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on that note (what i said on previous page/post) ^^^^^^^^^^^



i actually cried today.. havn't cried in years.. i didn't know so many people hated what i do.. all i do is put out videos, because i love jumping/dunking, and i love showing people what i do to improve it.. i love trying to motivate others..

and all i get in return, from bodybuilding.com, t-nation.com, and startingstrength.com, is cyber bullying, insults, negative comments on my videos, dislikes on my videos, hate emails, etc..

i never thought any of this would actually lead to me breaking down and crying but it did..

i don't know what's getting into me, perhaps i'm getting soft? like jc's penile issues?

i'm not sure... all i do know is, i had one of those "gasping for air" cries.. and it's got me in a pretty depressed state.. and im not mocking depression one bit it's a serious illness/situation.

anyway im done with forums.


damn adarq I never thought it would bother you this much. If you ever need to talk feel free to call me or message me on fb... always here for you with how much you've done for me.

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Introduce Yourself / Re: It's been a while, but glad to be back
« on: June 20, 2011, 12:39:35 am »
Woah Joel Smith, a tvs legend! What's your vert at now? I remember seeing your 38" rvj vid.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ARowe's Journal
« on: June 18, 2011, 01:06:27 pm »
i now have another fren on facebook LOL!  :P



lmao I've had a few vert people add me lately!

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ARowe's Journal
« on: June 18, 2011, 12:44:43 pm »
6-17-11

warmup

sprints

a few svj/rvj's     a little lower than earlier in the week but I only took a couple

18" dj's 4x8   - did two from 24" in 2nd set

squat warmup: 135x4 185x2 225x1

squat: 275x5 285x5 300x5 - strength coming back nice, still want it to go up a little bit more

core

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ARowe's Journal
« on: June 15, 2011, 12:26:20 am »
6-14-11

session 3




warmup

sprints

vert - mainly 3 step and rvj, jumped a little higher than last time. Estimations: 3 step: 30", rvj 33-33.5"

ME tuck jumps: 4x12-18

ME pogos: 4x5

rea squat:  45x2x3    125x2x3    135x2x3

squat warmup: 135x4 185x2 225x1

msem squat: (265x1 275x5)- same set   (275x2 285x3 295x1)- same set


core





real boss workout, can't believe my vert hasn't dipped.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ARowe's Journal
« on: June 11, 2011, 02:45:57 am »
6-7-11

warmup

18" dj's 4x8

squat warmup

horrible squatting: 275x5 260x5 260x5









6-10-11

warmup

sprints

verts: very good jumping, best I've jumped in a loooong time. estimates.... vj: 27-28, two step: 29-30, rvj: 32.5-33.5

max effort tucks 4x12-18

pogos 4x5

rea squats: 45x3 45x3 115x3 115x3 120x3 125x3

squat warmup: 135x5 185x3 225x1

msem squat: (275x2 285x2)-same set     285x4

core






strength is down a bit from not squatting much lately and not getting in enough calories, back on track now tho, should come back very quickly with each workout (eating more too)




Have been really pumped to train vert lately. Just started summer so I'm back home with 24/7 access to gym with everything I need for vert training. My ankle is healed. Finally. Adarq's may mix really motivated me a lot too.

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congrats adarq

about to get $famous$

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Kingfish
« on: May 22, 2011, 07:00:45 pm »
why don't you do verts before you squat? If I did them after they would be significantly lower.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ARowe's Journal
« on: May 20, 2011, 02:39:58 pm »
5-20-11

session 1

short sprints

 :rant:

ok so I switched my schedule around and am starting to train vert in the morning because the bball courts are always open (at night it is hard to get a court). I ask if I can bring one of the plyo boxes out on the bball court, they said no, you can only use them inside the fitness area, there's nothing in there I can jump at. WTF. I was/am raging. osu is not conducive to my vert training. Thinking about writing a letter to whoever asking them to get a vertec or let me use plyo boxes in bball court because I'm trying to become an elite athlete.

So this facility is known as one of the top college rec sports facilities in the nation... I do my dj's in a hallway on a chair jumping at a light fixture.

 :rant:         MAD AS FUCK

~18" dj's 4x8

squat warmup: 135x4 185x2 225x1 275x1

squat: 285x5 285x5 300x5

bss: 195x3x5


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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ARowe's Journal
« on: May 19, 2011, 01:30:55 am »
It's been awhile since I've been in this log, but you've really increased you vert, sickk!! I just saw those oop dunk attempts, you looked really high on those jumps!! Beast M0de

Peace

Thanks rip, that vid was from back in october/november though. Got a high ankle sprain 4 days after that vid, wasn't able to do anything for a while. But I've built my squat up and am finally ready to start dong intense vert training again. I think I have the strength for 40+ now.

Ahh, shitt that suckss..

You've built your strength up, but unless you have maintained your reactive ability, the strength won't help much, immediately. But with some time the gains will show, you'll need to be practicing jumping frequently, honing the technique, you'll also need to have plyos in your training; tuck jumps, pogos, etc. Strength alone won't get you to 40, but once you get your reactive ability to a high level, you'll be flying.

goodluck!!

After the injury I couldn't do any training at all for a few weeks, then I could squat, then I could do light jumping, just now can I do intense plyos/anything. So up until now I've worked on gaining my squat back and then some up to ~2.25xbw.

Yea my vert always sucks unless I'm doing tons of reactive and explosive work. Before I got injured I had been jumping my highest ever for literally only like 2 weeks... I got to enjoy it for two weeks then just got shit on. I had been doing the same stuff for a while then adarq made 'The ARowe Block' for me. I set pr's like crazy and my vert went up 4" in only a few weeks.

That's what I plan on doing now so hopefully it won't take long at all. My peak vert in that video was ~37.5" and my squat to bw ratio was about .15 lower than it is now so I'm hoping that extra strength will be enough for 40+.




The ARowe Block

RATIO = volume:strength/power:rvj peak session = 1:2:1

Session 1: Volume
- warmp
- sprint warmup
- sprints : 20's (~3-5x)
- dj (18-24") : 4 x 5 (24") or 4 x 8 (18")
- squat : 3 x 5
- lunge : 3 x 5 each
- light calf raise: 4 x 5
- core
- stretch


Session 2 : Power
- warmup
- sprint warmup
- sprints : 10-20 yards - to fire up
- jumps : 2 step & vert
- MR DL BOUND (vertical emphasis): 4 x 10-20 MAX EFFORT, ridiculously powerful armswing
- Pogos: 4 x 5 MAX EFFORT
- REA squat : 4 x 3 (40%)
- MSEM squat: 2 x 4 (~90%)
- lunge : 3 x 3
- core
- stretch


Session 3 : Power
- warmup
- sprint warmup
- sprints : 10-20 yards - to fire up
- jumps : 3 step
- MR DL BOUND (vertical emphasis): 4 x 10-20 MAX EFFORT, ridiculously powerful armswing
- Pogos: 4 x 5 MAX EFFORT
- REA squat : 4 x 3 (40%)
- C1: MSEM squat: 1 x 6 (~80%)
- C1: jump squat : 2 x 2 (30%)
- C1-stuff: 2 rotations (so 2 sets of msem squat, 4 sets of jump squats)
- lunge : 3 x 3
- core
- stretch



session 4: rvj session & vert
- warmup really good, progress into max SVJ's, then into max RVJ's (or just max RVJ's if that's your goal)

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: May 18, 2011, 09:30:10 pm »

definitely not safe to vid yourself while driving, i live on the edge tho bro.


ridin donk'd up







bottom of wristband at rim = 38"
your arm is bent and bottom of wristband is at rim, 40+

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ARowe's Journal
« on: May 18, 2011, 09:23:08 pm »
It's been awhile since I've been in this log, but you've really increased you vert, sickk!! I just saw those oop dunk attempts, you looked really high on those jumps!! Beast M0de

Peace

Thanks rip, that vid was from back in october/november though. Got a high ankle sprain 4 days after that vid, wasn't able to do anything for a while. But I've built my squat up and am finally ready to start dong intense vert training again. I think I have the strength for 40+ now.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Kingfish
« on: May 17, 2011, 11:34:10 am »
congrats on 40 man

looking forward to vid

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ARowe's Journal
« on: May 17, 2011, 05:03:25 am »
can't remember my last few workouts but 2 weeks ago I did 300x5 300x5 305x5 on squat which was somewhat of a milestone for me, 300+ on all working sets.


ARowe Block

session1

short sprints

18" dj's 4x8 : highest was ~26" - ankle didn't bother me - very good

squat warmup: 135x3 185x3 225x1 275x1

thought I was going to be drained from dj's but first set felt easy so I added weight

squat: 285x5 295x5 300x7 (vid)

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzuWF6wkUwM" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzuWF6wkUwM</a>



bss felt easy tonight, big pr's

bss: 180x5e 190x5e 210x5e

calf raises 135x5 155x3x5

core





ready to dunk this summer


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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ARowe's Journal
« on: April 23, 2011, 02:24:56 pm »
Those numbers on the bss are beast dude...you do them with a barbell yeah?

thanks man. I do them on a max rack for safety reasons (similar to a smith but the bar can travel forwards and backwards). The squat racks at my school gym only have one "safety rack" that you can't move so if I were to get pinned on those bss my knee would hit the ground and the safety bar is too low for me to dump it at that position so I would be fucked. The max rack has safety bars that I can move up higher though. Probably makes it a little bit easier though due to not much need to stabilize the bar.

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