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ADARQ & LanceSTS - Q&A / Re: Gain more strength when doing atg rather than more weight half squats?
« on: May 21, 2011, 02:32:28 pm »
I think the full squat is better suited for muscle gain as it's less specific to actual jumping but does recruit more muscle (better glute recruitment in a stretched position) and on a bigger rom, the TUT is longer and so on.

Half squatting is good for people who structurally don't squat good ATG or for people who are already at a high level muscularily and want more of a specificity workout at that point (better carryover to jumps).

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Age vs Vertical
« on: May 21, 2011, 10:40:32 am »
Haha yeah, I never really read the posts, I usually just "throw my eyes" over what's written and memorize what I can in about 2 seconds or so, and then that's it. Heck, the context is important, right? :P

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Nutrition & Supplementation / Re: Timing of Caffeine
« on: May 21, 2011, 06:16:51 am »
If you're not used to it then it might make you too agitated and make you fatigue easily, so keep that in mind.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Age vs Vertical
« on: May 20, 2011, 06:10:43 pm »
I haven't seen and "sprints" being listed lately. In fact, ever.

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: Dancing
« on: May 20, 2011, 03:51:38 pm »
Quote from: Kellyb on May 20, 2011, 02:30:37 pm
That's all fine but that's what I'm getting at with you overthinking everything.  On a VJ and speed forum when someone says "black" they're generally not referring to Kenyan americans. I think you knew that. When the OP mentioned dancing he's not referring to professional dancers or anyone whose ever received professional dance training.  Take a group of untrained people and have them dance (or do any other physical maneuver) and you get a look at what type of people are inherently good at it and which ones aren't. Same goes with artwork or any other skill.  There are exceptions to everything but look at general tendencies.

Translation: if a guy puts a gun at your head and says "of these 100 people, choose a guy that you think dances well. If he doesn't, you die" you, whoever you are, will pick a black guy.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Age vs Vertical
« on: May 20, 2011, 03:48:34 pm »
Oh, nice vag, going with sprints eh? I've never seen you do 2-leg bounds though, if your aim is two footed jumps. But sprints will definitely do a lot of good things to your body.

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Pics, Videos, & Links / Re: funny / horrible training videos
« on: May 20, 2011, 10:58:03 am »
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jd65h-xaKY" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jd65h-xaKY</a>

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Article & Video Discussion / Re: Interesting Jump snatch variation.
« on: May 20, 2011, 10:14:44 am »
Quote from: DamienZ on May 19, 2011, 04:09:31 pm
Quote from: Raptor on May 19, 2011, 09:12:30 am
What if you have weak shoulders (for the weight your legs are capable of propelling) and still want to snatch, but don't want to take years of training your shoulders to reach that level?

So you snatch with your shoulders? lol!

Well no but you do need some good isometric strength to keep a heavier bar over head.

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LanceSTS's Performance Blog / Re: SOME JUMP/ PLYO/ EXPLOSIVE STRENGTH WORKOUTS
« on: May 20, 2011, 05:03:15 am »
Interesting, maybe you should make a video about this, it could help a lot of people.

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: The Vertical Jump Formula By Chad Wesley Smith
« on: May 20, 2011, 03:57:06 am »
Quote from: lamp on May 20, 2011, 01:01:43 am
"Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter."

Money are sacred. You should love them. Can I be your friend?

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: What do you guys do, to prime yourself for max jump/dunk sessions?
« on: May 20, 2011, 03:54:33 am »
Quote from: Ineedtodunk on May 20, 2011, 02:06:53 am
Hmm, maybe I'll try the depth jumps for stim.  Any other stim tricks?

Sprints, iso extension stim, unracking, low volume very heavy deadlifts.

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LanceSTS's Performance Blog / Re: SOME JUMP/ PLYO/ EXPLOSIVE STRENGTH WORKOUTS
« on: May 20, 2011, 03:49:11 am »
Speaking of arm swing, is there any way to switch from a single arm swing to a double arm swing in single leg bounding? Any progression or just plain old practice of the movement?

My single arm swing resembles what happens in a sprint more than in a jump.

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: What do you guys do, to prime yourself for max jump/dunk sessions?
« on: May 19, 2011, 05:25:20 pm »
I think you should do some suicides and move around the court in a defensive stance aggressively. You can try to toss the ball over your back for a few meters then turn around and run to get it (after a regular warm-up of course).

You need to get to a "game level" thing. You can also try to play 1 on 1 with somebody and be aggressive playing.

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ADARQ & LanceSTS - Q&A / Re: Three types of depth jumps
« on: May 19, 2011, 05:23:01 pm »
Hm... well I do tend to bend forward at the waist when I run for my plant. If not (say I lean back a bit) then the knee usually collapses, so what you say makes sense.

So you're saying this can be corrected more with plyo stuff than weight room work (more a matter of shock absorption&manipulation/body position than regular say Romanian Deadlift or GHR strength)?

Also, what's your take on sprints and uphill sprints? They should train the hamstrings at high tension thresholds and going uphill should load the hips more, while at the same time the body position should favor hamstring load.

Thanks for this discussion by the way, I find this stuff very interesting and it's nice to actually have someone whom I can freely talk about and is able to understand these things.

PS. Andrew's words of "hamstrings are useless" keep coming to mind. He was talking about quad dominant two footed jumps though :P

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ADARQ & LanceSTS - Q&A / Re: Three types of depth jumps
« on: May 19, 2011, 03:18:25 pm »
But why would the knee bend more and slide forward? The quad is the muscle that will/should prevent that from happening. The hamstring can't do that, unless hamstring weakness overloads the quad that gives up.

For me it happened in the ham in the past - at the "knee end" of the ham, I could feel the weakness there. But it still doesn't make sense from the biomechanical standpoint unless that overload occurs (and when it happened I didn't feel the quad overload so, again, doesn't make sense). I mean, why would the knee go forward more?
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