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but i shouted "fuck crossfit!" and cackled with glee and ran around whooping and hollering and gloating.

I read this while at work and I almost exploded into laughter

Any crossfit dream is a nightmare, apparently.

i laughed too.. would have been a nightmare except the ending made it worth it.

ya i'd never jump on a wet court.. i absolutely love running in the rain though, feels amazing.

old video, but great camera angle.. i think it starts around ~1min (the good angle)

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjF1AK11Zyw" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjF1AK11Zyw</a>

looks even worse from the side angle.. so disgusting

man he hits the ground hard after.

One of the comments on yt:

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aresmars20031 day ago
Great tactical race, here's 400m splits for top-4 and Rupp.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/ares2000/28210779665

First 4 all hitting ~52s last 400m ,     

ya wtf?

insane

t0ddday, help me out here. can't articulate a response to that well enough to try.

WEIGHT: ???
SORENESS: none
ACHES/INJURIES: left soleus (?)
MENTAL STATE: blah

- warm up

- MB OH toss x 5,5; no step x 3,3

- LTMP squat 155 x 20
weird combination of easy and hard. made it to 20 without much difficult but don't know how many more i could have done. racked it the interest of protecting my back, which felt okay today but which was out of sorts yesterday.

- superset x 3
-- pull up x 5
-- dip x 5
-- TTB x 5

pretty weak workout all around. fuck it.

LTMP or MEBM? seems like beast mode.

Quote from: LBSS on July 10, 2016, 06:22:13 pm

confused why you think submax repetitions of an exercise impair movement efficiency. how do you learn a new skill, except by doing it with less than full effort until you're comfortable enough with it to push yourself?

But you're not learning a new skill. You're already pretty far along in your jumping movement efficiency and have done tons of max effort jumps (already comfortable doing max effort jumps). I think a submax jump might have subtly different mechanics from a max effort jump, which is why I think they might be ineffective as movement efficiency work. Once you've progressed past the point of beginner movement efficiency gains, what's the point?

I have seen people on the forum encourage submax jumps and they seem good on the one hand cause you can spare your cns/joints but I don't know how much they actually help improve

one answer could just be 'fun'.. get some jumps in, staying nice and relaxed, just enjoying it. If you jumped submax most sessions, and max effort for only some, then yes I think your point would be more valid; detrimental. Part of the skill of jumping is to learn to focus on producing force 'fast' in the first place, don't want to teach yourself to produce force slowly. But one session, or infrequent sessions, aren't going to be enough to be detrimental imho. I mean just look at it from the point of view of tempo sprints, submax running etc. They can still be used as tools to build work capacity, fitness, movement efficiency, and even qualities specific to max performance (cardiovascular development in running for example). So IMHO, the same applies for jumping.

I've personally been doing lots of submax jumping the last few months for a few reasons:
- i just love jumping, feels good to jump even if it isn't maximal
- want to focus more on 'relaxed max jumping sessions', ie, how high can i get if i don't amp myself up mentally (amping myself up mentally takes a toll on me)? similar to a TRAINING MAX in lifting -> max lifting without psyche ups/amp ups.
- need to improve SLRVJ as a skill in each leg

one thing I try to do when jumping submax, is still get off the ground fast.. For where i'm at right now, It's the difference between a 10'3-10'4 or 10'8.. so I lose ~4-5" when jumping submaximally: relaxed runup, relaxed jump but get off the ground fast/fast but smooth arm swing, no amp up. I can probably perform hundreds of those jumps, compared to only ~10 or so max effort jumps.

pc!

Quote from: adarqui on July 11, 2016, 12:24:19 am

btw Thon Maker is ballin` in summer league.

http://espn.go.com/blog/nba/post/_/id/22007/bucks-rookie-thon-maker-sets-a-high-standard-at-summer-league

I watched his game the other day and he has huge upside if he can stay injury free.

Have been watching Ben Simmons closely too and his passing is just beautiful. For a 6'10/240 guy it's ridiculous.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEfU5aEw1U0" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEfU5aEw1U0</a>

Also, can shoot of either hand. He's going to be a handful

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5OzD3ou6pc" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5OzD3ou6pc</a>

man he's SO impressive.. i underestimated him. really looking forward to watching him play.

some of those passes were season highlight level.