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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: on the toad to 40

« on: November 24, 2012, 06:10:39 pm »

Why the heck would you go overboard like that in terms of weight... it's obvious you can't do it for 8 reps...

But then again - nothing is surprising about you anymore.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Age vs Vertical

« on: November 24, 2012, 02:01:28 pm »

Very nice. These front squats should really help you.

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Article & Video Discussion / Re: finally a trustworthy list of verticals

« on: November 24, 2012, 01:56:16 pm »

This used to be a text document I had in my computer circa ~2000 or so... had all these crazy VJ numbers.

Quote

Wilt Chamberlain NBA 7' 1" 48"

2.16m height + 1.20m jump = 3.36m head height. Basically Wilt was with his head at 11'1. Sounds pretty legit.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!

« on: November 23, 2012, 07:30:08 pm »

I know because I suck off two feet, and I tend to have this bad high center of gravity run-ups that when I actually plant I "crash" into the ground and never recover. So I'm actually doing a depth drop, stabilizing the landing, and then do a standing vertical jump. Except instead of that I have a "momentum" SVJ which results in a HORRIBLE jump.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!

« on: November 23, 2012, 07:27:38 pm »

You probably maintain a lower center of gravity during the run-up in the successful ones.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism

« on: November 23, 2012, 07:09:20 am »

How do you feel so far vs where you started... in terms of everything?

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Introduce Yourself / Re: Wut up adarq & all da hard workers!

« on: November 22, 2012, 05:42:40 pm »

Yup. If you see your run-up speed starting to decrease considerably, that's the first sign of a "upperleg dominant" jumper if you will.

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Pics, Videos, & Links / Re: beast

« on: November 22, 2012, 12:55:54 pm »

Quote from: adarqui on November 22, 2012, 02:31:09 am

more of the femfootballfreak

She's smart, beautiful and really athletic. I mean what more do you want? Pure awesomeness.

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Introduce Yourself / Re: Wut up adarq & all da hard workers!

« on: November 22, 2012, 12:53:35 pm »

It's interesting that your running vert went up by 5 inches, but your standing very only went up by 2. You either have some very functional calves/good structure for running jumps and you were really lacking in upperleg/glute strenght, or that you don't really care about the standing jump.

Any ideas?

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Article & Video Discussion / Re: finally a trustworthy list of verticals

« on: November 21, 2012, 10:23:12 am »

Yeah it makes sense...

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Scooby 2011 Journal

« on: November 21, 2012, 05:16:06 am »

Why? What stops you from doing a higher volume if there are more people in the gym? If you can do all those singles and triples then obviously you could do a higher volume as well.

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Article & Video Discussion / Re: finally a trustworthy list of verticals

« on: November 21, 2012, 05:14:22 am »

What, Raptor is not listed with 50?

Can't be legit

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!

« on: November 20, 2012, 06:34:35 pm »

Quote from: LBSS on November 20, 2012, 10:11:13 am

today, i am 26. that's an age

in other news, my mental calendar had today as a gym day, but it inconveniently forgot that my parents are taking me out for some kind of surprise tonight. so no workout today. here's hoping the extra day of rest sets me up for good jumping tomorrow.