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Article & Video Discussion / Re: Squats vs. Performance
« on: October 01, 2013, 02:32:46 pm »
Yeah that point about the hip hyperextension is a very good point, and that's pretty much what I was trying to say when I said "you need to practice top speed form". Because at that point, the angles of the body, the loads on the muscles, the isometric activity of the calves etc is so different than what traditionally happens in the acceleration phase and in the weight room.

That's why I like to do hip thrusts - they allow you to practice hip hyperextension under load.

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Article & Video Discussion / Re: Squats vs. Performance
« on: October 01, 2013, 02:22:32 pm »
Yeah but you described soreness, not necessarily fatigue. If I lay off squatting for half a year and go and do a low volume of 3x3 or something not too much, I will still have some tremendous soreness but I won't necessarily be "fatigued". I personally can jump well with soreness, but not that much with fatigue.

I think it's interesting though to overfatigue a certain muscle and see how well you jump afterwards, and what muscle fatigue limits your jump the most.

So you could isolate the calves, quads, hamstrings, glutes etc and throw a ton of fatigue-inducing exercises and then try to jump and see where the collapse occurs etc.

For example, if you have good one-leg jumping mechanics, fatiguing the heck out of your quads but letting your hamstrings and calves alone might still allow you to jump well off one.

If I fatigue my calves or hams I'm dead off one leg, I collapse each and every time.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: October 01, 2013, 12:21:19 pm »
Nah... even if you have a slow amortization phase it's going to get better doing "slow" depth jumps, eventually. You'll become better at amortizating and get a bit faster automatically. Obviously you should still strive for quickness, but it should come second after max height.

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Article & Video Discussion / Re: Squats vs. Performance
« on: October 01, 2013, 12:20:02 pm »
Please... "then", not "than". I just couldn't stand it anymore.

ANYWAY,

I agree with Dikembe Mutombo Mpolondo Mukamba Jean-Jacques Wamutombo - no way doing squats is detrimental at your level. If anything, it's the squat induced fatigue.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: October 01, 2013, 10:58:14 am »
A low GCT is better for one leg jumping... a GCT that is medium to long (basically you don't care about it, just jump as high as possible) is best for two-leg jumps.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: acole14's journal - DUNK OR DIE
« on: October 01, 2013, 08:00:06 am »
Why do you get the plate all the way over the head... you're losing a lot of hip tension doing that.

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Nature, Wilderness, Hiking, Travel, and Misc Outdoorsy stuff / Re: Random landscape of the day
« on: October 01, 2013, 07:57:26 am »

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Nutrition & Supplementation / Re: Applied Nutrition for Mixed Sports
« on: October 01, 2013, 07:55:45 am »
I went through a 20 hour course on nutrition so... :P

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Article & Video Discussion / Re: Squats vs. Performance
« on: September 30, 2013, 07:02:17 pm »
Yeah but that's maybe also a lack of training at top speed sprinting mechanics. If all you do is strength train and do acceleration work... then obviously you're missing out on that part.

I've personally never been a good accelerator... my best thing is top speed sprinting for some reason. Lack of strength comes to mind, to me it's much easier to stay isometrically contracted and bounce around. Same with one leg jumping - you just keep a stiff leg and jump.

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Basketball / Re: A WHOLE BUNCH OF DUNKS AND SHIT.
« on: September 30, 2013, 04:02:31 pm »
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSero_YH-Tk" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSero_YH-Tk</a>

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Article & Video Discussion / Re: Squats vs. Performance
« on: September 30, 2013, 03:52:08 pm »
Yeah it's like doing bench presses to help with overhead throwing power... well that's a stretch but you get the idea. You could just as well do overhead presses, but the overhead presses have less growth room than the bench press. Neither of them is a bad idea and improving on either one will give you some beneficial power in that event.

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Article & Video Discussion / Re: Squats vs. Performance
« on: September 30, 2013, 03:21:32 pm »
Well the truth is the squat is a quad dominant movement (yes, there are the low bar squats etc but I've rarely seen athletes do low bar squats, personally at least).

In a sprint, which is a horizontal movement to begin with, the hamstrings and glutes play a much more important role. Then there's the structure thing. A guy made for sprinting isn't necessarily made for squatting. There's a bunch of stuff going on.

But the thing is - anything that you do that gets you STRONGER, ANYWHERE, assuming you have the correct movement mechanics, no mobility issues and a good agonist/antagonist balance - is also going to make you faster. At least it shouldn't make you slower, if anything.

That's why you have periodization for athletes - different phases, different exercises and different EXPRESSIONS of power and strength. Ultimately you want the non-specific strength and power exercises to carryover to the specific power and reactive "stuff" that you do.

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Bios / Re: Animals
« on: September 30, 2013, 01:39:19 pm »

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Nutrition & Supplementation / L-Carnitine
« on: September 30, 2013, 01:10:10 pm »
Does anybody here has any experience with L-Carnitine? Especially for fat loss?

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: September 30, 2013, 11:22:49 am »
Yeah definitely... I remember when I squatted 352 and during the rep I was thinking "why the hell am I squatting so slowly on the descent?".

It's just that you feel if you descend any faster you won't be able to control the form on the rep (in my case at least). It's a surefire sign that the weight is pretty much @ 1RM.

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