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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: acole14's journal - DUNK OR DIE
« on: September 02, 2013, 08:17:05 am »
Your =/= You're

Your SVJ is great.
You're a funny guy. You're = you are.

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: sleep habits
« on: September 01, 2013, 04:53:43 pm »
I am sometimes not able to sleep at all, all night long. I just lay in bed and just don't get over that "step" of actual sleep. I just lay there with my eyes closed but I still voluntarily think about stuff etc... and it's so tiring and annoying and really depressing.

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Basketball / Re: A WHOLE BUNCH OF DUNKS AND SHIT.
« on: September 01, 2013, 11:41:51 am »
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1NS2X3mMEQ" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1NS2X3mMEQ</a>

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: August 31, 2013, 01:40:28 pm »
He just plants way too much in front off that low box. The length of the drop "should" be the same as the box height... that ensures a 45 degree plant and will prevent overreaching (too long) or underreaching (too short).

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Pics, Videos, & Links / Videos from today
« on: August 31, 2013, 01:35:14 pm »
Rim is 9'8, med ball is 5 kg, weight vest is 7kg, basketball is size 5.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ota5FQvsjhI" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ota5FQvsjhI</a>

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiguBfu2aNU" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiguBfu2aNU</a>

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZmZrp0-QeA" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZmZrp0-QeA</a>

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eEucLIeXHw" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eEucLIeXHw</a>

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kRO-YbDQcc" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kRO-YbDQcc</a>

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bi1CyVepw6g" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bi1CyVepw6g</a>

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vS3HctZWSQw" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vS3HctZWSQw</a>

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: August 31, 2013, 05:55:33 am »
Why?

It's not like you're jumping to the Moon right now. What do you have to lose?

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: August 30, 2013, 03:19:03 pm »
What if you try the X grip on the front squat?

Where I'm getting at is that we underrate too much the importance of the vertical back that occurs in the high bar, front and overhead squat (where the overhead squat is the most restrictive of them all in terms of perfect form).

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Bios / Re: Animals
« on: August 30, 2013, 09:21:32 am »

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: August 30, 2013, 08:26:37 am »
You've been doing awesome man!

Don't be down on yourself. Yeah you might have issues here and there but in all, you're doing really well.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: August 30, 2013, 06:29:42 am »
LBSS - do you have the flexibility needed to do front squats or overhead squats? If so, with how much?

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Age vs Vertical
« on: August 29, 2013, 06:36:45 pm »
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0339230/

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Age vs Vertical
« on: August 29, 2013, 03:36:27 pm »
Quote from: vag on August 29, 2013, 02:24:05 pm
-First time doing abs at the gym after something like 5 years.  :o


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Bios / Re: Animals
« on: August 29, 2013, 03:27:21 pm »

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: August 29, 2013, 09:43:14 am »
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That was until he did a dunk where he approached the rim with a lead-up with his back to the rim and a stutter step just like a high jump and received the ball from a teammate.  It was as if he could get an extra foot of leap by replicating the movement pattern he obviously had spent a lot of time working on.  Moral of the story; get one particular one legged jump, be it 5 step or 7 step lead or whatever and drill the hell out of it.

This is so true... I think I can jump about 8 inches higher in my 3892239585 times practiced one-leg jump approach (with the ball in hand) than with any other one-leg jump approach.

When I jump without the ball my armswing gets completely shutdown and my movement becomes very weird. Same thing happens if I try to jump with both arms up. I'm so used of pushing with my left hand down and to the side (extending my chest forward and up) so when I can't do that I SUCK hard off one leg...

It's a lot of practice.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: August 29, 2013, 04:34:51 am »
What about straight leg deadlifts? I do them and I love them. But I've heard so many anecdotes about "how dangerous they are"... wtf...

You know, I used to think the same about my hamstring flexibility. I was like "man, I can put my palms on the ground, I have BEAST hamstring flexibility" when in fact all I was doing was bending my back.

If you keep your back neutral (head, upperback and lowerback all in line) without - obviously - allowing the chest to collapse forward - you'll see THEN what your hamstring flexibility actually is.

I can get a bit under the knees with that. And you can REALLY feel the hamstrings stretch, not like before. From that position you can collapse the chest and see how it felt back when you were doing the way you were doing it before (which is wrong).

So basically - for me - due to hamstring INflexibility I have compensated in time by becoming very flexible in the trunk, which is NOT necessarily the thing you want. That explains a lot of my movement impairments as well.

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