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Injury, Prehab, & Rehab talk for the brittlebros / Re: ANKLE THREAD
« on: March 15, 2011, 06:47:11 am »
How can people sit like this:



is beyond me. My toes and feet would hurt at 1/4 of that range.

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: Best examples of "squat made" great vertical jumpers
« on: March 15, 2011, 06:42:01 am »
Well Andrew refers to 3-3.5 half squat or higher than parallel, jump specific squat, not a full squat.

But yeah, I agree that you need/can train neurally a lot. The question is - are you going to improve as much and as quick, in terms of relative strength, as a guy who also gains a little muscle?

You could also go and build a little muscle and increase your squat quickly and then cut down on the calories and start losing weight, maybe fat maybe muscle, but now you're going to have a weight that you can use in your squat (a newly established, higher squat 1RM and 5RM) that you can use while cutting down on weight.

So you can be:

180 lbs with a squat of 250

GO TO

190 lbs with a squat of 300

then cut down back to 180 while using the same work reps and trying to maintain that 300 squat and end up being

180 lbs again with a squat of 300

I think that can make your CNS adapt quicker to the load, muscles as well etc, but it's going to take a good planning in terms of training and nutrition to make that happen I suppose. Your body will probably be more inclined to accept that weight as "managable" and will happen quicker than if you were just to stay at 180 and try to improve to 300 on your squat just by neural adaptations alone.


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News, Announcements, & Suggestions / Re: todo list
« on: March 15, 2011, 06:25:28 am »
Quote from: DamienZ on March 15, 2011, 05:55:08 am
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xN91twMU4_s" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xN91twMU4_s</a>

Something like this would be great! Would make everything faster and easier and we wouldn't need the APT...

That looks great, I like that graphic of the volume etc

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Performance Training Blog / Re: Free training, Free customized athletic programming, Free online coaching
« on: March 15, 2011, 06:23:15 am »
Quote from: Dax on March 15, 2011, 05:38:39 am
lol...anyway, hello. I m from Malaysia. :D
wanted be more athletic.

Find better parents.

Just kiddin :P

What are your strength numbers and current VJs?

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: Best examples of "squat made" great vertical jumpers
« on: March 14, 2011, 07:16:59 pm »
Quote from: adarqui on March 14, 2011, 07:05:02 pm
Quote from: bball2020 on March 10, 2011, 08:42:31 pm
Not trying to start a pro squat only freaking CoolCol J thread, but for the average "white boy" developing a big time squat can be essential to developing some serious ups, not to mention it really is the most trainable essential part of Vertical jumps.

CCJ's argument was: just improve squat (and eventually jump)

^^ That's why his argument sucks.. He literally was telling people to just focus on squatting for months at a time without putting in considerable jump-work and obviously no reactive work.. His formula was "just squat and jump". That's why his argument is stupid.

I've said many times lately on this forum, I believe all of us should be shooting for 3-3.5xBW half squat goals, so i'm all for building an enormous squat.. but i'm also for staying very fit, eating right, not "dirty bulking" (gaining unnecessary weight), incorporating reactive work ("plyo"), strengthening the calfs directly, and getting in a good amount of max effort jumping.. so unlike CCJ, I cover more bases.. his argument leads people to get out of shape & gain excess weight which increases injury risk.

peace & ya add Nightfly to that list for sure.


Yes but you can probably only improve so much without weight gain/muscle gain, so neurally. Then you kind of need to gain weight in the right places to get your squat up and to improve on your ratio. It would be great if you were able to squat more and more without muscle gain, but that's pretty much impossible.

It's interesting, but I haven't jumped in about 2 months and I go in the park and I jump very high off one leg, just with strength training. Sure, I have been doing some depth jumps lately but no one-leg jumping in months. However, that movement pattern is ingrained since years ago.

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: Quad dominant vs Hip/Glute dominant jumpers
« on: March 14, 2011, 05:24:03 pm »
Interesting.

One thing I've found out is that if I do a side plank, with the free leg and arm elevated (so basically, a star shape in a side plank position) my glutes feel extremely "alive" after that and I walk "funny" (like more on the toes). I'm not sure what's up with that, it always does that when I do them. It's probably the gluteus medius being activated or something, not sure if it's the gluteus maximus there, but still, walking feels so much more hip dominant. Not sure about jumping, I need to try that a few times and see what happens.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Age vs Vertical
« on: March 14, 2011, 04:56:34 pm »
Quote from: vag on March 14, 2011, 04:47:34 pm
Quote from: LBSS on March 14, 2011, 04:45:00 pm
Quote from: vag on March 14, 2011, 04:42:35 pm

Agreed , runups/FA/bounce look terrible.
Pasting what i said to raptor:

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LOL, way to copy/paste from your pics and vids thread in response to Raptor's identical comment.  :-*

 ;)

Of course, it's important what he says to me. And helps towards a bigger post count, which as we know it, is very important. :ibjumping:

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: Quad dominant vs Hip/Glute dominant jumpers
« on: March 14, 2011, 02:18:10 pm »
I have that when I jump a lot of two feet. My theory is that I'm not adapted to that kind of a stimulus, as I avoid jumping off two feet when I can (extremely fatigueing, feels like destroying my body and inefficient).

So I think it's the quads that aren't adapted and maybe even the quad tendons that are "weak" due to the constant lack of stimulus.

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Performance Training Blog / Re: Free training, Free customized athletic programming, Free online coaching
« on: March 14, 2011, 05:07:40 am »
Quote from: Dax on March 14, 2011, 02:28:42 am
Is this free training still going on?? :huh:

Yes, but you're the exception to this. You need to pay big time to compensate for the free advice offered for so much time. Sorry, it was just a random thing that happened to you.

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Introduce Yourself / Re: for 45" running vert
« on: March 13, 2011, 07:22:26 am »
Do you feel limited by grip strength at 765? (do you feel you could lift easier with straps)

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Pics, Videos, & Links / Re: Wide bar grip on squats
« on: March 13, 2011, 05:31:47 am »
Quote from: Dreyth on March 13, 2011, 12:15:25 am
I can definitely understand doing wide grip because it's more comfortable, but I DON'T understand doing it because of a non-injury-related flexibility issue.

It's usually when you're an ass.

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Nutrition & Supplementation / Re: BCAA?
« on: March 12, 2011, 06:06:56 pm »
And you really believe there's such a thing as "neutral" in this business. It's hard to believe, for me, that a "neutral" company isn't backed up by another company that wants to throw dirt, undercover, onto the other companies.

S&C and especially nutrition is a dirty business.

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Nutrition & Supplementation / Re: BCAA?
« on: March 12, 2011, 05:46:20 pm »
Does the manufacturer of the protein powder really matter?

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Nutrition & Supplementation / Re: BCAA?
« on: March 12, 2011, 05:25:03 pm »
It's funny JC said
Quote
2. You get enough bcaa's in your diet from protein. I really don't feel you need free form bcaa's for recovery.
, like everybody has the same, optimal diet.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ARowe's Journal
« on: March 12, 2011, 04:55:29 pm »
That sounds good. I mean, it looks like you have a LOT of room to grow in the reactive department.

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