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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Age vs Vertical
« on: June 19, 2014, 02:58:13 pm »
Don't get too excited. It seems to me like you're getting close to that 5% max gain due to plyos.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: June 19, 2014, 02:18:42 pm »
Why put your back into unsafe positions with the deadlift, when you can do bad form squats and get a great spinal work?
The deadlift is just unsafe.
The deadlift is just unsafe.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: June 19, 2014, 08:43:58 am »
Well, guess it's time for him to walk on two feet from now on. Hop on the streets like a bird. No need for any unilateral stuff.
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Article & Video Discussion / Re: Analysing the one-leg jump, part VII: The tendons
« on: June 19, 2014, 07:56:32 am »
To increase compliancy, the load has to be light. When you do a dynamic warm-up, or dynamic stretching, you don't put out a lot of force or load on that joint, so the load is light and it goes on a long ROM => increases that tendon's compliance.
So you want compliant hip flexor tendons (dynamic warm-up, leg swings, stuff like that), stiff quad tendons (1/4 and 1/2 squats, high intensity 2-leg bounds, consecutive hurdle jumps - this is the area where I'm personally the weakest, and an area where you can FINALLY find a good reason to do half squats and quarter squats) and stiff Achilles tendons (heavy calf raises, intense calf-oriented plyos (one leg bounds, depth jumps)).
If you break it down like this, then you can have a good idea of how to program a plyo workout to get all these three better.
So you want compliant hip flexor tendons (dynamic warm-up, leg swings, stuff like that), stiff quad tendons (1/4 and 1/2 squats, high intensity 2-leg bounds, consecutive hurdle jumps - this is the area where I'm personally the weakest, and an area where you can FINALLY find a good reason to do half squats and quarter squats) and stiff Achilles tendons (heavy calf raises, intense calf-oriented plyos (one leg bounds, depth jumps)).
If you break it down like this, then you can have a good idea of how to program a plyo workout to get all these three better.
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Article & Video Discussion / Re: Analysing the one-leg jump, part VII: The tendons
« on: June 19, 2014, 07:52:03 am »
Tendon dominant = reactive and quick, but not necessarily explosive.
Muscle bound = sluggish and slow, but not necessarily non-explosive.
Muscle bound = sluggish and slow, but not necessarily non-explosive.
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Basketball / Re: A WHOLE BUNCH OF DUNKS AND SHIT.
« on: June 19, 2014, 07:45:25 am »1612
Article & Video Discussion / Re: Analysing the one-leg jump, part VII: The tendons
« on: June 19, 2014, 07:06:57 am »
You bet! Hopefully it will make sense.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: June 19, 2014, 06:44:30 am »1614
Pics, Videos, & Links / Re: Seeking suggestion to improve my running approch pls.
« on: June 19, 2014, 06:39:15 am »
Cool man. If you actually STICK at least to what I wrote here and, to quote the classics, "believe in yourself", then good things will happen. Just don't do it for one week only to change it once again. Do this and GET BETTER at it.
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Article & Video Discussion / Analysing the one-leg jump, part VII: The tendons
« on: June 19, 2014, 05:15:50 am »1616
Introduce Yourself / Re: Help on program
« on: June 19, 2014, 03:43:14 am »
What you see on that video is just lack of strength. I don't see anything else.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: June 19, 2014, 03:41:47 am »
It would be an interesting challenge though, I guess.
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Introduce Yourself / Re: Help on program
« on: June 18, 2014, 11:59:43 am »
Do you do low bar or high bar squats? Because at your height, if you do high bar squats they will most likely terribly suck.
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Introduce Yourself / Re: Help on program
« on: June 18, 2014, 07:11:30 am »
And if you have a hot mom, in which case I will train you for free.