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Performance Training Blog / Re: Verkhoshansky Notes - Methods, Ideology, Gems, & Forum Responses
« on: December 01, 2010, 01:05:33 pm »
Quote from: vag on June 28, 2010, 05:30:38 am
Quote from: adarqui on June 27, 2010, 05:38:45 am
tons of stuff to pick out from the above notes, i love this one though:


"any excessive amount of strength work, executed over a prolonged period of time, reduces movement speed and a muscle's ability to display explosive efforts. A cyclic, wave-like increase and decrease in the amount of strength work provides the same wave-like but steady increase in movement speed and explosive muscle strength".

"a reduction in the amount of strength work, providing a chance for the body to recover and advance to a higher functional level, is quite important at this stage. A brief period of active rest provides good recovery after intensive high-volume strength work, and speed-strength may rise by 10-15%."


peace

Zig-zaging high-volume strenth / explosive FTW!
The Ratio Technique FTW!
MSEM FTW!
Prof. Verkhoshansky FTW!!!


Is he talking about macro=periods or micro-periods here???

Like, should I do 4 weeks of heavy 85% squats 2x a week, then a 1 week phase of explosive work and repeat?
Or, is he saying alternate sets of heavy squats with explosive squats (or maybe just standing VJ)?

Yes, this is an old thread but it's just fucking amazing. Reading this stuff, i feel as enlighted as I did back in the VJB days.

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Article & Video Discussion / Re: One-leg running jump - reactive vs strength jumping
« on: December 01, 2010, 10:49:31 am »
I'm a one-footed strength jumper. I jump while accelerating (never thought about that!) and I also scrape my right foot and swing it up.

However, my RVJ is like 6-7 inches higher than my standing. Maybe this is why my squat transfers so nicely into my SLVJ.

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: High squat, low VJ?
« on: December 01, 2010, 10:03:20 am »
Quote from: adarqui on November 29, 2010, 10:28:31 pm
for example, a "max strength block" ends up being ~8 weeks of strength work with basically no reactive/explosive work, then they shift into an "explosive block", this is always a bad idea imo.. that time spent re-learning how to absorb/produce force fast will have to occur in the explosive block

Whoaaa, you don't re-learn if you first learn to maintain your strength during plyo blocks, and maintain your plyo during strength blocks!!! I think it's better to just play hard basketball while doing heavy ass squats, and then do heavy ass squats with less volume and frequency to maintain neural and muscular strength while doing heavy plyos.

I still think periodization has a great place in your training regimen. I mean, during my all out strength phase last year where I went from regular 1 hand dunking to two handed tomahawks in a few months, all I did was squat twice a week with no lower body assistance exercises. My explosiveness was maintained by playing basketball for my Varsity team.

I know for sure that if I had instead simutanously done heavy squats and heavy plyos (but both at less frequencies, of course) with much less basketball, I wouldn't have made those same gains.

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Pics, Videos, & Links / Re: Some of my stuff
« on: December 01, 2010, 09:53:37 am »
Hahahah yea everyone tells me my ass is huge. So are my thighs, or just legs in general. That's why I weigh 190lbs but I look like I weigh around 180... I'm "bottom heavy." Well, my calves aren't anything special though.

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Pics, Videos, & Links / Re: Some of my stuff
« on: November 27, 2010, 04:30:01 pm »
I actually can't squat as deep with a wider stance without my back rounding. I remember back when I used to love the wider stance. I have no clue how I ever got used to the narrow stance. It was a slow and gradual change.
Btw, it's funny how my squat seems athletic to you when I haven't played basketball for about a month when I made that video.

Maybe I don't need plyos. I've been playing more basketball lately and I was able to get an easy jam off two feet a couple of times. I also have to remember that I weigh 15lbs more than I used to, and that is definitely affecting my vert!

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Pics, Videos, & Links / Some of my stuff
« on: November 27, 2010, 01:37:17 pm »
about 3 weeks ago I've squatted 325lbs for 3x5 ATG. I didn't get it on camera, but I did get a set of 320lbs on camera. I weghed about 190lbs in this vid:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVP0HG6GvDo
Since then I've stalled at around 315x5 for some reason. Dropped and can't go back up. I've done a 2 week deload, now monday marks my first day out of the slump. Going to go for 295x3x5 and work from there.

Sometime back before the summer I was squatting 360lbs max to parallel but i weighed 170-175lbs... I was doing this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SY8TZP747nI (2-hand tomahawk in this one)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbMcCUb3V_M (head to net in this one)

I was 6'0 tall in those dunk videos, now I'm 6'1 tall. So, like 5-6 months after those videos I've made ZERO improvements in my SVJ and RVJ and it pisses me off. I need to get my movement efficiency back and start doing some heavy plyos, but first, I want to squat around 405lbs max. This may take a while, but that's okay because vert training is a long term thing.

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Introduce Yourself / hero everyone! ^__^
« on: November 26, 2010, 11:05:13 pm »
I'm lakers from the vertical summit. I need an active forume, and Dreyth is my username on pretty much all other forums so I'll stick to it. I'll also change it on the vertical summit.

Is there anyway to quickly transfer my log over from there? I've got almost 50 weeks on it.

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