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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Age vs Vertical
« on: September 26, 2012, 06:47:59 pm »
Yeah I have been practicing a posterior-tilt in my KB swings but at the end of the movement, and it really gets the glutes fire. The idea came from Bret Contreras' "American Deadlift".

But like you said, the "chest up and out" is exactly what got me where I am in the first place. It does a bunch of stuff, it usually turns you very quad dominant as well, for example even in the KB swings I have the tendency to keep an upright torso and bend the knee and take the tension of the hamstrings too so... it's all messed up.

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ADARQ & LanceSTS - Q&A / Backward depth drops
« on: September 26, 2012, 06:40:55 pm »
What are your experiences with backward depth drops for calf development?

I'm asking this because I observed something very interesting when I was doing step-ups: I wasn't too tired anywhere because of them but the one place I had HUGE soreness was the calves. Basically every time I put my leg back down from the step-up box I was doing an eccentric calf raise. I didn't feel it at the time but after I finished my sets my calves were fried. Never experienced any kind of calf soreness like the one that occured after those step-ups.

So I was thinking - shouldn't doing backwards stiff leg depth drops help quite a bit on calf training? The TUT would be pretty short with the possible downside of too many landings/landing stress, but as far as the amount of "weight" in that eccentric part - you can't replicate that in the weight room - too much for the back, at least for mine's. Plus you never really do backwards stuff often so they should take that as an "unusual" stress and adapt better to it than to regular calf raises etc.

Any opinions?

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Age vs Vertical
« on: September 26, 2012, 04:43:56 pm »
Yeah I always overarch. I can't even understand how you can keep the back in neutral in the first place. You (meaning - me) just can't feel if it's in neutral or not, and having anterior pelvic tilt doesn't help in recognizing that either. I just feel being overarched or bent forward... but have a very hard time being aware of it being in neutral.

Honestly, if I am to keep the chest high I'll pretty much automatically overarch so... it's very weird.

Luckily I use the deadlifts as straight leg deadlifts FOR the hamstrings so... whatever :D

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: Weightlifting shoes
« on: September 26, 2012, 02:44:42 pm »
What does "crap crossfitter shoes" means? Why are they bad?

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: September 26, 2012, 01:34:02 pm »
We've had the discussion about masturbation/sex etc before, it just lowers aggression, bascially lowers rate coding etc.

If you have sex then you relax, chill, you don't need to "spread your seed" so you're like "ah, whatever, I don't need/want to be aggressive". I think that's safe to say it reduces your lifting and jumping abilities, basically anything that depends on rate coding etc.

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News, Announcements, & Suggestions / Re: THE FORUM IS DIFFERENT
« on: September 26, 2012, 01:32:10 pm »
The ESPN ticker was annoying for me because I could see NBA scores... and I watch NBA games off torrents and/or NBA League Pass recorded games so I don't wanna see the score.

When I was browsing adarq.org before and the ESPN ticker was there I had to be really careful not to peek and see the scores.

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News, Announcements, & Suggestions / Re: adarq.org currently fukd
« on: September 26, 2012, 09:38:41 am »
Does Scammenauger still sell anything?

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MUSiC anD SHeeT! / Re: I just added three more songs to my karaoke playlist
« on: September 26, 2012, 07:32:39 am »
IST SEVANTIN BEIBI!

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mxgmdev5rI" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mxgmdev5rI</a>

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: September 26, 2012, 04:52:47 am »
Obviously don't go over board, but it's better to be more rested than more fatigued IMO, especially if you're a hardgainer.

I usually take just another rest day and then go to the gym if I'm very tired. It doesn't make any sense to push through fatigue only to get more and more and more run down to the ground. If you do it, you're going to need a deload at some point.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: September 26, 2012, 04:40:47 am »
Why don't you go to the gym when you're fresh, whenever that happens?

I was trapped into the schedule mentality for years but I'm finally seeing the bigger picture. You don't need to become the slave of layed out programs.

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Basketball / Re: A WHOLE BUNCH OF DUNKS AND SHIT.
« on: September 25, 2012, 06:29:17 pm »
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwB9UlyOPiA" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwB9UlyOPiA</a>

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Basketball / Re: A WHOLE BUNCH OF DUNKS AND SHIT.
« on: September 25, 2012, 06:25:32 pm »
Love the plant at 0:49

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

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LanceSTS's Performance Blog / Re: TRAINING POSTS
« on: September 25, 2012, 03:25:33 pm »
What do you feel about alternating a MSEM workout with a volume workout (say 4x10 or 8x5) every 3 days or so?

I feel like there's no need to do 1x5 or 3x5 because it's not at the either end of the spectrum - it's neither CNS intensive nor it is a volume workout, so I personally ditched it and use a 8x1 one day and a 8x5 the other day.

What are your thoughts on the 1x5 day? I'd rather do an explosive workout in that day.

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News, Announcements, & Suggestions / Re: some analytics
« on: September 25, 2012, 02:23:03 pm »
I think it's safe to say: BOW BEFORE ME, OR ELSE!!!

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaanyway... where the heck do I find these stats?

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News, Announcements, & Suggestions / Re: some analytics
« on: September 25, 2012, 12:56:38 pm »
Where are these stats located at?

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