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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: Becoming Glute dominant
« on: April 28, 2011, 04:43:03 pm »
Cycling sucks so much!
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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: Being heavier does not give "better leverages" in lifting
« on: April 22, 2011, 06:02:06 pm »
So you squat just with your legs?
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Nutrition & Supplementation / Re: Any comments on the Animal stuff by Universal Nutrition
« on: April 18, 2011, 06:19:45 pm »
steroids work, testosterone booster supplements not.
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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: Power pull vs power clean
« on: April 14, 2011, 06:35:43 am »Variation.<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HqPs6G0IuY" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HqPs6G0IuY</a>
That's some pretty bad clean technique really :|
haha, how she just "negative bicepscurls" the bar down is a joke! If she tried a reasonable weight she would fail so much
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: The PR's/PB's, videos, pictures, and daily achievements thread
« on: April 14, 2011, 05:56:05 am »2.4.5. x 1.
@.1.2.6.
good job stucky! keep going hard and you'll get 2x bw soon
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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: BOX JUMPS ARE STUPID - STOP BRAGGING AND DO A REAL VERT, BITCHES
« on: April 13, 2011, 05:38:52 am »
You're right. Inverse correspondence.
you must have the highest box jump ever!
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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: BOX JUMPS ARE STUPID - STOP BRAGGING AND DO A REAL VERT, BITCHES
« on: April 12, 2011, 03:24:08 pm »Ato Boldon doing vertical jump.
Flyin'.<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqJAkdw2al4" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqJAkdw2al4</a>
60+' inches?.
60+ isn't impressive at all
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Injury, Prehab, & Rehab talk for the brittlebros / Re: Overtrained, overreached, or neither???
« on: April 07, 2011, 07:21:31 pm »
http://chaosandpain.blogspot.com/2010/05/youre-overtrained-huh-its-all-in-your.html
http://chaosandpain.blogspot.com/2010/05/overtraining-part-2.html
http://chaosandpain.blogspot.com/2010/05/overtraining-part-2.html
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This is a tough one to swallow for most... THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS OVERTRAINING!!! if you can't do something you are not in good enough shape. Here is a story:
IF you got a job as a garbage man (or run a jackhammer, or some other physically demanding job) and had to pick up heavy cans all day long, I'm sure the first day would be very difficult - possibly almost impossible for some to complete so what do you do? take 3 days off and possibly lose your job? NO! you would take your sore, beaten self to work the next day. You would mope around and be fatigued - much less energetic than the previous day, but you would make yourself get through it. Get home, soak in the tub, take aspirin, etc. The next day would be worse..etc. etc. Eventually you will be running down the street tossing cans around and joking with your coworkers. How did this happen? You forced your body to adapt to the job at hand! IF you cant' squat everyday, lift heavy everyday then you are not OVERTRAINED, you are UNDERTRAINED!
Could a random person off the street come to the gym with you and do your exact workout? probably not - cause they are undertrained. Same goes with most when compared to elite athletes.
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HE DOESN'T BELIEVE IN OVERTRAINING, ONLY UNDERTRAINING. OVERTRAINING IS PART OF THE ADAPTATION TOWARDS BEING AWESOMELY STRONG. HE REFERS TO WHAT OTHERS CALL OVERTRAINING AS THE "DARK TIME" WHEN YOUR STRENGTH GOES DOWN AND YOU FEEL LIKE SHIT. TO HIM, THERE'S LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL, AND WHEN YOU START MAKING PRS IN A COMPLETELY FATIGUED STATE, YOU KNOW YOU'RE GETTING SOMEWHERE.
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IF YOU'RE TIRED, TRAIN. IF YOU HURT, TRAIN. IF YOU HAVE FREE TIME, TRAIN. IF YOU'RE INJURED, GO TO THE ER. IF YOU'RE NOT INJURED, TRAIN.
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MORE VOLUME = MORE ADAPTATION. TRAIN MORE.
THERE WILL NEVER BE A DAY WHEN YOU WALK IN THE GYM AND CAN'T LIFT THE BAR. IF IT'S ONE OF THOSE DAYS, LIFT THE BAR... A LOT.
EVERY TIME YOU TRAIN THAT'S A +. EVERY DAY YOU DON'T TRAIN, THAT'S A -.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: The PR's/PB's, videos, pictures, and daily achievements thread
« on: April 07, 2011, 06:46:14 pm »85
Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: Rest duration between sets
« on: April 07, 2011, 01:45:44 pm »
form follows function
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Article & Video Discussion / Re: Mobility and Recovery
« on: April 05, 2011, 11:35:53 am »
I've been subscribed t ohis channel since the first MWOD and it's the best source for mobility/flexibility i ever came across (yeah, also books, even Kurz (not so god) stretching scientifically)!
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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: Imbalances
« on: April 04, 2011, 11:50:25 am »In my opinion, your best bet is to decrease the weight and go with more reps. More reps mean more volume for both your legs, and less weight means your weak leg won't have as much overload and will "try" to keep up. You need to stop your set when the weak leg starts to give up.In my opinion, your best bet is to decrease the weight and go with more reps. More reps mean more volume for both your legs, and less weight means your weak leg won't have as much overload and will "try" to keep up. You need to stop your set when the weak leg starts to give up.
^^ That part in bold is EXTREMELY important, you just reinforce the imbalance and bad form by continuing to let it happen, and the risk of injury is getting higher and higher along with it.
Coming both from Raptor and Sir Lance, i will do it. But I just did sets of 10 in the afternoon and my left leg didn't gave up (it can do more I think, because it ain'y fatigued or something) but i was leaning to the right, I think. Maybe I should lean to the left more and make my reps slow(?? maybe a bad idea) to focus on my left leg? Because if I do the rep fast I can't control the weight distribution on my legs. Any idea raptor, sir lance and other bros(?) ??
Go slow until you are able to perform your reps evenly, then you can add the speed and power, as well as load. Strength and coordination in the 2 leg squat is very movement specific to the 2 leg squat, so youre going to have to practice it either way, bringing up the strength of the other limb individually is a good idea too, but its not going to fix the problem by itself.
I'm subscribing to this completely.
One small additional point: when training unilaterally, always start with your weak leg. For example, if you do BSS, start with your weak leg and do the same amount of reps with the strong leg, even though you could've done more with the stronger leg.
http://benbruno.blogspot.com/2010/09/quick-tip-for-unilateral-training.html
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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: Imbalances
« on: April 04, 2011, 08:41:47 am »89
Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: High frequency "unracking"
« on: April 03, 2011, 04:32:41 pm »
I'm 100% sure that you aren't too weak muscular wise to squat a lot more weight than you can atm! You just need to practice more!
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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: High frequency "unracking"
« on: April 03, 2011, 03:36:37 pm »I had this crazy idea come to my mind some few days ago: what if you're a guy who has his own squat rack/barbell to himself? Would unracking a 1RM+ barbell, holding it on your back for say 30 seconds, and racking it back, every day, for a few times per day, do anything?
I mean, it could trick your CNS into thinking you're heavier, just like a weight vest would. Now obviously there are a handful of questions arising (is there enough time under the bar to make this adaptation occur? is it too risky on the spine? etc) but I thought it was an interesting experiment to take if someone is willing to do it.
For example, if your squat 1RM is 300 lbs and you unrack a 350 lbs bar 10 times per day (throughout the day) for 30 s each time, you'd end up with 300s of total "unrack" TUT daily, so that' 2100 s each week of having a 1RM+ barbell on your back. That's 35 minutes of stimulation per week with a heavier barbell than usual. Not to mention the core strength benefits.
Again, it comes down to injury risk vs. reward possibility.
well, regardless of whether it tricks your cns into thinking you're heavier or not, dno, but, it would make you stronger in the quads/erectors if you phased it in/out properly, it would definitely make the bar feel lighter.. 10x/day is a bit much possibly, but who knows.. a walkout is not that cns intensive, holding it for time definitely is though.. so there's a variety of things you could do such as hold for time, unrack/walkout/walkback/re-rack, or unrack/rack quickly.
frequency would have to be adjusted based on how you feel, not sure how it would effect jumping, i'd imagine it would very up and down how it effects you... vmo's would probably get really big heh..
#1 thing would be safety, i'd only do it in a rack with high safeties..
you also need some good form gripping the bar, you can't do that if squatting bugs your shoulders in the least.
peace
edit: i like parts of the idea but not the holding for time part, and 10x/day could be too much.. but stuff like that should be effective.
normal squatting would be better for this, especially for squatting