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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: is athlete movement fluidity trainable?
« on: May 01, 2013, 01:43:42 am »
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUHzgJxexcM" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUHzgJxexcM</a>

This is one of the greatest athletes ever and he looks clunky as hell in this 2013 Allstar game. So what you guys are saying is if he practiced playing basketball over and over, his movement would go from clunky and cumbersome to smooth and fluid? Yeah I can buy that. I suppose it would have to be a lot of practice, as in years and years of game time? You probably have to start real young too.

 

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / is athlete movement fluidity trainable?
« on: April 30, 2013, 02:36:15 am »
Take a good basketball guard and watch him move and you'll notice someone who moves fluidly with smooth acceleration. Is that quality trainable? Take someone who is naturally unathleletic or at best barely average, you can increase his strength and vertical jump. But is it possible to reduce the jerkiness and sluggishness in such a person's movement and make him more fluid? HOW?

 :derp:

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: April 28, 2013, 01:07:22 pm »
So i didn't log a training session today because of course I had that big game on today. Man, was probably the best game of my life. I just don't know how to describe it. I think i played as well as I could have under the circumstances. Since this is my log i'll describe my role. Happy with my D. got some big stops late into the game (1 huge block) and all with about 3-4 mins left on the clock, we were down 7, I hit some clutch shots, got a great assist and somehow, it all came down to us winning last second by 1 point. It still hasn't sunk in yet. I dunno how I managed to help us wrestle back being down and with the momentum of the game firmly with our opponents. Great team effort as well.

Next important game is in 3 weeks time. I can't wait. Just need to trim down some of this extra bodyfat, improve conditioning and push my frontsquat firmly in the 3x125kg - decent effort category - and i'll be happy with my preparation.

I love playing these random tournaments. The buzz and build up is awesome.

I'll probably lift tomorrow.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: April 26, 2013, 10:11:48 am »
So my thoughts on training at this moment, hold my drink while ive stumbled onto this soap box of mine. The backsquat to me is a shitty graceless exercise, which is why it's a staple of the crass powerlifter who has appropriated into something entirely revolting. Big fat guys waddling their way up to a monolift, breathless by the time they get there and then a revolting courtesy abomination of a deep knee bend to the glowing admiration of other fat disgusting men who secretly think the squat wasn't to depth but hold their breathe lest the circlejerk of naked fat internet powerlifting emperors collapses around them.

But it's a good exercise. It makes you strong and stuff. And that's cool.

Mine is a high bar lift. But that doesn't mean anything. It's not where you put the bar on your back, but how your lift looks to the eye. And mine looks like a backsquat. Not an unathletic LBBS, nor a picture perfect HBBS of an olympic lifter. But just a backsquat. And that is good enough for me.

The front squat is my staple athletic exercise and will remain for as long as I can imagine training towards athleticism. But the backsquat now has a place, it will fill the gaps, beef up my hams and glutes and erectors while serving as an assistance to my favorite squat.



 :lololol:

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / chasing athleticism
« on: April 26, 2013, 07:05:46 am »
Training
FS 4Fx115, 2x120 (PR), 5x110 (PR)
HBBS 6x117.5 (PR), 6x110
BP 2x6x80, 6x75
BBALL (30 mins, a few dunks, 40 or so shots made)

FS notes:
Finally got the 110kg fiver PR!! Been chasing that one for a while!

The 115x4 PR was sooo close. I just lost focus on that last rep at the last 1/3rd of the lift because someone was moving around noisily around me. Guests man. Not used to having people near my gym when i'm doing my thing. I'll get it next time fo sho.

BS notes:
Ego took me to 6x117.5kg (PR) instead of 117kg. I'll allow it this time but in future i'd like to log more victories against it than for.
Thanks raptor. I took a page out of your bag of tricks the last 3 or so workouts and it's done me wonders. Watch this space. I have a lot more gains left in me yet.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: April 25, 2013, 02:53:40 am »
Quote from: Raptor on April 24, 2013, 12:57:48 pm
Damn you're on a roll... you lost so much weight but you still keep on piling up PRs... keep up this roll.

Quote from: LBSS on April 24, 2013, 09:51:36 am
:personal-record: :personal-record: :personal-record: :personal-record:

Thanks guys.

I haven't circumvented any universal rule, shit is still as the imitable wallace and grommit illustrate



Except on one side is a stack of plates and on teh other side stacks of bodyfat. I can push up one by accumulating the other. I think if I get this right, i'll get FS 3x125kg (PR) while weighing 75kg - meaning i'm repping 50kg over my bodyweight. That's got to be the only meaningful milestone for front squats in the next few months.

edit. fixed, thanks raptor. haha.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / chasing athleticism -- W4D1
« on: April 24, 2013, 06:37:43 am »
Training
FS 4x114 (PR), 3x118 (PR), 5x109 (PR)
HBBS 6x115 (PR), 6x108.5
OHP 5x58.5, 3x62
BBALL 40 mins (~10 dunks, 40 shots made total)


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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: training rhymes
« on: April 23, 2013, 12:57:37 pm »
Lets set the bar low
double bodyweight backsquat aint a thing
when you deadlift with a bar on yo back

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News, Announcements, & Suggestions / Re: THE FORUM IS DIFFERENT
« on: April 23, 2013, 02:21:14 am »
Re: Recent posts

it cuts off at the last 10 posts. Wish there was a link to show more than the last 10.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / chasing athleticism -- W3D3
« on: April 21, 2013, 08:34:05 am »
Training
FS 3Fx118 (=PR), 2x114
BBALL 2hours

FS notes:
Just a really shitty session. I blame lack of sleep. Got woken up early and just couldn't go back to bed. I hate myself for not getting any PRs.

BBALL notes:
Played well. Got a massive two hand slam dunk during a game. It felt amazing!! I had ppl around me so i kinda hung on the ring as well. First time i've done that lol. Was sick.
Feeling smashed after bball, no hope of getting any more squats in but i guess i'll try. i always try anyway.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: April 21, 2013, 08:30:09 am »
Quote from: Mutumbo000 on April 19, 2013, 09:54:51 pm
Nice work on the Front Squat!

Thanks bro, in advance, I'll save that one for when i've got 120x3 because right now I don't feel worthy! When I get 3x122.5 while weighing 75kg or less i'll be more deserving. Right now i'm a disgrace to this log and my peers on this site.

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Basketball / Re: A WHOLE BUNCH OF DUNKS AND SHIT.
« on: April 19, 2013, 01:51:26 pm »
Quote from: adarqui on April 19, 2013, 01:42:35 pm
Quote from: entropy on April 19, 2013, 11:48:29 am
I doubt he's 14. It's possible he is, but extremely unlikely. More likely that someone fudged his age. Not that I give a fuck either way, just saying.

/drops occams razor

lebron was like that though, in middle school & high school..

Yep and lebron is a one in a million kind of player. Even in the NBA he's heads and shoulders above everyone else. There are people who say he's the best of all time (eg pat riley), so he's not just great now, for his generation, but of all the players who have played the game before. 

The kid in the video has amazing athleticism and probably a kick ass kipping press and taking nothing away from him, he'd be impresive at 17-18. 14 is just nuts, unbelievable.

TLDR: I'll take the odds that the birth date is off much more readily than i'll believe we've found another Lebron!

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Basketball / Re: A WHOLE BUNCH OF DUNKS AND SHIT.
« on: April 19, 2013, 11:48:29 am »
I doubt he's 14. It's possible he is, but extremely unlikely. More likely that someone fudged his age. Not that I give a fuck either way, just saying.

/drops occams razor

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / chasing athleticism -- W3D2
« on: April 19, 2013, 07:57:48 am »
Training
FS 2x118 (PR), 4x113 (PR), 4x109
BS 6x113 (PR), 6Fx107.5
BP 2x6x79.5, 6x75

BBALL - 40 shots made, 10 "dunks" - couldnt last the last 3 though because was starting to rain down and I was rushing thru but whatevers.

FS notes:
I was probably not mentally prepared to triple 118. Woke up weak. But went for it, just because I wanted to lift heavy. Got the double and bailed on the 3rd half heartedly. Confident that i'll smash the triple (PR) on sunday. This brings me awfully close to my current FS training goal to triple 120kg.

Notice the 4x109? That was my ego. I should have had a 5 there. I thought of going for 5 rep PR when I should have gone for 5x106 or 5x107.5 at the most. Brings to mind:

Quote from: shakespeare bro
... it provokes, and unprovokes; it provokes
the desire, but it takes away the performance. There-
fore, much drink may be said to be an equivocator
with lechery: it makes him, and it mars him; it sets him   
on, and it takes him off; it persuades him, and dis-
heartens him; makes him stand to, and not stand to; in
conclusion, equivocates him in a sleep, and, giving him
the lie, leaves him.

BS notes:
Experimented with BS form to work around injury. Think i have found a work around. Got the PR. Hungry for more. This week i'll get the 115kg sixer and then i'm not far from the goal of 6x120kg for next week.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: April 19, 2013, 07:54:15 am »
Quote from: Rix on April 18, 2013, 04:50:00 pm
What happened? I don't see a mention of hip issues in your earlier posts.

It happened during the first workout after my gym break of 5 days, labelled w1d1. I kind of over-did it, instead of easing myself back into gym, I went all in and hurt myself. Think I strained the muscles in my hip - that's what the doctor suggested as well.

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Also I want to check out those squat vids, can you make them public?
Thought i'd wait a bit and post better videos once i've reached some milestones, not far from them now, so i'll post videos probably in 10 days time when I get the milestone PRs.


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