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'Nuff said.

Raptor, what you describe actually sounds more like your psoas being tight up where it attaches. It attaches up in your abdominal area and can/does get tighter than a motherfucker especially if you do a lot of sitting throughout the day. Try this stretch here for it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_hQSJVIN3c

If you have problems there you probably also have problems with thoracic and lat mobility, I'd throw in some broomstick overhead squats on a regular basis to if that's the case.

edit: sorry for the thread hijack

You better believe that's the case, I'm having great problems keeping the bar in the clean on my shoulders (impossible, it can only stay on one shoulder and if that happens, the opposite arm's elbow HAS to be oriented perpendicular to the floor) and I can't get my palms over the bar in the low bar squat (I guess that's chest tightness?).

But I can't do overhead squats - the bar or broomstick or whatever would be too much in front of my body.

And yeah, I'm already doing that stretch... I sometimes get lowerback pain from it, probably I need to flex the abs more I guess while doing it.

Quote from: Raptor on December 15, 2010, 08:15:06 am

You haven't done any MSEM yet have you?

Jesus you're lazy.

Yeah, I am.

stretching:
- stretched full body for an hour but, best thing i did, was this stretch where you lie down flat then bring your legs over your face, point of foot touching ground above your head. i held that for 2 sets, for about 5-8 minutes.. really helped my erectors which have been pretty tight lately, feel very good from it.

I don't get it, how can you "point of foot toucing ground above your head". It's either touching the ground or it's above your head.

Quote from: Raptor on December 14, 2010, 05:02:57 pm

Quote from: LanceSTS on December 14, 2010, 04:10:41 pm

ROFL, nah man, i go like 2inches deeper than him...

Looked more like 5.08 cm lower to me.

lol, whats a "centimeter"? Is that similar to a "kilogram"?

lbs and inches, ftw.

How do you know "cm" stands for "centimeters"? Oh, you know what these are... and YOU PRETEND NOT TO! Caught you in the ACT!

ROFL, nah man, i go like 2inches deeper than him...

Looked more like 5.08 cm lower to me.

Haha, pure dedication and respect to Adarqui for this video...

2x squat singles for the win!

It's interesting you mention this because my best jumps off two feet came when I jumped relaxed. The usual mindset is, since we want to put the most force possible, to come like a bull and maximally power yourself up, but whenever I did that my quads were like exclusively loaded and the posterior chain completely out of the equation.

Whenever I was going relaxed the plant was so much more under control with less overload and a quicker and higher jump. No more "whole body blocking" occuring (when your whole body stiffens up and becomes "rigid"). I think one explanation could be that since I'm not that reactive, the overload killed more my jump than done good and while being relaxed I had more of a opportunity to apply posterior chain voluntary force.

Backwards depth drops are another decent option although just based on feel they seem to really overload the ankles more than the forward version for some reason.

Well I think it's obvious the calves want to stop the heel from collapsing and dropping backwards overloads that particular plane of movement more than dropping backwards, so the calves are more stimulated into stopping the heel from striking the ground.