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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Dreyth's New Journal
« on: March 09, 2016, 04:11:18 pm »
You can't? How's that possible? I mean my abs and core are weak as fuck, lol
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Dreyth's New Journal
« on: March 09, 2016, 03:21:39 pm »
Yeah that's what I thought... granted my legs feel soooo heavy with my big quads and all that... I can lower them under control but I wouldn't be able to recover back up.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Dreyth's New Journal
« on: March 09, 2016, 12:55:39 pm »
Here's me doing them, comment on form:
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dW5MQvj5v2Q" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dW5MQvj5v2Q</a>
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: March 08, 2016, 11:37:10 am »
The most I ever made in my life is 400 euros per month #success #moneyTaker #democracy #capitalism #itGenius #richBastard #takeTheOil #ImFantastic #killTheirFamilies
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Dreyth's New Journal
« on: March 08, 2016, 10:00:19 am »
You look fucking huge lately.
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Basketball / Re: A WHOLE BUNCH OF DUNKS AND SHIT.
« on: March 07, 2016, 05:38:06 pm »
It was really cool the way the guy that got dunked up reacted, props to him.
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Basketball / Re: A WHOLE BUNCH OF DUNKS AND SHIT.
« on: March 07, 2016, 09:31:34 am »
Just look at that crazy plant:
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1DzqgUADms" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1DzqgUADms</a>
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Injury, Prehab, & Rehab talk for the brittlebros / Re: Low back pain
« on: March 01, 2016, 06:47:59 am »
Yeah I'll try to put a pillow under my knees... my APT is so bad that if I sleep on my belly my face is being pressed down into the bed, because of the APT. And I have to sleep with one leg bent and the other one straight, I can't sleep on my belly with both legs straight, lel.
If I do leg raises while lying on my back (where you need to keep the lowerback pressed into the ground), I can't even do them because there wouldn't be any space for my butt "to be". And so on.
So it's imperative to lose weight, in other words. I think gaining weight has been in itself terrible for my back.
If I do leg raises while lying on my back (where you need to keep the lowerback pressed into the ground), I can't even do them because there wouldn't be any space for my butt "to be". And so on.
So it's imperative to lose weight, in other words. I think gaining weight has been in itself terrible for my back.
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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: Fat loss program
« on: February 28, 2016, 02:24:58 pm »
I know I know... I'll try... if I fix my back and I lose some weight while getting my mind a bit better, that would make a ton of difference from all angles. I think these are the three actual important things that should matter right now.
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Injury, Prehab, & Rehab talk for the brittlebros / Re: Low back pain
« on: February 28, 2016, 01:38:16 pm »
It's weird but I repaired my bed, and it's now firm and tight (did this 3 months or so ago). Coincidentally or not, my back pain started pretty much at the same time.
When I sleep in my bed now, my butt is so big that my lowerback is in the air all night long (I sleep on my back) and it hurts like hell. It's like my butt is so big and I'm in such anterior pelvic tilt that my lowerback can't help but be in terrible shape.
When I sleep in my bed now, my butt is so big that my lowerback is in the air all night long (I sleep on my back) and it hurts like hell. It's like my butt is so big and I'm in such anterior pelvic tilt that my lowerback can't help but be in terrible shape.
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Injury, Prehab, & Rehab talk for the brittlebros / Re: Low back pain
« on: February 28, 2016, 12:07:14 pm »
My back is really messed up... it wakes me up during the night when I turn on the other side, for example. Thanks for the links, but they're hard to follow/understand.
I think the only thing I can do is step away from training (from gym work) and revert back to my regular, normal, untrained athleticism, 12-inch vert level. I can't imagine my back ever recovering while continuing to train, as bad as it is right now. Wonderful news.
I think the only thing I can do is step away from training (from gym work) and revert back to my regular, normal, untrained athleticism, 12-inch vert level. I can't imagine my back ever recovering while continuing to train, as bad as it is right now. Wonderful news.
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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Fat loss program
« on: February 28, 2016, 12:04:10 pm »
OK so considering my continuous back issues, I think I'll be out of the gym for a while and I'd want to kind of do pullups and pushups and planks with dynamic leg work (jumps, plyos etc) for some period of time, while trying to lose weight.
Training wise, how would you structure such a thing? I'd like to do the calisthenics work for "strength" and then do jogging/cardio work, and maybe some interval sprints (if I have where to do them, they are now asking money to get to the track).
Would you do long distance running (long distance for me, that's a mile or so) one day and then 2 days later, interval work? KB swings? (assuming my back allows me to do them)
PS. Come to think of it, maybe I should just give up. After 8 years of non stop squatting I'm pretty much at the same level of absolute strength (if not worse) than for example 2-3 years ago, while being 10 kg heavier. Not to mention my vert is 24-28 inches off one leg and ~24 off two.
So when you look at this, after years of training (consistently), you can only conclude it doesn't work and it's a waste of time while also destroying my body. We like to come here on this forum and pretend it works but the reality is that it only works for people who actually are made to respond to training and don't have ultra-extreme depression and terrible nutrition and 0 money and a ton of other issues.
Maybe I should revert back to being a skinny-fat nerd with no life AND no training on top of it, it kinda comes naturally to me.
Training wise, how would you structure such a thing? I'd like to do the calisthenics work for "strength" and then do jogging/cardio work, and maybe some interval sprints (if I have where to do them, they are now asking money to get to the track).
Would you do long distance running (long distance for me, that's a mile or so) one day and then 2 days later, interval work? KB swings? (assuming my back allows me to do them)
PS. Come to think of it, maybe I should just give up. After 8 years of non stop squatting I'm pretty much at the same level of absolute strength (if not worse) than for example 2-3 years ago, while being 10 kg heavier. Not to mention my vert is 24-28 inches off one leg and ~24 off two.
So when you look at this, after years of training (consistently), you can only conclude it doesn't work and it's a waste of time while also destroying my body. We like to come here on this forum and pretend it works but the reality is that it only works for people who actually are made to respond to training and don't have ultra-extreme depression and terrible nutrition and 0 money and a ton of other issues.
Maybe I should revert back to being a skinny-fat nerd with no life AND no training on top of it, it kinda comes naturally to me.
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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: Hip Hyperextension
« on: February 26, 2016, 05:25:52 pm »
What do you think? Isn't the answer obvious? Look at any great single leg jumper at the time of take-off and you'll see a tremendous amount of hip hyperextension.
In fact, maybe that's one reason the "abs" (hip flexors) are pretty important in the one leg jump - being the antagonists of the muscles that do the hip extension, and because the hip hyperextension is the end of ROM in the hip extension movement, you want to have very powerful antagonists that are able to stop that powerful movement before it goes through "too much of a range" (too much hyperextension) and injures you. It's similar with the hamstrings stopping the quads from hyperextending the knee (in that case).
So the CNS has to be able to count on the strength of the hip flexors to stop that dangerous hyperextension from occuring, or else the CNS will cut short the amount of hip hyperextension that is going to be used, in order to prevent injury. So you won't get "max" hyperextension, meaning a lesser power/over a lesser ROM hip hyperextension, meaning a lower jump.
In fact, maybe that's one reason the "abs" (hip flexors) are pretty important in the one leg jump - being the antagonists of the muscles that do the hip extension, and because the hip hyperextension is the end of ROM in the hip extension movement, you want to have very powerful antagonists that are able to stop that powerful movement before it goes through "too much of a range" (too much hyperextension) and injures you. It's similar with the hamstrings stopping the quads from hyperextending the knee (in that case).
So the CNS has to be able to count on the strength of the hip flexors to stop that dangerous hyperextension from occuring, or else the CNS will cut short the amount of hip hyperextension that is going to be used, in order to prevent injury. So you won't get "max" hyperextension, meaning a lesser power/over a lesser ROM hip hyperextension, meaning a lower jump.
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