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Basketball / Re: Blake Griffin needs his own thread - This guy is a freak
« on: February 18, 2011, 12:42:12 pm »
He reminds me of you, Jard.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: February 18, 2011, 06:59:03 am »
I agree with Zetz, you do look "bigger" than usual so to speak.
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Pics, Videos, & Links / Re: 160 kg deadlift with horrible form
« on: February 17, 2011, 10:35:10 am »you have to deadlift the 2x at least once in your life man! YOU HAVE TO!
...ok I'll stop it...
I was planning on driving an Enzo, but if you say I should change my priorities then who am I to say "no"?
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Kingfish
« on: February 17, 2011, 02:49:02 am »* did singles and visualized the jumps.. and i noticed that i was leaning forward intentionally. if thats how i jump.. then its ok for me if my spinal erectors are getting involved.
If you lean forward you jump forward. If you have this tendency to bend at the waist and jump using a good morning instead of using your hips to extend, then you're possibly missing on a lot of inches in your jumps.
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Introduce Yourself / Re: Diary of a female Dunkers. Dedicated to reaching a 36" vert.
« on: February 16, 2011, 10:02:47 am »I do notice when I workout and my hands are a little sweaty I can grip the ball better. Good point.
Yeah I usually "wet" my palms when I go for a "scheduled" dunk with slippery balls. If you watch the NBA, you can see Steve Nash lick his finger tips from time to time, exactly for that purpose. I just blow some hot air into my palms for a few seconds and it does help (weird, I know). It doesn't help much though, if the ball is slippery then that's that, you can't do too much about it if you're actually playing ball with it.
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Introduce Yourself / Re: Diary of a female Dunkers. Dedicated to reaching a 36" vert.
« on: February 16, 2011, 09:46:09 am »
Do you really think it's a strength thing? I'm willing to bet it's more a matter of skin quality vs. ball quality. I have some balls of different materials that I can palm, let go of them and catch in mid-air again, and others that I can't palm at all, no matter what, because they just are made of slippery materials or they have dust on them.
You can try to use some handball ball wax if you're not "afraid" of getting your hands dirty (and the ball for that matter) a bit. So basically, you can do that and practice your dunks with a ball with more grip ...
Ways to increase grip are just deadlifting (grip will increase because of the isometric hold of the bar), stuff like holding water blottles or kettelebell handles or even dumbbells only with the tip of your fingers for time, a few inches off the ground etc.
You can try to use some handball ball wax if you're not "afraid" of getting your hands dirty (and the ball for that matter) a bit. So basically, you can do that and practice your dunks with a ball with more grip ...
Ways to increase grip are just deadlifting (grip will increase because of the isometric hold of the bar), stuff like holding water blottles or kettelebell handles or even dumbbells only with the tip of your fingers for time, a few inches off the ground etc.
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Introduce Yourself / Re: Diary of a female Dunkers. Dedicated to reaching a 36" vert.
« on: February 16, 2011, 09:03:51 am »
Yeah and... can you palm a ball? I mean, a basketball, to be more specific.
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Introduce Yourself / Re: Hey guys! :)
« on: February 16, 2011, 08:54:09 am »ohhi didn't know that it refers to maximum repetion. i'll find out which is my 1 rm
What did you figure then? That number, if not 1RM, could've been anything. So how did you come up with 55 kg?
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Introduce Yourself / Re: Hey guys! :)
« on: February 16, 2011, 07:33:58 am »
1RM = one repetition maximum, which is with how much weight can you do one rep of an exercise, in this situation, of the squat.
So if you squat 60 kg for 5 times, there's no way you can only do 1 rep with 55 kg (well duh!)
So if you squat 60 kg for 5 times, there's no way you can only do 1 rep with 55 kg (well duh!
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Pics, Videos, & Links / Re: 160 kg deadlift with horrible form
« on: February 16, 2011, 06:35:21 am »
Thanks F50!
But nah, it doesn't make sense to push the deadlift... it was just a benchmark...
But nah, it doesn't make sense to push the deadlift... it was just a benchmark...
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Pics, Videos, & Links / Re: beast
« on: February 16, 2011, 05:16:28 am »
I read that, but I find it hard to believe.
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Introduce Yourself / Re: Norwegian Girl
« on: February 16, 2011, 04:48:13 am »
Well if there's one thing I learned, it's that I should never trust "sports" documentaries. But that's just me.
Anyway, from what I can remember, he used to do work sets of 120 kg on his squats so yeah, that probably gives him a 1RM at ~2x his bodyweight.
The main factor is probably, again, his way of using momentum and leg pre-load. He's so used to utilize the pre-stretch and pre-load that the run-up gives him that he's not efficient generating voluntary power well at all. That and probably structure etc has something to do with it.
But yeah, you don't need to be good at the standing jumps to be good at the other jumps like you said. If you're into athletics, it's rare to use a bilateral jump anyway, so you need to pretty much focus, in terms of specificity, to the unilateral jump training.
Anyway, from what I can remember, he used to do work sets of 120 kg on his squats so yeah, that probably gives him a 1RM at ~2x his bodyweight.
The main factor is probably, again, his way of using momentum and leg pre-load. He's so used to utilize the pre-stretch and pre-load that the run-up gives him that he's not efficient generating voluntary power well at all. That and probably structure etc has something to do with it.
But yeah, you don't need to be good at the standing jumps to be good at the other jumps like you said. If you're into athletics, it's rare to use a bilateral jump anyway, so you need to pretty much focus, in terms of specificity, to the unilateral jump training.
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Introduce Yourself / Re: Hey guys! :)
« on: February 16, 2011, 04:44:24 am »
How is your 1RM 55 kg, when you can squat 60 kg for 5 reps?
60x5 gives you a projected 1RM of 68 kg according to http://www.exrx.net/Calculators/OneRepMax.html
Boy, would I love to see that!
60x5 gives you a projected 1RM of 68 kg according to http://www.exrx.net/Calculators/OneRepMax.html
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ass tall as me
Boy, would I love to see that!
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Pics, Videos, & Links / Re: beast
« on: February 15, 2011, 05:41:42 pm »
I was about to say that's not really that impressive, I thought he had only one weight vest on, but 3? WTF? You can't know how much they weigh though...