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For the stepups I use 3 or 4 25 kg plates that fit the small bars (very small bar diameter). These are very stable one on top of another and I can do my stepups there since I don't have boxes.

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Yeah I think I come back to what I'm able to do regardless of training, probably just due to structure and technique alone (and just my natural level of strength or whatever).

5643
Yeah we'll see how it goes.

You're familiar with snatches and cleans, is your form good, or will you replace these with jumpsquats?

5644
First off, I can't understand how you aren't able to play ball during the summer. No outside courts near you?

But no, 2-leg jumps should improve if my strength improves, so...

5645
I never regressed at my one leg jump even after 3-4 months of not jumping almost at all... so you might be the same.

Wow really?  this 3-4 months of almost no jumping at all was after some time of making progress?  Or during untrained years?

Well during the winter I don't have a gym to play into, so I limit my training to strength only.

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: Calf size
« on: June 05, 2011, 05:31:35 am »
Interesting though isnt it that the black athletes with hips producing power dont stimulate much growth of the gastroc/soleus. 

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: June 05, 2011, 05:12:48 am »
I remember when I saw Shal jumping off one leg - it definitely clicked something in my mind in terms of how much more speed I can use and power. If this guy can do it, I can do it too! And I could feel it inside that I could do it, just not at this strength level. But I could feel it - I usually don't feel it when I know I can't do it, but in that case, I knew I could jump like that.

Once you witness real jumpers first person, you kind of start to realize it's possible for you too.

For me personally, when I participated at the dunk contest in 2006 here in Romania, in order not to get jelly legs, I kept all this arrogant attitude inside me, you really have to have swagger and think you're better than anybody and can't wait to show that to the world. That's the mentality you need to have and really believe into.

You should be like "I've trained for this, this is what I want to do, I'm going to kick yo ass". Also, although it might sound silly, you can/need to swear a lot in your mind. Because using "bad" words kind of makes your swagger increase. It's all psychological.

In a fight for example, when you swear at the other guy, you kind of prepare yourself mentally for the fight because you're "ready" and you can afford to swear at that guy so that means you're stronger than him, since you can afford to do that. There's a whole mental mechanism at the base of all this stuff so I thought about sharing it.

PS. Like I said, you have the structure, you said you don't have the strength to jump off one leg (I was like WTF? - since you're much more stronger than me and much lighter at the same time). If I can jump 34 maximall off one leg you should go near 40 or so.

5648
I never regressed at my one leg jump even after 3-4 months of not jumping almost at all... so you might be the same.

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Pics, Videos, & Links / Re: funny / horrible training videos
« on: June 04, 2011, 07:16:23 pm »
Not training, but...

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGFDF96hwTE" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGFDF96hwTE</a>

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: Calf size
« on: June 04, 2011, 06:03:17 pm »
More muscle = more potential force

But in my opinion, most great sprinters/jumps calfs are so well developed is because of the force they have to absorb from their sprints and jumps, and thus the calf grows in order to adapt to the stimulus. But the calfs should be trained because a stronger muscle is always a better muscle..

100% true. The reason strong guys have big calves is because of what they're producing at the hip and knee level (glutes, quads etc). So everything that's above the calves produces a lot of power that is being transferred to the ground through the calves, so the calves have no chance but to adapt to that stimulus. In the end, they are so developed like that person is heavier, so they need to grow and stay big.

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Pics, Videos, & Links / Re: beast
« on: June 04, 2011, 06:00:47 pm »
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWi8Ds2RoE4" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWi8Ds2RoE4</a>

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You know, I was thinking, and maybe the arm swing is what breaks my two-footed jumps - if you happen to lower the arms at the same time as the legs are amortizating the plant, then the force generated by the amortization of the bodyweight + the additional pressure created by the arms "pushing you" into the ground could possibly overload the quads and mess up the jump.

Also, if the arms and upperbody aren't moving more vertically and if the timing is bad, the upperbody will go forward and you will jump forward (will not be able to convert from horizontal movement to vertical movement).

I should film my two-footed jumps from the side and compare them to someone else at the same moment in time and see what I find out.

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Yeah I know the weight days are before the plyo days, and that's what "bothered" me in terms of the programming as well. But if you look, there's not a lot of strength volume - the exercises are more dynamic in nature than your usual strength workout.

I don't remember having too much trouble doing my plyo days after the strength days.

And I don't do the program again YET because my squat sucks hard at the moment, after my back injury. Going from consistently squatting 140 kg as a close max rep to struggling with 120 as a MAX rep tells me I need to recover my lost strength before I can peak out and actually use it dynamically.

BUT - I might use it as soon as my strength gets back. The thing is that you need to be very technically sound with the bounding before you really add a weight vest. If you struggle bounding with the bodyweight only - then adding a weight vest in the mix might not be such a really good idea :P

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Kingfish
« on: June 04, 2011, 05:55:26 am »
WTF? :ninja:

225 kg? :ninja:

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I think it was somewhere in Kelly's articles about this and how martial artists use it.

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