He has such a big foot in the middle of his two feet he can jog off of it. Kiddin
ya my foot is shaped like this
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U should change that light blue to something else, it's hurting my eyes for real
really? mang i think you will get used to it.. most people seem to think it looks way better.. if i can fig out how to make it easier on your eyes and keep it clean/fresh colors, i will do so.
Jackw mentioned a few time saying, it have the benefit of added resistance for your jump, without the extra load harming ur joint during landing.
on the other hand, the band force u to go down faster, increase ur counter movement speed, doesn't that yield extra load during the landing phase?
um, i am not sure..
nope.. lifeline power jumper would be much less intense.
landing from increasing altitude places far more force on your joints/muscle/body than bands can offer (once you're back on the ground)..
there's a pretty big difference for sure.
not sure though, how a vertimax would compare to a landing.. because a vertimax's bands are still anchored to the ground and it's pulling you down 'faster than gravity can accelerate you'.. not sure if they would equal out, probably would somewhat.
I have the other version from lifeline. I kinda wish I didn't have it though, beacause it's very tempting to want to use it with every exercise all the time. I've tried with squats, kb swings, calve raises(doesn't work well), deadlifts, bounds, depth jumps etc. I would say in the grand scheme of things it hasn't really helped me. I would consider this a worthy gimmick though, because of its variety with uses. I just don't think it will complement the general phase of getting stronger that much, it kinda just makes you want to use it all the time.
135? I was squatting 135 in the video AND 225, both same form.
Regarding my squats, my 265 x 1 full squat, the form got messed up b/c i just PR'd on 255 and ran a full court bball game on bum ankle earlier. But generally speaking, my form is the same for 0 lb and 255. So I'm not being prideful and being above my head. It would be stupid for me to drop down and a waste of my time.
way too much rounding.. need to lighten it up a bit and really tighten up.. upper back rounding is a huge no-no.. a little butt-wink is no problem, but a combo of lower + upper rounding = bad.
just trick yourself into believing that PR's are not simply 'weight based', but are in fact a combination of 'weight + form'.. with this mindset, a PR cannot occur if one or the other is missing.. so increasing weight, achieving the rep, but ugly form, would result in no PR.. this is a good way to humble yourself.
So you're saying you can't maintain a flat upperback with a empty barbell?
my back rounds more when i do a barless squat, especially if my heels aren't elevated.. mobility issue, but bar on back evens that out. edit: lower back though, not upper.
What about backward downhill "walks" or basically eccentric calf raising walks? Ever tried such a thing? Less intense but much more TUT and almost no rest in between reps.
Another option would probably be doing what I was actually doing that got me that hard soreness in the first place - eccentric oriented step-ups
dno, i think the backward downhill walks might be overkill..
i've done some backwards downhill stuff on a huge speed ramp when i was at MSC, seemed more trouble than it was worth.. downhill sprints were fun though.. no idea how effective, incline was probably too big.
Damn, wtf do you do to get that "insane calf soreness", I swear I never get that. Probably they do respond best to high volume stuff and I never do high volume stuff.
i havn't done any jumps in a year.... HEH
when i was in peak physio, i never could jog mid-foot without getting rape-level soreness.... so that's the only thing that i've never been able to conquer.. i've had soreness so bad from mid-foot jogging that i wouldn't be able to walk properly for a week.
didn't do anything yesterday.. that single leg stuff i did wrecked me.
oh btw, something i did that day was.. hit a decent pace while jogging, then transition into a single leg jump.. this actually was pretty interesting.. nice way to work on speed.. going to keep messing with that.. that's probably what killed me.
fell asleep while making mods to the site.. just woke up and fixed the 'reply border' that lbss talked about.
added 'lightbox popup' for images and a little img hover border thing so people know you can click them..
ideally i want the lightbox popup to have an 'innerzoom', so whatever picture you click to popup, you can move your mouse around inside of it and it auto zooms in..
im adding that because i want raptor and company to be able to zoom in nicely to whatever they choose when viewing pictures in the 2sexy4u forum
also it would be kind of cool to be able to zoom in so easy to vert/dunk pics, lifting pics etc..
i had it working somewhat last night BUT, i need to approach it differently.. wasn't working too well with lightbox.
What are your experiences with backward depth drops for calf development?
I'm asking this because I observed something very interesting when I was doing step-ups: I wasn't too tired anywhere because of them but the one place I had HUGE soreness was the calves. Basically every time I put my leg back down from the step-up box I was doing an eccentric calf raise. I didn't feel it at the time but after I finished my sets my calves were fried. Never experienced any kind of calf soreness like the one that occured after those step-ups.
So I was thinking - shouldn't doing backwards stiff leg depth drops help quite a bit on calf training? The TUT would be pretty short with the possible downside of too many landings/landing stress, but as far as the amount of "weight" in that eccentric part - you can't replicate that in the weight room - too much for the back, at least for mine's. Plus you never really do backwards stuff often so they should take that as an "unusual" stress and adapt better to it than to regular calf raises etc.
Any opinions?
real quick reply because I have to go out:
I prefer backward drops, definitely hits my ankles/lower leg so much harder.. I usually feel alot 'stiffer' when performing backwards drops as opposed to forwards, no comparison.
backwards stiff leg drops are 'promoted' by WGF.. I usually just did backwards squat drops with a little forward lean.
the backward stiff leg drops (from lower box heights) sound like a good idea to me.
when you click "reply," the thread as it shows up below the text entry box has no line or other marker between posts. makes it hard to tell without looking closely where one post stops and another starts.
coo thanks, didn't realize my color mods faded that line out so much..
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