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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Age vs Vertical
« on: May 08, 2016, 06:15:28 am »
That has been my experience with doctors in 31 years. A waste of time and money, while at the same time getting either nonsense advice/"advice" that anybody with no medical studies could come up with.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Age vs Vertical
« on: May 07, 2016, 05:00:52 pm »
My brain is not working anymore. I think my IQ is under 100 for sure, right now. In fact, I don't think it would be quantifiable in any way. If I were to take a psychological test right now I would fail it.

I know people take words on the screen lightly, but trust me, this is authentic.

look on the bright side.. if your IQ dips to ~40, you'd be considered a genius as far as dogs go.. and dogs are happy as fuck.

Genius dogs are sad. Very sad. Lassie appeared in my dreams last night and told me that.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Age vs Vertical
« on: May 07, 2016, 04:36:19 pm »
My brain is not working anymore. I think my IQ is under 100 for sure, right now. In fact, I don't think it would be quantifiable in any way. If I were to take a psychological test right now I would fail it.

I know people take words on the screen lightly, but trust me, this is authentic.

You may be having a psychotic episode.  It would be best to see a mental health specialist right now.  That you can recognize this is important.  Your IQ is probably not much lower than normal for you because even during psychosis smart people are still smart about most things but it can seem like that and be very frustrating to not have the clarity you are used to - it would be best to see someone. 

Waste of time and money. Doctors are for nothing, they don't actually help you. They just talk and do nothing, and take your money. #fact #truth #reality

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Age vs Vertical
« on: May 07, 2016, 03:16:47 pm »
My brain is not working anymore. I think my IQ is under 100 for sure, right now. In fact, I don't think it would be quantifiable in any way. If I were to take a psychological test right now I would fail it.

I know people take words on the screen lightly, but trust me, this is authentic.

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Basketball / Re: A WHOLE BUNCH OF DUNKS AND SHIT.
« on: May 07, 2016, 03:09:28 pm »
That's why I said my knee tendons suck haaaard. If I were to load my knees up like that I would immediately shut down. There is no way of "loading up" like he does in the above video. In the above video, he subjects his knees to tremendous pressures and the CNS isn't coming in and saying "let me shut this down" - no, he gets back the tension that he put into them in the amortization phase.

I have no idea if this is a CNS thing but my hunch is that it's not 100% "strength" related, meaning directly related to his squat to bodyweight ratio. It is to a certain extent, but there must be something more than that. His CNS basically allows that kind of load without shutting down his muscles, his quad tendon can "accept" a tremendous amount of tension and release it quickly.

I'm saying this because I remember when Toddday said that it's all in the "hip tendons" and "nobody has reactive quad tendons anyway". Well, look at the above video and tell me how that is true. Heck, in that plant he has his hips and torso vertical, if anything, the glute contribution is towards the late phases of his takeoff, near the toe-off. But as the initial drivers of the jump, in the deep bend, it's the quads that are doing the work, hence his plant position, and the ability of "his body" to accept that tremendous amount of knee pressure and "not give up".

If you think about the implications of the bent knee, in that it puts the calves in active insufficiency, it's even "worse". It's even more "quad dominant". It means the calves are de-activated because the knees are bent and therefore even MORE pressure is passed into the quads to stabilize, since the calves aren't active (the soleus is when the knees are bent, and the soleus isn't exactly the strongest muscle in the world).

So in any way you turn it, it comes back to quad strength and quad tendon reactivity, off two legs. Maybe the rest of the muscles contribute in the initial touch down in the plant and then move the tension into the quads as the plant is being loaded, but when you break it down, it's the quads.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Age vs Vertical
« on: May 07, 2016, 08:53:20 am »
I do, but I don't remember where. Was it in this thread or another log?

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Age vs Vertical
« on: May 07, 2016, 06:22:15 am »
"Arm swing video"?

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Basketball / Re: A WHOLE BUNCH OF DUNKS AND SHIT.
« on: May 07, 2016, 06:18:17 am »
Pause at Myree's ~1:46 plant, check out the knee bend - how far in front his knee is. Crazy to be able to stabilize and jump out of that position #quadsAreNotImportantToJumping #itsAllInTheHipTendon

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I've always thought it's a "good idea" to be fatter. There's no reason to be "muscular" and "athletic" in our society. It makes more sense to store fat, just in case. You'd rather be fat for long term survival, I guess.

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I made a calculation and I earn under 3$/hour as a programmer, right now.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: May 06, 2016, 02:34:49 am »
How did you... find out about your dog's issue? lol

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Here a coach would take only elite athletes to train. Why bother with people that don't have a great genetic ceiling (however that is being described by the coach - they all look for long legs, young age, etc). This for elite level coaching.

Otherwise, to take your money and say "ok, do 2 laps and 10 pushups and puke" - that can be done by pretty much everybody. I'm tired of "coaches", they're such fucking idiots.

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This should be interesting for you:

http://closertotruth.com/series/mathematics-eternal

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldbach%27s_conjecture

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-d9mgo8FGk" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-d9mgo8FGk</a>

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Speaking of the penultimate step:

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eW0qMfGzb0" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eW0qMfGzb0</a>

Also:

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

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Interesting program but where do you fit all that humongous volume???

I would need days to recover after one of those workouts alone.

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