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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Chris' training journal
« on: May 03, 2016, 02:35:06 am »
Yeah, did you solve your issues with your wife? I think I saw a few good pictures on Facebook.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Two Hands Two Feet
« on: May 03, 2016, 02:30:45 am »
Reiterating this for the 100th time - the dumbbell BBS I found out to be the BEST glute-soreness-giving exercise in existence, to me. Absolutely tremendous glute soreness. Not sure why, but it is like that.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: May 01, 2016, 05:16:34 am »
Haha, crazy iguanas.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Two Hands Two Feet
« on: April 30, 2016, 10:01:53 am »
Well, it really depends on your strength, I guess. That will dictate the form.
Here's me in 2011, when I was weaker (ball in hand):
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-NYUQTIkQo" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-NYUQTIkQo</a>
Here's me in 2015, "stronger" (but also heavier):
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUz2CQSNhxs" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUz2CQSNhxs</a>
But what I really mean is this (disregard my arms going to the sides, I'm inflexible):
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiguBfu2aNU" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiguBfu2aNU</a>
Here's me in 2011, when I was weaker (ball in hand):
Here's me in 2015, "stronger" (but also heavier):
But what I really mean is this (disregard my arms going to the sides, I'm inflexible):
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Two Hands Two Feet
« on: April 30, 2016, 09:07:27 am »
You should reach up with your arms high, get on your toes, then compress and jump to get really high off standing vert. You're not using your arms at all IMO.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: April 30, 2016, 06:34:18 am »
Yeah that would be amazing.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: April 30, 2016, 06:06:32 am »
I'll never understand how people do this... you weigh your food on a scale or what? And if so, how come this site has the foods that you eat? And if so, how do you know what the food contains (for example, if you eat pork soup, how do you know how much meat is in it and how much it is water and vegetables?)
And so on and so forth. Seems impossible or it would probably take hours every day to make this. Not to mention foods have weird names that I have to translate.
And so on and so forth. Seems impossible or it would probably take hours every day to make this. Not to mention foods have weird names that I have to translate.
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MUSiC anD SHeeT! / Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now?
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Age vs Vertical
« on: April 29, 2016, 04:26:47 am »That's what i suspect too. I think the 150m tempos get them too, as i try to do them not 'stride-style' but 'sprint-style': i don't start 100% and then let momentum carry me, i treat them like normal sprints, keep pushing at each stride, just not 100%. I feel i get a much better training effect that way, strides are too easy, only use them as warmup.
That's exactly what I did yesterday. After 2 sprints of 150 meters I was dead. The worst is that my intestines/digestive system get inflamed when I run/exert effort, and that sucks the energy out of your body like crazy. You feel like giving up immediately and go home and rest for 3 days to recover.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Age vs Vertical
« on: April 29, 2016, 03:32:16 am »
Sprints always give me ab soreness. Runs? Not so much. I think in the sprints it's the combination of the abs trying to keep the pelvis stable and also the iliopsoas working like crazy to pull the knees up.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: April 29, 2016, 03:22:58 am »
You should search for similar footage from Russia
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: April 28, 2016, 06:50:29 am »
Why don't you do the skaters jumps that LBSS is doing? Or slalom jumps going forward? Or jumps over a knee-high rope while also going forward? Bounds. Sprints. Short distance sprints. Long distance sprints. Suicides (very basketball specific). And so on.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: April 28, 2016, 06:05:02 am »
Speed is also the ability to decelerate/change directions. That's what you're also programming yourself to be better at using low level/submax plyos.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: April 28, 2016, 05:24:41 am »
Well, speed is a manifestation of quickness combined with strength. Where strength is non needed, you have "quickness" (for example, how many spacebar key strokes can you get in 10 seconds? The best I got was 110, I think). That's quickness. Speed is a manifestation of quickness + strength, or quickness + the force to overcome your own bodyweight to express that quickness. That's it.
Now, the movements in which you express that "speed" better or worse depend on the muscle strength that these movements depend upon, your natural quickness (CNS quickness), the muscle strength ratios and your movement efficiency in that particular movement (how often did you practice it with proper form).
So if you feel like you need speed... well... why don't you do sprints while also continuing to improve the posterior chain in the gym? Other than that, all these low level plyos that I suggested are reactive in nature, but submax, so the strength part plays less importance but the "quickness" part (CNS) plays more importance (trying to emphasize low ground contact times, even if you don't get up or forward maximally).
Combine training like this with the strength you get from the weight room and you get speed.
Now, the movements in which you express that "speed" better or worse depend on the muscle strength that these movements depend upon, your natural quickness (CNS quickness), the muscle strength ratios and your movement efficiency in that particular movement (how often did you practice it with proper form).
So if you feel like you need speed... well... why don't you do sprints while also continuing to improve the posterior chain in the gym? Other than that, all these low level plyos that I suggested are reactive in nature, but submax, so the strength part plays less importance but the "quickness" part (CNS) plays more importance (trying to emphasize low ground contact times, even if you don't get up or forward maximally).
Combine training like this with the strength you get from the weight room and you get speed.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: April 28, 2016, 05:02:45 am »
lol... what I say, and what you take out from it...
"Low level" plyos would be great for you - you can do a high volume of them (which is what you need, in your case) at a submax intensity.
"Low level" plyos would be great for you - you can do a high volume of them (which is what you need, in your case) at a submax intensity.