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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: THE DREAM JOURNAL
« on: April 06, 2011, 05:23:12 am »
Crazy dream last night... oh man...

I dreamed that a nuke just fell somewhere like 5 kilometers away from my building and I was like "hey, is this really happening? I mean, it only happens in my dreams, I never thought this will happen in real life" and then I went on the streets and the streets were flooded with water all the way up to the neck, sometimes even higher, and was walking through water behind a neighborgh of mine, and he was walking and sometimes entering deeper water and I used to get so scared.

Then I took a subway "to Hell", everybody was bragging about how cool it is and that I should take it. Went in through a back door of the train and there were so many WEIRD people there... everybody looking at you and pointing and stuff like that, and then some train "officials" came in and gave us some weird, bug-like pills to take... and took that and swallowed it and then we had a moment to realize that maybe that wasn't the brightest of ideas ... but we couldn't do anything about that since we already swallowed it ... and then we reached "Hell" which was some kind of computer generated level with "blocks" of blue... then I don't remember anymore.

If anything, search for "minecraft" on youtube, it looked like that, but blue and underground.

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Pics, Videos, & Links / Re: funny / horrible training videos
« on: April 06, 2011, 05:06:11 am »
Haha, can we be more antagonistic than this or what? Let me guess, you also like Carmelo, Rip Hamilton, Bruce Bowen, Raja Bell, Ron Artest, Dennis Rodman, Bill Laimbeer, Chauncey Billups, Anderson Varejao, Manu Ginobili?

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: The PR's/PB's, videos, pictures, and daily achievements thread
« on: April 06, 2011, 05:03:03 am »
Nah, I squatted 140 some time ago. It wasn't that hard so it's probably higher than 140, more like 145-150. So it's in the 320-330 lbs range. But that's when I weighed 85 kg, now I weigh 81. I'm sure I can squat 140 right now though.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: The PR's/PB's, videos, pictures, and daily achievements thread
« on: April 05, 2011, 05:58:07 pm »
New  :personal-record: today: 120x3 x 5 sets. Probably could've done more, and I will try more the next time just to see where I start to struggle in terms of volume.

Also did Adarq's LTMP intensity workout at ~15 hours and went in the park after that and did a standing vertical jump dunk on the 2.96 m rim (9'8 ). I was jumping high today.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Kingfish
« on: April 05, 2011, 05:57:06 pm »
It's nice you decided to go with partials and stick with that... now you're starting to see the results and you're getting more beast by the minute

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Pics, Videos, & Links / Re: funny / horrible training videos
« on: April 05, 2011, 01:12:19 pm »
I hate (HATE, DESPISE, VILLAIN) JJ Barea with extreme passion. :-X

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ADARQ & LanceSTS - Q&A / Re: Deadlift and squat form
« on: April 05, 2011, 01:05:19 pm »
In his particular situation, I'd suggest he actually starts with the bar touching his shins. One inch off might be 2 or 3 for him (he might think it's one inch but it will be more). So touch the shins with the bar and keep on sliding it there softly.

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: Plyos before strength training?
« on: April 05, 2011, 05:22:40 am »
I did complex training. I used MSEM + jump squats, 3 rep squats + sprints, MSEM + depth jumps etc.

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Basketball / Re: A WHOLE BUNCH OF DUNKS AND SHIT.
« on: April 04, 2011, 07:31:22 pm »
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J56_HWanWaU" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J56_HWanWaU</a>

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ADARQ & LanceSTS - Q&A / Re: Squatting weight and vertical jumping
« on: April 04, 2011, 06:39:42 pm »
I wonder what happens if you keep the same stance and put the bar lower on your back.

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ADARQ & LanceSTS - Q&A / Re: Standing vertical vs. running vertical
« on: April 04, 2011, 06:38:42 pm »
Well if you go really "strict" in terms of specificity, a squat will work to improve your standing VJ and a depth jump will be used to improve your running VJ. But obviously these things are intertwined and is not that simple.

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Introduce Yourself / Re: Norwegian Girl
« on: April 04, 2011, 02:43:29 pm »
So you were the R guy? Nice one.

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Injury, Prehab, & Rehab talk for the brittlebros / Re: Ankle taping in the NBA
« on: April 04, 2011, 11:56:23 am »
Yeah, I know. I was just making a point about how we're usually so lazy that we never jump maximally in a game ONCE.

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: Imbalances
« on: April 04, 2011, 11:54:00 am »
Quote from: DamienZ on April 04, 2011, 11:50:25 am
Quote from: Raptor on April 04, 2011, 10:47:12 am
Quote from: LanceSTS on April 04, 2011, 09:46:35 am
Quote from: KokoyPinoy on April 04, 2011, 08:32:39 am
Quote from: Raptor on April 04, 2011, 04:28:36 am
In my opinion, your best bet is to decrease the weight and go with more reps. More reps mean more volume for both your legs, and less weight means your weak leg won't have as much overload and will "try" to keep up. You need to stop your set when the weak leg starts to give up.

Quote from: LanceSTS on April 04, 2011, 04:39:59 am
Quote from: Raptor on April 04, 2011, 04:28:36 am
In my opinion, your best bet is to decrease the weight and go with more reps. More reps mean more volume for both your legs, and less weight means your weak leg won't have as much overload and will "try" to keep up. You need to stop your set when the weak leg starts to give up.


^^  That part in bold is EXTREMELY important, you just reinforce the imbalance and bad form by continuing to let it happen, and the risk of injury is getting higher and higher along with it.

Coming both from Raptor and Sir Lance, i will do it. But I just did sets of 10 in the afternoon and my left leg didn't gave up (it can do more I think, because it ain'y fatigued or something) but i was leaning to the right, I think. Maybe I should lean to the left more and make my reps slow(?? maybe a bad idea) to focus on my left leg? Because if I do the rep fast I can't control the weight distribution on my legs. Any idea raptor, sir lance and other bros(?) ??

 Go slow until you are able to perform your reps evenly, then you can add the speed and power, as well as load.  Strength and coordination in the 2 leg squat is very movement specific to the 2 leg squat, so youre going to have to practice it either way, bringing up the strength of the other limb individually is a good idea too, but its not going to fix the problem by itself.

I'm subscribing to this completely.

One small additional point: when training unilaterally, always start with your weak leg. For example, if you do BSS, start with your weak leg and do the same amount of reps with the strong leg, even though you could've done more with the stronger leg.

http://benbruno.blogspot.com/2010/09/quick-tip-for-unilateral-training.html

Yeah that's interesting too, although that would be good for people with good form discipline.

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: Imbalances
« on: April 04, 2011, 10:47:12 am »
Quote from: LanceSTS on April 04, 2011, 09:46:35 am
Quote from: KokoyPinoy on April 04, 2011, 08:32:39 am
Quote from: Raptor on April 04, 2011, 04:28:36 am
In my opinion, your best bet is to decrease the weight and go with more reps. More reps mean more volume for both your legs, and less weight means your weak leg won't have as much overload and will "try" to keep up. You need to stop your set when the weak leg starts to give up.

Quote from: LanceSTS on April 04, 2011, 04:39:59 am
Quote from: Raptor on April 04, 2011, 04:28:36 am
In my opinion, your best bet is to decrease the weight and go with more reps. More reps mean more volume for both your legs, and less weight means your weak leg won't have as much overload and will "try" to keep up. You need to stop your set when the weak leg starts to give up.


^^  That part in bold is EXTREMELY important, you just reinforce the imbalance and bad form by continuing to let it happen, and the risk of injury is getting higher and higher along with it.

Coming both from Raptor and Sir Lance, i will do it. But I just did sets of 10 in the afternoon and my left leg didn't gave up (it can do more I think, because it ain'y fatigued or something) but i was leaning to the right, I think. Maybe I should lean to the left more and make my reps slow(?? maybe a bad idea) to focus on my left leg? Because if I do the rep fast I can't control the weight distribution on my legs. Any idea raptor, sir lance and other bros(?) ??

 Go slow until you are able to perform your reps evenly, then you can add the speed and power, as well as load.  Strength and coordination in the 2 leg squat is very movement specific to the 2 leg squat, so youre going to have to practice it either way, bringing up the strength of the other limb individually is a good idea too, but its not going to fix the problem by itself.

I'm subscribing to this completely.

One small additional point: when training unilaterally, always start with your weak leg. For example, if you do BSS, start with your weak leg and do the same amount of reps with the strong leg, even though you could've done more with the stronger leg.

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