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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: Chris Korfiist Interview
« on: March 31, 2010, 07:02:39 pm »
Quote from: LBSS on March 31, 2010, 06:24:20 pm
Charlie Francis lists the half squat as a key exercises for sprinters and repeatedly talks about how important it was for Ben Johnson (steroids or not). Saying that sprinters shouldn't train like powerlifters is so obvious as to be completely meaningless. No coach worth anything has ever said that they should. Worst. Straw man. Ever.  But just because a sprinter's training should revolve mostly around sprinting (um, duh) doesn't mean that squats are evil.

Ya but in the same instance, about ben & other sprinters concerning Francis, he considers squat/lifting as general, and sprinting taking precedence over it. Plenty of coaches out there are putting lifting BEFORE sprinting etc. I think that's what Korfist is getting at... So that might be a "duh" to us, but it isn't to many-many coaches. These coaches I'm referring to, are so into the weight-room numbers, that they let it fog their head. They'll let shitty form skate by because it's adding to the total.

I've personally run into this plenty of times. During summer camps, we had kids from one team, about 6 of them, all come in bragging about their squat numbers. All of them had squats over 350-400 lb. I of course didn't believe them, and had them pin squatting deep with proper form, a different pin for each kid so that form was adhered to, but needless to say not one of them got over 185 lb for 5. One of the kids showed me a video on his camera phone, it was a belted quarter squat with knees shifting forward. The s&c coach for that high school was a "former powerlifter". We have a member on this forum that knows exactly what i'm talking about, since he was on that team, but he'll never read this message (haha).

Now I know that's an extreme example, but it's part of what Korfist is talking about, since he deals with it very often.

A meathead approach really isn't that bad, but only if form isn't sacrificed in favor of number inflation.

but ya i luv teh squats.



btw, there's vid of ben johnson box squatting here:

http://www.adarq.org/forum/index.php?topic=591.msg3960#new

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: vag's journal : Age vs Vertical
« on: March 31, 2010, 06:47:55 pm »
Quote from: ESav15 on March 31, 2010, 06:45:38 pm
strooooong BSS man!

awesome.

ya that bss is good stuff.. almost over BW for reps now.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: no bounce, need bounce
« on: March 31, 2010, 06:47:11 pm »
Quote from: LBSS on March 31, 2010, 06:25:47 pm
Saw podiatrist today. Upshot: Gonna get some custom orthotics to wear pretty much all the time. Gonna keep going to MT. And gonna get surgery in October.

what kind of issues are the orthotics supposed to help? just the toe or pronation issues etc?

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Also, looking at x-rays of yourself is cool.

especially modern x-ray technology.. instantly shows up on bigscreens, excellent detail, etc.

pc man

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: Chris Korfiist Interview
« on: March 31, 2010, 03:40:22 pm »
Quote from: AlexV on March 31, 2010, 12:34:21 pm
Quote from: LBSS on March 31, 2010, 09:19:54 am
Just got around to skimming that interview. Guess you kind of said it already, but this Korfist guy goes on the Mike Boyle Memorial Coaching Dumbass Hall of Fame. Figured I'd quote the offending passage in its entirety because really, you can't make this shit up:

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Special. Just special.


I have a coup[le pointsin CK's defense:

1.  He is not anti-squat, rather he doesn;t like the way it is coached and performed.  I would agree with him on this.  You want to squat in a way that carries over to the field of play and doesn't create "compensation patterns".  Everyone has to agree wtih the NSCA comment.  They preach all you need is squats and olympics and anyone who disagrees is basically a nut.

2.  Most importantly don't throw the baby out with the bath water.  How many people give jay schroeder a chance with all of his ridiculous and BS claims (right adarqui) like adam achuletta holding a squat with like 500lbs in the ATG oposition for 5 minutes and then having to stand up with the bar?  Or the russians, like verkhoshansky bondarchuck and zatsiorsky , who claimed that they had athletes doing depth jumps off a 20 ft tall building (this is true they used to claim it and that is prolly why jay used the example in that interview).  Of course we know this was BS or didn;t agree with it but it never stopped anyone from reading supertraining (which is a way harder book than the inno-sport book).  point being is that CK is a very bright coach and we can learn a lot from him, don;t let the squat thing or the fact that he challenges some deep seeded beliefs throw you off.  I should note I am a bit biased because the athletes who I can get to use the CK's style of squatting see enormous improvements in performance indicators (like VJ and Sprint).  The problem is attention to detail and ego.  Most athletes can't spend time lifting light weights to relearn the squat.


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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: THE DREAM JOURNAL
« on: March 31, 2010, 03:12:58 pm »
Quote from: LBSS on March 31, 2010, 10:03:52 am
I had an out of body experience once, in Zion National Park. I was walking into the bathroom at this campground to brush my teeth and all of a sudden I was about four or five feet over my own head, looking down at myself at a slight angle. Only lasted three or four seconds.

never thought you could have one just out of nowhere like that. that's freaky.

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: The LEVEL-7 ideas thread
« on: March 31, 2010, 05:14:47 am »
Scared-Shitless Aerobic/Anaerobic Capacity Training

This can be used to improve anaerobic or aerobic capacity by forcing an athlete to keep sprinting, or they fall to their death.

1. An athlete is dropped via helicopter onto the treadmill

2. The treadmill starts, athlete must maintain or increase speed according to the protocol

3. If athlete doesn't maintain speed as dictated by the treadmill, they will fly off the back and drop over 500 feet. There is nothing to hold on to.

4. If athlete maintains speed according to protocol, helicopter comes and picks the athlete up.


Special treadmill:




Tower (treadmill at apex):


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Boxing / Bernard Hopkins Interview
« on: March 31, 2010, 02:06:40 am »
http://www.allhiphop.com/stories/lifestylefashion/archive/2010/03/29/22156909.aspx

nice

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: March 31, 2010, 01:27:26 am »
vmo/hamstrings/quads/glutes pretty sore from yesterday..


3/30/2010

ok, i just amazed myself

5.91 miles on gmap-pedometer.com in < 47 minutes

i didn't use my stop watch, but, i have a timestamp from when i left the computer to when i got back..

pretty insane, didn't even expect to run that good, considering how the run felt..

- 99% of the run was on ball of foot/mid foot.
- mile 4 my achilles/calf started dying
- mile 5 my shit was DEAD, so i had to turn up the speed hard in order to generate the stiffness upon impact to keep my heel up
- doing that ^^^, i think i just broke a mental barrier
- was running kenyan style most of the run, mile 2-6

my lungs etc felt fine, my quads/calfs/achilles were dying...

 

i might not be able to walk for a few days, calfs feel rocked.





found some old pic, felt like posting it, it's a cool pic imo:


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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: March 31, 2010, 01:17:35 am »
Quote from: ESav15 on March 30, 2010, 04:25:03 pm
what basketball shoes andrew?

4 pairs of nike solo flight's, and some other one's.. 3 pairs reebok's.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: THE DREAM JOURNAL
« on: March 30, 2010, 09:39:17 pm »
Quote from: mattyg35 on March 30, 2010, 09:23:39 pm
You ever try to have an OOBE?

I've come close to the proper mental state, but then I lose it.
It's the craziest feeling ever when you stay mindful while you're entering your sub-conscious. You feel like your hands are lifting, one time I heard static, and then that kind of shit ends up distracting you, and you lose the vibe.
It's a very zen feeling.

nope.. I've never had any astral/lucid dream stuff either.. well once but I can't get to that point.. it's not like I try though.

never had OOBE.. i've had dreams where I wake up and i'm still dreaming though, so it's a mix of reality/dream, that's pretty freaky.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: THE DREAM JOURNAL
« on: March 30, 2010, 08:09:42 pm »
Quote from: mattyg35 on March 30, 2010, 08:02:50 pm
A few weeks ago, I had a dream.
I got onto a bus that had the accordion thing in the middle, but it folded up sideways instead of dragging the second half around. Then the bus went onto a rollercoaster, that went all over the city, I think I saw some pyramids and shit too, then on the way down to the stop, I got off, and some Sri Lankans(I don't know where they were from, but thats what popped into my head), so yeah, the Sri Lankans, they got assault rifles and start shooting people, so I take cover behind the trailer of a truck, and I'm thinkgin 'Fuck!, what am going to do, I don't got a gun?!?'. So being as smart as I am, I'm like 'I'll play dead!!, fuck yeah, that'll work', so I do that, and I'm playing dead, and a Sri Lankan comes up and pops a cap in the back of my head execution style, except I was already face down on the ground. But I'm still alive, so I'm thinking 'Yes!!, fuck you, I'm still here', then another dude comes by and shoots me in the back of the head again.
The end.

holy shit! hahahaha

nice

edit: i have died in my dreams but it's very rare.. i can only think of maybe 2 times or so that I can remember

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: THE DREAM JOURNAL
« on: March 30, 2010, 07:04:04 pm »
Quote from: brucelee on March 30, 2010, 06:55:25 pm
what this means is, you are too pussy to go for it, becauise you think they will stab, IE reject you and you will die on the isnide... and even you get past a knife (catch it in the dream), she will keep coming with more, meaning u will never get over it, so you are also dperessed

interesting analysis dear sir.

i think it has more to do with a scene from repo man though.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: THE DREAM JOURNAL
« on: March 30, 2010, 06:51:40 pm »
didn't dream 3/26 and 3/27, i usually don't on the weekend because i get woken up early, so 4-5 hours sleep instead of 8.

3/28/2010:

dreamed I was at jay schroeder's facility and I was grilling him.

WTF?


3/29/2010:

Ok so, I'm in a house with this girl who apparently is my girlfriend, even though she's trying to stab me with these huge rambo knives, she's doing it in a flirtacious way. So, I wrestle her for one knife, toss it away, then she gets another knife under her shirt, and by the end she had like 90 knives. This happened for the whole dream, over and over.

WTF?

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Mixed Martial Arts / Re: Georges St. Pierre: Training Clips
« on: March 30, 2010, 06:42:37 pm »
Quote from: nba8340 on March 30, 2010, 06:07:52 pm
from that slow mo vid with the hurdles

that more like real good reactivity, ankle stiffness, or a combo of both

ya man he is insanely reactive.. thats probably three 48" hurdles.. thats real good.

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: The LEVEL-7 ideas thread
« on: March 30, 2010, 05:36:02 pm »
spreading sports mastery throughout the world:

http://evolutionaryathletics.com/blogs/blog/extreme-training-techniques/

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