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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: June 08, 2013, 08:51:10 am »
It's normal to plant and rotate around the stronger leg in a 2-leg jump in basketball. I would argue you plant first the leg that has the best hip control and strength, and that first leg will actively participate more than 50% in the actual jump, the second leg coming to stop horizontal momentum and help in the braking more (all this while the first leg continues to load up to generate power).

If you look at the best dunkers, as soon as they touch the ground with their 2nd leg they IMMEDIATELY start going up. So the 2nd leg doesn't really have time, nor position, to generate a lot of power. It's the 1st leg that is doing the vast majority of power generation.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: acole14's journal - DUNK OR DIE
« on: June 08, 2013, 08:46:12 am »
Why don't you go with low bar squats? It's a big difference in terms of blood restriction in that area in the high bar vs low bar variation for ME.

Try it out!

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Nature, Wilderness, Hiking, Travel, and Misc Outdoorsy stuff / Re: Random landscape of the day
« on: June 08, 2013, 07:26:13 am »

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Bios / Re: Animals
« on: June 08, 2013, 07:19:30 am »

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400m Sprinting or Shorter / Re: gatlin over bolt
« on: June 07, 2013, 06:24:56 pm »
On what roids do you think Gatlin is lately?

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Nature, Wilderness, Hiking, Travel, and Misc Outdoorsy stuff / Re: Random landscape of the day
« on: June 07, 2013, 04:56:33 pm »

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Nature, Wilderness, Hiking, Travel, and Misc Outdoorsy stuff / Re: Random landscape of the day
« on: June 07, 2013, 02:28:37 pm »

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: THE DREAM JOURNAL
« on: June 07, 2013, 10:19:17 am »
Quote from: Avishek on June 07, 2013, 10:13:22 am
Quote from: Raptor on June 06, 2013, 02:48:31 pm
So the teather exists in real life?

Nope I've just been to this movie theater in my dreams. There are a few other venues that only exist in my dreams but I cannot think of them at the moment. I often find myself in my old home in the suburbs of philly before I moved to boston too in my dreams.

Quote from: LBSS on June 06, 2013, 03:11:55 pm
dream:
our other brother, the middle one, has also had a kind of recurring dream recently in which our little brother is dead, although his are quite different and involve being at family gatherings where everyone is the same except little brother, who is some younger version of himself. for example, a few months ago he dreamt that we were all at my step-grandmother's house for christmas, which we are every year. the whole extended family is there except j, which has also become normal over the last 8 years or so. he's often unable to travel. L, my middle brother, is in the living room and the front door opens. 10-year-old j is standing there, not saying anything. (he's 22 in real life.) he's not dressed for the winter. L knows that this means j is dead. he lies down on the floor, on his back, and cries.

damn dude. well it's good you're paying attention i guess. it's always crazy when the dreams turn into real life and it's hard to say if it was really premonition or what.

Maybe something in the little brother's behavior makes both LBSS and his middle brother worry about him unconsciously, and these dreams are the expression of their worries.

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Bios / Re: Animals
« on: June 07, 2013, 10:08:33 am »

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Basketball / Re: A WHOLE BUNCH OF DUNKS AND SHIT.
« on: June 07, 2013, 07:25:51 am »
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRG34bPwrto" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRG34bPwrto</a>

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Basketball / Re: A WHOLE BUNCH OF DUNKS AND SHIT.
« on: June 07, 2013, 06:59:10 am »


http://likes.com/sports/the-best-dunk-fail-gifs-of-all-time?utm_term=25097705

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: THE DREAM JOURNAL
« on: June 06, 2013, 05:23:26 pm »
Damn... kinda weird. Maybe it's something you guys are unconsciously aware of but I sure hope I'm wrong!

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Pics, Videos, & Links / Re: Kingfush Unlisted Training Vids
« on: June 06, 2013, 04:40:07 pm »
Well yeah but it could also mean that in that harder position the low abs might not be able to hold you from collapsing backwards, for example. Or by elevating the heel you alter the recruitment and participation factors of different muscles.

And then it could be what you say, who knows?

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: THE DREAM JOURNAL
« on: June 06, 2013, 02:48:31 pm »
So the teather exists in real life?

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: June 06, 2013, 12:05:10 pm »
I have two comments:

1) Your GHRs didn't look bad at all. I think you should focus more on starting from a posterior pelvic tilt and try to maintain those glutes firing, even if you don't do a good job at it initially

and

2) Focus on improving the bar speed on the paused squats rather than upping the weight and continuing to do them slowly. Think of the bar speed as your barometer of improvement. If you squat the same amount of weight but you do so in a faster manner then that is IMPROVEMENT, and it could be a MUCH better improvement in your particular situation that you're in now than if you were to just increase the bar weight and "get stronger" in that way.

In that regard, I would up the weight if all your say 5 reps were fast on the concentric (fast for the standards that you set) and also you felt like if you were to go all out you would've done 7 reps with that weight. If these two conditions are met then you up the weight.

At least this is my opinion.

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