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Why do you get the plate all the way over the head... you're losing a lot of hip tension doing that.
good lord what are you doing on the plate swings? why are you bending over so far? swings are generally meant to be a hip exercise as far as i know.
. The heavier weight was kind of pulling me forward a bit more than usual. But I still got a great hip extension and glute drive so I don't think it's a big deal. I generally try and do them like this:
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Holding top and bottom for a little, exploding up as fast as possible and letting it down slowly and controlled. I definitely don't want that weight coming down fast at all, happened once, Achilles didn't seem happy for a few days. That's how I try to do all my lifts (except speed squats), slow down and explode up as fast as possible while maintaining control. The way I see it is...train like everything is a 'jump'. You don't jump slowly so why lift slowly? Only difference is on the way down, with weights Ibtemd to err towards caution but practicing jumps I want to get into my plant as quickly as possible.
Hope that made sense, its late here lol!
. But then I realised my phone only shoots 19fps 
It's good to know my structural problems are actually reasons for people to get threads like this going, and point at me showing "how much of a pussy I am" for not being able to do front squats!
Great! You pussies are still not being able to dunk yet?
I don't know but the more I think about it... the more I'm starting to believe there's something in my hip mobility/flexibility that is the culprit.
That and general core/lowerab strength. It's the same thing that makes me look at the ground when I jump off two feet. I have to make a conscious effort to stay with a vertical back as in a front or high bar squat. My natural tendency is to look at the ground and bend forward, like in a low bar squat or a deadlift.
It's really depressing because I haven't been able to figure this out in so much time... years basically. I haven't found anybody to give me good ideas and perspectives either.
? I thought you were cooler than that Raptor! Anyway, you say it's mobility problems holding you back, are you doing any of the excellent mobility exercises that joe, entropy etc have been suggesting to do in the thread to help with these issues? Blaming "structural problems" for not being able to FS is kind of a cop out IMO. It's like if the sub-6ft guys trying to dunk here just giving up because they have the "structural problem" of not being tall enough!
Nice
I hope you're talking about joining the club and not my knee haha!
Seriously though, now that there's a decent number of guys here competing (you me avishek todday seifuullaah, maybe LBSS if he's interested in branching out a bit), we should start a times thread to keep track of where everyone is. The site's great obviously but one thing it's lacking is a bit of competitive spirit. Having a bit of incentive to improve on the leader's board would be fun. Everyone could use some extra motivation to keep improving!
Yeah I was talking about you competing in track
That's a great idea with the times thread. We could have a couple of categories, such as an electronic one that consists of 60, 100, and 200. Than have a hand time one of 30, 60, 100, 200, 400 or whatever. We could also include times of season bests and personal bests. Than people just update their results generally and the page gets updated once people break their PBs or SBs etc. Than have the names ranked by fastest times or something.
E.g Layout
ELECTRONIC
Distance- 60m
Name Personal Best Season Best
ranked by times
Distance- 100m
Name Personal Best Season Best
ranked by times
Distance- 200m
Name Personal Best Season Best
ranked by times
Edit- Just seen you updated the post. The Nightfly style layout is cool as well. If you start a thread I'm keen!
Nice
. First round is on the 19th of October, which coincidentally is when I'll be testing the first round of power block. Unfortunately they alternate the 100m and the 200m as is the usual case, with the 200m first. I may or may not run every 200m this season. I'll be very slow at them to start. My goals are still to throw down off one and two but competing will take the training up a notch. I won't be training with the club, just competing on the weekends as a progress tracker. Prior to starting vert training, my best vertical jump height by far was (unsurpirsingly) when I was training and competing heavily for sprints + long jump.
