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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: Continue to work on increasing the squat or get to maintenance for now?
« on: June 25, 2011, 05:40:29 pm »
What if I want to stop squatting for a while? How to maintain that strength without going to the gym (and paying a lot of money)?

I'd like to stop squatting for a month or two, just to give my body some recovery time, I feel like I need it, my shoulders hurt immensly, sometimes I can't even raise my arms properly because of the accumulated pain from low bar squatting and the pressure it puts on my arms, and just in general - I need to recover for a while and not squat at all.

My thinking is use some KB swings and focus on the core more (since I suck so hard at it anyway) and play ball, maybe do some plyos if anything.

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: Continue to work on increasing the squat or get to maintenance for now?
« on: June 25, 2011, 03:30:31 pm »
Quote from: DamienZ on June 25, 2011, 03:24:57 pm
Quote from: Raptor on June 25, 2011, 03:18:19 pm
I have no idea. Maybe. Probably. Is one rep at ~95% that hard every day?

why don't you just do a daily max (no grinders)? much better imho!

Good idea^^^

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: Continue to work on increasing the squat or get to maintenance for now?
« on: June 25, 2011, 03:18:19 pm »
I have no idea. Maybe. Probably. Is one rep at ~95% that hard every day?

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Article & Video Discussion / Re: Joel Smith's one-leg jump peak program
« on: June 25, 2011, 03:16:42 pm »
I think I tend to fail more in a long jump than in a dunk attempt, but that's just a guess. It also depends on the amount of speed I use.

Maybe when I first started to jump I used a lot of hamstring and over time I remained "hooked" to that even though I have stronger glutes now than back then. I think there's a "big" difference when I do lunges for example, I can feel the right glute work so much better functionally than the left glute.

As for my knee - haven't done an MRI yet. Costs a lot. But it just "clicks" in the lateral side when I go from ~10 degrees to ~25 degrees of flexion. Probably (I think it is) some sort of ITB syndrome. Not sure if it is though. I can't squat high bar since after 1 or 2 reps my knee hurts like hell. But I can squat low bar.

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Pics, Videos, & Links / Sor3lcs dunk mix
« on: June 25, 2011, 03:03:00 pm »
Made a dunk mix for a friend:

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cs1wPoAh09s" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cs1wPoAh09s</a>

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MOVIES & ENTERTAINMENT & SHeeT! / Re: movies subforum has become the spam subforum! awesome..
« on: June 25, 2011, 02:08:24 pm »
I can see ^^^

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Article & Video Discussion / Re: Joel Smith's one-leg jump peak program
« on: June 24, 2011, 06:45:58 pm »
By the way - I need an alternative for this since I can't bound on my right leg due to knee issues. So that's not possible. I can bound LLLL but any landing on the right now flares the thing up and pain comes. I might be able to do LLRR though, but LRLR is undoable due to lack of technique.

I was wondering if max jumps and long jumps could be substituted with some of the one leg bounds.

Also, the plan is the use the weight vest for actual dunks.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Age vs Vertical
« on: June 24, 2011, 02:59:06 pm »
This might be your best athletic day... I mean, depth jumps, jump squats and (very) strong half squats. It's gotta be.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: The PR's/PB's, videos, pictures, and daily achievements thread
« on: June 24, 2011, 02:53:49 pm »
Excuse me? :ninja: :highfive: :highfive: :highfive: :ibsquatting: :ibjumping: :wowthatwasnutswtf:

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: acole14's journal - DUNK OR DIE
« on: June 24, 2011, 06:37:03 am »
I think you still might have a masked explosiveness if you have been training for long enough with strength only... you can never know.

Also, you might jump higher after 15-20 minutes of aggressive 3 on 3 basketball.

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: Continue to work on increasing the squat or get to maintenance for now?
« on: June 24, 2011, 02:07:17 am »
I think I can work up to a 5RM but eliminate the additional volume sets without too much fatigue.

And yes, I meant squat every day but in very low volumes (one top set of half squats).

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: Checking My Premises
« on: June 23, 2011, 04:59:17 pm »
Exactly ^^^

That's why I want to cut down on squatting as of right now. I have plenty of time to squat in the winter when I don't do anything else at all since it's snow outside and I don't have a gym to play into.

It makes sense to cut down on squats right now therefore, maybe just squat every day VERY low volumes and do some KB swings and that's it.

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MUSiC anD SHeeT! / Re: My best singing so far :D
« on: June 23, 2011, 04:42:46 pm »
Add two more to my best singing collection :D

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

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgpyebIJn3Q" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgpyebIJn3Q</a>

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Pics, Videos, & Links / Re: Dan Pfaff seminar
« on: June 23, 2011, 03:26:05 pm »
Quote from: mattyg35 on June 23, 2011, 02:14:26 pm
http://www.athleticscoaching.ca/default.aspx?p=search&s=pfaff

But these are with MONEY! :o ;D

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: Continue to work on increasing the squat or get to maintenance for now?
« on: June 23, 2011, 03:20:22 pm »
What I meant is - right now I want to ENJOY what I worked half a year or so for. That is - true jumping and not fatigue masked low performance jumping. It's like "inseason" for me at this point. So it doesn't make sense to go all out with squatting only to go to the park and suck hard at dunking and playing ball.

I don't see any other option. I can still squat in very low volumes everyday so that hopefully helps me. Heck, it might even increase my squat if I'm overtrained or if I'm really a hardgainer.

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