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I wonder how many of you are able to do it:



I used to do it easily when I was a kid (~10 years old) but right now I'm sooo far away from doing it.

i've never been able to do that, not even as a kid.. bad flexibility/mobility from the getgo.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvXu4JhPDB0" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvXu4JhPDB0</a>

pretty cool man, got that real chill jazzy vibe.

what's your caloric estimate and macro breakdown for that cold shower? 

bout 350

Quote from: adarqui on July 18, 2011, 04:30:34 am

how the hell is the quality this good on my zx3? wtf? i've never seen it this good..... odd... looks really clean/crisp to me compared to normal.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjZ1jy7eOb0" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjZ1jy7eOb0</a>

Andrew, I was going to start a new thread on this but I'm not sure it would develop any discussion, anyway...

I was just wandering, if all the resistance from your squatting came entirely from resistance bands (elastic energy), (no weight plates), could you see any potential gains from just using bands alone?.

if bands alone created significant tension at the bottom, then ya, you could expect significant gains.. if it doesn't, and becomes way more intense at the top, then you can only expect small gains.. for example, a light barbell loaded with short but resistive bands creating considerable tension at the bottom and as you go up, ya, that would cause gains.

Some of the pages on this site that are playin' up resistance bands for vert & speed have got me wandering : http://www.athleticquickness.com/page.asp?page_id=38


Does training with resistance bands make your muscles more elastic as the bands are more elastic in nature?. Elasticity being qualities that apply to vert & speed.

nope.. your muscles become more "elastic" doing activities such as reactive work/plyos/sprinting etc.. if resistance is large, it's always going to cause most of your adaptations to occur in the strength/hypertrophy realm instead of tendon/contract-relax realm.

the nature of the bands doesn't change much about how your muscles adapt, it's still just overcoming a slow intense stimulus, the only thing that becomes interesting is how your body reacts to the "change in gravity" feeling caused by the bands accelerating you downwards faster than gravity.. slow intense movements are going to target hypertrophy/raw strength the most, elastic qualities respond better to dynamic/ballistic work... bottom line, people need to do both, strength + sprint/jump/reactive.

pC man

What you reckon?.

how the hell is the quality this good on my zx3? wtf? i've never seen it this good..... odd... looks really clean/crisp to me compared to normal.

Quote from: allstar09 on July 17, 2011, 07:13:22 am

Been working my way up too that 100kg mark for a VERY VERY long time now and finally hit it!

Quote from: allstar09 on July 17, 2011, 01:01:00 am

Squat:
1 @ 100kg
  YAY!!! Finally got that 100kg regular squat! I know its stuff all compared to most but it's such a milestone for me. Man, so excited I got it! Was a huuuuuge grind though, almost died. My mind was trying to psych me out when I unracked it, so I just stood there for ages with it on my back until I knew I wasn't going to pussy out lol, was shaking like shit on my way up and re-racking it, all good though    That was 1.45x bodyweight, so close to 1.5x!!!

HUGE props man. Congrats.

x3 @!$!@$

Looking sick ^^^

thanks man!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6mHaUoNpOg&hd=1

ah..

cool man, they are alot of "work" (dogs) but if you're a dog person it's well worth it.. i can't recall seeing any border collies at the dog park yet, weird.

if (when) you get one, show us teh pics.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snjFEv9Z5mI" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snjFEv9Z5mI</a>