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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: Seated Calf Raise or Standing Calf Raise
« on: April 07, 2012, 10:33:10 am »
Quote from: Harvey on April 07, 2012, 07:35:07 am
Quote from: Raptor on April 07, 2012, 07:14:09 am
Seated calf raises = soleus being the protagonist of the movement.
Standing calf raises = the calf (gastrocnemius) being the protagonist of the movement. The gastroc is not really active when the knee is bent.

Do you know of any correlation between seated/standing and high/long calves?

The gastroc is the muscle that's higher up on your calves, and that is more directly trained doing standing calf raises.
The soleus is the longer one that lies underneath. So if you have a huge soleus and small gastroc, you can give the illusion that you have "higher calves" if you neglect the soleus and blow up your gastroc (not sure if this is very possible though).

Even then, your gastroc might be too low anyway.

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Pics, Videos, & Links / progress pics
« on: April 06, 2012, 10:16:33 pm »
at 210lbs
I'm trying to find a picture... at this point I didn't even have a faint outline of my abs.


at 203lbs



at 197lbs



at 190lbs




Unfortunately, I was at like 196lbs just a week ago, but food poisoning hit me. I don't look much more cut in the last pic because I probably lost a few pounds of muscle. I mean... I was planning to lose those 6 pounds over a period of 6 weeks, and instead, I lost it in just 9 days. Had I lost it over a period of 6 weeks, I would look more muscular in that final pic.

But not to worry: I'm planning on going back up to 196lbs and then cutting down again to 190lbs to do it right :)

I'll put up pics of that too when it happens.

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Program Review / Re: BOINGVERT
« on: April 03, 2012, 02:16:27 pm »
Do you Boing?

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Program Review / Re: Smolov Tips?
« on: April 03, 2012, 02:14:59 pm »
Quote from: chrisbro1 on March 15, 2012, 02:55:17 am
Not sure about Smolov Jr but that actually seems like it'd be tougher since you don't have the 2 week introductory microcycle to get your body used to squatting 3-4x a week.

You can do that if you want to. I never did though.

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: Review after Jump approach pratice
« on: April 03, 2012, 02:13:47 pm »
scooby how tall are you?

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MUSiC anD SHeeT! / Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now?
« on: April 02, 2012, 04:48:58 pm »
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmVhJ4YL9f4" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmVhJ4YL9f4</a>

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Injury, Prehab, & Rehab talk for the brittlebros / Re: Rest Cures Effusion
« on: April 02, 2012, 03:08:33 pm »
Quote from: mattyg35 on April 01, 2012, 11:35:15 pm
I don't know if everyone or some of the people that do 5/3/1 do this or not, but I cycle the 5/3/1/deload, so that in a given cycle it would look like

Squat - 5
Military - 3
Deadlift - 1
Bench - Deload

Then next week is

Bench - 5
Squat - 3
Military - 1
Deadlift - Deload

Then
Deadlift - 5
Bench - 3
Squat - 1
Military - Deload

Then
Military - 5
Deadlift - 3
Bench - 1
Squat - Deload

I find this more manageable and fun rather than having all 3x5 one week, then 3x3, and so on.

This actually looks pretty cool. I'm doing it the regular way for now, but that way has "5/3/1 written all over it" lol.

i guess ill check out ur log
edit: can't find it. Do you have one? how's 5/3/1 working for u so far?

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Injury, Prehab, & Rehab talk for the brittlebros / Re: Rest Cures Effusion
« on: April 01, 2012, 01:25:42 pm »
Quote from: Raptor on March 20, 2012, 01:48:08 pm
Well high frequency squatting sure did increase my squat. Now the question is - is this good for athleticism? It will increase your squat, but I'm not sure if that's not ONLY movement efficiency improvements in the squat and that will not help you on the field. However, using heavier weights again and again will improve your body's explosiveness afterall, maybe even without increases in muscle (stronger neural signals).

Also, lifting with heavier weights will lead to more muscle growth than otherwise anyway.
If you squat 350x3... then you're able to go up to 350x6 strictly through neural gains, you'll build more muscle that way.
And yes, the explosiveness part - I never thought about that. Probably will also help you release more testosterone or gH maybe, who knows (maybe if we were younger?).






Quote from: PointerRyan on April 01, 2012, 08:21:40 am
whats with this 5/3/1 thing i see ppl talking about?

Excellent program with a lot of room for tampering with accessory work and stuff. Not for beginners or early intermediates.
It's by powerlifter jim wendler, although you can tune it to fit bodybuilding needs or olympic lifting needs if you want:
http://www.muscleandstrength.com/workouts/hardcore-look-at-jim-wendlers-5-3-1-powerlifting-system.html
I read the entire book (~100pgs, but a light read) a few hours after I got it and I loved it. There's a few things I disagree with, like the de-load. Seems to be far too light for me. But I searched up and found out he has new de-load parameters.

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Pics, Videos, & Links / Re: Got it?.. keep it to yourself.
« on: March 30, 2012, 03:06:38 pm »
I got the one on the top right and  the one below the top left... and now the one above the bottom right

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Pics, Videos, & Links / Paul van Dyk
« on: March 28, 2012, 07:07:46 pm »
Finally made a great new track.

I think this one's beautiful. 3:00 and on is good:

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdD3d-zNaKo" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdD3d-zNaKo</a>




He was the first DJ I ever saw perform live. I was 15. Blew me away...

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: Managing strength volume
« on: March 27, 2012, 08:37:16 pm »
I'd answer but I didn't exactly know what you were asking.

If your asking whether or not you should get to a 150kg squat before doing a plyo phase, I think you should.

If your asking whether or not you should do plyos while doing the chezkenny protocol, I think it may be too much. Perhaps, instead of doing speed work with the bar (as in 30% 1RM squats for 9x3) that's where you should substitue plyos. As in, replace lifting with plyos on the speed days. Of course this doesn't mean do depth jumps 3-5x a week... you can figure out the intensity for plyos yourself by now I'm sure.

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: got spinal erectors?
« on: March 27, 2012, 08:35:43 pm »
Quote from: TheSituation on March 27, 2012, 08:02:00 pm
Quote from: Dreyth on March 27, 2012, 07:51:18 pm
Quote from: TheSituation on March 27, 2012, 07:42:05 pm

You're viewed as a pussy on the misc if you don't deadlift, so I'm not sure what section you're talking about.


Don't act like you've never seen the anti-deadlift debates.

I have (people think they give you a big waist, heh), but for the most part deadlifts are viewed positively there.


agreed

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: got spinal erectors?
« on: March 27, 2012, 07:51:18 pm »
Quote from: TheSituation on March 27, 2012, 07:42:05 pm

You're viewed as a pussy on the misc if you don't deadlift, so I'm not sure what section you're talking about.


Don't act like you've never seen the anti-deadlift debates.

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: got spinal erectors?
« on: March 27, 2012, 03:22:42 pm »
I have no idea. I just go there for the nutrition and misc sections.

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: got spinal erectors?
« on: March 27, 2012, 09:12:06 am »
Quote from: Kingfish on March 27, 2012, 05:41:25 am
^ just feel like trolling on how i was able to thicken my back as an accessory to my heavy compound lift. also, no deadlifting here.



Post this on bodybuilding forums and they'll applaud you like crazy. So much hate on deadlifts on that board...

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