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

« on: April 19, 2016, 05:24:26 pm »

Quote from: Raptor on April 19, 2016, 05:08:46 pm

For how long are you moving there? And what's up with you moving to these arab countries all the time? What job do you have?

I've actually only ever flown through Arab countries on the way somewhere else. Well, that's not true, I've spent a bit of time in the UAE (Dubai). Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan are not Arab.

I go because I work for a company that has a big presence there (it started in Pakistan, in fact).

Quote from: Eric on April 19, 2016, 05:09:22 pm

Ooh ok, dolla dolla bills ya'll

Are your paychecks taxed? If our guards work over there at embassies they make like 80k half a year tax free.

Paycheck will not be taxed. We don't get danger pay. But still, getting a decent raise. And when you factor in the housing subsidy it could be up to triple my current take-home.

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

« on: April 19, 2016, 04:44:43 pm »

Quote from: Eric on April 19, 2016, 04:28:53 pm

Quote from: LBSS on April 19, 2016, 04:27:26 pm
so i'm officially moving to pakistan, probably at the end of may/beginning of june. signed the contract yesterday. today i agreed with my boss that my last day in my current job will be may 4. so i'll have most of may off to relax, visit people, pack up my seven years' worth of stuff, and put in storage everything i don't throw out or ship to islamabad.

So what are you going to be doing that is having you move to pakistan?

same shit i'm doing now, more or less. but more responsibility, more money, and in pakistan instead of in DC.

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

« on: April 19, 2016, 04:27:26 pm »

so i'm officially moving to pakistan, probably at the end of may/beginning of june. signed the contract yesterday. today i agreed with my boss that my last day in my current job will be may 4. so i'll have most of may off to relax, visit people, pack up my seven years' worth of stuff, and put in storage everything i don't throw out or ship to islamabad.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: cowed77's time to get up!

« on: April 19, 2016, 02:22:29 pm »

too many stops, too choppy, not adding power with each step. commence practicing with T0ddday method.

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1. do a standing jump.
2. walk back and do a one-step jump. if it's higher than your SVJ, then proceed to 3. if not, continue doing one-step jumps, messing with your approach, trying different amounts of knee bend, different distances, etc., until one-step is higher than SVJ.
3. walk back a little farther and do a two-step jump. if this is higher than your one-step, proceed to 4. if not, repeat the second part of 2.
4. walk back a little farther and do a three-step jump. proceed as above.
5. etc., until the extra step no longer gets you any higher.

you are not allowed to add a step until that step consistently gives you more height over previous steps. this isn't that specific to basketball, because it grooves a very specific pattern. but if you're just trying to dunk anything at all under perfect circumstances (join the club!), then it's a good method.

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Boxing / Re: algieri vs spence

« on: April 19, 2016, 09:40:01 am »

is it my lying eyes, or does spence have just the weest bit of gyno going on there? roidy roid roids, anyone?

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Recovery from quadricep tendonitis

« on: April 19, 2016, 08:26:04 am »

the only advice i can give with respect to the relative distance of your steps is that each additional step you add to your approach should add height to the jump. so start with one step. if the first step doesn't add any height relative to your SVJ, practice it and mess with technique until it does. then add another step and mess with technique until two steps is consistently higher than one. et cetera. whatever relative length of steps you end up with will be specific to you, and pretty well greased, like adarq said.

i never approach from more than four steps away because i can't seem to get any additional power out of the fifth step. although now that i think about it i haven't tried in a long time. might do that this week, just to see.

we call this the T0ddday method.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal

« on: April 19, 2016, 08:20:14 am »

~~dude how did i miss that before. what was the context for that?!?!~~ lol adarq looks exactly like mike miller. forgot.

also, re: health care. we have a high-functioning single-payer health care system in this country. it's called medicare. approval ratings from seniors are consistently high and costs are low. obamacare was a gigantic achievement but it left too much power in the hands of private insurance companies, pharmaceutical companies, and big hospital corporations.

bring on single payer.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Two Hands Two Feet

« on: April 18, 2016, 01:20:03 pm »

you turn out your feet during sex?

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Two Hands Two Feet

« on: April 18, 2016, 09:34:10 am »

be careful with kelly starrett. he's full of great information and exercises, but he's also a postural purist: it's easy to come away from his videos and books thinking that if you can't do things with what he deems to be platonically ideal form, you're putting yourself in danger or at least not measuring up. there's no evidence to support that, at all.

i've posted this review of "becoming a supple leopard" before, but it bears re-posting: http://www.exercisebiology.com/index.php/site/articles/becoming_a_supple_leopard_by_kelly_starrett_book_review/.

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

« on: April 17, 2016, 03:32:22 pm »

thanks raptor.

also, adarq, meta comment: youtube vids have been acting up on the forum for the last few days. either not loading, or only loading once and freezing when i try to replay them.

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

« on: April 17, 2016, 01:36:21 pm »

i tried with the bounciest ball in the gym today and could not get the rebound even 3/4 of the way to the rim. i have a ball but it sucks and when i tried to overinflate it (years ago) it just stayed dead. will investigate better options.

today:

WEIGHT: ???
SORENESS: none
ACHES/INJURIES: right knee
MENTAL STATE: good

- warm up

- skater jump x 20,10

- one-step RVJ x 6

- DLRVJ x 15
got a dude to throw lobs on 8-9. pretty close with the right hand on one, most of the lobs were badly timed. vid of that miss below. you can hear the guy saying "that's the perfect throw," but it wasn't. needs to be a little farther to the left so i can catch it with my left hand, which reaches at least a couple inches higher. also that wasn't my best jump of the day by any means, just the closest a decent jump and decent lob came together. oh well.

- squat MSEM 330 x 3,3

- DB push press 55s x 10,10
got it. wrists a little achey after each set.

- BB hip thrust 385 x 15,12

- inverted row x 15,12

- decline sit ups x 14

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDv1UhvZEVY" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDv1UhvZEVY</a>

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

« on: April 16, 2016, 10:50:21 am »

WEIGHT: ???
SORENESS: none
ACHES/INJURIES: low back tweaking a little, left elbow
MENTAL STATE: good but hurried

- warm up

- skater jump x 10,10

- one-step RVJ x 5
probably PR or PR tie on one of the jumps, 34+

- DLRVJ x 5-6
no one there to throw lobs but i was getting up pretty good. hurt elbow jamming the dodgeball down too hard on third jump and kind of shut my CNS down. wasn't planning for this to be a PR session anyway. tomorrow.

also, my friend at work told our boss (the CEO) that i had dunked and he didn't believe her, so i showed him the slow-mo video with the dodgeball. his jaw literally dropped.