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OK so right now I'm doing this:

EVERYDAY in the morning (Monday to Friday):

24 kg kettlebell swings: 3x10
24 kg kettlebell one-leg straight leg deadlifts: 2x5
Pistols: 5 (each leg)

THEN

Later in the day: 2 days of plyos and 2 days of strength

Monday: 3x30m sprints + metrics (bounds)
Tuesday: squat 4x4-6, straight leg deadlifts 2x8
Wednesday: REST (core at home)
Thursday: some kind of uphill sprint + uphill metrics
Friday: explosive squat 3x10s + stepups

Now the problem is - I suck at both squatting and plyos at this point. I'm just so "tired" and "weak". I mean, I'm struggling to squat with 100 kg when my 1RM one month ago was ~150 kg (in another gym, not in here where I seem to suck for some reason).

Maybe doing that stuff in the morning kills me? I doesn't make any sense for 3 sets of 10 swings to kill me as hard as they're supposedly doing right now. I mean really. I also seem to get tired after doing anything whatsoever.

The hamstrings fail and the knee collapses even WHILE WALKING after say 2 30m sprints and so on. I MEAN WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON?

Should I continue with this and hopefully the body adapts (since because I was injured I haven't done anything and then maybe this is just a shock for a while for the body as it's adapting back to effort) and maybe the conditioning (and by conditioning I mean - not getting tired and out of breath after 1 30m sprint or a set of squats) will get better?

This is beast:

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWhxCB0ndJE" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWhxCB0ndJE</a>

Pretty good run-up as expected, although you could probably compress more in the jump. That will come with increased strength though.

That was when Adarqui looked like an actual man and not some alien caveman

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1YsJyPB2lc" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1YsJyPB2lc</a>

Quote from: Raptor on May 21, 2011, 04:52:36 pm

To me, if I try double arm swings in a maximal jump the jump leg is guaranteed to be overloaded and collapse.

So I think the key in getting this is to start submaximally and just focus on the arm swing while keeping the jumps short and not that tall (easy jumping) and increase jump amplitude over a few workouts.

Single arm swing does help me with dunking with the ball in hand though, since it makes the movement natural and easy.

so think about dunking the ball with two hands, off one leg...........

Well I suck at that

Quote from: steven-miller on May 20, 2011, 06:24:55 pm

Glad you guys like it!

@adarq: I actually got inspired by you with the socks sometime last year and wear them very often, usually when I do olympic lifts or for jumping. I actually have been wearing long socks for every volleyball competition for the entire last season. They are just awesome!

haha nice!!

ya man i love how high socks feel.. keeps my lower leg nice and warm, also somewhat compressive so it does feel better than with no socks.. i double/triple sock now.. hah

peace man

Maybe the most underrated part of that is the proprioceptive bonus that they give you. That's one of the reasons I wear thighs all the way down: having a material touch your skin makes you aware of your body position at all times.