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MOVIES & ENTERTAINMENT & SHeeT! / Re: Thinking not unlike I have picked up way too many facial lines and I'm merely 35
« on: July 09, 2011, 01:40:46 am »
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Program Review / Re: Air alert (knee alert?)
« on: July 09, 2011, 01:02:23 am »
The first 7-8 weeks of Air Alert is a great beginner program, especially for uncoordinated white kids.
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Basketball / Re: Taylor Allan has legit programs
« on: July 09, 2011, 12:46:46 am »Lol, this is a failedd.
You don't know who Selena Gomez is. Your life is a failure
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Basketball / Re: Taylor Allan has legit programs
« on: July 09, 2011, 12:06:57 am »dude she is like 14. I think thats jailbait for me at 16.
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. She could pull off as an 18 year old though (no pedo)inb4 adarq bans me
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Basketball / Re: Taylor Allan has legit programs
« on: July 08, 2011, 11:55:48 pm »Who are those girls?
The last girl is Justin Bieber
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Basketball / Re: Taylor Allan has legit programs
« on: July 08, 2011, 11:36:29 pm »
she's hotter than victoria
not sure if serious
This thread is now about teen stars
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: June 18, 2011, 11:40:26 pm »
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Boxing / Re: bernard hopkins vs jean pascal - HOPKINS GOT ROBBED
« on: June 17, 2011, 02:37:28 am »hmm i need to track down this fight. Hopkins is my favorite middle weight!
Except he's been a light heavyweight for the last 5 years
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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: Starting Strength - Incorporating Half Squats Link..
« on: June 12, 2011, 08:26:58 pm »Hm, so let's see:
If I have a 9 inch vertical jump, I can expect to get to 12 (+30%) but that's pretty much it? And the more I can SVJ the more I gain, right?
If I have a standing 50 inch vertical jump, getting to 66 inch (+30%) would not be impossible, right?
So if I suck having a 9 inch vert I actually have a much lower ceiling of growth than if I were to jump 50 because 30% of a small number is less than 30% of a higher number.
See how idiotic this gets?
If you take a guy who has a 0.7 bodyweight squat and jumps 16 inches and get him to 2.5x, would you expect him to get 30% more on his SVJ OR would you expect him to possibly double that or more?
Estimations like that are never accurate at the extremes. You would not measure the height of the Eiffel Tower or the size of a brain cell with a ruler either. It can measure distances, but it is not meant to do so at extremely long or short ones. The same reason applies here. Unless the population you derived your rule of thumb from had sufficiently many athletes with SVJs <10 and >49, your rule of thumb will not apply to those people.
Now, you MIGHT have a point here, but only if you can propose a better model than the percentage based one. Go ahead.
Let's just say the average person has a 20 inch vertical jump (person, not athlete). That might even be a little high, but do you honestly think that person can't get to a 26-27 inch jump? Hell, they could get that with Air Alert. Now if you're saying after noob gains, it is impossible to increase a vertical jump more than 30%, then I might agree with you.
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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: Starting Strength - Incorporating Half Squats Link..
« on: June 11, 2011, 10:53:23 pm »I am not saying that he is right and that it never happens. I say people in these forums expect others with different backgrounds and different experiences to accept their views without questioning them despite the fact that most people are full of shit. Is Rip stubborn about these matters? Of course he is! Is there a certain truth to his side of the argument? Absolutely - IMO. Has he asked for data everytime this topic came up? Yes he did, you can go and check for yourselves. It is not that he sits in his ivory tower immune to every contradictory information. But so far there have not been many people come to him and say "Hey Rip, I trained dozens of people to jump higher from a standstill, here is the data." In fact, no one has. Btw., *I* would like to see such data as well and I say that as someone who has made pretty decent gains in his SVJ and has documented that shit very thouroughly. But I am not readily making conclusions based on myself and a handfull of other people on a special internet forum dedicated largely to that exact goal.
Didn't see this before, but how is there a certain truth to his argument? If one person proved him wrong, there is 0 truth to his argument. He's never trained anyone to jump high because that isn't their goal. Ok. He shouldn't be making the claims he did then.
And of course people will be butthurt here about that, because most people on here are training to jump higher. Being told they can't do it is heartbreaking, especially when they actually can do it but Rippetoe is ignorant.
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News, Announcements, & Suggestions / Re: An Adarq.org video
« on: June 10, 2011, 05:34:45 am »
Dont know what you are trying to say with this. Care to explain?
Nothing. I thought it was a cool gif and I wanted to share it and this seemed like an active thread.
Ok. Is he picking his nose on camera?
No. He's confused by a call
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News, Announcements, & Suggestions / Re: An Adarq.org video
« on: June 10, 2011, 05:25:51 am »
Dont know what you are trying to say with this. Care to explain?
Nothing. I thought it was a cool gif and I wanted to share it and this seemed like an active thread.
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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: Starting Strength - Incorporating Half Squats Link..
« on: June 10, 2011, 05:21:09 am »
ummm
Jumping: Increased my own jump a pretty decent amount
Aesthetics Training: I think I've had a decent transformation
Basketball: Played it all my life
Girls: Been able to get them all my life without much effort
Supplements: Done a decent amount of research
Steroids: Done a decent amount of research
VJ: Followed her career since zoey 101
Bodybuilding ("sport"): I know a lot of the top bodybuilders
Bodybuilding (training): Done a decent amount of research, have 2 brothers who are big by most standards
Scammers: Seen so many of them and they all have the same traits.
Drugs: Don't know much about them, but have experimented.
New Jersey: Lived there most of my life
Florida: Lived there for a little bit of my life
Rap Music: Been listening to it for my entire life
Seeing what any of this has to do with this topic: I suck at this
Being Good Looking: Being Good Looking
Winning Internet Debates: Check around this forum
Realizing Mark Rippetoe is an idiot: Seeing his claim of putting 25 pounds of muscle on a kid in 1 month, claimed he was 18% bodyfat when he was around 35%.
Realizing Everyone on Rippetoe's forum is a nuthugger: Looking at the amount of posts Steven-Miller has on there
Is that sufficient for you?
And yes I think SS is a good program and I think rippetoe is a good powerlifting coach
Jumping: Increased my own jump a pretty decent amount
Aesthetics Training: I think I've had a decent transformation
Basketball: Played it all my life
Girls: Been able to get them all my life without much effort
Supplements: Done a decent amount of research
Steroids: Done a decent amount of research
VJ: Followed her career since zoey 101
Bodybuilding ("sport"): I know a lot of the top bodybuilders
Bodybuilding (training): Done a decent amount of research, have 2 brothers who are big by most standards
Scammers: Seen so many of them and they all have the same traits.
Drugs: Don't know much about them, but have experimented.
New Jersey: Lived there most of my life
Florida: Lived there for a little bit of my life
Rap Music: Been listening to it for my entire life
Seeing what any of this has to do with this topic: I suck at this
Being Good Looking: Being Good Looking
Winning Internet Debates: Check around this forum
Realizing Mark Rippetoe is an idiot: Seeing his claim of putting 25 pounds of muscle on a kid in 1 month, claimed he was 18% bodyfat when he was around 35%.
Realizing Everyone on Rippetoe's forum is a nuthugger: Looking at the amount of posts Steven-Miller has on there
Is that sufficient for you?
And yes I think SS is a good program and I think rippetoe is a good powerlifting coach