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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: Squat vs Deadlift.
« on: February 22, 2011, 05:24:22 pm »
I've always wondered why are the glutes so important if they're not really activated unless you go very deep. I mean for jumping. If when you do a 1/4 squat you use mostly quads, and in a VJ you go into a 1/4 squat, shouldn't the recruitment be very similar (meaning - shouldn't the quads count very much and the glutes very little)?

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News, Announcements, & Suggestions / Re: Random adarq.org website news
« on: February 22, 2011, 10:15:37 am »
Well yeah, adarq.org has become a place where some retarded kids make fun of my name posting with anonymous nicknames and think that's so cool and funny. And that's lame as shit. People act like I'm a troll or something, or act like I'm doing "yo mama" jokes with people that I don't know. Then they somehow feel "superior" like they're "teaching me how to behave like a grown-up" while they act like silly little retards.

It would've been even if it wasn't me the target of these so called "attacks". I should know better than to care about this and I will limit my actions to discuss stuff that is really interesting and post in my log, and that's it. It was wasted time anyway so I actually should be greatful about that.

So, I understand what JON is saying, yet considering the current conditions, I don't give a shit anymore.

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: Squat vs Deadlift.
« on: February 22, 2011, 09:36:08 am »
To me, the shocking news is the vastus medialis results. Doesn't make any sense.

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: Buttocks
« on: February 22, 2011, 02:59:06 am »
Quote from: $ick3nin.vend3tta on February 21, 2011, 05:34:47 pm
Quote from: Raptor on February 21, 2011, 05:24:37 pm
Kelly, have you ever done or prescribed very heavy iso calf raises on the top of the movement? Like, hold for 30s with a 200 kg barbell on the back etc?.

Or how about seated iso calf raises?.

Those would pretty much target the soleus...

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: Buttocks
« on: February 21, 2011, 05:24:37 pm »
Kelly, have you ever done or prescribed very heavy iso calf raises on the top of the movement? Like, hold for 30s with a 200 kg barbell on the back etc?

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: Buttocks
« on: February 21, 2011, 04:57:15 pm »
No, I can't. I live in Romania. It's complicated here with cards and bands and stuff. I don't know any sports store that has bands for training by the way. And I don't think the powerjumper is deliverable in Romania, I think Jack Woodrup sent me the powerjumper himself or something like that.

And by the way, when I said "in the one-leg jump ROM" I meant - with the knee bent 20-26 degrees, so not in the full hip extension. I'd like to overload my amortization phase isometric position, which is knee and hip a little bent.

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: Hip flexors
« on: February 21, 2011, 04:53:55 pm »
Interesting. Well in my particular case, I already have incredible stride frequency in sprints, so my beef with the hip flexors would be to use them to pull the non-jumping leg's knee up better in a unilateral jump, so I need explosiveness with that and strength, so my leg is easier to pull up and therefore the movement is faster.

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: Buttocks
« on: February 21, 2011, 03:02:47 pm »
I still think of ways to overload the jumping leg isometrically in the same exact position as in a one-leg jump. Beats me a way to do it other than a isometric leg press hold in that ROM.

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: Hip flexors
« on: February 21, 2011, 02:57:28 pm »
Any comments on how would you personally train for that?

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: Strength & Conditioning / Performance QUOTES
« on: February 21, 2011, 02:37:09 pm »
Bruce Lee was a deep mo-fo alright.

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: Buttocks
« on: February 21, 2011, 11:27:47 am »
Well, he did say "changes the stiffness of human tendon-aponeurosis complex in knee extensors". In a hip thrust hold, there isn't too much knee extensor activity other than stabilizing etc.

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: Buttocks
« on: February 21, 2011, 10:10:02 am »
How about what I'm doing here:

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMEH2u0N-lY" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMEH2u0N-lY</a>

The aim of that was just good ol' plain ISO strength. Rep time is ~20s.

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: Buttocks
« on: February 21, 2011, 10:05:58 am »
If you don't overdo it, you're probably going to gain more by having a more glute driven squat than you'd lose by tendon stiffness adaptations, if any, that will occur in my opinion.

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: CORE strength/stability training in relation to vertical jump
« on: February 21, 2011, 09:43:27 am »
Well it's no coincidence that the irradiation effect comes from the core (although it's not limited to that).

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: Sprint training
« on: February 21, 2011, 09:29:42 am »
This is interesting:



These articles rock. Makes me think of Schroderisch LDISOs.

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