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Quote from: adarqui on December 19, 2010, 06:21:54 am

some of those had some nice depth.. funny thing is, start out pretty shitty, picked up around rep 4.. good considering all of the prior work.. i should be more fresh monday when i msem, going for 325+ most likely then a 20rep attempt finisher after the msem sets.

tested new rendering technique for my misc footage, thanks to damien, i think the footage actually came out great! looks really good compared to my AE raw-render of MSEM.. 3 hours vs 12 hours render time.


peace

you should have got the 10th rep!

i was toast

show me the x264encoder clip and i will figure it out... till then, use encode to another format > quickime > h264(x264) with the same settings as in my video (codec options chose CABAC)

shit i forget.. ill try the x264 encode on my next misc vid tho.. the x264encoder clip is like 500Mb loool.

thanks again man, that clip came out really good, recent msem 315x9 clip.. mpegstreamclip is boss.

You should try a detox sometime. Maybe it'll help you drop weight. Some years ago my brother did some sort of one week detox. He didn't particularly enjoy it and the day he started eating hardy meals again he threw up a couple times, but it worked for him. At first he lost some weight, but afterward he packed on muscle faster than he had before. He's actually about 5 lbs. lighter than me. I have way too much leg muscle over him for his upper body to keep up with my weight, but before he moved out of the house he was over 160 I think, but he was ripped and still maintained super low bodyfat.

thanks for the advice man, ya i've never done a "detox", i've only changed my diet up radically a few times.. feels good temporarily..

With the combat knife around the neck for more badassitude.

yes, need to sharpen it more though.

;d

The PR was kinda cool. I did my first set with 205, went down lower than normal, even for my 3x5's, so I decided I could do better. My last set with 210 was probably better than my first with 205. Bar just bounced on both reps. I love the sound of the plates clanking when I do that. 

clanking sound is boss, i agree.. love that

I was in Mexico this summer. Yeah, the whole place is going down the gutter with the cartels. I visit a lot of people with my family while I'm there and not once was it not brought up for at least ten or fifteen minutes. Usually the topic went on for a couple hours. You hear about people just down the street being involved or having someone kidnapped or murdered. Despite all the violence people need to go on with their lives, and that's really what you see. If you just stood in downtown (I'm pretty sure for any city) for a few hours and looked at all the movement, you'd think everything was fine. One thing that actually happens a lot during transport, is the cartels will have a semi-truck block a road while shipment is turned on it. I got to witness that happening in some backroads leading to the tiny farming towns where I'm from. Blocked for about 20 minutes. No one bother honking or getting out of there cars. If I remember right there were police there too, driving with the cartels almost like escorts. I witnessed corruption first-hand. The place is a cesspool.   

damn dude that is nuts.. it's even worse now i imagine.. the death toll lately has been worse than the death toll in iraq during the war, freaky.. hope your fam there stays safe.

peace man

Quote from: adarqui on December 20, 2010, 04:25:19 am

Quote from: Raptor on December 19, 2010, 03:44:35 pm

That makes me think of construction workers and their muscles. They basically lift things every day, have a pretty big "rest" time in between "reps" and they are BIG.

besides the fact that they get in significant isometric, concentric, and eccentric training per day, their diet is usually very adequate in calories, as many of them drink a good amount of beer and eat a good amount of "junk". There's not many "vege" construction workers, or ectomorphs for that matter, those people are usually pretty tough (meso, which the job pretty much requires) and eat big.

It's the same reason you don't usually see NFL types in the nba, the nature of the "job" dictates who works there.

peace

Yeah exactly. That's why o-lifters are short as well. They're not short because they haven't grown anymore since they lift a lot and all that crap, but they are short because that body structure is efficient for that sport and short o-lifters are better than tall o-lifters so you see more short o-lifters at the elite levels since they are advantaged.

And I liked that astronaut example a lot. I was preparing to reply with that but you took it before me.

LIKE USUAL, I WIN, U LOSE..

jk

good point btw, imagine kevin durant going into a gym with dreams to be an 'olympic lifter', aint happenin`..

the same point can be made for, "OMG BRO, THOSE OLY LIFTERS, THEY ALL JUMP SO HIGH CAUSE OF OLY LIFTING", and here we are looking at elite oly lifter data.... well, oly lifting and improving strength does help their jumping, but those guys have great leverages for strength and are already good at producing great amounts of force very fast, thus the reason why they are oly lifters.

what came first, the chicken, the egg, or my peanutbutter burrito.

we will never know.

That makes me think of construction workers and their muscles. They basically lift things every day, have a pretty big "rest" time in between "reps" and they are BIG.

besides the fact that they get in significant isometric, concentric, and eccentric training per day, their diet is usually very adequate in calories, as many of them drink a good amount of beer and eat a good amount of "junk". There's not many "vege" construction workers, or ectomorphs for that matter, those people are usually pretty tough (meso, which the job pretty much requires) and eat big.

It's the same reason you don't usually see NFL types in the nba, the nature of the "job" dictates who works there.

peace

When I get bored, I like to read through some of the old threads on the Charlie Francis website.  There are a lot of really knowledgeable coaches who post there and the discussions get really interesting.

I was reading through one of these old discussions when I noticed the user Christian Thibaudeau who was posting in 03 in his pre-T-Nation days.

The discussion was about the frequency of training for the olympic weightlifting teams of bulgaria and the other eastern bloc countries.

According to Thibs, one of the primary reasons for their style (multiple sessions per day) was  as follows:

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2. Increased synaptic facilitation. There is evidence that motor learning is improved more by frequency of practice than by volume of practice. By training 2-3 times per day, event at equivolume, the motor learning effect is greater.

Vertical Jumping is a motor skill just like lifting weights is.  So wouldn't doing jump training multiple times a day on a training day be more beneficial?

I assume for a recovery standpoint it wouldn't be good to train every day but on training days this suggests that the optimal amount would be several (2-3) shorter jump sessions.  This should lead to better/faster results.

Thoughts on this?

I think for someone who lacks efficiency at jumping, it could definitely help to accelerate motor learning, as long as it's not maximal for every session throughout the day. For all others though, I think maximal jumping mutliple times per day has some problems. The most glaring issue I think it has is overuse. Maximal jumps are really intense on the joint surfaces, achilles, patella, and quad tendons. If you jump 2-3 times per day, maximally, at a somewhat high frequency (3-4x/week), I think your risk of overuse injury sky rockets. The stress placed on the joint articular surfaces of the ankle, knees, and spinal column is far greater than isotonic lifts. This is why I think you could squat/oly more safely, multiple times per day @ at high frequency, than jump multiple times per day at that same frequency. If you are "shut down" following the first session of the day, the 2nd and 3rd etc will be alot more risky. I personally feel like i've run out of certain "neurotransmitters" following a max effort jump session, hard to explain.

Beyond that, I think staleness is a huge issue. It's alot easier to push through staleness on oly's/squats etc, since you have a far greater time to display force. Also, lifts result in far greater "testosterone production" than jumps. If you are stale during jumps, you will have no motivation to actually jump. I imagine one would get stale fairly quickly jumping multiple times per day+high frequency. In these examples though, keep in mind lifts aren't ABSOLUTELY MAXIMAL during high frequency/multi session days, they usually are held back via heart rate/percentages/whatever, there's not usually a considerable psycheup... jumping maximally requires some psyching up, this would mean you have multiple psycheups per day, which just would result in way too much fatigue imo.

if the jumps are submax, for a motor learning goal, then it's doable, but max jumps, I just don't see it being effective.

peace man

Quote from: adarqui on December 19, 2010, 04:02:14 pm

Quote from: BMully on December 19, 2010, 03:43:05 pm

you can't get knocked down twice and expect to win bro.

actually, yes you can.. that's two 10-8 rounds, hopkins won pretty much every round besides those two.

I'm agreeing with you, that's the excuse of the homer's that said he tied...hopkins was last knocked down 1995, and he was last knocked down 1994..That's pretty good, especially since he is so old
Pascal wants a rematch, he wanted to win outright...that would be great!

he'd kill pascal in a rematch, pascal is completely shook.

much props to bernard, what a beast at 45, looked 20's in that fight.

testing mpegstreamclip : MSEM half squat 315 x 9 @ 154 *AFTER* 2 hours of conditioning ::: adarq.org






WEAK DEPTH, msem half sq 325 @ 2x4 singles after 1 hour of fatiguing reactive work

check the shirt t-dub is wearing in his vid, pretty cool..

http://juicefreeathletics.com

seems like a campaign and to sell some clothes.