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Quote from: adarqui on March 25, 2010, 06:09:16 pm

Quote from: ESav15 on March 25, 2010, 06:03:53 pm

Quote from: adarqui on March 25, 2010, 05:53:38 pm

Quote from: ESav15 on March 25, 2010, 05:33:56 pm

the cops of your previous dreams clearly were after you because you are a freaking dreamworld's psycho-killer.
Slashing pirates and throwing red head guys over a balcony all day...what do you expected?

erm, never thought about it like that.. that's actually very interesting: the thought that what I do in one dream may have consequences in another dream.

nice

do you dream alot ESav? I'm finding that I might be the most vivid dreamer on these forums. haha.

Yes I do.
What would a man be without his dreams, afterall?

Lots of people aren't dreaming though, especially remembering them, from what I see.

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In the last period I dreamed a lot about returning to play ball-dunking-lifting again....

Last night I had a nightmare. I misdiagnosed a patient and he died because of my mistake. I felt so guilty and, on top of that, everyone around me was obviously looking at me as I was a sort of monster. I really hope this is not a sight of things to come.

I think we dream mostly about our fears, which may help us prepare for the future. All my dreams are completely nutty, every night, usually have some kind of violence in them. oOodd

pc

Speaking for myself, I don't have bad dreams so often.
I usually dream about something positive, as a matter of fact.
but hey, shit happens in the dreamworld also, from time to time. I have a lot of useless-nonsense dreams also.

Your theory is fascinating though. Really. You are basically saing your subconscious gives your inconscious some big time hard work in order to keep you ready to handle stressful situation without breaking your whole personality into pieces once they happen in real life. I don't know if that is original-brand new,if so you got a future in psychoanalysis man.

not sure if it's original or not, just something i've always had a theory about. You can "think" about what you would do in an adverse situation, but it is nothing like experiencing it in a dream. Alot more real in the dream world.

P.S.: Did you ever happened to be conscious it was a dream while you were dreaming, becoming a sort of godly entity changing the dream reality as you liked? I did...Those were good dream-times!

nah, don't think i've ever had full control. I've woken up while still dreaming though and that is scary crap. The worst one is when I dreamt I had a seizure and became paralyzed. I woke up not being able to move, for like 5 minutes or so. I was stuck, motionless. Other one's have had me see animals or alien life forms after I wakeup, then it freaks me out, then they fade away as reality sets in.

but never full control.

pc

the cops of your previous dreams clearly were after you because you are a freaking dreamworld's psycho-killer.
Slashing pirates and throwing red head guys over a balcony all day...what do you expected?

erm, never thought about it like that.. that's actually very interesting: the thought that what I do in one dream may have consequences in another dream.

nice

do you dream alot ESav? I'm finding that I might be the most vivid dreamer on these forums. haha.

Quote from: adarqui on March 25, 2010, 05:01:19 pm

Quote from: ESav15 on March 25, 2010, 12:29:30 pm

Quote from: adarqui on March 16, 2010, 09:54:49 pm

got in a small car accident, nothing bad though, but someone rear ended me popped my bumper off.

pc

Read only now. (I went through the whole journal)
Damn: I got the same on March the 4th!

how bad was it?!?

my bumper got popped off a bit, bringing the car in soon. The guy who did it lives in my neighborhood, I see him all the time now.. hah

me and my girlfriend actually went to the hospital.
We both had neck issues.
I was fine after all. But her x-rays were like WTF?!?.
I never saw a cervical spine so straight.

She is now fine though. thx for asking man.

wow man...

glad you & your gf are good.

scary

Everytime I read one of your posts I keep finding myself amazed by how you make everything so easy to understand despite of my really poor knowledge about the specific topic. Well thought, better written. Bravo.

So, for what I stated before, I rule not. you rule.








.......ok, let's say we both rule.
XD

hah thanks man, appreciate it as always.

ESAV, good question

My guess would be unless you are somehow super prepared, the majority of team sport athletes would benefit the most from staying in level 4.  Think how many athletes can't activate the correct muscles in the squat, cant squat even 1.5x BW, cant sprint a 4.9 or jump 26 inches. Throw in the already draining practice and life schedule for most high school-college level athletes, and there is barely enough time to focus on basic weighted exercises (squats, GHR, etc) and explosive (low level plyos, jumps, bounds, sprints etc) and other key components of training for athletes (mobility/flexiblity, imbalances, general and specific endurance etc)

Ya, the majority of athletes would benefit staying at level 4, for sure, but mostly because they lack the focus or knowledge of training to experience level 5+. Their in-season schedules, of course, make it impossible to incorporate level 5+ protocols/exercises. BUT, if they are improving year after year, they should have the ability to incorporate special methods.

Since these team sports athletes have pretty big seasons, they have less time to develop in the off-season, so they will have to drag out their preparation over a longer total period of time before using any special methods. However, once they are prepared, it can become effective & safely incorporated into a progressively intensified off-season training system.

Also, it's not like when you enter level 5 you have to perform shock (4x10 depth jumps from 30"). You could in fact, only make use of the STIM METHOD, which includes various complexes to tap into that extra motor potential. So it doesn't have to be shock/dj's, other methods could be utilized.

darq, have you ever done day before potentiation/stimulation (ie squat singles) + stimulation complexes(ISO stim for PRS) + caffeine   Im guessing thats freaking 4-10 inches on someones vertical...maybe thats one of JS secrets    , seriously would be interesting to try though. 

lol nah.. The hyper broke so I couldn't play with IES like I wanted. I wanted them to get a real hyper, not some junky one, but eventually we got a GHR bench. I would have rather had a nice stable hyper, from sorinex or something.

The only multi-day potentiation + stim I've done, is half squatting near max singles for multiple days in a row (2-3 days), then backing off one day, caffing up on day 5 & dunking. I was towards the end of some high frequency block and going nuts to get every inch out of my RVJ, so I was capable of handing that kind of frequency + intensity. It actually worked good.

Question about Iso stim like we have both done before, its obviously a great low back/glute activator, but wouldnt it work better if it was more CNS intensive exercises(90% squat or whatever) or if the ISO was coupled with a CNS exercise(such as depth jump) BEFORE attempting the PR??

Well, when I did IES i worked up to 90% max of that position, for sure. 135 lb holds for me in that position were very intense. What I like about IES is that it is stimulating p-chain motor units maximally, but not recruiting even more muscle mass such as in a squat (+quads), so it keeps you more fresh IMO. I've never really liked using squat as per-session stim, ie squatting 90-95% singles then jumping or depth jumping. It just aggravates my knees too much, so I can't really go all out on the jumps with that achy feeling in my knees.

Here are a few variations that would be effective:

IES + DJ
IES + Broad jumps
IES + SVJ / RVJ
IES + sprints
IES + Jump squat

MB toss + IES + {DJ, BJ, SVJ, RVJ, sprints}

All would need proper rest after IES to allow for that tonic affect to maximize.

I should buy a hyper again and incorporate it in my training, I know it'd put me in beast mode sprinting-wise. My ham-tendon injury might not be able to take it though.



Aight man, good post!

peace

You forgot Arousal Level 11 (cause it is one more than 10 and 4 more than your lowly 7): ISO XTREEMEEZZZ

HAHAHAHAHAH
haha
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I did not want to blow anyone's mind with the iso extreme method.

I,SO,EXTREME <-- The next t-nation protocol

forgot to log my workout, 7:30AM, about to sleep

3/24/2010

achilles-area felt alot better today.. so i decided to do some jogging to test it out.. went well, then during my strength routine i felt it a bit.. the big test is tomorrow when i wakeup, to see how it feels.. if its bad then i need to rest it for alot longer.


about half my complex:
- ~3/4th mile run?
- felt fine, slow

around my block:
- 3x ~3 minute runs
- rest about 2 minutes in between
- tried keeping toes up hard throughout run.. if i do, i get much more bounce/power out of my glutes, if i don't, i go alot slower
- my ankle stiffness alternates between bouncy and mushy.. mushy as i reduce my "toe up control".



ISOM: 2 rotations

pullup hold at top:
- ~30 breaths, ~30 breaths

dip hold at quarter:
- ~30-40 breathes

squat hold at half:
- pulling femurs back
- forget how long

single leg squat variation:
- ~30 breathes, ~30 breathes

standing calf raise hold at top:
- did one set but shouldnt have




felt sore today upper body, legs felt fine astonishingly.. RFI session planned for tomorrow if achilles-area feels fine.

peace