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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: The Vertical Jump Formula By Chad Wesley Smith
« on: May 19, 2011, 03:44:54 am »
Let me ask you something else.

Let's say I was born in Kosovo, where the average monthly salary is 10$. And I want to learn whatever it is in that book. Is it moral and ethical for me to put safe 0.25$ per month to get a 100$ book in 33 years?

The same applies with software. It's being developed by rich countries where a guy can pay 400$ for a piece of software because, you know, he makes 50.000$ per year. But here where I make, what, barely 3.000$ per year - I AM MORALLY AND ETHICALLY OBLIGED to buy that? Are you fucking kidding me? Piracy is the way. Worry about ethics later.

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ADARQ & LanceSTS - Q&A / Re: Three types of depth jumps
« on: May 19, 2011, 03:35:25 am »
Well I haven't have this occur too much lately in the one leg jump, but it does occur in the two footed version... the quad overload there is incredible (meaning - I just overload the quads and then everything stiffens up).

I remember Kelly telling me it's a hamstring thing as well years ago, but I don't really believe that. I'd go as far as to say that my hams are incredibly strong (I could and probably can do 8+ natural glute ham raises) so if anything, then maybe yeah, they don't "activate" or whatever properly when subjected to dynamic stuff. In fact, I can even remember occurences when I could feel the ham fail in a jump (it just feels like a huge weakness under the leg and you jump 8 inches once that happens).

I'm not sure what stiff single leg bounding is though. And prime times feel so easy, like I'm doing nothing.

I assume you refer to this:

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WU7t5w0DbWE" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WU7t5w0DbWE</a>

But yeah, my question was initially about the two footed jump, but it hinted a bit towards the one-leg version as well.

Also, why not think about the one-leg jump as a spring ? I mean, I've jumped with both a lever and spring mindset and it was OK, I think the lever thing works well with more reactive and light people, while the spring works better with strength-oriented and heavier people. I get that once you try to use ONE LEG as a spring the overload on that leg becomes incredible so you need incredible strength to prevent that leg from collapsing though.

For example, in a normal single leg bound there's compression happening and muscular power being put in there. The knee and hip joints of that leg are bent and not straight, which makes the muscle of those joints to load up quite a bit. So...

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: The Vertical Jump Formula By Chad Wesley Smith
« on: May 18, 2011, 04:18:27 pm »
Quote from: lamp on May 18, 2011, 03:14:44 pm
Quote from: Raptor on May 18, 2011, 03:09:16 pm
Quote from: lamp on May 18, 2011, 09:12:44 am
Raptor,

off topic question:

are you naturally this stupid or did you have to work at it?

Well it does come naturally but I have to admit, I read a lot of your posts to get at this level.
  lol

do you really not understand the ethical question posed by dreyth?

 your reply,

"What if you use then burn the copy?", implies that you do not

You wouldn't worry about so called ethics that much if you lived in Somalia. Stop making such a big thing out of nothing. Knowledge must be free.

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: The Vertical Jump Formula By Chad Wesley Smith
« on: May 18, 2011, 03:09:16 pm »
Quote from: lamp on May 18, 2011, 09:12:44 am
Raptor,

off topic question:

are you naturally this stupid or did you have to work at it?

Well it does come naturally but I have to admit, I read a lot of your posts to get at this level.

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ADARQ & LanceSTS - Q&A / Re: Three types of depth jumps
« on: May 18, 2011, 03:07:11 pm »
Here's a trick question:

If you have a quad dominant guy who has problems with overloading his quads on jumps that generate knee collapse (leg giving out), and you choose to train with depth jump, what kind of depth jump would you say will benefit him more (obviously doing both would be nice):

The forward DJ since he needs to make his quads learn how to absorb and release force better

OR

The backward DJ since he needs to learn to engage the hips/glutes better and take away the knee/quad overload by doing so.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: May 18, 2011, 06:03:24 am »
1) You're starting to scare me;
2) Is that safe driving?

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ADARQ & LanceSTS - Q&A / Re: Three types of depth jumps
« on: May 18, 2011, 05:57:07 am »
Yeah, in fact I was thinking about a backward depth jump where you drop backwards and jump immediately back onto the box you dropped off.

That should load the posterior chain more since the hips are the ones who need stoppage from downward movement (instead of the knees with a forward depth jump) which, in theory, should work on activating the glutes eccentrically more and also store and release energy from them better than the forward depth jump.

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: The Vertical Jump Formula By Chad Wesley Smith
« on: May 18, 2011, 02:35:55 am »
What if you use then burn the copy?

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: The PR's/PB's, videos, pictures, and daily achievements thread
« on: May 17, 2011, 04:46:01 pm »
You can see the bar kind of travel forwards on the half squat... probably threw you off balance quite a bit.

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: Squat - volume day
« on: May 17, 2011, 11:52:11 am »
Well... I'll just drink protein powder after the workout... MAYBE in the morning but I wouldn't risk an upset stomach while going to work.

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: Squat - volume day
« on: May 17, 2011, 11:03:07 am »
Well yeah, you're right, I think I'll go with 3x10 in my volume day and 4x4-6 in my intensity day.

But progress week by week is not possible. Such a thing does not exist unless you drink gallons of milk to become a fat pig and just brag about your squat.

And right now, I'm actually in a "slim-down" mode. I need to get lighter. Also, more plyo work this period. But really, week by week progression is not possible, unless, again, pig body is wanted.

To add to the problems, the lowest jump in weight using those discs where I will train is at a minimum of 10 kg (22 lbs), since I only have 15, 20 and 25 kg plates. So I definitely need to do more reps with a weight rather than increase the weight, and then do a 10 kg jump and less reps, and try to increase on that.

Like:

Week 1: 100x10
Week 2: 100x12
Week 3 : 110x8
Week 4: 110x9

etc

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: Squat - volume day
« on: May 17, 2011, 08:52:51 am »
Well I don't know, seems like too little volume. I might be better served to use less weight and more volume for a while, I trained too much with heavy weights and I'm also injured.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Kingfish
« on: May 17, 2011, 07:18:35 am »
Like Kingfish wasn't a beast already, he's starting to get close or even hit his 40 SVJ goal.

WE DEMAND VIDEOS!

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Age vs Vertical
« on: May 17, 2011, 06:56:58 am »
Quote from: Clarence on May 16, 2011, 05:52:59 pm
Quote from: LBSS on May 16, 2011, 04:30:17 pm
I'm comin for you, vag. 1.5" to go.  :strong:

Taken out of context this quote is hilarious! :P

Do we have something we need to know in here?

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: Hip Belt Squats
« on: May 17, 2011, 05:45:24 am »
Quote from: JackW on May 16, 2011, 07:41:11 pm
I like the single leg version of the leg press best. Also I wouldn't worry too much about just trying to develop the VMO either. Why would you want to isolate that muscle so much anyway?

Because it's always dead and underdeveloped for me. It goes as far as making my knee unstable due to overdeveloped vastus lateralis and underdeveloped vastus medialis.

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