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181018 Rain
I had been on and off this few week, with Jump and Squat. I try to squat at least twice a week and jump as often as i can at lunch.
This time around, I felt a little different with a different mindset. Over the pass years, I had been following premake program, as well as program designed from buddies on this site, and also program designed by professional over the web ( Jackw, and Taiwanese Jump coach).
They are all similar in a sense that I need to do 3 set of 8 with various exercises from 5 to 10 different variation. Even with Rest, the ground contact is at least 200+ time. Further more, because there is no actual COACH to watch me, the closest thing was I actualy filmed most if not all my exercise and sent it to the Taiwanese coach. And i am not even sure if those boring footage was watched.
This time around... i cut down on variation and rep or set.
I only do exercise like single leg chair jump, depth drop, depth jump and on stationary stand still jump. And i rest between reps.. i do like 6 reps... may be 8 depend on how i feel..
What i want to FOCUS is on... quality.... not quantity. I want to make sure I am doing triple extension with max effort... instead of... grinding jump after jump for 3 set of 10... with 15 sets to follow...
I dont know if things will be different. I am not on any program or any phs for now. I just squat to maintain or get back my strength and jump as often as i could... with that mindset.
just refuse to give up but this time.. i am really listening to my leg muscle instead of some written plan.
You have to decide what you are doing man. There is very little for you to gain from repeated jumps at this point except skill maintenance. It's also clear that squatting with little other work is ineffective for you.
Organize your training! Do some hypertrophy (even like calisthenics), and then those squat gains will come easier during the following strength block. Recognize what you are missing: it's not quad and p-chain max strength. RFD, most likely. Maybe your ankle force transfer could be better, maybe your armswing. Looks like you are slow dipping into the jump and that's leaving you with a weak rebound, so your hamstrings could be stronger/faster.
There is literally no reason for you to continue doing jump repeats. If you want to continue doing those maybe try them with that french contrast thing i posted a while ago here.
Stuff is looking good! Either PR'ing or PR level for mostly everything (including strength and dynamic stuff wow) but trying not to cause y'know.. hypertrophy phase lol. It's a tough balance between maintaining athletic qualities and focusing on improving one particular thing (hypertrophy in this case).
Stuff that needs more focus: glutes, dec situps. Horizontal and vertical pulls seem to be responding the best to this style of training, although I might have been a little preferential towards it cause I keep having benching problems. Pretty beat up, can't wait to deload in the middle of next week and that will be the end of hypertrophy, moving into strength.
Trying to quit my shitty janitorial job and get into personal training. Kind of tough to do both so I'm gonna go part-time with my job and study for a certification while trying to gather some clients.
edit: so apparently my 2-yr old PCL tear might be affecting me more than previously thought. Was doing Hammer strength SL leg press partials and noticed my left knee was extremely shaky when I pushed the ROM (it was a little more than a quarter squat). This ROM occurs every time I plant in front of my body to change direction hard, so it is plausible that some of my change of direction difficulties come from this injury. Need to definitely address this
cool about the indian race. india's a hot country with a billion-plus people in it, stands to reason there would be a lot of naturally talented runners there. will be interesting to see what happens as they start investing in athletics.
i hope he can live up to his gifts. would be fun to watch.
dumb point of conversation: how do you define "generational" talent? generations are usually taken to be 20 years. so the most talented/greatest player in a 20 year stretch. right now that'd obviously be lebron, but would you call giannis a "generational" talent? he's unreal, every bit as much a physical freak as lebron just blossoming later. anyone else in the NBA in that tier? people talked about anthony davis and KAT that way but i don't think so.
curry isn't generational, he's sui generis.
