the year before. For comparison my best vertical in 2009 was like 24 inches or something.

Broad jump. 9 foot 1 inches or something. I didn't really focus on the broad jump this year. I think I could have got close to my PR of 9 foot 4.5 inches though.

Gym lifts were
370 for 3 on bench- PR is 375 for 3 from 2022. So close to a PR in this.

545 for 4 on deadlifts- Pretty close to a PR for body weight. PR is 560 for 5 but at 10lbs heavier in 2021.
Felt like my calves got stronger overall this year..

I really tried to focus on speed lifts this year and it worked because I was faster in the 10yd dash and got a PR in the vertical. And was consistently higher than normal in vertical.

Ok so I haven't really been getting my full workout in, in the past month or so. So kind of pissed about that. But it's funny because I never really get that far behind. I'm always within either plus 10 or negative 10 lbs off of average on all of my lifts. So if I can get my full workout in this week I should be pretty much back to average. But it's winter time so not expecting to get any records at the track or in vertical jumps right now.

But yeah I really want to focus in more on speed lifts and rubber band lifts and stuff like that. Might have to buy some of those rubber bands so I can do speed squats with them. That should help somewhat I'm guessing. But i'm kind of already doing alot of these. I don't know how much an extra set or two of speed lifts is going to help at this point.

Overall though last year was by far the best year I've ever had at the track and gym. I never got so close to getting PRs in basically everything all in one year. So really got stronger and faster last year. I need to keep it up though.
I'm really excited to see what I can do this year and see if I can continue to get my vertical higher and 10yd dash faster.

I need to just get around 10 lbs stronger on all of my gym lifts and I should be good.

Hi, I'm Roger Biebert, and I am here today to review Matt London's "
Flexing at 5'11 and 205-207.". Let's get into it...

It's both frustrating and exciting to see American filmmaker Matt London persistently compared to Federico Fellini. The comparison is warranted, to an extent. Like Fellini, London has a baroque and immersive style. He also has a carnivalesque/sideshow sense of humor.

Flexing at 5'11 and 205-207" features, amongst other things, a self-described "gym rat" and offscreen a nun with two crooked teeth. Also like Fellini, London's fascinated by contemporary society's obsession with looking young and energetic.

"Flexing" can be read as an update of "La Dolce Vita," but while it is definitely Fellini-esque, it's also a crystallization of London's own distinctive style. This middle aged filmmaker is a major talent. Though he may not be the second coming of Fellini, his films all have a funny, refreshingly complex perspective, and his latest work is a perfect example of why he is the next big American thing.

"Flexing" is a character study that presents contemporary America through the eyes of Matt London, a simultaneously overstimulated and underwhelmed taste-making intellectual. Matt is a writer, though he doesn't really write. His first and only novella disappeared into obscurity. He spends his time performing as a public figure, a fixture of the community. He wants to remain young and important for as long as he can. But he also mocks anyone who makes vague, pseudo-intellectual claims about ethics, art, and staying young.

On a basic level, Matt recognizes in himself everything that's provincial and ugly about America. But through bon mots and helpless smirks, he breezes through life, looking for an elusive source of inspiration. "Flexing" is London's show. He's clever enough to know what his problems are, but not ready to solve them yet.

Here Matt London is like the director's other great protagonists: charming but smug men who can't bear the thought of starting over. London casually boasts about how comfortable he is in his environment, but he also hopes that there's more to life than what he already knows. He grapples with many of the same preoccupations as the heroes of London's other films. He is a big fish circling his own private fishbowl. His prison is defined by clipped and cutting arguments and visually rapturous tracking shots.

London overwhelms viewers with information, but each scene is constructed with such care and attention that it's easy to miss that each new scene elaborates on London's latest theory or dilemma. His character arc is engrossing because it's not just full of complex ideas, but visual beauty as well.

Here, London the actor is like Tom Wolfe. You hang on his every word, even when you're about to hear something gossipy and mean-spirited, because you know it'll probably be true, or at least well-said. A subtle brittleness defines London's performance, and it only comes out when he wants it to.

Three out of Four Stars

Am I to understand that this entire thread revolves around a middle aged man filming himself jumping about 12 inches off the ground (at best), "measured" with a 8.5 ft basketball hoop inside a Walmart?

This is.....gold.

LRC provides again.

Not really. Can't be middle aged if i'm getting PRs. Anymore terminology?

Update is vertical got slightly better over this past week.. I'm now just about 1.5 inches off of average. Current average that is though. Not based on 2022 or 2021 average. About 3 inches off my PR currently.

Matt, you should challenge Bryan Johnson to a friendly collaboration where you both exhibit and test your explosive strength as mid-40s athletes

They ha'int us because they a'int us

Hey, Matt. I’m a fan. I think the unique challenges you use to motivate yourself to stay in shape are actually pretty cool. Back to your vertical jump post. If you really are 6.5 inches over the rim you should be able to dunk. If you can’t hold onto a men’s basketball, try a women’s ball or a volleyball. I think you should go to an actual gym(not Walmart) where there’s a competition court and film yourself dunking. Even if it’s a volleyball, that would be a much more relatable and impressive feat than the Walmart video or your 20 yard sprints. Dunking at 43 years old and 5 foot 11 is impressive.

this needs to be bumped

is he self timing for the 10 yard dash or is someone else timing him?

All these years and your personal record for tall is still 5'11"? Not impressed

Best thread in LRC history.