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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: February 07, 2013, 07:57:39 pm »I am getting repetitive here but WHY-THE-FUCK-IS-YOUR-SVJ-AT-25''-WHEN-YOU-CAN-SQUAT-MID-300s-ROUTINELY-DOING-EVERYTHING-ELSE-RIIGHT?!?!?!?!?
I don't expect an answer, i just don't get it , just yelling in true frustration and anger!!!
LBSS do you think it is maybe that your not really in a competitive or adrenalized state? I mean with your strength to BW ratio it seems like you could 30 standing easy. Do you lack rate of force development? I guess I wanna see somebody with that strength be at least up to par with their projected jump.
it's both, i think.
on mental state: i have a hard time pysching myself up in the gym, and when i do it tends to backfire -- i get too psyched and get all uncoordinated and shit. that was especially true when i was still doing RVJ regularly: unless i was stimulated by something competitive or just for some reason "on" that day, any attempt to get myself amped would have ugly results. basically i have trouble finding a happy medium -- left to my own devices i'm either unstimulated or overstimulated. rarely am i in the sweet spot and there doesn't seem to be a whole lot of consistency to when i find myself there. getting to bed early enough helps and frankly i've been bad about that during the week recently. it would probably help to have a workout partner (or coach) but i don't.
on RFD: honestly i don't know what my issue is. i probably focus too much on strength and not enough on speed, but i've done speed work in the past and my SVJ is basically the same as it was when i squatted 80 pounds less than i do now (weighing ~12 pounds less). i haven't done a measured RVJ in months and i suspect it'd be garbage right now, but unlike my SVJ it has gone up in the past three years and it'd come back if i switched to practicing it again.
another thought: going back over my videos i'm heavier than i was a year ago with not much more strength to show for it. basically, i've spun my wheels for a year. i had my all-time PR jumps at the end of december 2011, and squatted just 5 pounds less than my most recent PR attempt*. that sucks. it suuuuuucks. fuuuuuuuuuuuuck that. part of it is hard to avoid: even one-week trips for work force me to reset when i get back, and if the trip is longer and i get sick, the reset is worse.
i'm open to any and all ideas.
*which was, to be fair to myself, not in the most favorable conditions.
I know what you mean about psyching up backfiring. Nothing really gets me psyched to jump except full court basketball. When I got my nike + shoes that measures vert, it took me 37 standing vertical jumps to get to 31 inches. So for me, it is really hard to get psyched up to jump unless it's after a game of full court basketball or during it.
if I had any suggestions it would be to try to get your self into competitive situations or some kind of sport that would allow you to easily get warmed up playing and just do your jumps then and still progress your squat up. If you have not done so in awhile, I think you would be surprised about how much easier you jump. In my case, last wednesday, went to play full court, before playing I felt tired and didn't feel like running or really playing hard. Eventually legs and CNS got warmed up and could jump easy. I actually had two hand put back off the rim and after the games dunking around with other guys while dead tired was still able to land a windmill.
imo, it just seems like adrenalized situations for jumping and getting that squat up should be enough.. as for you having to keep taking a week off and reset.. I have no idea, your squat is higher than mine I should be taking lessons from you in that category
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