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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.
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Introduce Yourself / Re: Help on program
« on: June 18, 2014, 03:58:58 am »Hey, I was hoping I could just get some ideas on what people think really works to help improve vertical leap. I've done kelly baggetts vj bible and to be honest didn't improve a lot. I'm 6'5 fairly strong and fast , play semi pro bball but can barely dunk, really embarrassing for my size
Chances are your strength is lacking big-time.
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Introduce Yourself / Re: Help on program
« on: June 17, 2014, 06:12:56 pm »
Has anybody actually voted in the poll?
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Basketball / Re: A WHOLE BUNCH OF DUNKS AND SHIT.
« on: June 17, 2014, 09:21:28 am »
Acy was my favorite.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Two Hands Two Feet
« on: June 17, 2014, 09:21:03 am »
You've been told by who?
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Two Hands Two Feet
« on: June 17, 2014, 08:58:05 am »
Interesting... in a snatch grip deadlift I can usually lower myself really really low, with a pretty vertical back. I can sink my hips behind me because I have the bar in front of me to counterbalance, I guess. So it's really awesome.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Age vs Vertical
« on: June 17, 2014, 08:55:17 am »
Yeah I mean, let's imagine you do a 50 meter run-up. Obviously you won't be accelerating 50 meters (unless, maybe, if you're an elite long jumper or something 
), but all these contacts that add up have a tendency to tire you, and it will take "more" to be able to stabilize yourself after all those ground contacts and still jump well.
So I'm giving you a big exaggeration here, that would be unsafe if you were to maximally jump after such a run-up, but if you go overboard just a bit it might be a good idea.
Say you can only accelerate well and plant to the best of your ability in 5 steps. You could and should use 7 steps every now and then, only to make your body try to adapt, over time, to some additional stimulus.
I've said the same thing about a higher box for depth jumps than your optimal box in a post a few days ago. It's just that you don't want to go overboard with it.
If your best depth jump comes off a 20 inch box, maybe try a 22 inch box (put a small plate on the box or whatever stable, small thing you can find) every now and then to overload the system a bit more than what it's "optimally" accustomed to. I guess this would be similar to overspeed sprinting or something, or to an eccentric supramaximal squat or something like that.
), but all these contacts that add up have a tendency to tire you, and it will take "more" to be able to stabilize yourself after all those ground contacts and still jump well.So I'm giving you a big exaggeration here, that would be unsafe if you were to maximally jump after such a run-up, but if you go overboard just a bit it might be a good idea.
Say you can only accelerate well and plant to the best of your ability in 5 steps. You could and should use 7 steps every now and then, only to make your body try to adapt, over time, to some additional stimulus.
I've said the same thing about a higher box for depth jumps than your optimal box in a post a few days ago. It's just that you don't want to go overboard with it.
If your best depth jump comes off a 20 inch box, maybe try a 22 inch box (put a small plate on the box or whatever stable, small thing you can find) every now and then to overload the system a bit more than what it's "optimally" accustomed to. I guess this would be similar to overspeed sprinting or something, or to an eccentric supramaximal squat or something like that.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Age vs Vertical
« on: June 17, 2014, 07:24:43 am »
Extra steps do kinda have meaning... they make your body adapt to coping with those extra amortizations and still not give up when you jump. It also probably tends to make your body learn to be more efficient over time, and possibly accumulate more elastic energy.
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Introduce Yourself / Re: Help on program
« on: June 17, 2014, 06:23:00 am »
I meant... lift your knee high when you... when you sprint and do plyos... that's... that's what I meant...
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Basketball / Re: A WHOLE BUNCH OF DUNKS AND SHIT.
« on: June 17, 2014, 04:17:45 am »1648
Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: June 17, 2014, 03:51:44 am »
In Romania, the best court in the country for basketball is probably worse than a high school court in the USA. This for the entire country of ~23 million people.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: June 17, 2014, 03:49:47 am »
Yeah, go for it. He probably also knows someone in sprinting, so explain to him what you're interested in.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Two Hands Two Feet
« on: June 17, 2014, 03:48:16 am »
I consider the snatch grip deadlift a "full deadlift"... you even get quad recruitment at a pretty decent level.