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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: September 05, 2012, 05:18:27 am »
There is no magic recomp switch turned on by any sport.
Playing competitive basketball is 1,5 hours of HIT. Some tables indicate that caloric expenditure is about 650kcals per hour.
So ~1000kcals burned every time you play, while 1kg of fat is ~7000kcals, that's all there is to it!  :)
Just my 2 cents.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Age vs Vertical
« on: September 04, 2012, 02:18:00 pm »
4 September 2012

Went at the park. Shot around uptempo for bloodflow+cardio and tried out my jumping.
Did 4 SVJs,  all at 26''-27'' , no quad bugging.
Then a couple of dropsteps , 29''-30''. No quad bugging either but decided not to push more.
Then more shooting around. At the end (~45'') i landed a hard lefty RVJ dunk at 9'8''. Damn , feels so nice to throw down, i missed that!
So ~2'' up on my jumps , back to 30''s , back to dunking. Not bad , no rush either...  :headbang:

Then stretching and IT band foam rolling.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Age vs Vertical
« on: September 04, 2012, 04:00:45 am »
Quote from: Raptor on September 03, 2012, 03:09:50 pm
Does it hurt if you deadlift?

Not really , last time i tried somewhere in June while quad was realy bad i PRed at 140kg(308lbs). BUT i think that above 120kg (264lbs) back is taking over, it seems i have a very strong lower back able to handle huge loads so when legs fail back takes over.
I will keep as i am now, if deloading squats doesn't work either i will consider replacing squats with deadlifts for a while and keep the deadlifts at the maximum load that feels leg-driven.

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ADARQ & LanceSTS - Q&A / Re: Pain in right quad
« on: September 04, 2012, 03:52:31 am »
Thanks!  :highfive:

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ADARQ & LanceSTS - Q&A / Re: Pain in right quad
« on: September 03, 2012, 02:31:49 pm »
Lance , what would be a 'typical' IT band foam rolling sets/reps/duration scheme?

I am doing 3x10 slow back and forth rolls each side. That would be slowly roll from hip to knee, then slowly roll back to hip ( slowing down where i feel more sensitivity ) , repeat 10 times.
Then the other side, then 2-3 mins rest, repeat 2 more times.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Age vs Vertical
« on: September 03, 2012, 02:21:40 pm »
^ My stance would be more or less the same at fulls and partials, maybe just a bit narrower at partials.

3 September 2012

Bodyweight@session : ~191
Soreness : none
Injuries/aches : left quad

Starting Strength - workout #20

SQUATS :
4@165 lbs ( same ) ,  ( -1 rep )
3@165 lbs ( same ) ,  ( -2 reps )
1@165 lbs ( same ) ,  ( -3reps )
-Left quad hurting again out of nowhere. Ruined my squatting , FML!

BENCH PRESS:
5@143 lbs ( +5,5 lbs )
5@143 lbs ( +5,5 lbs )
5@143 lbs ( +5,5 lbs )
-Very strong for my standards , 143 was lightweight. Probably the missing squats fatigue.

SEATED CHEST SUPPORTED MACHINE ROWS:
5@154 lbs ( +11 lbs )
5@154 lbs ( +11 lbs )
5@154 lbs ( +11 lbs )
-Hard but got it. Unfortunately that machine has only 5kg(11lbs) plates.

Fuck my quad. Must stretch and foam roll more. Let's see what happens till Friday.

Edit: Later , IT band foam rolling. Weirdly there was no discomfort or pain , most 'painless' foam rolling session so far.

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Article & Video Discussion / Re: Short vid on how Oscar Pistorius prosthetics work.
« on: September 03, 2012, 10:33:39 am »
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/disability-sport/19460868

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Oscar Pistorius says he wants tougher regulations on the length of running blades after suffering a shock loss in the final of the Paralympic T44 200m.

 The South African was beaten by Alan Oliveira but claimed the Brazilian's prosthetic legs are too long.

"We are not running in a fair race here," Pistorius told Channel 4.

"I don't know how you can come back, watching the replay, from eight metres behind on the 100 to win. It's absolutely ridiculous."

Pistorius was overhauled in the final 20 metres as the 20-year-old Oliveira won in 21.45 seconds.

 "Not taking away from Alan's performance, but these guys are a lot taller and you can't compete," added Pistorius, who was second in 21.52.

"I gave it my best. The guys are just running ridiculous times and they're able to do so."

And some sort of apology, but only about the timing of his comments, not the content:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/disability-sport/19462059


 :ninja:

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: September 03, 2012, 05:39:57 am »
Loyal to 3x5 , consuming whole fat milk , heavier than ever , squat PR , jumping PRs...

Coach rip would be so proud !!!  ;)  :P  :highfive:

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Age vs Vertical
« on: September 03, 2012, 05:31:04 am »
Quote from: Raptor on September 01, 2012, 08:05:57 am
Then how do you explain my difference between a my below parallel squat (best of 140x5 or 155 1RM) to my half (or quarter squat) of hardly doing 150x5?

I can't explain it. If we were talking about a small ROM difference it would be more reasonable, but quarter to below parallel is a totaly different excercise. Ive gone up to 170kg in quarters when my parallel 1RM was ~110kg.


Quote from: adarqui on September 02, 2012, 01:11:48 am

:wowthatwasnutswtf:

so much blood sweat & tears detailed in here, and on your youtube.

heel that quad up and start flyin again.

pc vag

Thanks so much Andrew. It's been a lovely journey so far, hope i can keep it up for much more!
Glad to see you getting 'active' on the forum again, rewatched your re-uploaded dunk vids on youtube too, so much dope!
I ain't gonna go "yo adarq, get back to training" like everyone else, i've been where you are now. I totally dumped training for like 5 years , between 28 and 33 or sth. Then it came back to me overnight and you know the rest. Maybe it will come back to you , maybe not. I sure hope it does, no rush though!
Cheers man!

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Age vs Vertical
« on: September 01, 2012, 07:41:25 am »
Quote from: Raptor on August 31, 2012, 03:05:38 pm
I just don't get it... how can you struggle with 75 kg when you can half squat ~140?

I don't get it either. But a few observations :
-The ~300+ squats where more like quarters than halfs, knees angle was ~90 degrees.
-Body leverages, although it sounds like an excuse my long legs dont favour full squats.
-My injury has thrown me back, when i was doing 300+ partials my parallel squat would be around 220-230x5.

Was just reading this from kellyb yesterday:

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As a personal example when I first began training seriously I trained for a good 3-4 years performing half squats because I didn't know any better and half squats are what we were taught in school. When I learned what a legal squat was my poundages went all the way from around 300 down to around 185, BUT despite the significantly lesser weights I started making really good vert gains and gained quite a bit of muscle on my thighs. I've seen the same thing happen in countless other trainees.

And kelly describes this as half squat at the same article:



So i guess my 100+ lbs quarter to below parallel squat diff is not that weird afterall...

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Age vs Vertical
« on: August 31, 2012, 02:26:25 pm »
31 August 2012

Bodyweight@session : ~189,5
Soreness : none
Injuries/aches : none

Starting Strength - workout #19

SQUATS:
5@165 lbs ( +5,5 lbs )
5@165 lbs ( +5,5 lbs )
4@165 lbs ( +5,5 lbs ) , ( -1 rep )
-Form was so and so today, some good reps , some bad. There was more forward lean than i want but definitely less than last time i reached 165 before holidays.
I will stay at that weight and try to improve form for the next sessions, either get 3x5 at perfect form or deload 10%.

SEATED OHP:
5@104,5 lbs ( +5,5 lbs )
5@104,5 lbs ( +5,5 lbs )
5@104,5 lbs ( +5,5 lbs )
-Very hard. I expected it easier based on last week's 99.

DEAD HANG CHINUPS:
8@Bodyweight ( +1 rep )
6@Bodyweight ( same )
5@Bodyweight ( +1 rep )
Total = 19 ( +6 reps )
-Those felt strong.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Age vs Vertical
« on: August 30, 2012, 06:24:04 pm »
30 August 2012

IT band foam rolling + stretching.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Age vs Vertical
« on: August 30, 2012, 03:45:50 am »
I do them full ROM, their purpose is some extra recovery, injury-wise and sore-wise. Probably ain't gonna do them again, DOMS lasted only 1 week and the injury seems to be healing perfectly with IT band foam rolling.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Age vs Vertical
« on: August 29, 2012, 01:31:09 pm »
29 August 2012

Bodyweight@session : ~189
Soreness : none
Injuries/aches : none

Starting Strength - workout #18

ROMANIAN DEADLIFTS:
5@220lbs ( +22 lbs ) , ( -3 reps )
5@220lbs ( +22 lbs ) , ( -3 reps )
5@220lbs ( +22 lbs ) , ( -3 reps )
-Very nice.

LEG EXTENSIONS:
4x20@55lbs
-Not so much burning this time. As quad heals i will probably replace those with lunges.

BICEPS EZ-BAR CURLS:
12@65 lbs ( +5,5 lbs )
12@65 lbs ( +5,5 lbs )
12@65 lbs ( +5,5 lbs ) , ( +2 reps )
-Very nice.

TRICEPS PUSHDOWNS:
12@60,5 lbs ( +5,5 lbs )
12@60,5 lbs ( +5,5 lbs )
12@60,5 lbs ( +5,5 lbs )
-Very nice.

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: post your hand measurements
« on: August 29, 2012, 07:04:54 am »
Yeah man , neg my post , neg this one too , that will make your argument more valid!
Fuck yeah , that's the truth , i was blind but now i see the light! Fuck physics and all , raptor has spoken!


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