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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: plyometrics
« on: June 23, 2013, 01:59:05 pm »
HAHAHAHAHA he makes that black goat fall over TWICE LOLLLL. wtf

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400m Sprinting or Shorter / Re: gatlin over bolt
« on: June 22, 2013, 10:45:57 am »
Gay over gatlin.

9.75 is SERIOUS

http://www.france24.com/en/20130622-gay-impresses-with-975-us-trials

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6OGj7pf5vE" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6OGj7pf5vE</a>

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I by no means am an expert but I do know what seems to have helped me. Last fall I was grinding out reps and lifting 'heavy' and I noticed some improvement in my SVJ but my RVJ (in particular my plant speed) really suffered. Since I lowered the weight a little and have focused on lifting faster (in both lift phases) my RVJ and plant speed have vastly improved and I've seen small improvement in my SVJ. The resistance bands I use currently help I'm sure as they force me down into the squat much quicker and make me finish reps instead of letting momentum take over.

Just my 2 cents.

true. this worked for me too in the PAST. But this imo helps with linear gains in everything, in contrast to periodized training where you get strong, then explosive. Linear training confuses my muscles too much unless I stick just to bilateral plyos which definitely aren't nearly as effective for me as single legged plyos for improving the vert, but the single leg plyos decrease my lifts and confuse muscles the fastest, next to long sprints.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CDcluJer3Q

(Sorry for posting this on your journal. I just remember Raptor saying the quote I used above and thought it would be relevant to post it here. Besides the majority of users are linked to and read your journal haha.)

your video is set to private so no one can view it at the moment.

I would like to experiment with a powerjumper sometime in the future so I do want to see this video.


And LBSS we gotta train soon again bro. I understand you're out of town though so hmu when you're back!

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Eh. I think I've been able to clean that much for a long time. Just never did

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225lbs clean
video in my journal check it.
also uploaded bunch of clips i meant to upload in the past.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: THE DREAM JOURNAL
« on: June 13, 2013, 04:47:38 pm »
The conditions are rainy, wet, and cloudy (it's been raining recently). I'm with some friends from school who come to the yoga sessions run by my club. We went on a yoga retreat last month so I had those people in mind. We were doing some other health related activity together, working out actually. Since it's fitness related, my brain decided to put some people I have worked with in the gym in my dream too to participate in this activity. There was one kid next to me who I work with who is about 6'2'' or so, and 260+lbs. I remember him well because he said he runs 3+ miles 3 times a week but was so tired after a simple workout I gave him involving heavy weights.

Anyway, we were on some roof and three of my good friends from the yoga retreat all of a sudden decided to do "Avishekdrops," depth drops from a VERY high altitude. It was like 4+ stories. Without even asking me about it they just JUMPED off the roof! i was fucking petrified I was like NOOO you're not supposed to drop from THAT high you'll fuck your knees up! they didn't listen they were smiling like they were jumping off a plane...they didn't even do a roll or anything after landing they just landed on their feet and crumbled to the floor as their knees collapsed.

Thankfully, they were completely fine. No injuries at all and smiles. They thought they were doing something "alternative" and healthy. The guy next to me who isn't really that fit and can barely do 10 bodyweight squats then wanted to give the depth drops a try. I DID NOT let him jump from the roof, I was like there is no way you can handle that high of a drop. I left the scene and just thought to myself, I do not feel like doing these depth drops today and I can't believe they did. I'm not regretting that I did not participate in this activity because it's just way too high of a drop and pointless.


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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: THE DREAM JOURNAL
« on: June 07, 2013, 10:13:22 am »
So the teather exists in real life?

Nope I've just been to this movie theater in my dreams. There are a few other venues that only exist in my dreams but I cannot think of them at the moment. I often find myself in my old home in the suburbs of philly before I moved to boston too in my dreams.

dream:
our other brother, the middle one, has also had a kind of recurring dream recently in which our little brother is dead, although his are quite different and involve being at family gatherings where everyone is the same except little brother, who is some younger version of himself. for example, a few months ago he dreamt that we were all at my step-grandmother's house for christmas, which we are every year. the whole extended family is there except j, which has also become normal over the last 8 years or so. he's often unable to travel. L, my middle brother, is in the living room and the front door opens. 10-year-old j is standing there, not saying anything. (he's 22 in real life.) he's not dressed for the winter. L knows that this means j is dead. he lies down on the floor, on his back, and cries.

damn dude. well it's good you're paying attention i guess. it's always crazy when the dreams turn into real life and it's hard to say if it was really premonition or what.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: THE DREAM JOURNAL
« on: June 06, 2013, 01:45:28 pm »
3 interesting dreams, all short ones, last night.

1. I was at the mall with my friend shopping for a new pair of dress shoes. In fact that's what I did yesterday. My mother wants me to look nice for my sister's graduation party so she she basically bought me a new outfit, but we didn't get the shoes yet. In the dream, I'm walking around the mall and we eat at the food court. I get some pu-erh tea, it's a deep red color. I love pu-erh tea. All of a sudden I'm at the party, getting ready for it to begin and helping prepare. But I realize I need to pee first. Once I'm at a urinal, I pull my pants down all the way to the ground. I start peeing and it's a milder color than the pu-erh tea, but still red, which I don't think much about. However, the pee keeps getting all over my new shoes and pants, and I can't seem to figure out how to get it in the urinal. It's so weird, I'm pissed! Literally, cuz now my pants are gonna smell like piss and feel wet and uncomfortable at the party. Then I wake up around 7am and realize I just need to pee.

2. I'm at my dad's house in boston, and my fingers have this craving to play the piano. So I start playing the piano but i'm pretty unskilled and the song just plays by itself. All of a sudden a music video starts playing. Or, I created the scene by playing piano . . . either way the scene changed. This hipster dude with a beard is singing the song. He's gay and he's talking about his boyfriend and how they broke up and it sucks or something. I thought it was interesting because the people in the video seemed exotic and I felt like I was in another city that I have not been to before. The guy singing was cool though and I think he was my friend but i'm not sure. The dream ended but I was still asleep and I thought to myself: "ehh that was an okay performance, I am not really good at the piano."

3. I'm taking this girl I'm seeing, the night after I get back from Boston. She's this curvy indian girl with dimples and kinda curly black hair. So I take a bus to meet up with her. It's a yellow school bus and there are like 25 people on it and it's super packed. After we're about to get off the bus, I realize she's sitting in the back. So I glance at her and say hi and walk towards her. She's wearing some peacock blue shirt and looks fly, as usual. I have a huge wad of something i'm chewing in my mouth, I forget what it actually was but I told her it was "mouri," a formula consisting of roasted fennel seeds that is available in Indian restaurants to help with digestion; you will almost always find it in a bowl placed outside the main door to the restaurant in the entrance. I don't like swallowing the fiber so I usually have this wad in my mouth and have to spit it out. So I get off the bus and find a trash can and spit it out then start talking to her. Without verbalizing it I realize we are actually about to enter a movie theater, but we talk for a bit outside and catch up since it's been 2 weeks since I've seen her last.

She looks mildly concerned for whatever reason. I feel like she's going to say she banged some guy while I was away in Boston for two weeks, but instead, she morphs into this cute redhead, maybe even a redhead version of herself, and has a cigarette in her mouth. So yea she's white now, wearing a white dress outfit thing with black polka dots. I can't smell the smoke, (because it's a dream probably) which is a good thing because I don't like to have conversations with cigarette smoke around me. Either way she looks hot. She also has a cast on her right arm now, it's blue in color, and says she was trying too hard or something - she's not able to describe exactly how she broke her arm because she is too upset.  I imagined her fall in my mind as she was working on some project, and she was also on the roof, in my imagination during the dream, when she broke her arm.

The dream ended but as I was in a post-dream semi-awake state, I again got the feeling I was in another city entirely during that dream and the chicks were all really hot. My friend and I were talking about Toronto the other day since I'm looking there for grad school, and we talked about the hot indian girls there so maybe that's why I got that feeling. My mind was just arbitrarily connecting things that happened yesterday I guess. Anyway the redhead was super super cute and had orange hair.

OMG and I just realized this movie theater was the same movie theater I watched a movie in in a previous dream a while ago that I don't remember too well but it was the same movie theater. Except I did not enter the theater in this dream.

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Congrats man on the 2x bw squat and also the running time for the first 10m, beast man.
you have more chances of being the first asian under 10s then me.
a challenge i accept.

Yea it would be cool to be the first Indian to run under 10s. Especially with my flat feet.

Deadlift: 315lbs x14

Pretty stupid pr, I just couldn't stop.
5 conventional, 5 sumo, 4 more conventional. All paused reps, no wasted time in between reps. Reached 85% lockout on the 15th rep so obviously not counting it.
This puts my max at ~490lbs which is at least 40lbs above where I think I can do.

However my friend said I'm not fully locking out on each rep because I don't bring my shoulder blades back together. But I know I lockout my hips which is all I care about. But ill keep it in mind and lockout the lift properly according to pl standards.

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good photos.

again, doesn't matter how good it looks, what matters is what muscles you are using. Depending on one's structure, a side angle view of squats won't tell you if someone is feeling it in their glutes a lot, or quads more. If front squats work for you, you should see a decent increase in your SVJ within a few workouts or up to a month's worth due to better quad activation, not necessarily greater strength, if that is what you needed to improve your squat to vert ratio, which is exactly what I think you need for your standing vert, and that should translate into better running vert.

On another note, don't always believe in what you're doing, or you become attached and cannot see other possibilities. But while you're doing it yes do it with passion but be able to change. That's my life advice at my young age, but especially with training/health/diet.

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Then it must be that the hip flexors, hamstrings and possibly tibialis anterior (to a lesser degree) could be culprits in this equation. If that's the case, if I were LBSS (I might implement this regardless in my training) I would do 1 set of supine psoas leg raises (with cables), leg curls and toe raises at the end of each and every workout.

??? Muscles have nothing to do with this bullshit.

Jk. But on a serious note, how much would you expect his sprint times to decrease? 5.1s 40yd dash to ___ following a release of this inhibition?

I would expect less than a 0.1s difference in a 40. LBBS strength doesn't translate to good 40yd dash times without practice, or a good DLRVJ without practice, thus there should be focus on reactive strength imo. Of course, LBSS has a LOT of practice, so this is why some of us think it doesn't make sense. But...

Last week with LBBS we did some broad jumps into vertical jumps. I like this exercise because the athlete needs to produce forces vertically, after absorbing impact coming horizontally, quickly. It's also called a horizontal depth jump and is much more specific to a running vertical imo. The exercise looked novel for LBSS and he had some initial difficulty with it. Perhaps hip flexor inhibition played some role, but I think rather a lack of coordination and speed were the biggest weaknesses. Being able to transfer forces horizontally to vertically can be improved here.

Furthermore, his 2xbw LBBS is glute dominant. His SVJ is hip dominant. There are many more excellent knee dominant SVJs than hip SVJs - thus although he is strong, I don't think it's specific enough to a knee driven vertical jump, and I have to disagree with Lance that 2 inches on the back doesn't make much of a difference, I think it makes a giant difference. Even neck angle during a high bar squat or sprinting can make a giant difference in pattern of muscle activation. Just switching from vibrams to 100% barefeet makes a giant difference (extremely VMO dominant and no glute sensation at all to major glute sensation and more in the vastus lateralis), at least for me but I suspect for many people it would.

I don't think Raptor's suggestion could go wrong by any means, and if anything they would help strengthen the muscles, but I don't see how inhibition is the answer?

However if there is an inhibition I would suggest sprinting longer distances at a fast pace (like 60meters at least). I've noticed that the only times my hip flexors ever feel like they're inhibiting my stride is when I haven't sprinted in a while. After I sprint a little more my strides feel very loose and there is no burning sensation in my hip flexors, however without the addition of ankle weights or other stimuli, I cannot apply progressive overload. But... I don't think I have noticed differences in how the DLRVJ feels so I cannot confirm if hip flexor inhibition really hurts my own DLRVJ.

Apart from that, front squat are up next. High bar sucks for his traps, but front squats won't. Dno if he's had experience with those. And Bulgarian split squats Mike Boyle style instead of lunges because he can't do lunges b/c of toes.

Conclusion: I think it's worthy of consideration but I wonder how much of a difference it will make. How can releasing hip flexor inhibition improve his DLRVJ, by how much? Are we talking 1 inch, or 4 inches? Will it simply allow the hip and knee extensors to apply more strength or will it improve his form?

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Pics, Videos, & Links / Re: beast
« on: May 16, 2013, 10:45:56 am »
damn did anyone else notice? that dude lost 25 lbs since the 520x3 video. maintained his squat pretty good, but that's a lot of weight to lose.

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Article & Video Discussion / Re: Hip thrust and glute science
« on: May 11, 2013, 09:20:25 pm »
I actually do straight-leg locked knees deadlifts.

it's probably strengthens the hamstrings to beast level, but definitely carries risks.

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Article & Video Discussion / Re: Hip thrust and glute science
« on: May 11, 2013, 06:57:45 pm »
Single leg hypers are my favorite:

I'm not fond of hip thrusts because it's just awkward and I can hit my glutes harder in my single leg RDLs, and I have not ever grown fond of GHRs, and I have not tried reverse hypers (i'm sure I would love them), so my opinion is not completely unbiased, but THESE HIT YOUR HAMSTRINGS SO FUCKING HARD. DO THEM.

The other benefit is that they won't fatigue you centrally as much as stiff-legged DLs, or sprinting, or hip thrusts, since it's basically an isolation exercise, but one that also has good specificity to sprinting and single leg jumping.

Yes Lowrey claimed them to be a secret exercise in his program. I think they could be a secret exercise for SPRINTING, I wonder if T0dday knows anything about famous sprinters swearing by this exercise, I doubt it but I would suspect that if you gave two groups of unsprint-trained athletes stiff legged deadlifts and squats, or single leg hypers and squats at the same intensity, you'd find higher vertical jumps and and faster sprint times in the group that did single leg hypers. I swear doing these a lot last year made me feel incredibly bouncy and light for my sprints.

I also want beast hamstrings, badly, and I plan to use this machine until I can lift two 45lb plates with one leg, then just keep going obviously.

I think the best method in this exercise is to hold a weight with arms extended at the bottom of the ROM, and attempt to lift it outwards away from the machine AND upwards at the same time towards the chest, curling the weight with the arms, rather than holding it statically and just lifting it upwards, to maximally innervate the hamstrings group. Slowly descending, arms relax and extend again, until the next rep where I stretch the hamstring a little then lift upwards with a nice amortization. It's way too hard to lift it all the way up above the head with a heavy weight, that also seems to hit the back a lot more. The potentiation is nice too.

When going very very heavy, it's impossible to lift outwards; instead you will just lift it up towards the chest. It is critical to flex and unflex the arms at the top and bottom of the ROM respectively, as the mild acceleration resulting from doing so increases the forces the hamstrings have to produce to reverse direction, just like with kettlebell swings, thus training eccentric overload or w/e you call it. It's probably dangerous to lift too heavy since the forces on the tendons at the back of the knee are unparalleled by any other exercise except stiff legged deadlifts with the knees locked, which no one does obviously.

Seriously, do them. I haven't tried reverse hypers, but I'd suspect you would get better results with regular hypers because you can initiate a much stronger stretch-reflex at the bottom of the ROM and manipulate the positioning of your arms to lessen or increase the load on the hamstrings. It's of course viewed as a supplementary exercise, but I wonder what results sprint athletes and high jumpers could have if they treated it as a primary strength exercise and trained it 3-5 times a week until they could lift upwards of their own bodyweight with one leg.


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