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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: 3x8 or 3x5?
« on: November 07, 2010, 10:48:36 am »
Daaaang, I'm starting to feel fat, nerdy with glasses and ground-bounded. Hey, I AM THAT! Well not really, but not far away.

I always hated programming. And it's silly because I had my first computer at 5 years old in 1990... used to play around "programming" stuff... but it all broke down from me in high school... damn I hated Pascal!

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Nutrition & Supplementation / What should be my strategy?
« on: November 07, 2010, 10:45:48 am »
I'm trying to gain strength right now for the next 3-4 months. I'm at ~84 kg right now. Bodyfat % is probably ~15-16%.

What should be my approach in these 3-4 months in terms of eating? Should I eat like a bull everyday regardless if I go to the gym/I consume calories that day or should I just eat a lot in the training days/after training and keep a low calorie, low carb intake in my rest days?

Should I take a protein shake that's 50% protein 50% carbs after my training/in my training days instead of the 90% protein one that I'm taking right now?

Do you think I should aim at re-composition in this 3-4 month period (meaning - trying to build muscle in my training days in terms of nutrition and lose fat in the off days, maybe doing some running, cardio etc)? Or should I go all out into muscle building and forget about cardio and stuff, with the idea of shedding fat later?

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: My calves.
« on: November 07, 2010, 04:54:03 am »
So you're saying rise up bilaterally and go down unilaterally. Because otherwise how can you use a weight you can't go up with for more than 1 rep?

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: 3x8 or 3x5?
« on: November 07, 2010, 04:51:46 am »
You're an odd little man, aren't you?

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: 3x8 or 3x5?
« on: November 05, 2010, 06:34:37 pm »

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: 3x8 or 3x5?
« on: November 05, 2010, 05:46:58 pm »
Well I don't feel like there's another way... I don't see one. It's not like I'm competing in powerlifting, 3 months should be "enough" for strength training.

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: 3x8 or 3x5?
« on: November 05, 2010, 04:20:24 am »
Why?

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: Leg power and jumping universal statistic
« on: November 05, 2010, 04:19:58 am »
If Verk didn't have it, there's like 0% chance of anybody else having it.

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: 3x8 or 3x5?
« on: November 04, 2010, 07:09:10 am »
Well my plan is to eat a lot and strength train for ~3 months and then start to cut off fat.

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: 3x8 or 3x5?
« on: November 03, 2010, 06:33:10 pm »
Yeah, I'd be terribly disappointed to gain 100 lbs on my squat while packing 32.5 lbs more weight on me. ;D

I'd be at ~100 kg squatting ~185. ;D

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: 3x8 or 3x5?
« on: November 03, 2010, 05:28:19 pm »
I definitely don't want to cut muscle, I want to cut FAT! :o

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: 3x8 or 3x5?
« on: November 03, 2010, 04:38:43 pm »
Um... so how do all these apply for me? :D

In my book, I don't give a rat's ass if I gain even more fat RIGHT NOW. I will later. The thing is gaining strength and I will work on shedding fat later. That's the idea. Build the muscle. Keep the muscle. Lose the fat. Improve relative strength.

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: Leg power and jumping universal statistic
« on: November 03, 2010, 09:05:27 am »
I don't think that's ever been done. Too much info needed for an "unimportant" subject at the planetary level.

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: My calves.
« on: November 03, 2010, 04:41:47 am »
Wayne Clark has huge calves. He jumps 50 inches.

There's also this bald guy in the gym with huge calves, he can jump 10 inches.

I think great calf strength is key when you couple them with great hip strength. At the same time, if you apply great upperleg strength (quad/glute) into the ground it has to travel through the calves to get there. They can't help but adapt (grow).

So increasing your squat and applying that new strength into the field (plyos, dunking, playing etc) should have a carryover into calf hypertrophy as well. It's going to take time though.

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: Leg power and jumping universal statistic
« on: November 03, 2010, 04:37:59 am »
I don't think that's the case... I don't think this exists. Your best bet is to increase your strength since it's the most modifiable quality in terms of athleticism (your structure stays fixed, your explosiveness in terms of quickness is pretty much genetic with a very low training gain threshold). You can only really affect strength and movement efficiency to improve your athleticism. Well, that and bodyfat %.

It's hard to make a direct correlation because of biodiversity and other factors involved, like the ones above. But I think it's safe to say that unless you squat 2x+, your strength will be a limiting factor.

If that kind of answers the question.

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