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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Recovery from quadricep tendonitis
« on: November 18, 2015, 12:07:55 am »
Wtf I can still get the rim with both hands off a flatfooted standing vertical.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Recovery from quadricep tendonitis
« on: November 10, 2015, 07:32:05 pm »
Yea, I'll try to get in some footage when I can. seems like whenever cameras are rolling though I always blow the dunk though lol. Also, do you guys like to lift before or after pickup?
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Recovery from quadricep tendonitis
« on: November 09, 2015, 11:08:43 pm »
I see. yea I'm not as flexibility so I prefer standing on top of a box lol. anyway, got in my first few dunks off one foot in between some pick up games. what I do is I hold the ball in one hand and then just run with it and go off one foot. yea, I know some people will say its cheap or travelling, and I know that I'm not even close to dunking off the dribble, but I'll take it either way lol.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Recovery from quadricep tendonitis
« on: November 07, 2015, 02:25:47 am »
Nice, is that you? Hmm, i'll try it out, I go all the way down though, and the dumbbell might get in my way.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Recovery from quadricep tendonitis
« on: November 06, 2015, 05:33:00 pm »
Yes, I guess pistols. But it seems like people only refer to pistols when you do them on the ground and use your flexibility to get the off leg out of the way. I don't see the point in that, so I just stand up on a box. Yea, will definitely watch it when doing any unilateral movements. Also, does anyone know the best way to load weights for pistols? I wish i could just let them hang side by side with my arms, but the box gets in the way when I go down.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Recovery from quadricep tendonitis
« on: November 03, 2015, 06:06:48 pm »
Have been doing weighted ATG single leg squats and have been emphasizing the hips, been pretty much letting my hips shoot up and then finishing with locking out the knee. What i've found is that it works my glutes and specifically my VMO muscle really hard.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Recovery from quadricep tendonitis
« on: October 31, 2015, 03:50:17 am »
Yea thats true, and probably what i'm gonna aim for. i actually still want to primarily be primarily a two foot jumper though, but i still wanna be able to get up off one foot without pain. i think jordan kilganon might be a good example of what im trying to be? of course hes super crazy off two feet, and still crazy off one, and he claims he barely practices it. the dunk off one foot that he did recently "the win" is still up there with his two foot dunks. also dont think he suffers from any knee pain.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Recovery from quadricep tendonitis
« on: October 31, 2015, 02:21:37 am »
I've also had no problem doing single leg "pistol" squats too. i just stand up on a box and go ALL the way down. anyone think this may be too hard on the knees though? i'm already making sure i drive my hips into it rather than trying to use too much knee.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Recovery from quadricep tendonitis
« on: October 30, 2015, 02:56:16 am »
my tendon seems fine now, i just think that i just have a lot of scar tissue thats left there at the tendon. anyway, now i've only been jumping off my LR plant, sparingly jumping off my leg. gonna keep working on my posterior chain, but want to work on my quads again. quad power has been such a double edged sword for me, i was such a good two foot jumper before, and i was able to get the rim with both hands off a standing vertical. not sure how to stay a strong two foot jumper while still being able to jump well off one foot without knee pain.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Recovery from quadricep tendonitis
« on: October 19, 2015, 08:19:18 pm »
sounds good. gonna try to minimize too much knee bend and knee tracking too.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Recovery from quadricep tendonitis
« on: October 16, 2015, 10:53:21 pm »
been doing some jumping from my LR plant and off my left leg, and its fine on my quad tendon. starting to feel some tingles in my patellar tendon though, so i'll keep a lookout for that. anyone have any advice? just been stretching and foam rolling my quads hard. i dont foam roll the VMO though, only the vastus intermedius, rectus femoris, and vastus lateralis. also working hard on the glute and hamstring strength with deadlifts.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Recovery from quadricep tendonitis
« on: October 16, 2015, 01:31:22 am »
yea definitely. they both dont lift weights at all, while i'm pretty quad dominant. before when i jumped off one, i was so quad dominant that i was relying on the power from my quads to actually propel me up, whereas the quads should only be there to really stabilize the plant and prevent tracking of the knee/patella. my shin angle was probably at around 80 degrees from my foot when i jumped, whereas i see a lot of one foot jumpers keep nearly a perpendicular shin. but anyway, i guess i should be thankful since its only my left leg and quadricep tendon. would suck so bad if it were both the patellar and quadricep tendon or if i had it on both knees lol
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Recovery from quadricep tendonitis
« on: October 15, 2015, 08:51:23 pm »
i have two friends that say theyve gotten patellar tendonitis(tendon below the knee) before. theyre both one foot jumpers too. my one foot jump was quad dominant which caused my quadricep tendonitis, but how come my patellar tendon is completely fine?
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Recovery from quadricep tendonitis
« on: October 02, 2015, 04:19:14 pm »
hmm so my standing reach is 7'9 so I'm gonna need 35 inches to put my hand over the rim. I feel like the easiest way to dunk is lobbing the ball so I'm gonna start practicing hard on lower rims for it first
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Recovery from quadricep tendonitis
« on: October 01, 2015, 12:39:49 am »
i see, i guess ill play with it a bit, just gonna not gonna go way too far out lol. and yea, ill be putting a pad on the smith machine for the leg rest. i remember i used a bench a while back, and it was so uncomfortable