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I really can't fathom the Lebron hate. There are dozens of 1st round picks that turn out to be complete busts. Yet Lebron came straight out of high school into the NBA and has been the best player for the past decade and has been killing it ever since high school. He's 6'8 that's the average height of a player in the NBA, but he's got the speed of a PG and the power of a forward. The knock on Lebron is that he hasn't won many rings but compare him to Carmelo who grew up in the same era, is arguably a better shooter and has similar physical attributes minus the athleticism and you don't hear all this criticism about Carmelo not living up to expectations...Jordan is the GOAT i'd love to see Lebron surpass him, but even if he doesn't he's had and is still having a very successful career. Personality wise he's a hell of a lot better dude than Jordan who from most accounts is a complete douche.

BW- 88.7

Bench-
barx12
60x8
80x5
100x5
107.5x3
95x6x2

Rows-
45x12
65x12
75x12
85x12

Chin Ups-
11

Assisted Pull-Ups-
11x3

Jump Rope-
800 skips

Quote from: Mutumbo000 on June 07, 2016, 01:54:05 am

Quote from: LBSS on June 06, 2016, 08:49:28 am

adarq, we need a "brittlebro" team once the forum switches over. charter members: me, acole, scooby, you, maybe mutumbo000.

I'm definitely a member.

My lifetime sporting injuries include:

Double fracture of left leg
Broken left arm
Broken collarbone 
Broken Cheekbone
3 Hamstring Tears
Achilles Tendonosis
Groin strains
Hip flexor issues etc.

eek.. the combo of bone & tissue.

damn @ double fracture of left leg.

Yeah the double fracture of my left leg was easily my worst and most painful injury. I've still got a scar on my ankle of where the bone ripped through the skin. The only consolation was that my leg didn't require pins, but I spent 8 weeks in plaster and the leg lost a significant amount of strength. After that injury it effected the durability of my legs and I started to get other issues with my achilles and calves and even shin splints.

I've never had any major knee issues. Knees are another niggle injury I get though usually from squatting or doing too many jumps.

Incline DB Bench-
12x12
20x12
28x8
30x8
32x8

Chin Ups-
10x3

Leg Curls-
5 sets of 12 starting at 40kg and working up to 68kg.

Squat-
60x8
62.5x8x3

Jump Rope-
700 skips

Sorry to hear! Hopefully with time and smart training the injuries will subside and the body will recuperate.

Quote from: Mutumbo000 on June 04, 2016, 07:28:54 am

Cardio-
6x100m each set was between 15-15.5 seconds with 2 minute rest intervals.

Jump Rope-
600 skips

nice! how you feeling after that? any achilles stiffness? hope not.

just a reminder: don't push yourself too soon with those sprints!

pc!

Surprisingly they felt good. Maybe it was because I did the jump rope as my warm up.
I've got to just resist my natural urge to run flat out and if I do that I'll avoid injuries.

part of the point -- and i got into a shit fight with kelly baggett about it on here years ago -- is that "black" is a social category that has little to do with genetic characteristics apart from dark skin (and there are exceptions even to that! i have white friends, not to mention south asians, who are darker than many "black" people). ethiopians and nigerians are more genetically different from each other than swedes and koreans. but put an australian aborginal, an ethiopian, and a nigerian together in des moines and they're all "black." so it's a useless category when you're talking about genetics and sport.

also, fuck malcolm gladwell. look how smoothly he moves from "african-american" to "kenyan" in that piece. most african-americans are descended from west africans and the whites who raped them, not kenyans. are genetics a factor in allowing people of west-african descent to dominate short sprints, and kenyans and ethiopians to dominate 10k+? most likely. but those factors have little or nothing to do with them being "black."

Good point.

Edit- I think it's just general ignorance.
Funnily enough I just read an article on facebook about a guy I used to know from athletics.
http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/messenger/sport/sprinter-deng-bulabek-a-hit-for-seaford-soccer-club/news-story/9bbb513ba7b7715f5949af9b8e74693b

He's Sudanese but they compare him to Bolt...and his 100m PB is 11.86
All the races they mention he won are 'professional' races, which are handicapped events e.g. the fastest guys in a 300m start at 2m while the slower guys start at 40m to try and make it photo finishes- its a real farce imo. The irony is that he trains with my friend and old training partner Wallace who just ran a 21.29 200m earlier this year, but of course he's white so that wouldn't be a good story.

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/04/why-kenyans-make-such-great-runners-a-story-of-genes-and-cultures/256015/

Interesting discussion!

I live in Australia so I don't see many black people (our black people are aboriginals). However, I can usually tell whether an African is from West Africa or East Africa simply from looking at their physique. West Africans are usually shorter and buff. East Africans are usually lean but skinny and Sudanese tend to always be 6'4+ tall so I guess I am guilty of stereotyping but 90% of the time my stereotype tends to hold true so there must be an element of truth when it comes to genetics and athleticism. 

Apart from genetics I'd agree that it also comes down to culture and environment. Take sprinting for example. Most of the elite US sprinters tend to be from the South (warmer states). My hypothesis would simply be that the weather in a place like Florida is a lot more favourable to train in for sprinters than the weather in a place like Chicago. When you've got the environment that helps build the culture and it all goes from there.

A link about genetic mutations in Aboriginals.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-01-29/genetic-modification-helps-aboriginal-people-survive-hot-climat/5225742

"But that is enough over hundreds of years for it to become incorporated as a genetic change that has passed through generations," Professor Carrell said.

Recently there have even been studies linking fat parents to having fat kids.
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/710209_2
The hard part is identifying whether fat people have fat kids due to poor diets and environmental factors or if there is genetic component, and exactly how much that genetic component contributes. You could really talk about it all day. At the elite level the smallest of differences counts.

My personal belief is that there are differences between different ethnicities, but in the end it all comes down to the individual. On an individual level we all have different genetics and different ceilings so it's about working hard to fulfill your potential to the fullest. Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard. I could go on and give examples, but I just feel like I'm rambling so I'll leave it at that.