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Quote from: Raptor on May 07, 2016, 04:36:19 pm

Quote from: T0ddday on May 07, 2016, 03:22:58 pm

Quote from: Raptor on May 07, 2016, 03:16:47 pm

My brain is not working anymore. I think my IQ is under 100 for sure, right now. In fact, I don't think it would be quantifiable in any way. If I were to take a psychological test right now I would fail it.

I know people take words on the screen lightly, but trust me, this is authentic.

You may be having a psychotic episode.  It would be best to see a mental health specialist right now.  That you can recognize this is important.  Your IQ is probably not much lower than normal for you because even during psychosis smart people are still smart about most things but it can seem like that and be very frustrating to not have the clarity you are used to - it would be best to see someone. 

Waste of time and money. Doctors are for nothing, they don't actually help you. They just talk and do nothing, and take your money. #fact #truth #reality

Always refreshing to spend your life dedicated to helping people, take out loans forever, forego income, struggle through years of school/residency/fellowship and then be told that your career is a useless waste and that your in it for the money.  Why not go one further and bring up the conspiracy theory that the medical community and big pharma are in league together to hide the cure for cancer and keep you sick to keep selling medicine...  Why is it that we have learned that a bad experience with someone of one race is not grounds to discriminate against others of the same culture but can't show the same intelligence when it comes to a career choice?

Quote from: gukl on May 04, 2016, 09:13:06 am

if nothing else, having mega sore glutes is cool because it makes you conciously aware of their activation all the way through the day, from getting out of bed to hitting the squat rack...and glute activation is always welcome.

like when i have sore VMOs, my knee's always feel better

Quote from: Coges on May 04, 2016, 02:56:11 am

Quote from: Raptor on May 03, 2016, 02:30:45 am

Reiterating this for the 100th time - the dumbbell BBS I found out to be the BEST glute-soreness-giving exercise in existence, to me. Absolutely tremendous glute soreness. Not sure why, but it is like that.

Have you found the glute soreness to be productive though? As in does it translate into gains either in strength or muscle? Or is it just a pain in the ass  (pun intended).

I don't think there is necessarily a direct benefit to any muscle being sore and you can definitely make gains in size and strength without soreness...

However, soreness indicates activation - and as we know DOMS is much easier to trigger in a muscle that hasn't been stretched under tension for awhile (think of the soreness you get after a long layoff or the first time you lift).   So if you are doing squats frequently for years and suddenly you move your foot placement or depth and you experience new soreness that's an indicator that despite doing this compound lift for years you were to some degree inactive in that muscle...

It's kind of shocking to me that two people can do the same compound movements and have completely different muscle activation patterns.  For those of us that have recovered from injury this is often a problem.  Additionally, you are going to have a personal bias for your movement patterns that depends on many factors and is probably not necessary to change completely...  However, adding another muscle (previously inhibited and inactive) to a movement can be an absolute game changer when it comes to injury prevention and to some extent performance.

In my case I really struggle to activate my quads.  Sprinting, squatting, deadlifts, front-squats, jumping, etc.  even after a long layoff result primarily in glute soreness, hamstring soreness, and even abdominal and calf soreness before quad soreness...  Unsurprisingly I don't have very strong quads and can suffer from jumpers knee because despite being inactive you will use your quads isometrically as breaks for landing or stopping as you have no other movement pattern with which to accomplish this***. 

The solution to this lack of activation is usually isolation work for the inactive muscle.  It really depends the level of inactivation - after surgery when it's completely inhibited this won't work as you can't even voluntarily activate it - so EMS stimulation can be used to get it firing again.   The absolute best thing you can do is find a closed chain exercise that still isolates the inactive muscle.  For the VMO/patellar tendon single leg eccentric pistols on a slant board are one of the best exercises you can do - like Gukl when I do these and feel sore in my quads (the only way I ever do) I also have less knee pain.  Skater jumps with an emphasis on the twisting can help people activate glute medius - which is a common inactive muscle. 

Try to keep your activation exercises higher rep and a little bit less intense if possible - you are going for muscle/strength alone with activation but remember this is a previously inactive pattern so the tendon that bears the load in this pattern might easily get overworked if intensity is too high...

*** Wanted to note that despite the fact that quads are our primary breaks I talked to a coach that has video of athletes who are so glute dominant that they find ways to get around this slightly...  When landing from a two footed jump you will see quad dominant athletes safely land without locked knees and descend into a squat to handle the shock...  Others will land with a fixed knee angle and bend the back and stretch the hamstrings on landing - I tend to do this and it's probably one of the more unsafe landings you can do...   Additionally, some sprinters will attempt to slow themselves by actually dragging their toe on the ground which will send shock on the tibialis and to the hips to keep some of the breaking force off the quads... A large price to pay and one of the many reasons why "quad-dominant" is not necessarily always a bad thing...  Ideally we should be both quad and hip-aware and able to use our hips to finish explosive movements and our quads to allow us not to get hurt...

Reiterating this for the 100th time - the dumbbell BBS I found out to be the BEST glute-soreness-giving exercise in existence, to me. Absolutely tremendous glute soreness. Not sure why, but it is like that.

Quote from: Coges on May 03, 2016, 11:59:25 pm

Yes he 's had some unbelievable blocks recently.

Yeah inbounding was terrible.
Whatever happened to the old single file inbound formation? When did that go out of vogue?

dude great point.. i havn't seen that in a long time wtf? that's a pretty effective technique.. you don't know who is going to set the pick etc.

odd..