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Article & Video Discussion / Re: Community: Strength Training For Athletes By Johnny Johnson
« on: July 31, 2009, 01:59:46 am »
2 questions:

1.Doesn't making most exercises unilateral go against the general vs. specific idea?
2.Do you think that a max strength phase has any benefits for an intermediate or advanced athlete or is it completely unecesary?

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Crazy Weird Analysis & Stuff :) / Re: MJ
« on: July 16, 2009, 02:04:57 pm »
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMzhhugyTAo

This was a nice game by him.  Don't know if some people find the music annoying but you could just mute it.

Gerald Wilkins, Dominique's brother, was pretty athletic and known for being a pretty good defender but in this game Jordan was way too quick for him in the half-court.  Rick Pitino was coaching the knicks at that time and he had that full court press he liked to use.  The press gave MJ a few open jumpers also resulted in him dunking the ball and hitting Patrick Ewing in the face.

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Crazy Weird Analysis & Stuff :) / Re: MJ
« on: July 07, 2009, 11:55:56 pm »
Dwight Howard's trying to shoot a sky hook...

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: July 07, 2009, 11:35:07 pm »
Quote from: adarqui on July 07, 2009, 11:19:03 pm
1/4th mile sprints felt damn good.. i have to work on full out sprinting the first 200 or so meters soon, then just going as fast as possible until finish.. i think that would help alot.. i thought my first sprint was going to be below 60s it felt so damn good, then i saw 1:05 and got depressed haha... my sprinting form is falling into place though, tonight's sprints felt real nice.

Does this mean you'll be running on your toes for the first 200, then running heel-toe for the second 200?  If you sprint near max and make first contact with your heel then I would have to think that would kill your shins after a while.

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Crazy Weird Analysis & Stuff :) / Re: MJ
« on: July 07, 2009, 11:27:10 pm »
Quote from: adarqui on July 07, 2009, 05:00:45 pm
never knew he ran a 4.3 40..

his competitiveness and fierceness impressed me so much.. when he was zoned in, no one could do anything.. it was just impossible to stop him.

Yeah, he ran a 4.3 in college after his huge growth spurt where he shot up by 4 inches or something.  He had the small joints and reactivity to be really fast without having that much muscle.  I think he was only 180-190 pounds when he started playing.  He lifted more so that teams like the knicks and pistons couldn't try to stop him by being super physical with him.  He definitely got stronger and bigger, but I think he lost some of his athleticism.  Didn't matter too much though because he shot the ball a lot better as he kept playing.

When people see Kobe get mad at teammates or asked to be traded or something, they really are seeing the same desire to win that MJ had.  MJ was really hard on his teammates whenever they made mistakes and was also critical of management when they made moves he didn't like, like when the they traded for Bill Cartwright.  They both wanted to win so badly that they couldn't tolerate anyone else messing up.


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Crazy Weird Analysis & Stuff :) / MJ
« on: July 07, 2009, 07:11:43 am »
My favorite MJ vid

Analysis: he kicked ass because he was 6'6', ran a 4.3 40 in college, had enormous hands, and jumped high as shit

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWvxijHNWB4

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: July 05, 2009, 10:33:35 pm »
Quote from: adarqui on July 05, 2009, 06:35:12 pm
what type of hip flexor work do you recommend? i have gotten real lazy with core, and even lazier with hip flexor.. ive rarely done any hip flexor work, thats probably because they are very week.. i've only gone through a few phases of hip flexor work and i usually stopped just cause they get so tight/sore.

What about Rj's "All About the A-Chain" article?  He has some weighted and some unweighted activities in it.  Hurdle drills like step overs and stuff aren't in the article but they were used the most by my track team for hip flexor work.

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Pics, Videos, & Links / Re: funny / horrible training videos
« on: July 03, 2009, 07:32:28 am »
Quote from: adarqui on July 02, 2009, 11:57:47 pm
up part = weight of bar - (length of band at position X) <-- lol

Whoops, I forgot.  I'm an idiot.

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Pics, Videos, & Links / Re: funny / horrible training videos
« on: July 02, 2009, 11:56:20 pm »
Quote from: adarqui on July 02, 2009, 11:28:17 am
it would make total sense if there were NO bands...

if he was trying to eliminate the concentric, unfortunately, he'd have to have spotters help each rep up, or just do a negative and hit pins, re-rack it, repeat..

the reverse band setup is practically pulling that bar off his back on the way down.. it's canceling out the effect of those weight releasers..

;)

Yeah the bands do look like they're too strong in the video cause it looks like he's pulling the thing down with him, but if he had 110% of his max on the bar or something then he could have had the weight releasers to cancel out the effect of the bands on the way down and on the way up the band would help him lift it back up. Down part=weight of bar+(weight releasers-bands=0) up part=weight of bar-bands?

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Pics, Videos, & Links / Re: funny / horrible training videos
« on: July 02, 2009, 07:36:49 am »
Quote from: adarqui on July 02, 2009, 12:49:36 am
super fail, weight releasers + reverse band squat:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TdR8E2Q02E

Would this make sense if he was only trying to focus on the eccentric part of the lift and have the bands pretty much eliminate the concentric part?

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: June 22, 2009, 12:19:39 am »
Quote from: adarqui on June 21, 2009, 10:42:48 pm
this guy on verkhoshansky's forum really pissed me off..

just thought my response was kind of funny:

http://www.verkhoshansky.com/Forum/tabid/84/forumid/15/postid/1009/scope/posts/Default.aspx

Yeah that was kind of a pointless comment for the guy to make.  It seemed like he thought the other guy was right and you were wrong because of the amount of weight he lifted rather than because of what was actually being discussed.

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Article & Video Discussion / Re: A LEGACY AMD RE-EMERGENCE OF STRIDE LENGTH IN SPRINTING
« on: June 21, 2009, 04:45:34 pm »
Well I thought the article seemed kind of odd as well, but it probably could have been better if it explained the ideas behind the different types of running a little more.  From the running I have done, I think that it is possible to run differently depending on what you're focusing on and the type of form you try to keep when you run.  I also believe that different forms are more appropriate for different people.  Other than height, some important factors would be stuff like skinny joints and reactivity, as well as hip power.  A guy like Ben Johnson relied mainly on hip power and put out a smaller ratio of power through his ankles than hips compared to some other people and this could have had something to do with his style having a high rate of turnover.

As for the fact that people sometimes overanalyze technique, I would have to admit that I obsess about a bunch of stuff that I later decide is pointless as well. However, a lot of the time you're only trying to improve by tenths of a second, so anything to make you more efficient is worth it.

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Pics, Videos, & Links / Re: the plyo bar (haha)
« on: June 20, 2009, 03:56:37 pm »
Does it come with a manual and will someone show me how it works after I buy it?  It looks very complicated.

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Crazy Weird Analysis & Stuff :) / Re: Moving Upper Body Side to Side While Sprinting
« on: June 18, 2009, 12:54:28 am »
One of the things I noticed is that when Ben Johnson pumps his arms, they are more angled inwards.  Usain Bolt and Tyson Gay pump their arms more straight upwards.

Charlie Francis says that the hips should naturally rotate a bit when running to give greater stride length.  Ben Johnson could have been pumping his arms inwards to counteract the turning of his hips.

I don't really know what this means about the other two.  Their arms go up more so they don't rotate their upper bodies as much to compensate for the turning of their hips and they go side to side to compensate?  If that is the case I'm pretty sure they would be better off running more like Ben.

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Program Review / Re: Charlie Francis Programs
« on: June 18, 2009, 12:08:03 am »
I recently bought the GPP Essentials video.  It gives a fairly detailed layout of the GPP for a short to long program.  It shows how to integrate hills, med ball drills, and beginning speedwork into a GPP program.  It has analysis of running technique and demonstrations of proper weightlifting techniques as well.  It also goes into some depth discussing the warm up and how a proper warm up should be conducted.  The GPP Essentials video gives a good explanation of why the GPP is structured the way it is and shows how a proper GPP should be set up.  I am definitely glad I bought it.

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