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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Age vs Vertical
« on: August 29, 2013, 03:36:27 pm »-First time doing abs at the gym after something like 5 years.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: August 29, 2013, 09:43:14 am »Quote
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.
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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Pics, Videos, & Links / Re: 4 Step Approach Practice
« on: August 29, 2013, 04:30:12 am »
Maybe you could take a little shorter last step and go quicker.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: August 28, 2013, 06:28:04 pm »
Looking fine.
The more and more I look at your videos the more I think you have hamstring issues, probably both in terms of flexibility and strength. There's something about your movement, the way you favor knee bend/body position etc that makes me think that. You tell me how accurate I am.
The more and more I look at your videos the more I think you have hamstring issues, probably both in terms of flexibility and strength. There's something about your movement, the way you favor knee bend/body position etc that makes me think that. You tell me how accurate I am.
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Basketball / Re: A WHOLE BUNCH OF DUNKS AND SHIT.
« on: August 27, 2013, 03:44:11 pm »
HIZ HEADZ IZ AT ZA SCUER, OH NOES!
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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: kind of dissappointed
« on: August 27, 2013, 09:23:39 am »
I've felt much worse before. There was a time where reaching that position my kneecap would just "fail" and basically my quad would shut down.
It healed on itself in a few days.
It healed on itself in a few days.
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Nature, Wilderness, Hiking, Travel, and Misc Outdoorsy stuff / Re: Random landscape of the day
« on: August 26, 2013, 02:43:47 pm »
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: August 26, 2013, 08:31:37 am »
If somebody would show me a picture of you and ask "how much do you think this guy weighs?" I'd be like "~70 kg".
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Scooby 2011 Journal
« on: August 23, 2013, 07:05:11 am »
Yeah you can take in lactase, or wait for the body to adapt by keeping up with milk everyday.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Chris' training journal
« on: August 22, 2013, 06:45:17 pm »
Pretty much all the reactive two-foot jumpers that I know do that. They just can't jump off SVJ.