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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: April 17, 2011, 05:23:51 am »
Last jump looks like a one-leg dunk attempt. You owe me a one legged dunk if you get under 150. 
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Pics, Videos, & Links / Re: A friend of mine dunking on lower rims
« on: April 17, 2011, 05:21:21 am »
Well he trains on his own right now, not sure what his squat numbers are at the moment, but he sprained his ankle in an "uncovered" sewer end that was on the street from what I know. Remember, we live in a civilized country.
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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: High frequency "unracking"
« on: April 17, 2011, 05:12:06 am »
Glad it helped, it sure will be interesting what happens next.
That's very interesting. Could this unracking thing make you become more aware of the hips if that makes sense? (like the iso stim does)
as for me, when i unrack a bar, even at that depth, i use my hips pretty good, its not a knee driven movement when i unrack a bar, so that's probably something else that's important.. unracking it using a bit more hip focus, just in case.
That's very interesting. Could this unracking thing make you become more aware of the hips if that makes sense? (like the iso stim does)
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: April 16, 2011, 08:38:45 pm »
You look like 6'7 here:
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Pics, Videos, & Links / Re: beast
« on: April 16, 2011, 10:12:39 am »Well you can only go as far as YOU can go...
Sorry what?
Meaning exactly that. You can only go as far as YOU (each individual) can go, depending on how strong you are. To get further away you need to get stronger, and that happens in time. Think about the distance traveled on the ab wheel as a weight in the squat.
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Boxing / Re: PunchingPro device
« on: April 16, 2011, 04:10:26 am »...if you just stare at it and blur your eyes it's almost like he's fighting someone. Kinda funny.
Haha, you know the blurry eyes technique too?
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Pics, Videos, & Links / Re: funny / horrible training videos
« on: April 15, 2011, 05:37:49 pm »5978
Boxing / Re: PunchingPro device
« on: April 15, 2011, 04:27:38 pm »
Haha, that's actually pretty cool.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: April 15, 2011, 04:21:21 pm »
Is he a part of HRN?
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Pics, Videos, & Links / A friend of mine dunking on lower rims
« on: April 15, 2011, 02:38:12 pm »
I have a bunch of videos of him that I need to upload, but here are three dunks:
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRf2_4Hxko0" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRf2_4Hxko0</a>
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByoBGf7rSPA" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByoBGf7rSPA</a>
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zv1UTpBwU2U" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zv1UTpBwU2U</a>
Unfortunately for him, he's not disciplined enough to lose weight (he's at 230-240 lbs at 6'0 right now) to actually dunk like crazy. He weighed about 205 in the videos.
Unfortunately for him, he's not disciplined enough to lose weight (he's at 230-240 lbs at 6'0 right now) to actually dunk like crazy. He weighed about 205 in the videos.
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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: High frequency "unracking"
« on: April 15, 2011, 01:26:38 pm »275-->315, not much difference. 315-->365, huge difference in feeling. 365-->405, not much again.
Yeah that's really interesting, I think I can relate to that, but I have a narrower spectrum to "work with". For me heavy starts at 110 kg... but from that point on, probably 150 feels very heavy, but 130 or 140 seems "somewhat similar" to 110.
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Program Review / Re: Project Vertical
« on: April 15, 2011, 07:30:54 am »Definitely looks like youre using your hips much more in your more recent jumps.
Taking shots at Andrew now aren't we? tsk tsk
uhh, wtf are you talking about??
You know, more hips, less quads...
I still hold my thought that he could jump better with more hip involvement, even with his build.
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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: High frequency "unracking"
« on: April 15, 2011, 07:28:01 am »
Yeah I think people need to find the proper variation to it in terms of time. I mean think about it - if you do 5s unracks that can't possibly "hurt" you (other than maybe if you get injured by using too much weight or something) but what I mean by hurt is having a negative influence on power/strength production. For such a small time window, it's gotta have only a stim effect for the CNS (like "hey, I just got fatter by 400 lbs, how about you give me some extra power to be able to survive" kind of effect).
If you do it often (that's to be discovered, what "often" should mean for anybody) over and over and over in time, then the CNS should be able to "accept" and "consider normal" such a level of sudden electrical output in the body. It's like a depth jump basically (but obviously different in terms of signal speed and amount of time that signal is maintained) but at the other part of the spectrum.
For a depth jump and especially depth drop where you hold the landing, there is a strong signal for a short time, but you have to take into account the shock on the joints/bones etc that's going to be detrimental to health over time.
For an unrack, there is a strong but weaker signal than in a depth drop (but still stronger than what you usually get in your normal life or even strength training) that lasts longer than in a depth drop. Sure, you have to take into account spinal load over time in here as well in terms of health, that's why I said you need to be smart and patient using this.
But, again, if you make the CNS adapt and be able to generate this signal "naturally" as in "at any point in time" then it might help getting the "normal" signal threshold that occurs during lifting and jumping at a higher point than if you were not to use this "system" of high frequency unracking.
If you do it often (that's to be discovered, what "often" should mean for anybody) over and over and over in time, then the CNS should be able to "accept" and "consider normal" such a level of sudden electrical output in the body. It's like a depth jump basically (but obviously different in terms of signal speed and amount of time that signal is maintained) but at the other part of the spectrum.
For a depth jump and especially depth drop where you hold the landing, there is a strong signal for a short time, but you have to take into account the shock on the joints/bones etc that's going to be detrimental to health over time.
For an unrack, there is a strong but weaker signal than in a depth drop (but still stronger than what you usually get in your normal life or even strength training) that lasts longer than in a depth drop. Sure, you have to take into account spinal load over time in here as well in terms of health, that's why I said you need to be smart and patient using this.
But, again, if you make the CNS adapt and be able to generate this signal "naturally" as in "at any point in time" then it might help getting the "normal" signal threshold that occurs during lifting and jumping at a higher point than if you were not to use this "system" of high frequency unracking.
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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: Heavy Eccentrics
« on: April 15, 2011, 07:19:07 am »Sweet thanks for the info man, I completely forgot about weight releasers!
edit: it seems strange to me that an athlete would have minimal eccentric strength gains from concentric only training. If someone made giant gains in their deadlift say 400lbs, something way beyond the extra 30% strength of eccentric contraction and whatever minimal eccentric gains they get since they dropped the bar at the top on each rep. Would it be possible that they couldn't at all lower their max deadlift?
Yeah exactly... if I train 3 months using deadlifts and dropping the bar at the top (so concentric only) and raise my deadlift from 100 to 160 kg, I find it hard to believe (impossible to believe) I won't be able to lower the 160 kg bar down to the floor.
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Article & Video Discussion / Re: The "glute guy" praises the quads & calfs - quadNation 4 lyfe.
« on: April 15, 2011, 07:15:10 am »the strength is there, learning & being willing to apply it to a barbell is an entirely different issue
What if it's reverse. The strength is there, learning and being willing to apply it TO THE FIELD is an entirely different issue (think CoolColJ).