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Introduce Yourself / Re: Hey from an old old man
« on: January 07, 2011, 03:32:15 am »
I'm thinking you're not Joel Smith?
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ADARQ & LanceSTS - Q&A / Re: One-leg wall sits
« on: January 06, 2011, 04:44:26 pm »
Yeah these are very smart things you say.
I actually did the glute iso hold today, 2 times per each side for about 20 seconds, but I haven't really paying attention to what muscle is dominant. I'd say it's a hamstring-lower part of the glute kind of thing for me. In fact, that's where I usually get sore when I do hip dominant activity.
You remembered me two other very illuminating things:
1) When I deadlifted the 1st EVER deadlift when I was 18 years old (and I can vividly remember that like it was... today
) I used to lift the bar from the floor with 100% (or whatever) quad involvement. I used to just bend at the knees exclusively (knees going forward) with the hips TOTALLY de-activated (torse perpendicular to floor, upright) and I was feeling totally "natural" that way.
People were saying to me "that's not how you deadlift, you need to keep your back straight and use your hips" and I just couldn't even conceive what "using the hips" means at all. I wasn't even aware you can do that movement.
and
2) When I jumped at a basketball hoop for the first time ever (15 years old - and yes, I can remember this clearly as well) the jump was off one leg with the knee going out a LOT and all quad - jump was ~16 inches). Just over time, jumping and jumping and jumping at the rim the technique kind of started to change on it's own without any strength training or anything... I think the body just recognized a better movement pattern automatically and just sticked with that. Interesting.
I should film a right leg jump to see how ugly it is and how much quad dominant it is.
But anyway, I was thinking of dumbbell BSS or step-ups as SPP exercises with deadlifts as assistance or hip thrusts. Single leg box squat sounds good though - the more in front the foot, the more PC involvement so I can control that. Do you talk about pistol box squats variants or barbell box squat variants? (I assume barbell).
PS. This quad dominance I think it's keeping me from doing things like snatches and power cleans as well. The bar is in front of the body and I automatically feel the "need" to lean forward, load the knees (quads) and jump which wrecks everything.
I actually did the glute iso hold today, 2 times per each side for about 20 seconds, but I haven't really paying attention to what muscle is dominant. I'd say it's a hamstring-lower part of the glute kind of thing for me. In fact, that's where I usually get sore when I do hip dominant activity.
You remembered me two other very illuminating things:
1) When I deadlifted the 1st EVER deadlift when I was 18 years old (and I can vividly remember that like it was... today
) I used to lift the bar from the floor with 100% (or whatever) quad involvement. I used to just bend at the knees exclusively (knees going forward) with the hips TOTALLY de-activated (torse perpendicular to floor, upright) and I was feeling totally "natural" that way.People were saying to me "that's not how you deadlift, you need to keep your back straight and use your hips" and I just couldn't even conceive what "using the hips" means at all. I wasn't even aware you can do that movement.
and
2) When I jumped at a basketball hoop for the first time ever (15 years old - and yes, I can remember this clearly as well) the jump was off one leg with the knee going out a LOT and all quad - jump was ~16 inches). Just over time, jumping and jumping and jumping at the rim the technique kind of started to change on it's own without any strength training or anything... I think the body just recognized a better movement pattern automatically and just sticked with that. Interesting.
I should film a right leg jump to see how ugly it is and how much quad dominant it is.
But anyway, I was thinking of dumbbell BSS or step-ups as SPP exercises with deadlifts as assistance or hip thrusts. Single leg box squat sounds good though - the more in front the foot, the more PC involvement so I can control that. Do you talk about pistol box squats variants or barbell box squat variants? (I assume barbell).
PS. This quad dominance I think it's keeping me from doing things like snatches and power cleans as well. The bar is in front of the body and I automatically feel the "need" to lean forward, load the knees (quads) and jump which wrecks everything.
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Pics, Videos, & Links / Re: The "I Think I'm Dying Dunk Mix" Featuring Raptor Karaeoke
« on: January 06, 2011, 12:13:59 pm »does it say "Fleshlight" at the very end of the video? hahaha, just adding to theawkwardnessawesomeness!
There, corrected.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: January 06, 2011, 12:11:39 pm »my guess is an ingrown armpit hair. used to get them all the time when my armpit hair was first coming in 10-12 years ago. hurts like a bitch and you get that nice lymph node lump.
What? No love for my Roxette? Forget about the lymph node, that's not important!
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ADARQ & LanceSTS - Q&A / Re: One-leg wall sits
« on: January 06, 2011, 12:09:51 pm »
Cool man, have fun! 
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Article & Video Discussion / Re: jumpusa
« on: January 06, 2011, 09:54:09 am »
Still doesn't make too much sense. If you take a lunge where one leg works and one leg is stabilizing, the legs are in totally different positions and the muscle activity and recruitment level between the working leg and the stabilizing leg are totally different as well so I have no idea what they mean by that. It's usually not a good idea to listen whatever it is that they're saying anyway.
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Article & Video Discussion / Re: jumpusa
« on: January 06, 2011, 09:44:12 am »
I really really have no idea what they're talking about. 
Maybe they mean the other leg acts as a stabilizer or something. Doesn't make sense at all.
In a single leg press the other legs does... nothing. Maybe some irradiation generated contraction or whatever but that's silly.
Maybe they mean the other leg acts as a stabilizer or something. Doesn't make sense at all.
In a single leg press the other legs does... nothing. Maybe some irradiation generated contraction or whatever but that's silly.
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ADARQ & LanceSTS - Q&A / Re: One-leg wall sits
« on: January 06, 2011, 08:28:09 am »
That's interesting. Let me tell you about my hams (sexy, I know) something equally interesting:
They really are strong, that's a fact. When I do my single leg leg curls, they are pretty much equal in terms of strength, speed of movement etc with the same weight. When I do hip extension stuff like straight leg one-leg deadlifts or lunges or step-ups, WEIRDLY I can do them much better on my right leg. That doesn't make any sense. The right leg is obviously weaker but if anything, it's really really weaker quad-wise and not posterior chain wise.
The left leg has much stronger and bigger quads (especially VMO) from the thousands of jumps I've done off it. And when I do lunges or step-ups, I feel so much better off the right leg because it probably hasn't been programmed to be quad dominant. Instead, if I jump off my right leg I bend at the knee like crazy and I'm 100% (or whatever) pure quad in that jump (~20 inch jump off right leg).
Really intersting. Glute dominant on strength exercises and quad dominant on jumps on my right leg. Interesting and weird. Any ideas on that?
It could also mean that one leg is hamstring dominant (in terms of posterior chain "separation") - the left leg, jumping one, and the other is glute dominant, the right, non-jumping leg. I'd rather have it in reverse and use more glute for the jumping leg if anything.
PS. This brings me to my discussions with adarqui with me telling him he should involve the posterior chain more and him replying that he doesn't thinks so, because the "quad is the way" for his structure. I don't really agree with him.
They really are strong, that's a fact. When I do my single leg leg curls, they are pretty much equal in terms of strength, speed of movement etc with the same weight. When I do hip extension stuff like straight leg one-leg deadlifts or lunges or step-ups, WEIRDLY I can do them much better on my right leg. That doesn't make any sense. The right leg is obviously weaker but if anything, it's really really weaker quad-wise and not posterior chain wise.
The left leg has much stronger and bigger quads (especially VMO) from the thousands of jumps I've done off it. And when I do lunges or step-ups, I feel so much better off the right leg because it probably hasn't been programmed to be quad dominant. Instead, if I jump off my right leg I bend at the knee like crazy and I'm 100% (or whatever) pure quad in that jump (~20 inch jump off right leg).
Really intersting. Glute dominant on strength exercises and quad dominant on jumps on my right leg. Interesting and weird. Any ideas on that?
It could also mean that one leg is hamstring dominant (in terms of posterior chain "separation") - the left leg, jumping one, and the other is glute dominant, the right, non-jumping leg. I'd rather have it in reverse and use more glute for the jumping leg if anything.
PS. This brings me to my discussions with adarqui with me telling him he should involve the posterior chain more and him replying that he doesn't thinks so, because the "quad is the way" for his structure. I don't really agree with him.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: January 06, 2011, 08:18:41 am »
is your latest dunk vid... the life story of raptor
That sounds like I'm really really dying.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: January 06, 2011, 06:51:53 am »
That's not good, I have a few under my hamstring-glute connection now, probably from that ass pain.
But I get these as well... if I'm trying to find them, I do so... Anyway, a small infection can cause that or even too much dunking (I usually have these problems when I dunk alot due to so many extension and so on). HOPEFULLY IT'S THAT.
But I get these as well... if I'm trying to find them, I do so... Anyway, a small infection can cause that or even too much dunking (I usually have these problems when I dunk alot due to so many extension and so on). HOPEFULLY IT'S THAT.
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Pics, Videos, & Links / Re: The "I Think I'm Dying Dunk Mix" Featuring Raptor Karaeoke
« on: January 06, 2011, 06:45:02 am »
You can only bow in the face of my masculinity. I understand. 
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ADARQ & LanceSTS - Q&A / Re: One-leg wall sits
« on: January 06, 2011, 06:40:57 am »
Yeah I know that, did it a couple of times.
If I'm to analyze my jumping mechanics off one leg by the way I feel my muscles activating (not by video), it really feels like the quads load a lot when I first touch the ground to go as breaks and stop forward momentum, they also push into the ground but then as I rise up and knee angle lessens I apply a lot of glute/hamstring power into the movement.
I always feel the quads as the limiting factor because they usually aren't able to break properly and the knee collapses. Probably because I bend forward sometimes in my plant as well.
I understand what you're saying, that I need to work on posterior chain activation so that the quad overloads less in the plant, but the quad still needs to stop the knee from collapsing and I'm not sure it has the amount of strength that I want it to have to prevent that, even with better posterior chain involvement. It's interesting when you think about it though, that great glute activation can actually help against knee collapse through the illio-tibial band (the illio-tibial band acts as a knee extensor).
Strictly from a strength perspective, would the one-leg wall sit improve on that? (quad strength, especially VMO)?
If I'm to analyze my jumping mechanics off one leg by the way I feel my muscles activating (not by video), it really feels like the quads load a lot when I first touch the ground to go as breaks and stop forward momentum, they also push into the ground but then as I rise up and knee angle lessens I apply a lot of glute/hamstring power into the movement.
I always feel the quads as the limiting factor because they usually aren't able to break properly and the knee collapses. Probably because I bend forward sometimes in my plant as well.
I understand what you're saying, that I need to work on posterior chain activation so that the quad overloads less in the plant, but the quad still needs to stop the knee from collapsing and I'm not sure it has the amount of strength that I want it to have to prevent that, even with better posterior chain involvement. It's interesting when you think about it though, that great glute activation can actually help against knee collapse through the illio-tibial band (the illio-tibial band acts as a knee extensor).
Strictly from a strength perspective, would the one-leg wall sit improve on that? (quad strength, especially VMO)?
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: January 06, 2011, 06:34:49 am »
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WEIRD SHIT, after making that raptor dunk mix, i got this lump under my armpit, shit is pretty painful, hopefully it's nothing.. appeared out of nowhere.. fml
Are you serious about that?
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Pics, Videos, & Links / Re: The "I Think I'm Dying Dunk Mix" Featuring Raptor Karaeoke
« on: January 06, 2011, 06:27:40 am »
Hahaha wtf
That reminds me of the Fresh Prince of Bel Air with the health jokes:
I used to laugh histerically at that.
PS. I kind of sucked in this song but heck, I feel a lot better when I listen Roxette play live - they seem to suck more.
That reminds me of the Fresh Prince of Bel Air with the health jokes:
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"Nobody loves me... ... I feel like crap".
"That's OK man... at least you're healthy... um... what's that lumpy thing growing on your neck?!"
I used to laugh histerically at that.
PS. I kind of sucked in this song but heck, I feel a lot better when I listen Roxette play live - they seem to suck more.