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uh, level-7'd again.. nothing major but just scared the shit out of me.. so im at the basketball court, doing some jumps, and my 'predator' soundtrack song comes on.. then out of nowhere i hear this HUGE noise and then i see some huge thing falling out of the sky, turned out to be a like ~10 foot palm tree thing falling off a palm tree.. dno, just crazy timing considering the predator song haha.. looked like predator falling out of a tree @ 2am.

level-7.

Lol, that feeling is awesome though. Especially when it happens without you being in any real danger.

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soreness = left soleus (horrible, from the midfoot runs), both hamstrings a little

When you're running like a mile mid-foot, does it end up being like a strength endurance sort of burn in the calfs? Sorta like the burn in the legs when doing ultra-rep lunges?

nah it's a different feeling.. like a weird 'pull'.. and if i only do 1 mile or so, when fresh, i don't feel it at all really, btu the next day my left soleus is DEAD.. so today it was more like a pull on each plant of that leg, felt painful.. but i've delt with it before so i know it's pretty much alright, tomorrow is nothing intense so it should be alot better for friday, hopefully.

Also, I've been doing some 'strength' SLVJ's. Like standing at the free-throw line and doing only my penultimate step into a maximal SLJ, trying to touch rim (scraping it on most attempts). Sounds similar to what you've done in this workout. Eddie's jumps look like he has more bend in the knee than Holm for example, and I wanna get a similar sort of single leg pop. Hope it works out for us!

Keep it up.

ya, those do help, eddie does alot of those on warmups.. short run ups working on just getting high off a few steps.. then once he starts feeling good he'll move it up.. similar to how i do it for my DLRVJ warmups etc.. he just does it naturally, so do i.. kind of a 'buildup mentality'..

he used to do short run up sessions all the time at MSC, when he didn't feel like going max or when it wasn't a priority in the programming.

ya man he lands more like donald thomas, check the crazy weird analysis subforum, high jumpers, holm vs thomas.. good example there.. eddie tried stiffer plants (less knee bend) but it never worked too good for him.. his best jumps have always come with considerable knee bend.. that's some serious strength HEH.. but more of a basketball player style of jump.. most bball guys that don't have a track and field background will do SLRVJ's like that from what i've seen.

peace man

ok finally saw it, very good movie!

uh, level-7'd again.. nothing major but just scared the shit out of me.. so im at the basketball court, doing some jumps, and my 'predator' soundtrack song comes on.. then out of nowhere i hear this HUGE noise and then i see some huge thing falling out of the sky, turned out to be a like ~10 foot palm tree thing falling off a palm tree.. dno, just crazy timing considering the predator song haha.. looked like predator falling out of a tree @ 2am.

level-7.



9/29/2010

bw = 154
soreness = left soleus (horrible, from the midfoot runs), both hamstrings a little
aches/injuries = left hamstring tendon, left ankle, left knee
fatigue = none (mental) today, thankfully

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late workout, courts still wet, non stop rain

workout: jumps + strength, courts wet
- 1 mile midfoot run (calf dead)

- 1-2 step leads, a bunch of LR/RL DLRVJ jumps, hit ~32" off LR-DLRVJ and ~30-31" off RL-DLRVJ.. on wet surface with dead calf, nice
- mixed in MR tucks and deep landing MR tucks, all x 10 reps
- L-SLRVJ : hit some NASTY jumps without a full runup, again around 3 step runup but not accelerating max, hit a bunch of ~32's or so, felt insane................ very odd, i really was getting up major considering..
- R-SLRVJ : hit some ~10'4 touches or so

- 1.5 mile midfoot run (calf dead)

- deep landing MR tucks mixed with squats

- paused (3-5s) pin squat off pin 11: 245 @ 3 x 5

- S1: barbell calf raise: 165 @ 4 x 10
- S1: neutral grip pullups: 5, 5, 5, 5

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so i've been doing alot of stretching, has my legs feeling very shitty, but, they feel powerful and very bouncy... but not fresh, so it's a weird feeling.. i stretched throughout the day today, and im about to stretch for about an hour.. it's kind of bugging my hamstring tendon a LITTLE i think, so i have to be careful, but i'm interested to see how i jump friday with stretching tonight/tomorrow.. friday it's forecasted to be dry/no rain, so i want to go hit some nasty SLRVJ jumps or maybe dunks..

i want my SLRVJ to be PR levels 2 saturday's from now when i dunk with eddie again.



tomorrow is lots of walking, maybe 10-12 miles or so again.

peace!!!!!

Been at the hospital most nights up until today. My friend's doing surprisingly well, props to the guy for being such a badass and surviving, all the while only requiring surgery on his collar bone because the rest of him is recovering so well. He's had quite a bit of stitching. He has some pretty gnarley cuts on his head and cheeks and he's bandaged up. He had bleeding and bruising in his brain. (which apparently healed to quick to do much damage) Left collar bone was shattered, he had a bone graft done to get it to heal. His neck was thought to be broken at the ER but apparently it was misaligned and will heal on it's own. That along with pretty deep abrasions all over his body and it's surprising he's even alive. People have died from much less. It's like he grabbed death and slapped it across the face while he said, "f**k you death! I'mma be joking around with my friends about everything just a couple days from now, just you wait!" And he did just that.

wow..

glad to hear he's doing alright man! he has a really good friend, in you, for being there for him like that..

Anyway, I'll probably upload a picture he posed for in the ICU while he was still swollen, sore and in more pain than he is now (because he still looks like hell). We should make a entire thread commemorating such badassery.

That said and done, I'm back in training again.

Scrawny to Brawny Phase IV (I won't bother figuring out what day I'm on since I've gone so off track anyway. I'll probably just end up changing my workouts entirely for a 3x/week plus 2x sprint work/week anyway)

Supposed to be an off day so I did some sprints.

- Warm up
- Hurdle mobility drills
- Sprint 50m, walk back to 100m mark (from finish line)
- Sprint 100m, walk back to 150m mark
- Sprint 150m, walk back to 200m mark
- Sprint 200m, walk back to 150m mark
- Etc.... until ending on a 50m sprint.
- Cool down jog
- Stretch

29 September 2010

Bball training.
Breaths , pop , strength , jumps , all good.
Got a 30'' dropstep jump and a 32,5'' 2-steps DLRVJ.
32,5'' is a season best , it's also just 0,5'' before "dunk attempt" status.
Good shit...

niiice vag!!

Extremely retarded, especially considering Cushing could get hurt doing something so useless and lose millions.  Joe Defranco has plenty of vertecs, if he wanted to test a max jump its pretty damn easy to do safely and accurately.

yup.. if you're going to do PR 'hurdle jumps', i mean, at least come up with a safe setup when you're having a guy under a million dollar contract jumping over it, same goes for high school, college, or whatever-level athletes too ;0 no matter how good you jump, anyone can clip a hurdle or have a weird plant/jump.. doing so in that setup could be horrible.. cushing was obviously pumped that he made that jump, which means he had an even higher percentage of missing it.

i agree though, hit the sticks on a vertec, those PR's mean more

peace man

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just a thought, maybe he had a fluke moment..I had some insane jumps when i am super relaxed, like 5-10inches more than normal jump due to being unnaturally calm for no cause

5-10 inches??? 

I've had that with ~2-3 inches but a 10 inch increase out of the blue from being relaxed.



I'm not attcking you BMully, everyone is different and i just felt like posting the pic 

i don't lie, i got super relaxed in a game and almost dunked with 2 hands, head was heigh as hell, this was 8th grade

Yes yes. And I won Mr Olympia. It was just a fluke. Im back to fat now again.

that is a physical change, not possible to do just like that..in times of extreme pressure or extreme relaxation, people can get super human abilities..that is how i grabbed rim as 13year old who could only normally get half way up, this one jump i got rim, then it took a while before i got it legit everytime...the cns is responsible for strength and power, we develope it to allow more, but it is always capable of that power

ya bmully is definitely right about a substantial performance increase, verkhoshansky referred to it as the 'innate (protected) reserves'.. in which access to that strength/force output is restricted, but through years of proper/aggressive training, athletes can keep improving how much they can tap into it at their own will.. i mean, i remember i was jumping shitty say 5 months ago, then that cop pulls me over, and i jumped like 3" higher after alot of fatigue, that wasn't even life or death, but that small adrenaline response/heightened cns arousal lead to some gains..

level-7 = PR city.

True. But claiming a 10" sudden increase is idiotic. Thats like when Rip claimed that crazy crazy sprint time because he saw a spider or something like that. Actually I dont remember if it was Rip, but someone did claim to run a crazy time, faster than world record speed.

btw yes, that was rip that ran a WR after having a spider on him

Hehe. I thought I remembered it.

Yes, athletic improvement can increase during certain circumstances we all know (Lev 7 MANG). Yes 10 inch vert increase suddenly is about as likely a sudden 100lbs improvement in the bench. And yes this is a long quote, quote, quote, quote, quote. And we all know that rip pr'd becuase that spider was a super duper mega jumping spider, and when in landed on rip, some of the exlposive and elastic qualities of its legs were temporarily fused with rip's Bi-legged frame.

show me the video of ripp doing a wr in 100m after a spider jumped on him

No vid. Only story.

correction, "No vid. Only true story."