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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: The PR's/PB's, videos, pictures, and daily achievements thread
« on: July 05, 2011, 03:48:01 pm »
135 kg squat:

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBET-v8KDnU" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBET-v8KDnU</a>

145 kg squat:

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

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: Jumping Sessions
« on: July 05, 2011, 03:09:12 pm »
Quote from: steven-miller on July 05, 2011, 03:01:15 pm
@Joel: Have you ever had substantial success with training with a weight-vest? I would imagine that for example a 5 lbs vest was just annoying and not really adding much resistance. Don't know, maybe I should try it.

I personally had a lot of success with a weight vest while doing Joel's program in 2009. It really did it's magic. It doesn't make sense when you think about it, I was just doing some bad form bounds and stuff like that once per week with a weight vest but still it was great.

I think the harder overload in THAT particular jump does it's trick on the CNS level, although you can make an argument about depth jumps doing the same thing.

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: Learning the right breathing techniques for lifting
« on: July 05, 2011, 02:54:28 pm »
Quote from: LanceSTS on July 05, 2011, 07:56:42 am
Quote from: zbiz on July 04, 2011, 10:16:40 pm
Can you give me some more info on bracing my core?

In fact just the other day at the gym someone told me that in my jump i need to hold my core steady and jump upwards with my upper body and shoulders straight, aggressively toward the rim...


 When you inhale, before you valsalva,  make sure your belly rises, not your chest. 

Pavel calls this "power breathing" and it's actually the way we breathe when we're babies (before we mess breathing up). Luckily enough, I already breath naturally through the belly.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: The PR's/PB's, videos, pictures, and daily achievements thread
« on: July 05, 2011, 02:42:10 pm »
Quote from: steven-miller on July 05, 2011, 02:35:40 pm
Quote from: Raptor on July 05, 2011, 02:09:54 pm
145 kg or 320 lbs squat :personal-record: today.

A 5 kg PR? Sick stuff! Congrats!

Haha thanks, I'd like to try 150 at one point, not sure when it will be, this 145 comes up a day later after doing the 160 kg deadlift - apparently it kind of potentiated me although my back hurts (muscularly).

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Kingfish
« on: July 05, 2011, 02:40:13 pm »
What's up with No Explode... I've heard a lot about it, about enraging you and all that stuff... what does it do?

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: The PR's/PB's, videos, pictures, and daily achievements thread
« on: July 05, 2011, 02:09:54 pm »
145 kg or 320 lbs squat :personal-record: today.

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Peer Reviewed Studies Discussion / Re: Vertical Jump
« on: July 05, 2011, 05:38:05 am »
Quote from: Joel Smith on July 04, 2011, 07:49:36 pm
A lot of this though is because I get a lot of power out of my upper body, and my legs play a slightly more reactive function than most.

Interesting. I think that might be true, if you were lacking the upperbody strength that you have right now you'd probably bend more in the body's effort to find more strength resources.

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: Learning the right breathing techniques for lifting
« on: July 05, 2011, 05:35:00 am »
Bracing is the same thing you're going to do if you know you'll get hit in the belly. And the same thing you're going to do automatically when you're pushing a car or something. Basically contract the abs and keep them flat.

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Peer Reviewed Studies Discussion / Re: Vertical Jump
« on: July 04, 2011, 05:12:46 pm »
I think you might have something going on with that ^^^

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Age vs Vertical
« on: July 04, 2011, 03:32:07 pm »
When I had back problems I know the glutes were contracted almost THE ENTIRE TIME I was awake to protect the back no matter what I did.

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Pics, Videos, & Links / Re: James "Flight" White Unbelievable Free Throw Line Dunks
« on: July 04, 2011, 01:25:39 pm »
Quote from: nba8340 on March 22, 2010, 02:51:23 pm
yea he does those free throw line dunks with such ease, he could easily get them from a few feet behind the free throw line.  Everybody else steps over and barely gets it and this guy is doing windmills and shit and easily getting it, with two hands even

That's what I was thinking... he should try that.

Also Rodney Carney was close to dunking from about 1 foot behind the line.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: The PR's/PB's, videos, pictures, and daily achievements thread
« on: July 04, 2011, 01:16:40 pm »
I really have no idea how to fix that. I'm not sure if it's a matter of structure or a matter of mobility/body position in terms of correcting that. Probably strength too since even if I were to lower my hips and straighten my back, when I'd start to lift I'd still get to the same position and lift the same, so...

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: The PR's/PB's, videos, pictures, and daily achievements thread
« on: July 04, 2011, 01:10:07 pm »
Well kind of... I used to squat all winter long in there, I just didn't film too much.

And yeah my deadlift is "OK" but you can see I bend my back a lot in there... it's very ugly.

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Peer Reviewed Studies Discussion / Re: Vertical Jump
« on: July 04, 2011, 01:09:00 pm »
It's not that easy. There are structural factors, sleeping vs active muscles, flexibility issues, previous/current injuries and so on and so forth that factor in quite a bit in determining what is going to happen in terms of bending or knee vs hip bend.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: The PR's/PB's, videos, pictures, and daily achievements thread
« on: July 04, 2011, 12:19:27 pm »
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaSLaWp28No" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaSLaWp28No</a>

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoEqLS7XUDA" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoEqLS7XUDA</a>

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcFbZ91N5g0" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcFbZ91N5g0</a>

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxY4fMDh790" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxY4fMDh790</a>

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7M9dxEJ1R0" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7M9dxEJ1R0</a>

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z84i9IVTqc0" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z84i9IVTqc0</a>

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VzbBnvu1OE" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VzbBnvu1OE</a>

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