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I'm completely joking of course. I will keep the movement efficiency experiment on-going. I wrote in my log from yesterday's sprints that something had changed since I last sprinted (sometime mid March). So that's promising but also, it came out of the blue after I expressed my frustration from the bounds being super hard to improve and getting no sense of how on earth they could be improved either given i was pouring EVERYTHANG into every single attempt. Repeating them over and over and expecting them to change makes no sense. Raptor is stupid as usual, shooting 3s and doing a ME thing are completely different things.

Re movement efficiency (re)training,  will see where it goes, if anywhere in the longer term. It's kinda disappointing that there aren't more tangible gains from efficiency training yet but if this is the first sign of change, i'm pleased with the promise for now. It's *something* at least I can say this has come out of my recent training even though cause and effect is murky and it's hard to say which thing I did in training caused the changes i observed!

But having said that, my dunking / vertical hasn't gone anywhere good. Worse actually. It's kinda meh atm, I can blame that on squats though, have ramped them up lately so that might explain it. Who knows. It's all bad. I'm not worried about that cause my dunk will prob stay the same, more or less, but if i can move better i may get game time dunks later down the track. Yeah not much to bank on but it would be amazing. Watching the playoffs and it makes me wish I could do things like this:


https://streamable.com/32vz (hey adarqui can we get these embeddable?). YOutube

And ther was the play where harden gave Dwight an OOP that was just beautiful.. so much power. I never tried getting someone to OOP like this without an angle, but i'd love to now. it looks amazing. I dont know where in the hilights vid it is but if you find it please link it at the right time.

Full highlights:
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7m8X0juq6J4" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7m8X0juq6J4</a>

Mate are you still after movement efficiency?

I think iam more about movement inefficiency. Might just own it instead of fighting against my core traits? I wanna see how big and slow I can really be while still dunking on fools. I'm envisioning weighing 300lb in 12 months time, superbly inefficient but also benching bodyweight. What do you reckon? Do-able?

Give it a rest, compare apples and oranges and make another pointless analogy again, I dare you.

If you just started squats for the first time and were doing them at 3x8 (or whatever), you would be surprised if you stalled within 2 weeks! The difference is the broad jumps are ME and the squats wouldnt normally be done ME.

He stared up into the dewy sky now littered with stars, wiped his brow and psyched himself up for his next attempt. Like magic, his quads dishibited, his glutes engaged for the first time, propelling him across the ground in 3 long bounds, he had finally set a PR behind him. How did it happen and more importantly what could he do to repeat it? He had done the same thing over and over, a thousand times before. It was a random mutation which unlocked in him a movement efficiency never before seen. Never to be seen again, he grimaced, the lens of his camera had retracted, propped on 3 shaky legs sat unevenly in the unruly grass. NO would ever believe him and the recording had cut out just as he began the rep, recalling @adarqui who had told him to be aggressive and not take so long to begin. And he repeats the insanity, expecting this time things would be different, but not today.

loll... that's your prerogative. Personally i dont find big fat posteriors on a women very attractive. Gross! Rather much smaller but firm, shapely and well developed.. haha.

Stubborn fat for women isn't abdominal .. it's thighs and hips.. but yeah. women who train will often have a sixpac way before they have lean butt/thighs/hips. src: instagrams

No, but it's an old thread and I wondered if anybody changed opinions since then or has anything to add/retract.

Well, it's not really for most ppl, who should just do a normal diet (10-25% caloric deficit + exercise) to get leaner. It's for ppl who have that last 450g of fat (say) to lose and the body is fighting hard to hold on it, so much so it wud rather burn muscle mass for energy than mobilise that "stubborn" fat. In that case blood flow is an issue cause that fat is "stubborn" .. so by heating the area you might help that somewhat (since it improves blood flow). But this again is not an issue for 99.99% of us who can lose fat easily just by simple diet and cardio (say).There's other tricks to mobilise that stubborn fat too .. involving supplements and exercise protocols which are pure torture (Fasted cardio is involved).

 Ive never been in the stubborn fat range myself.. and i had a sixpac (some 5 weeks) ago. It's just a non issue for all but the leanest ppl looking to get leaner..