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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: windmill technique
« on: March 17, 2016, 01:57:37 am »Well there you go.
if i were right handed with an RL plant i'd be doing windmills already .. i think :/
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if i were right handed with an RL plant i'd be doing windmills already .. i think :/
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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: windmill technique
« on: March 17, 2016, 01:31:54 am »2073
Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: windmill technique
« on: March 16, 2016, 02:23:58 pm »
I wish i had a better video of that dunk .. but some observations
1. his approach is pretty straight on than mine .. interesting.. i may experiment in taking a smaller approach angle to the vertical
2. is the ball entering the rim on the left side? is that a thing i need to cue myself .. i'll try that
3. ??
1. his approach is pretty straight on than mine .. interesting.. i may experiment in taking a smaller approach angle to the vertical
2. is the ball entering the rim on the left side? is that a thing i need to cue myself .. i'll try that
3. ??
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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: windmill technique
« on: March 16, 2016, 02:19:13 pm »Dexterous left is an oxymoron
lol .. it doesn't work if you omit the dexterous since most ppl have 2 hands ;P
but i found a video
is this it ..?
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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / windmill technique
« on: March 16, 2016, 02:12:47 pm »
Simple request, would like to understand the technique for a windmill for an RL planting DL jumper with a dexterous L hand. Is such a thing possible or nah? If you can point me to a video i can mimic that would be amazing.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: March 16, 2016, 09:32:42 am »
If i have the opportunity, i was thinking of doing some heavy ass quarter/half squats to unstick my sticking point on backsquats. I'm not sure i have the time or opportunity to do so though. But it was something i was considering. My quads aren't fatigued as i theorised .. i think they're just stupidly weak and detrained/untrained atm .. normally my squat prob takes care of them .. however i haven't been squatting enough volume , or at least enough volume heavy.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: March 16, 2016, 06:58:22 am »
Here is the thing about my jumper, it's pretty much automatic at the elbows. However. I want to extend my range out to the 3pt line and to use the conventional approach of moving out a little doesn't really do it cause no one wants to shoot long 2s, not just cause it's a bad shot but because it's subconscious to avoid it and I don't really want to learn the movement pattern which i dont want. So i extend out beyond the arc to make the 3pt line submax or more closer to the elbow jumper mechanically and in terms of effort. But im not sure if i'll be able to get a decent 3pt shot in the time frame I have. I will try though.
Today i picked up some ankle weights. +2kg. Put them on and wont take them off til 10days. It won't make much of a difference but it's something. Additionally it might help me get that 100kg dunk which may or may not mean anythign except purely an ego exercise because +20kg with the vest is still short of 100kg. Last time i drank a lot of water in lieu of 100kg and had to come home cause needed to go to the bathroom lol. I do think the best weighted dunking / running / training comes around 85-90kg which is with the last row of weights removed -- also helps ROM and maintaining a natural movement.
Today i picked up some ankle weights. +2kg. Put them on and wont take them off til 10days. It won't make much of a difference but it's something. Additionally it might help me get that 100kg dunk which may or may not mean anythign except purely an ego exercise because +20kg with the vest is still short of 100kg. Last time i drank a lot of water in lieu of 100kg and had to come home cause needed to go to the bathroom lol. I do think the best weighted dunking / running / training comes around 85-90kg which is with the last row of weights removed -- also helps ROM and maintaining a natural movement.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: March 16, 2016, 06:46:10 am »
^tmr im gna do 170kg jump squats vag . .haha.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / The art and craft of athletic orthoxia in pursuit of windmills -- Day 17/21
« on: March 16, 2016, 01:39:39 am »
BW: 75.6kg/166.67lb
When you're eating >250g of protein a day, bodyweight does kinda go up .. just from having all that food in the gut. But i'm still endevouring to maintaining a caloric deficit for the last 9 days .. hopeful about rocking to the tournament leaner, stronger, fitter. Faster too.
As of today i'll try to spend some time at the basketball court every day. Shooting around and other skill work mainly, haven't got a structured idea for how to do this yet but i'll come up with something. Was thinking double the number of jumpers i take every time which is either dumb or exactly what i need. will see how it goes.
I'm also going to work with driving to the R while dribbling with the R hand. I'm strong going L with my L hand but i need to balance that out on the R side so i have more scoring options.
When you're eating >250g of protein a day, bodyweight does kinda go up .. just from having all that food in the gut. But i'm still endevouring to maintaining a caloric deficit for the last 9 days .. hopeful about rocking to the tournament leaner, stronger, fitter. Faster too.
As of today i'll try to spend some time at the basketball court every day. Shooting around and other skill work mainly, haven't got a structured idea for how to do this yet but i'll come up with something. Was thinking double the number of jumpers i take every time which is either dumb or exactly what i need. will see how it goes.
I'm also going to work with driving to the R while dribbling with the R hand. I'm strong going L with my L hand but i need to balance that out on the R side so i have more scoring options.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: March 16, 2016, 01:24:25 am »
I think it may help in the way that it strengthens the shooting muscles of hte arm (biceps) and once adapted, i'll be stronger and more adapted to shooting and can shoot jumpers from closer to the 3pt line easier .. atm it's a bit challenging. I'll experiment and see though. I have in the past suggested to kids to shoot closer to the rim cause they were trying to shoot outside their range and with bad mechanics but i dont think that applies to me.. my mechanics are mostly the same, it's just fatigue sets in perhaps .. and i have to expend more force/effort than necessary with more shots
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: March 15, 2016, 11:18:57 am »
I know i left it last minute .. but i have 10 days til the comp and i need to learn how to play basketball. help!
things i need to work on
1. jumpshot
2. handles
3. defence
4. passing
in no particular order.
for my jumper today i put up some 3s from around 3/4 court .. i figure if i can make those kinda regularly i will make a normal 3pt submax. i know the usual basketball wisdom is to start close to the rim and move out but normal basketball advice is dumb and i dont see how shooting a perfect shot from near the rim helps you shoot a 3 - cause it doesn't, i know from experience lol.
things i need to work on
1. jumpshot
2. handles
3. defence
4. passing
in no particular order.
for my jumper today i put up some 3s from around 3/4 court .. i figure if i can make those kinda regularly i will make a normal 3pt submax. i know the usual basketball wisdom is to start close to the rim and move out but normal basketball advice is dumb and i dont see how shooting a perfect shot from near the rim helps you shoot a 3 - cause it doesn't, i know from experience lol.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: March 15, 2016, 09:50:33 am »
So i was a bit worried that the gainz from WV dunking were transient and only around as potentiating ones, to disappear if one didn't use the WV. But tonight I realised i could dunk just as well without first using the vest. That's good! Funny thing happened, there was a guy trying pretty hard to dunk while we were shooting around.. and he was getting pretty close. And i felt bad that i could dunk so easily and he seemed to get demotivated and he left. I didn't mean to discourage him and he doesn't know how hard I worked to get my gains. Speaking of which, another guy said to me, "It helps to be tall hey?" -- as if the only reason i can dunk is because im tall. I tried to enter into a raptor-esque dialogue about starting off with a natural 20" vertical but it seemed like was going to fall on deaf ears. Of course the only reason i can dunk is because im tall.. everyone knows that right? They dont know that i didn't get my first dunk until my late 20s and i tried pretty hard in my teens and 20s to dunk but i never could reach further than than just grabbing the rim which is where i was at at 16-17. He doesn't know all the hours i put into training so i could actually do this stuff .. but nevermind, people just gloss over that and are content to attribute it to things like height which i didn't have any control over.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / The art and craft of athletic orthoxia in pursuit of windmills -- Day 16/21
« on: March 15, 2016, 05:25:15 am »
BS 1x135.5(LPR), 2x122.5, 6x107.5, 6x102.5
BP 2x92.5, 3x85, 6x80, 6x79.5, 6x77.5
Bball training
HIIT sprints 6x(20s on, 20s off @ 93.5kg)
TM run 1.5km in 10 mins @ 9km/hr (@ 93.5kg), 2km in 20 mins
Feeling pretty rough .. i rested sun-mon, but weighted vest walking on saturday gave me some weird back tendinitisisisisi that's still lingering fml.
BP 2x92.5, 3x85, 6x80, 6x79.5, 6x77.5
Bball training
HIIT sprints 6x(20s on, 20s off @ 93.5kg)
TM run 1.5km in 10 mins @ 9km/hr (@ 93.5kg), 2km in 20 mins
Feeling pretty rough .. i rested sun-mon, but weighted vest walking on saturday gave me some weird back tendinitisisisisi that's still lingering fml.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: March 14, 2016, 12:08:58 am »
^when cramping ruins a perfectly good workout 
I had bad cramps during my hip thrusts on friday. Not good when you're trying to make every workout count.
I had bad cramps during my hip thrusts on friday. Not good when you're trying to make every workout count.
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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: weight vests
« on: March 12, 2016, 11:48:52 pm »
Lifespan 20kg vest
From an Australian perspective, I can do a review of the vest I have been using. It's kinda unwieldy when it's fully loaded with 20kg cause it has 4 rows of weights and the lower row make it impractical to wear long since you have to use it and remove it so often, you can't for example go to the bathroom with it on. Better would be a vest that has only 3 rows like the HCE one which uses metal weights instead of sandbags, so it's more compact. I would recommend that without having used it. The 4th, last row loaded on mine makes it harder to jump too because it affects ROM too. Avoid.
Here is an example that take 30kg and only has 3 rows:
This looks so sexy right now .. ^ haha.
The advantage of this design is also you can modify the weights on the go. With mine it's impractical cause the weights are on the inside whereas the vest above has them outside. Very cool.