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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: December 06, 2013, 06:22:10 pm »
It's interesting how you lifted your left foot off the floor as you missed the rep... I wonder if you were loading up more on your left leg or something.

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That's probably because of melatonin.

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Wow, what crazy times... 6AM for sprints? That's insane for my lifestyle.

I do strength training at 22 o'clock, up to 23:30 or so, because at that time the gym is emptier and I don't have to split my time with 30 people in a small gym.

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Article & Video Discussion / Re: Reverse transfer effect of training
« on: December 04, 2013, 02:37:39 pm »
Well, I was thinking some time back to write a thread about "why is everybody against explosive lifts with a small % of your 1RM for strength gains"? This is similar.

My thing is that what do you do when you lift heavy? You increase the neural recruitment and you subject the muscle fibers to high tensions and high times under tension. That's all you do.

But can't you do the same thing lifting a lower weight at a higher speed? You would still get a lot of recruitment and you would still subject the muscle fibers to high tensions. The only difference would be that in order to get the same total amount of time under tension you'd have to do more reps which would probably burn out your CNS or cause overuse injuries.

But assuming you can handle that kind of stress, I can't find anything to prevent someone of gaining "strength" and muscle mass doing lightweight stuff at high speeds. Any ideas?

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: December 04, 2013, 01:10:14 pm »
I think it also has something to do with your "structure" in terms of tendon and bone actual "thickness" if you will.

If you're a naturally frail guy that goes up in weight at SOME point, despite your muscle gains, the tendons and bones don't adapt that well like muscle does and when you plant at your heavier self of now the mechanoreceptors, golgi tendon organ, call it whatever, will see that extreme load (due to speed + your heavier bodyweight) as dangerous for the tendons/bones and will shut you down.

So I think springiness is also somewhat closely related to being "light". If you're born with thick bones and thick tendons and you're naturally heavy but you have the proper structure in terms of tension distribution, levers etc, you can still be "bouncy" (think a guy like LeBron or Barkley being very heavy and still being somewhat bouncy, being able to jump off one leg well etc).

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: December 04, 2013, 09:45:45 am »
Heads exploding is nonsensical, it has nothing to do with this bullshit.

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Yeah they apply hue and saturation filters over the pictures but hey, I like them more like this.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: December 04, 2013, 08:36:15 am »
Yeah but being bouncy (having good structure) is your winning lottery ticket for being able to jump high while still being weak.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: December 04, 2013, 02:13:03 am »
Like I said, strength on the rightly structured body will look like springiness.

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Interesting^^^

You should give it a go

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: December 03, 2013, 06:09:45 pm »
Springiness is the expression of strength on the right body structure to be expressed as springiness.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: December 03, 2013, 04:46:29 pm »
Then go the adarqui route: anorexic dunking!

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