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2012
Pics, Videos, & Links / Re: beast
« on: January 30, 2014, 10:49:14 am »
Yeah Lydia Valentin is awesome... plus she's beautiful.
2013
Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: January 30, 2014, 08:56:58 am »
I always do the split legs thing but I do it mostly because I'm very stable when I'm in that position. I've had a guy complain numerous times that I do it and I was like "I'm just staying in my position, you're the one backing down into me" and he was pissed.
2014
Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: acole14's journal - DUNK OR DIE
« on: January 30, 2014, 08:46:09 am »
By the way - I never drank coffee either.
I've seen my mom how dependent she is on coffee and I was like "thanks, I want no part of that".
I've seen my mom how dependent she is on coffee and I was like "thanks, I want no part of that".
2015
Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: acole14's journal - DUNK OR DIE
« on: January 30, 2014, 08:45:12 am »
I personally never felt any effects from creatine. And I used ON Creapure.
2016
Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Loopie's Log
« on: January 30, 2014, 08:25:16 am »
Wow you squat 3x your bodyweight! 
2017
Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: January 29, 2014, 10:51:32 am »
205 kg for calf raises is far and away from "bad feet" in terms of strength.
If anything, do plyometric work and play ball to improve your feet (you've brought this up in the past).
Do stuff that is very bouncy, like rudiment hops, 4-star drills, consecutive fast jumps, ricochet jumps etc, but REALLY fast. It's really more a matter of isometric explosive ability with plyos and especially with calves, moreso than just strength as we understand the term.
If anything, do plyometric work and play ball to improve your feet (you've brought this up in the past).
Do stuff that is very bouncy, like rudiment hops, 4-star drills, consecutive fast jumps, ricochet jumps etc, but REALLY fast. It's really more a matter of isometric explosive ability with plyos and especially with calves, moreso than just strength as we understand the term.
2018
Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: January 28, 2014, 12:48:11 pm »
Nice, good to see you're trying. IMO, you need to try to get faster and faster in the plant... that tension in the amortization phase will call your CNS to recruit more motor neurons to stop you from collapsing/change direction, and faster, and that means you won't have to voluntarily generate power as much as you do now. It also means the recruitment process (of a high % of motor neurons) begins much earlier (since the tension in the amortization phase is bigger due to the faster speed (m*a)) - which means you have more time to actually develop power.
When you come at a slow speed, maybe counter-intuitively, you won't demand a strong stretch response from the CNS and therefore you won't get a lot of recruitment in the amortization phase (just what's needed at that slow speed) - so you will need to voluntarily recruit a lot of motor neurons in the concentric phase only. And obviously the concentric phase only is less time to generate power than the eccentric+concentric phases together. So you have to be really good CNS-wise to do it.
But this can only be achieved by training in this manner... trying to get faster and faster in the plant, as soon as you have your steps right (your movement efficiency becomes better and better) - time to increase the speed in the plant.
When you come at a slow speed, maybe counter-intuitively, you won't demand a strong stretch response from the CNS and therefore you won't get a lot of recruitment in the amortization phase (just what's needed at that slow speed) - so you will need to voluntarily recruit a lot of motor neurons in the concentric phase only. And obviously the concentric phase only is less time to generate power than the eccentric+concentric phases together. So you have to be really good CNS-wise to do it.
But this can only be achieved by training in this manner... trying to get faster and faster in the plant, as soon as you have your steps right (your movement efficiency becomes better and better) - time to increase the speed in the plant.
2019
Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: January 28, 2014, 09:58:20 am »
Yeah, that's what I meant - it will probably happen on its own.
2020
Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: January 28, 2014, 09:57:38 am »
What are you doing to lose weight?
2021
Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: January 28, 2014, 06:05:52 am »
I have seen that transformation with pretty much everybody not named Justin Darlington. Some exceptions might be adarqui or AC Barch.
But like 90%+ of people jump the most with a 1-2 plant, where they load up the first plant leg a lot more than the 2nd. I guess it allows more time for power to be built up and for less overload to occur in that position (I think the amortization forces load the hips better than in a drop plant).
But like 90%+ of people jump the most with a 1-2 plant, where they load up the first plant leg a lot more than the 2nd. I guess it allows more time for power to be built up and for less overload to occur in that position (I think the amortization forces load the hips better than in a drop plant).
2022
Nature, Wilderness, Hiking, Travel, and Misc Outdoorsy stuff / Re: Random landscape of the day
« on: January 28, 2014, 06:02:53 am »
2024
Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: January 28, 2014, 05:04:25 am »
What I meant is that maybe over time he'll start becoming a 1-2 planter...
2025
Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: January 28, 2014, 01:39:29 am »
Maybe continuing to practice will make you a 1-2 plant jumper over time and that will give you the extra 1-2 inches.