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I see. I'm reading about anterior pelvic tilt right now though and it says to fix it, I have to strengthen my glutes and hamstrings, and stretch my quads and psoas, which is what I'm doing right now. Might not necesarily mean I have it though I guess.

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When I finally do completely get of quad dominance though, I think I'd like to finally be able to switch to being a full one foot jumper. I definitely think you're right about proper one foot jumping being less hard on the knees. My friends that jump off one foot seemed to complain mostly about ankle and lower back pain, but never about knee pain.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: May 21, 2016, 11:58:33 pm »
I see. Well that's probably gonna take me more than a year I guess. I wish we had a vertec at my gym too though, 10'6 is just a rough estimate.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: May 21, 2016, 10:01:15 pm »
Are you still into dunking, but off one foot now? I'm also curious to see what height you need to be touching to be able to put down lobs. I think i'm touching around 10'6 right now, but doesn't feel like I'm even close to being able dunk a lob.

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I see. I'll add in the kettlebell swings too then. I used to do them, seems like a submaximal exercise more for proprioception than a max effort type of thing.

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Not sure what primetimes are, but I do submaximal one foot jumps here and there sometimes. I just focus on planting my foot as far forward as I can, kinda leaning back and putting it in my hips rather than knee.

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Still wish I could jump off one foot. Better safe than sorry though, so I think I'm gonna give it like 1-2 years before having dunk sessions off one. In the meanwhile, lots of quad stretching/foam rolling, deadlifts, RDL's, and leg curls. When do you think I'll be truely hip dominant and not have to worry about further damaging my quadricep tendon?

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I see. Yea, dumbbell seems good, but grip strength might be an issue

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Used them in the past. However, when you do them, the middle of the bar is displaced from the middle of the moving leg so to speak... and that is sometimes bad for your back. The bar sits in the middle of your body, whereas you're moving with either your left or right leg and sometimes that's problematic.

Don't you instead just center the bar over the leg you're working with?

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Do RDLs, where only the hips are moving back and forth (the movement of the hips lowers and raises the bar). That way you know you're doing them right. If you can raise or lower the bar without the hips going front or back, then you're pulling with your back, so you know you're doing a wrong movement. If the bar moves, the hips must move.

What do you think about single leg RDL's?

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: May 09, 2016, 06:50:05 am »
Are you doing only single leg now?

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And can you still dunk?

nope.. i haven't tried but with a max of 10'6 and avg 10'3-10'4, most definitely can't.



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Wish that I still could jump off one foot too lol, too bad I messed up my knee jumping off one foot while being quad dominant.

damn.. how did you attribute this knee injury to being quad dominant?



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I think my peak jumping off one foot was around 10'6 too, and I was able to dunk, but only kadour ziani style lol

ziani style is with a small ball or with grippy substance for your hand? lool

pc!

I think it was cause i was so quad dominant to the point where I was getting most of the power from my quads. It was fine being a quad dominant two foot jumper as the force was being dispersed over the two quad tendons, but off one foot, all of it is concentrated on that one tendon.

Ziani style with just a regular ball lol. I can't truely palm the ball like NBA players, but it's still possible to get a good grip on it when you use the seams.

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Also, I wonder if I'll ever be able to have jump/dunk sessions off one foot again. All I know is that being quad dominant and trying to change into a one foot jumper more than a year ago messed up my knee.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: May 08, 2016, 01:39:14 am »
Are you doing only single leg now? And can you still dunk? Wish that I still could jump off one foot too lol, too bad I messed up my knee jumping off one foot while being quad dominant. I think my peak jumping off one foot was around 10'6 too, and I was able to dunk, but only kadour ziani style lol

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I see, wonder what difference it makes for trying to jump as high as you can compared to jumping as far as you can.

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i wouldn't try to make your step as long as possible. i'd just focus on getting as high as possible and use that as your only cue. if a longer step gets you higher, then great. but maybe the longest step possible is less optimal than a slightly shorter one. mess around, the only rule is height.

Yea, I've now learned that it's not necessary to take a long a step as you can. I jump higher with a shorter pentultimate, but I feel it more in my quads. I guess that's okay as long as I keep working hard on my hamstrings and glutes. So my lower body workout now is deadlift 3x5, romanian deadlift 3x8-12, and then leg curls 3x8-12. Plenty of hamstring work to compensate for my overdeveloped quads.

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