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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: February 04, 2014, 01:06:55 pm »
Quote from: entropy on February 04, 2014, 09:10:41 am
Quote from: Raptor on February 03, 2014, 06:56:16 am
Well, you just have to ask yourself this: have you really reached your peak? Do you already squat 2.5x for 1RM or 2x for 5RM? Have you practiced jumping and playing and sprinting enough at the right intensity with the right mindset? Have you had a clear-cut goal that you managed to attain? And so on and so forth.

It's bullshit raptor, all mutually exclusive. When your lifts are good, you're too heavy. When you're light, lifts are shit. You need some extra 25-40kg reserve strength to make it worthwhile post-bulk-post-cut. Fools errand!

Yeah I know it sometimes feels like spinning the wheels - gain strength and mass to increase your squat and you're too heavy and not "functional" for sports/you also gain fat.

Try to lose that fat and weight and you also lose strength and lose "all" the gains in the squat.

But... it can be done... just look at Kingfish.

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Pics, Videos, & Links / Re: beast
« on: February 03, 2014, 05:32:35 pm »
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdp1jlVt70Q" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdp1jlVt70Q</a>

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: acole14's journal - DUNK OR DIE
« on: February 03, 2014, 04:52:32 pm »
Me neither. Maybe it's for the types of people that have muscles with too low of a fluid content and creatine improves on that and adds better "leverage" if you will for the muscle fibers to push against?

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Pics, Videos, & Links / Re: beast
« on: February 03, 2014, 10:04:25 am »
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yP7eT5fnzV0" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yP7eT5fnzV0</a>

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Pics, Videos, & Links / Re: beast
« on: February 03, 2014, 09:07:51 am »
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2mJRd_gWWg" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2mJRd_gWWg</a>

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: February 03, 2014, 06:56:16 am »
Well, you just have to ask yourself this: have you really reached your peak? Do you already squat 2.5x for 1RM or 2x for 5RM? Have you practiced jumping and playing and sprinting enough at the right intensity with the right mindset? Have you had a clear-cut goal that you managed to attain? And so on and so forth.

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Basketball / Re: A WHOLE BUNCH OF DUNKS AND SHIT.
« on: February 01, 2014, 08:26:39 pm »
http://ballislife.com/eastern-kentuckys-marcus-lewis-is-back-with-more-crazy-dunks-3-vs-skyhawks/

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Pics, Videos, & Links / Re: beast
« on: January 30, 2014, 10:49:14 am »
Yeah Lydia Valentin is awesome... plus she's beautiful.

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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.

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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".

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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.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Loopie's Log
« on: January 30, 2014, 08:25:16 am »
Wow you squat 3x your bodyweight! :wowthatwasnutswtf: :ibsquatting:

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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.

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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.

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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.

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