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Basketball / Re: A WHOLE BUNCH OF DUNKS AND SHIT.
« on: October 04, 2013, 12:45:49 pm »2433
Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Scooby 2011 Journal
« on: October 04, 2013, 06:51:47 am »
I fully subscribe to what vag said.
Usually when you're going DOWN in terms of performance (not usually, ALWAYS) it's because of overtraining. There's not enough time to actually lose muscle mass that fast, so it's the CNS fatigue.
So if you're there, then you need to recover better.
If your squat is going up but your jumps are going down, then you're just not recovered well enough after the squat when you do the jumps, but you're not overtrained (since your squats are going up). If both are going down, then you're overtrained.
Usually when you're going DOWN in terms of performance (not usually, ALWAYS) it's because of overtraining. There's not enough time to actually lose muscle mass that fast, so it's the CNS fatigue.
So if you're there, then you need to recover better.
If your squat is going up but your jumps are going down, then you're just not recovered well enough after the squat when you do the jumps, but you're not overtrained (since your squats are going up). If both are going down, then you're overtrained.
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Pics, Videos, & Links / Re: Body Fat Decreased?
« on: October 03, 2013, 02:30:28 pm »
It's not scooby. He just took a picture from google images and covered the face so we won't know 
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: October 03, 2013, 05:14:39 am »
Sounds like tonsilitis to me. It will probably soon happen to me too due to the low water temperatures in my room.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: October 02, 2013, 12:17:51 pm »
The type of strength that entropy is describing is something called "general systemic strength". Which is basically the strength of the entire organism. When you get into people that have good general systemic strength, even when they're light, they're just "well made" and don't have weak points, and therefore they can balance and stay strong in every position/situation etc. It's basically a combination of good upperbody, core and lowerbody strength coupled with good mobility and no recruitment issues.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: The PR's/PB's, videos, pictures, and daily achievements thread
« on: October 02, 2013, 09:16:13 am »
Do you always bench with your elbows going out to the sides like that? They should move under you, like in a dip.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: acole14's journal - DUNK OR DIE
« on: October 02, 2013, 07:09:56 am »
I don't get what you say.
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Pics, Videos, & Links / Re: funny / horrible training videos
« on: October 01, 2013, 07:59:23 pm »2441
Pics, Videos, & Links / Re: funny / horrible training videos
« on: October 01, 2013, 07:57:08 pm »
Where should I put this... beautiful squats, funny training, old farts dunking?
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=485547904876542&comment_id=3021186¬if_t=comment_mention
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=485547904876542&comment_id=3021186¬if_t=comment_mention
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Basketball / Re: A WHOLE BUNCH OF DUNKS AND SHIT.
« on: October 01, 2013, 07:47:59 pm »
A 14 year old child:
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZCdiVW7JxY" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZCdiVW7JxY</a>
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: October 01, 2013, 02:44:53 pm »
When doing depth jumps for benefits in the one leg jump it's better to focus on quickness... because it allows you to train for a very quick amortization phase. That's why it's a good idea to still do them bilaterally... doing them unilaterally would be way too much load on one leg, with the hips out of the equation (vertical drop), and the GCT would be too long.
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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.
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.
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.