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Quote from: Raptor on April 26, 2012, 08:42:12 am

Why did James Harden had to get in front of World Piss like that?

He didn't exactly get in his way like that, he was trying to go around world peace to get the ball from inbounder.  Look at the full motion.

Are you being serious?

Usually I do my heavy lower body day on Mondays, and allow my CNS to recover and do my heavy upper body day on Wednesdays.  

This usually has allowed me to go all out on Wednesdays but today was different.  Before lifting, during class I felt sleepy,tired,drained but instead of listening to my body, I decided to try and take an energy drink (monster) and go lift anyways since I've always been able to on Wednesdays with no problems.  I had a shitty workout to say the least.

Now I'm mostly certain it's my CNS that has not fully recovered, but I wanted to make sure it's not my muscles that have not fully recovered.

Signs that point to CNS not being recovered are:
- Felt tired during class before
- Monster energy drink didn't do jack shit to me
- Although I had 48 hours of rest, Monday I did ME jump session (low volume) with heavy lower body lifting (squats + BSS) all while on caffeine <--- This was my first monday where I did ME jump session before lifting, therefore a more CNS taxing Monday than usual.
- Last time I did upper body workout was a whole 7 days ago (last Wed)

Signs that point to muscles not being recovered are:
- I know having DOMS or not is not an accurate indication of whether or not you're recovered, and although my upper DOMS went away by Sunday, I did a RIDICULOUS amount of upper body volume (compound + isos) last Wednesday.  Usually I just do the main compounds, but I added supplementary compounds + tons of isos (wanted to experiment with how much volume I should do for a little hypertrophy)

I'm not 100% sure of my bad workout today because there are 2 new things that happened this past week.  First time doing a jump session prior to lower body lifting on Monday + First time doing ridiculous amounts of volume on the previous upper lifting day.

I just want to make sure what's the cause so I can make the necessary changes and not waste workouts anymore.

Duncan has an incredibly UGLY game... a lanky ass, slow mo-fo with no game. I don't care what you say. He's one of the people that make me hate basketball so... that's pretty hard to do.

I agree he has no flash, but any true basketball fan can enjoy watching this man play with his incredible fundamentals/efficiency/SKILLS.  The fact that he's lanky and slow and dominate the NBA like he has makes him even more impressive.

I landed ~8 inches behind the starting position.  Kinda hoping this is a bad thing, so that it means I have something else that I can work on to improve my vert lol

Usually on my heavy lower body days, I just go all out on squats.  This past Monday, I added BSS for the first time in a while.  I had some lower back tightness/soreness the next day all the way until today (Thursday).  During my playoff basketball game, my lower back was getting really sore/tight and it hurt a LOT to play.  I've done heavy squats + BSS in the past before, but never experienced this.

Something to note: I only did BSS on my left leg this week, because my left ankle is still recovering from a sprain and putting it back on the bench to do BSS for my right leg, was very irritating and aggravating on my left ankle/ couldn't use it to stabilize.

Could that have something to do with it maybe?

If not, what other potential reasons can there be for really right/sore lower back pain days after a lower body workout, and one that gets really painful during basketball.

I agree, if you got significaly stronger and lost significant weight, there's no reason you shouldn't be getting higher.

You're schedule has a LOT of work in it.  You're not ever recovered.  Deload for a week or so, maintain your max strength with low volume work/high intensity work and go out and practice jumping when your legs are fresh.  During this jumping training phase, I would day lift lower body only 1-2x a week with low volume, just to maintain your strength.  Its important to go out and practice max effort jumping/dunk attempts as much as you can (whenever ur legs are fresh)

I want to have jump sessions on mondays before my lower body lifting. 

I've never done jumps/plyo's before lifting before so I'm not sure how much volume I can get away with without hurting my chances of PRing in the weight room.

If you know or have experience with this, I was thinking of shooting around/warming up for ~20 minutes, and then doing like 7 SLRVJ's (once my ankle heals), 5 DLRVJ's, and 3 SVJ's <-- ALL Max effort.  Then I go to weight room and get on with my heavy squats/BSS etc...

If this volume is fine, will my warm up protocol on the squats stay the same?  Or start heavier and less reps/sets?

That is a fucking long workout lol.

I'm sure you can get adequate post workout stretching in less than 30 minutes...  What do you do?  Like 3 sets of 30 seconds for each muscle?

Lower body lifting for a hour and 45 minutes is very long.

This is all just my opinion.