Show Posts

This section allows you to view all posts made by this member. Note that you can only see posts made in areas you currently have access to.


Messages - Raptor

Pages: 1 ... 421 422 [423] 424 425 ... 495
6331
Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: High cut calves
« on: February 25, 2011, 09:48:04 am »
Well yeah, that's why I said "at the same time", because I made another point before the calf size potential point, that being "Maybe a shorter tendon might be thicker and get stiff easier"

6332
Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: Posterior Chain Strength Preparation for the Vertical Jump by Charles Poliquin?.
« on: February 25, 2011, 09:46:34 am »
Well firstly, when you build strength (mass, not power) you're still trying to go as fast as possible. Secondly, more mass/pure strength without power increases is just a matter of potential. You increase your potential by increasing your maximal strength. Then you can tweak the gained strength to become more powerful. That's pretty much the basis of cycles anyway.

6333
MOVIES & ENTERTAINMENT & SHeeT! / Re: The Human Centipede
« on: February 25, 2011, 08:22:02 am »
Nevermind ;D

6334
Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: lead by example
« on: February 25, 2011, 08:21:25 am »
You said in another thread you're 29 and I was like "oh man, wasn't Adarqui like 26 and me 23?". 3 years have passed like you can't believe since the glorious old days.

6335
Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: lead by example
« on: February 25, 2011, 06:35:06 am »
Haha, "peeking session" :ninja:

6336
Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: February 25, 2011, 06:33:51 am »
That first pick just doesn't make sense... any idea who that guy is? Or how much he weights/squats? He looks so big in his legs and slim/powerful upperbody. Looks NFLish to me.

6337
Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: Mental toughness test
« on: February 25, 2011, 05:51:53 am »
25-25-45-35-85

215 Total.


6338
Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: High cut calves
« 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).

6339
Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: lead by example
« on: February 24, 2011, 06:10:30 pm »
Well said! :highfive:

Amen! +1

6340
Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: Posterior Chain Strength Preparation for the Vertical Jump by Charles Poliquin?.
« on: February 24, 2011, 05:56:26 pm »
Oh yeah, absolutely. What I was aiming at was the fact that "to dunk" he doesn't need to strength train. So he pretty much dunks all day long because he can do it naturally.

But of course, if he were to think "man, I need to get higher than this" then the same rules pretty much apply for him as for anybody else.

6341
Nutrition & Supplementation / Re: The AMAZING Food Picture Thread
« on: February 24, 2011, 05:33:13 pm »
Mmmmm...mmmmmmmmmmmmm...

So good and healthy.

6342
Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: Posterior Chain Strength Preparation for the Vertical Jump by Charles Poliquin?.
« on: February 24, 2011, 03:52:37 pm »
That doesn't make sense unless you're a genetic freak that already has high natural strength levels.

That's like saying "T-Dub doesn't squat, yet he jumps so high". Well yeah, of course he is, he's a guy with great structure for jumping and high natural strength levels, so he only invests time in jumping and gets better and better at that. He doesn't need to waste time training for strength.

6343
MOVIES & ENTERTAINMENT & SHeeT! / Re: The Human Centipede
« on: February 24, 2011, 03:44:45 pm »
Mistress Ingrid would pe proud :D

6344
Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: Hip flexors
« on: February 24, 2011, 09:30:44 am »
Quote from: adarqui on February 24, 2011, 05:11:30 am
the patella is sesamoid

The patella is what? :ninja:

What about heavy BSS iso holds (like in my video that I posted several posts ago) or paused box pistol squats?

6345
Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: Posterior Chain Strength Preparation for the Vertical Jump by Charles Poliquin?.
« on: February 24, 2011, 07:57:55 am »
You know, I was thinking: if you bend at the knee a lot, like you do adarqui, you take a lot of hamstring AND calf tension out of your legs, at least in the amortization phase. Hamstrings because the knees go forward and calves because the calves (gastrocs) are active when the knee is extended. When the knee is flexed, the soleus is actually doing job. The gastrocs probably exert power in the end (at the triple extension finish basically) when the knee is straight.

Now obviously the calves also amortizate your way towards the half squat position where the soleus si more active, so yeah, they still do jobs at both ends of the amortization phase.

The point was that I think the soleus is more important to deeper jumpers than those who jump with less knee bend, if that's important at all. Less knee bend means more tension in the hamstrings as well, so you need more hamstring strength in a one-leg jump.

Pages: 1 ... 421 422 [423] 424 425 ... 495