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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: March 12, 2013, 06:45:59 am »
I hate good mornings... even with an empty bar the tendency of the bar is to roll on your neck forward and the load on the back is a ton etc, fuck them.

ANYWAY

The snatch grip deadlift is really the "full deadlift" if you want to go that route. I'd argue that the regular deadlift is a half-deadlift and the RDL is a 1/4 deadlift.

The SGD has the longest ROM, gets you the deepest, and it really works the glutes and hams and everything. I did 2x10 yesterday with 60 kg and it was great. It's a bitch to hold the weight though so you'll use very low weights but that's great, it just means your more likely to use your legs rather than your back, and that's what you want to do. I also use the mixed hook grip when doing SGDs.

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: hitting a pr did more bad than good?
« on: March 12, 2013, 06:32:39 am »
I just don't get it. I mean you can "feel" if a weight is too heavy or not most of the time, and you can make a good judgement based on how your previous set's weight felt like.

So if my plan is to get a 160 kg squat PR and I barely lift up 140 in the set before my planned 160 kg PR set, then guess what - I won't try the 160 kg set. If I barely moved up 140 then why the heck would I risk the 160 one? And yes, it's still a big risk, safety pins or not.

Just use good judgement.

I understand getting pinned with a weight you've never tried before that seems like doable but who knows what can go wrong with that weight you have never tried before? (say your back is not strong enough despite knowing/feeling your legs being strong enough etc).

So I was totally expecting the possibility of getting pinned on my 160 kg squat attempt but other than that, good judgement always prevailed.

The same applies to benching without a spotter. I always stop 1-2 reps before failure, as soon as the last rep becomes slow. That's good for both safety and recovery/cns preservation.

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: hitting a pr did more bad than good?
« on: March 12, 2013, 05:18:25 am »
I never got pinned... ever. I never understood why you'd put yourself in that situation.

"Oh, it means you don't try hard enough". STFU

It means I'm smart enough to know when to stop and how to listen to my body. Why the heck would you try a rep when you feel 99% sure you're going to fail it? What would that rep DO for you and your training? Absolutely nothing. I don't get this pinned thing.

The closest I've been to a pin was during a 137.5x5 set, but that was just because I had a spotter. He helped me stabilize the weight at the half squat depth, I wouldn't have recovered back at the 5th rep without his help. Other than that, even when I did my max 160 kg squat PR I was pretty far away from getting pinned.

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Basketball / Re: A WHOLE BUNCH OF DUNKS AND SHIT.
« on: March 11, 2013, 06:52:51 pm »
Yup, ~38 inch jump.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: March 11, 2013, 05:31:55 pm »
Man you were really unlocking your knees on the 2nd ones... they look very weird to me (weak). :P

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: March 11, 2013, 02:17:28 pm »
Try some snatch grip deadlifts or straight leg deadlifts if you haven't yet.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: March 11, 2013, 01:18:20 pm »
Well then have fun being quad dominant and having future knee issues. If you do the RDLs right they will help you. If you mess around with them having preconceived ideas then they will not, but that's your fault.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Chris' training journal
« on: March 10, 2013, 09:27:05 pm »
Bingo!

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Chris' training journal
« on: March 10, 2013, 04:28:49 pm »
Why do you think?

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Age vs Vertical
« on: March 10, 2013, 02:09:26 pm »
15 reps is still such a low volume of chinups...

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Chris' training journal
« on: March 10, 2013, 02:08:43 pm »
Depth jumps after strength work? Not safe.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: March 10, 2013, 12:01:51 pm »
Cool, have fun.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: March 10, 2013, 11:18:45 am »
Quote from: Raptor on March 08, 2013, 01:52:48 pm
To me it looks like you actually have good quad strength, it's more the posterior chain that you should work more on. When you plant you can really maintain the knee position... a thing I can't.

Well^^^, time to reiterate that assumption. Do you do any RDLs or direct posterior chain work? (hip thrusts, glute ham raises, reverse hypers)?

When I squatted low bar for the first time EVER I used 50 kg to start (obviously, started with an empty bar first) and went up to as high as 80 kg.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRRNOn19nFQ" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRRNOn19nFQ</a>

Basically... start conservatively. I would've never used the weight you used (so heavy). Start low and work your way up. I'd stick with the low bar squat if I were you IN YOUR situation.

I'm actually doing high bar squats right now but that's only because I've neglected direct quad work for so long... (and also working on ATG flexibility at the same time).

By the way - it was terrible, my first low bar squat day. Terrible elbow pain, very unnatural movement (I get quad dominant when the weight gets heavy), very weird position to have the bar onto on the back, weird body awareness etc. So if you do indeed choose to do low bar squats be aware you're going to get better after a week or two at them.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: acole14's journal - DUNK OR DIE
« on: March 10, 2013, 08:03:33 am »
I paid 210$ for my AdiPowers with shipment included. But I was like "hey, if I'm going to invest into this, then these money will be good invested" so I just did it and didn't worry about anything else.

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Pics, Videos, & Links / Re: beast
« on: March 09, 2013, 07:36:57 pm »
Quote from: Avishek on March 09, 2013, 07:30:42 pm
Quote from: Raptor on March 06, 2013, 01:12:28 pm
100 years old

http://stiri.rol.ro/are-100-de-ani-si-un-corp-de-invidiat-faceti-cunostinta-cu-cel-mai-atlet-batranel-din-lume-862612.html

name?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manohar_Aich

A few of his tricks involved squats with 300 kilograms (660 lb), demonstrating muscle control, and tearing 1500 page books. He has toured all over the world for bodybuilding shows and has been widely acclaimed for his strength and muscle control.
Aich continues to train for up to 90 minutes (this time includes his warm ups such as stretching) He accomplishes this at his own gym Studio de Physique in Kolkata, which has produced Indian champions such as Satyen Das, Satya Pal, Sundeepan Sen and Hitesh Chatterjee. Aich's diet consists of rice (along with other starches), pulses (dal), vegetables, fruits, mango, banana, jackfruit, and guava. Among non-vegetarian items, he likes to have fresh-water fish.

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