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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Dreyth's New Journal
« on: December 15, 2014, 05:03:01 pm »
Yeah. You got stronger, I didn't.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Dreyth's New Journal
« on: December 15, 2014, 12:06:02 pm »
You look damn... "big" 
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Age vs Vertical
« on: December 15, 2014, 09:03:16 am »
You were right back when I was suggesting the Texas Method for you - you seem to milk all kinds of gains on this protocol. I might go on with it after I stall at TM.
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MUSiC anD SHeeT! / Re: I just added three more songs to my karaoke playlist
« on: December 14, 2014, 01:10:50 pm »
I think I sang this one pretty well:
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RiBEIyGjf8" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RiBEIyGjf8</a>
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Chris' training journal
« on: December 12, 2014, 04:16:40 pm »
Dunking in a game doesn't compare in any way with dunking in a dunk contest or whatever. No comparison. I would take a powerful in-game dunk over a dunk contest dunk any day because it's unplanned, you don't know it's going to happen, it's athletic and it's awe-inspiring.
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Article & Video Discussion / Re: Do we have any info on stretching/foam rolling affecting the stretch reflex?
« on: December 05, 2014, 06:02:24 pm »
By the way - forget what I write around here, I'm not in the right mental state to think about anything. Sorry about that.
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Article & Video Discussion / Re: Do we have any info on stretching/foam rolling affecting the stretch reflex?
« on: December 05, 2014, 01:20:11 pm »Maybe Raptor knows something that we don't, but he needs to explain it in his post, not just take his opinion/theory and write it out as fact. The muscle spindles, which are responsible for activating the stretch shortening cycle, respond to both changes in muscle length AND the rate/speed of change in length. Regardless of how flexible you are statically, I would think it would still kick in during a rapid eccentric contraction. Like in a depth jump, your knees don't bend much to stretch the quadriceps, it's the rate/speed of that stretch that causes the reflex.
I think that's a good point. I don't have any evidence for my statement other than what should logically occur using my subjective experience.
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Article & Video Discussion / Re: Do we have any info on stretching/foam rolling affecting the stretch reflex?
« on: December 04, 2014, 07:43:18 pm »
Because there's a loss of stretch reflex when you're too flexible - you don't benefit from it anymore. If you're still explosive it's because you're strong, not because you still benefit from the stretch reflex at the level of people that aren't as flexible as you. But this applies in something like ballet or whatever.
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Article & Video Discussion / Re: Do we have any info on stretching/foam rolling affecting the stretch reflex?
« on: December 04, 2014, 03:09:04 pm »
Too much flexibility can be bad for the stretch reflex.