@adarq: I actually got inspired by you with the socks sometime last year and wear them very often, usually when I do olympic lifts or for jumping. I actually have been wearing long socks for every volleyball competition for the entire last season. They are just awesome!
haha nice!!
ya man i love how high socks feel.. keeps my lower leg nice and warm, also somewhat compressive so it does feel better than with no socks.. i double/triple sock now.. hah
A clip of todays session for you guys. New powerclean PR at 259 lbs (117.5 kg). Still not as strong as Flander, but it's getting there . For video of powersnatch (198 lbs) check my journal - was just practice though, next PR scheduled for monday.
I agree with adarq, this is a misconception of what specificity means. The goal is not to try to train as specific as possible (if that was the case, you would just do your sport and keep away from the weight room), you still need get stronger in what you do. If your training movement does not allow this to happen in an objectively measurable way, specificity becomes a useless concept. Aspects like time for force production, muscle groups involved in a movement, length of the kinetic chain etc. are more useful in determining specificity in my opinion. Would the guy do powersnatches and bent over rows he would probably get much faster progress for a much longer period of time than with this "exercise".
it sort of looks like what you would do when you want to do a jump on a bike. Maybe he's trying to simulate that with weights so he can do higher jumps, just a guess.
it sort of looks like what you would do when you want to do a jump on a bike. Maybe he's trying to simulate that with weights so he can do higher jumps, just a guess.
+1.
I think that's his exact reasoning for doing this exercise, being able to bunny hop & overcome obstacles/terrain much more efficiently.
Genius really.
lmfao x2
train with a heavier bike + get stronger throughout..... progressive overload... at some point 'specificity' can become a problem, especially in this case imo, because i still don't see how it is specific at all to mountain biking.
question...when i'm jumping lately i feel it in my VMOs a ton...is this a good thing a bad thing or a doesn't really matter type of thing?
well it's a good thing to feel them i guess, but if they are getting sore every session, i wouldn't consider that to be a good thing, that to me would sound like they are not "prepared" enough.
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i wanna see you hit that 360!
ya me too hah.. pretty close on those attempts, those were definitely my best attempts and now i actually like how it looked.. came in from a diff angle.. i wasn't liking the one from behind the backboard, this one i lobbed from right side - 3 point line (~45 deg angle to hoop or whatever).
Your first dunk in that video looked the highest I've seen so far. Maybe I'm wrong, but it looked like you were floating upwards lol
ya that one was pretty high.. thanks man!
pC
from yesterday:
05/19/2011 bw=151 soreness = nothing aches/injuries = nothing, AFTER TRAINING: left ankle real bad (old deltoid ligament injury area) fml fatigue = low diet = protein/water+4tspn-coffee + gatorade, dunking + protein/gatorade-drink, 2*protein/water-drink + gatorade, soup + grilled chicken salad at some fancy place (HORRIBLE PORTION SIZE) -> went to chipotle got a double chicken burrito, bw-exercises{Hyper-partials=100+100, hyper-partial+20lb=50+50+50+50+60+55+50+50}, 2*protein/water-drink + coconut water,
sleep = 9 hours
didn't squat last night, ankle is killing me.. not going to dunk today, ankle feeling alot better but still painful.. old deltoid-lig injury area flared up somehow.. going to squat today.. back to dunking tomorrow hopefully.
ice is really helping the area on my ankle tho so, icing alot.
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ok so, got up insanely easy today, flew on my few max jump attempts.. dunked in between a full court game, but, in the middle court, so alot harder to do... man i was just getting up like it was nothing.. landed some good shit.. missed some even better shit (thats how it usually goes). alot of the really close angle dunks are relaxed warmups.
these two are cool, changing to "layups" in mid air because as im in air i notice the players coming back down:
i'd have to agree with most everyone else in here, i don't like it.. imo, just keep the loading vertical (traditional oly's & their variations), then just tie in "horizontal movements" using med ball/weight throws+tosses/double and/or single leg bounds for distance, sled work etc.
what i don't get is how that has anything to do with mountain biking?
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Maybe he could do a regular snatch but then that does require a bit more balance and ROM, and in fairness, he has no need what so ever to hold a weight overhead.
Stupid? No. Unconventional? Yes.
in that same respect though, he has no need whatsoever to throw a weight forward such as he's doing.. The only thing he should worry about is improving hip extension/knee extension/knee flexion strength/power, general upper body/core strength, and training specific via mountain biking + mountain doing bike exercises in very difficult gears etc, imo.. Is he going to improve hip/knee extension/knee flexion more using that variation, or traditional variations such as snatch, clean/snatch PULLS, high pulls, squat etc? One major problem with that exercise would be how long it takes him to "reload", with traditional oly's and their variations, you can keep the intensity low/moderate & then target the energy systems more specifically towards mountain biking.. ie cluster sets of 10 reps on snatch high pull, etc..
so ya im confused at how that at all ties itself in with mountain biking.
bottom of wristband at rim = 38" your arm is bent and bottom of wristband is at rim, 40+
Yes and No!
Adarq's reach = ~8' , ~24'' to touch rim. Wristband = ~4'' , hand = ~8'' => base of wristband@rim = 12'' above ( ~36'' for adarq ). This looks like some serious hand angle though , bended shoulder AND elbow, i'd give an extra 3'' to 4'' so 39'' to 40'' Same height prediction , different analysis!
Sick jump whatever the height is!
ya, my reach is actually ~96" in basketball shoes, but in those very thin nike zoom waffle racers, it's 95" .. so prety much 37" to bottom of wrist band since it's 4".. 8+4+120 - 95=37 for bottom of wrist band
ya so i dno, im more happy about head height lately to be honest.. alot of my reaches up over rim aren't maxed out fully stretched anymore etc, so i look at head height more now.. i want the top of it to start getting consistently over the bottom of that backboard in basically every still (other than warmups).. so far it only gets to that level on a few jumps every few sessions or so.
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. For video of powersnatch (198 lbs) check my journal - was just practice though, next PR scheduled for monday. 
