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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: High cut calves
« on: February 25, 2011, 10:45:01 am »
Quote from: Raptor on February 25, 2011, 03:07:34 am
Nightfly has similar calves to these guys ^^^ and jumps over 40 off one leg. Maybe a shorter tendon might be thicker and get stiff easier? At the same time, a longer, bigger calf muscle has a chance of getting even bigger than a shorter muscle (more hypertrophy potential).

the thicker part was what I was thinking too.

shorter tendon=thicker and stiffer tendon perhaps...

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / High cut calves
« on: February 24, 2011, 11:17:11 pm »
One thing thats often said is it is a lot easier to jump high when you have high cut calves.

I have found generally this is true....BUT

I first noticed this when I was watching a stefan holmes (high jumper) hurdle vid

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZG3_I3zFB0U" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZG3_I3zFB0U</a>




Watch this video twice-- the first time to see how awesome he is and how easy he makes head-height hurdles look.

The second time skip to 23sec-32sec where you can clearly see his lower limb structure.
His calves are clearly not low cut-- his achilles is not very long at all.  especially at 31 sec they look frankly low-cut   :o

how could this be?  He is one of the best high jumpers (at least was) and successful on an elite level yet structurally he doesn't appear built for it.

This piqued my curiosity so I looked at the structure of other elite high jumpers:











In fact the only elite high jumper who I found had high-calves was the bahamanian donald thomas (who also was the only high jumper not of european descent)




i just thought it was interesting that these athletes who excel in jumping especially from a reactive point of view (their rvjs are much higher than their cmvjs) do not have high-cut calves


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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: Posterior Chain Strength Preparation for the Vertical Jump by Charles Poliquin?.
« on: February 24, 2011, 10:59:29 pm »
charles poliquin is notorious for over-exaggerating and even making up facts.
However, there is a lot of good stuff buried within the trash...you just have to have enough knowledge to be able to pick and choose for yourself

Is he a legendary coach?  Yes

Should you believe everything he writes?  No

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: lead by example
« on: February 24, 2011, 10:51:03 pm »
ok adarq i respect that.

i'm the opposite ha,
I put on muscle easily and am not very endurance oriented lol, gotta struggle for every achievement in that regard.

I appreciate everything you're doing with this site.

In relation to your goals:

one of my favorite soccer players, Zinedine Zidane, once said that "growing up in the streets of Marseille there were many kids that were better than me".  He stuck with it, he persevered and is now one of the all-time greats.

i.e. what i'm trying to say is more people would achieve success if they just didn't take no for an answer


Btw, I think you should start coaching other people again as a job.  You're too good not to and you could really effect some change working "from the inside".

Having first-hand experience of the incompetencies of the s&c industry myself, I wish there were more coaches like you...


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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: lead by example
« on: February 24, 2011, 09:25:15 pm »
adarq:

wouldn't you be better served by being a super lean 170 or even 180?  If all that weight was gained in the jumping muscles I think you would be better...

145 is just too light for a strength/power athlete, which as a jumper, is what you are.

Secondly, if you are not completing in a sport where it is illegal to dope, I would run a cycle.  I would read the doping protocol charlie francis used for ben johnson (its in the CFTS book) and then do that. 

can you imagine you at 150ish squatting 500?  you'd be unbelievable.

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: Posterior Chain Strength Preparation for the Vertical Jump by Charles Poliquin?.
« on: February 23, 2011, 08:04:20 pm »
well other than the 5% thing which obviously isn't true the stuff looks pretty good.

those 6 exercises are all tremendous in building athleticism and jumping ability

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: Squat vs Deadlift.
« on: February 23, 2011, 07:24:59 pm »
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when you read stuff like, "ben johnson squatted 600 for 8 reps", realize it was ABOVE PARALLEL OFF A BOX................... roided but one of the fastest people to ever grace this planet, he never went deep, and charlie francis didn't give a shit.

Ben Johnson's 600 was not off a box and it was for 8, charlie said he wouldn't let him go below that in reps because of risk


the box thing is a common misconception which stems from the video online of ben squatting 400ish to a high-ish box.

That came much later in Ben's career when he was training with someone else.

Charlie himself said this and said that Ben was not squatting to a box.

the squats were slightly above parallel according to Charlie

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Introduce Yourself / Re: Norwegian Girl
« on: February 23, 2011, 01:12:30 pm »
Quote from: adistarhj on February 23, 2011, 10:48:26 am
Quote from: lamp on February 22, 2011, 07:27:13 pm
yeah on the sprint it looks as if she could get more glute involvement as well.  she still seems to be a bit of a  "push runner" at least if i am looking at it correctly.

skips look really impressive though...awesome

Thanks! :)  Yeah, that's probably true. Do you have any advice on  how  I can improve it? :)

ha, it comes from being more glute dominant in the way you sprint, maybe work on glute activation and recruitment...i don't really know though.  The coaches chris korfist and dan fichter specialize in that sort of thing so you should post this video on their site and see what they think.

so the site is wannagetfast.com and join the forum, post the video and see if they'll analyze it for you there



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Introduce Yourself / Re: Norwegian Girl
« on: February 22, 2011, 07:27:13 pm »
yeah on the sprint it looks as if she could get more glute involvement as well.  she still seems to be a bit of a  "push runner" at least if i am looking at it correctly.

skips look really impressive though...awesome

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: February 02, 2011, 01:12:01 pm »
Quote from: Raptor on February 02, 2011, 11:46:58 am
Trust me, those were true NIGGERS. Like, the definition of that word. That word may not be warranted to black people, but it sure is warranted for these guys. Fuck'em. >:(

yo lets not generalize anything about race...  crime is entirely an economic thing, it just so happens in the usa black people are more likely to be poor

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thanks man & ya, that shit is just a damn reflex.. thank evolution.

woulda been bad if one of the dude's was former high school defensive back, 4.3 speed, who went bad.. i actually still think i coulda outran tho i felt that fast and no signals telling me i need to slow down.

lool

caseyy combest eat ur heart out.

ha for sure you'd have beaten him, it wasn't life or death for him

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yup, i dont usually go the same route anyway, i always mix it up slightly... but ya, changes henceforth.. lulz

yo if I can make a suggestion the hours are between 11-430 are by far the worst for crime and shit, nothing good ever happens at that time.  If you pushed your running back to 5-6 you'd prolly have what you like (few people/traffic) but also fewer criminals and stuff.

 I would definitely change things up though, adrenaline will help you outrun any person but not bullets or a car




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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: February 02, 2011, 09:55:32 am »
Glad you're alright man.

lucky the instinct to run really fast from death is the oldest instinct there is.  combine that with your training and they had no chance of catching you

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: Don't ditch your training shoes with elevated heels?
« on: December 30, 2010, 02:29:35 pm »
Quote from: Kellyb on December 30, 2010, 01:47:45 pm
The article isn't implying what you think it is. You have to differentiate physiological "stiffness" from lack of mobility, and that study the tendons became less mobile.  Specifically trying t otrain for qualities like tendon stiffness is an exercise in futility. Train correctly and all that stuff will take care of itself.   

Yes, they did have reduced flexibility but the tendons also "grew"

according to the researchers they were "much thicker and stiffer" 


and "by thickening and stiffening, the Achilles' tendon compensates for the shortened muscle fibres in the calf muscle, allowing the fashion addicts' calf muscles to function optimally as they walk"

-according to the study there was no difference in force output between the high-heeled vs the flat-heeled group.

the high-heeled group did have shortened calf muscles which would reduce their ability to contract and produce force.
thus the force must have come from elsewhere...the increased stiffness of the tendons

the authors even conclude that here: "Functionally, these two phenomena  seem to counteract each other since no significant differences in static or dynamic torques were observed."


Yes they were less mobile but there is more here at play than that.  If one were to elicit the gains and thickness and stiffness of the tendon while maintaining the length and rom of the calf it would be beneficial.

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Don't ditch your training shoes with elevated heels?
« on: December 30, 2010, 12:39:23 pm »
I just posted a study in the peer-reviewed studies section.  I thought it was very interesting and I think it pertains to training for the vertical jump (even though the study was aimed more at addressing why people who always wear high heels feel pain without them).

This is the study:  http://www.adarq.org/forum/peer-reviewed-studies-discussion/tendon-muscle-joint-stiffness/

it's the bottom one in the thread

An article that summarizes it is here:  http://jeb.biologists.org/cgi/content/full/213/15/i?maxtoshow=&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=&fulltext=high+heels&searchid=1&FIRSTINDEX=0&resourcetype=HWCIT

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The study focuses on women who had worn high heels for 2 years or more.  They then studied the calf muscle and achilles tendon to find out the effects of the high heels.  They found that the calf muscles are shortened:

"the high heel wearers' muscle fibres were 13% shorter than those of the women who wore flat shoes"

The researches then asked:  "by shortening the fibres, the muscles would have to contract more to shorten by the same length, and if this was the case the high heel fans' calf muscles could no longer function optimally and thus would produce less force than the flat shoe wearer's calf muscles. Had the shortened muscle fibres made it more difficult for high heel addicts to walk efficiently?"

They found out that: "The tendon had not lengthened to compensate for the shorter calf muscle. However, the high heel fans' tendons were much thicker and stiffer than the flat shoe wearers'. Narici and his team realised that by thickening and stiffening, the Achilles' tendon compensates for the shortened muscle fibres in the calf muscle, allowing the fashion addicts' calf muscles to function optimally as they walk"

So in conclusion the effect of the elevated heel was on increased tendon stiffness,  ultimately there is a down side in that you lose ankle mobility.  However, the increased in tendon stiffness is a huge positive.  I think it was on kelly baggett's site where I read something that stated that elite jumpers had tendon stiffness greater than the norm.  Furthermore, in another study posted here there is more favorable evidence for the advantages of tendon stiffness: "the stiffness of tendon structures has a favorable effect on stretch-shortening cycle exercise, possibly due to adequate storage and recoil of elastic energy."

So by wearing elevated training shoes, wouldn't we be eliciting somewhat these favorable adaptations (increased tendon stiffness).  Then with a proper stretching routine you could probably maintain ankle mobility and calf flexibility and get the best of both worlds--you'd have the added stiffness of the tendon as well as the increased range for the calf to contract over.


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Peer Reviewed Studies Discussion / Re: Tendon / Muscle / Joint Stiffness
« on: December 30, 2010, 12:23:05 pm »
On muscle, tendon and high heels

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: Jump Training Multiple Times a day
« on: December 20, 2010, 10:50:42 am »
Ok,

yea that makes sense.

But if you were to keep the same overall volume and just spread it throughout multiple sessions on the training day instead of just one, wouldn't that be better from both a hormonal and motor unit standpoint?

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