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regardless, some occasional bodybuilding style sessions where you try and pump everything up to the max isn't a bad thing.. it's actually pretty fun and might help.. trick: only look in the mirror after that session..

How come I'm starting to feel that way? I remember Raptor felt that way too. It just feels like one exerts more energy having to stop half way than just go all the way down, pause and explode up.

Quote from: Final Phenom on July 25, 2017, 09:21:48 pm

The Isos: I'm just going to be replicating change of direction, hip hyperextension, accelaration, bottom of SVJ joint angles against an immovable resistance, just following the guidelines in Triphasic training. For the back to carry over to sprints I was going to try to do a prone back hyperextension with a very heavy (immovable) barbell over my shoulders.

ah cool. i've tried & prescribed isos, the most effective ones have always seemed to be yielding instead of overcoming. also for me personally, overcoming is just too risky, i push things too hard and those can get really intense.

some long yielding isos i've loved:
- hamstrings/back: 45 degree hyper holds with db's or barbell at the top (iso extension stim came from this too)
- for grip: assisted crush with off hand, then try and maintain while being forced to release
- on the fence with this one, but not being able to do it has always been a bad sign for me: single leg side bridge with off leg abducted (this ex is nuts)

partial holds (5-10s):
- pretty much everything can be utilized with a pause: seen some crazy results with pause bench, pause lunge/BSS, most BW variations (pause dips/pushups/pullups)

one quasi-overcoming iso could be TKE's for VMO.. I mean, haven't seen anything like that with other joints, ie, if i did something like that with my elbow extension i imagine i'd wreck it and get some kind of tendonitis.

one weird overcoming ISO I experienced was with "nail bending", that iso until you can bend it.. pretty crazy. I sucked at it but I had that ironmind nail set & some home depot based nails, could bend the easier ones.

i'm really awful at overcoming iso abilities.. kinda interesting. been so my entire life. the best example of it, is arm wrestling. pretty sure i'd get wrecked by anyone.

What I tried in regards to ISO's and worked wonders for my jumping ability was this weird exercise I came up with: It's basically when you are standing you lift one foot up and then violently «push» it in to the ground on the balls of your foot with your leg bent at about the same angle like you would jump and then hold this contraction for a short time, release and repeat for 5 reps or so. You could say it's a kind of overcoming iso but with a fast contraction rather than building it up slowly. It sounds very weird but it teached me to fire my muscles quickly and absorb force more efficiently. I was not doing any strength work at that time but was jumping the highest I ever had.

Edit: I don't know if any of these makes any sense but it would be interesting if this makes any sense but I feel like this «technique» can be applied to various different joint angles and muscles.

FP, is upper cross syndrome AKA kyphosis?

Quote from: Final Phenom on July 24, 2017, 04:15:30 pm

Some of you guys have to be watching Game of Thrones right? Man S7E2 yesterday was pretty visually intense. That ending especially, the character that initiated that last scene is now amongst my favorites for turning up the beast mode. HARD.

hope he dies within a few eps.

- ultimate frisbee x 90 minutes
gassed. gonna be sore tomorrow. it's freaking humid. much sweat. super fun except the one pakistani dude who comes out is extremely lazy and bad and was on my team, which is always a little vexing. nbd, it's pickup ultimate where i'm the best player by a wide margin and that means everyone else is relatively bad to never-played-before bad. but still. dude. move your feet.