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Quote from: LBSS on August 05, 2011, 01:10:58 pm

everyone gains fat when they gain weight. except steroid users. and sometimes even them. the proportion you gain of muscle and fat depends on (not in order of importance):

1. your genes,
2. your size and how fat you are when you start trying to gain weight,*
3. your activity level and the types of activities you're doing, and
4. your diet.

*e.g. very fat, untrained people are generally the only people who can really build muscle and lose fat at the same time. everyone else is stuck with at least a little fat gain.

But I recently, gained some muscle mass, while losing fat.  I started at ~13%BF, only 153lbs at 5'8".  This was my goal and I asked Lance this before and he said it is very possible to gain muscle and lose fat simultaneously.  I'm not saying you don't know what you're talking about, but yeah...

are you a teenager?

#5 is pretty impressive too

+1000. so much power.

I've just read Raptors One-leg running jump - reactive vs strength jumping article and realized that I'm a total reaction jumper. Great for dunks comps and all but when it comes to game situations, i.e dunking on fast breaks I find my leg gives out if I'm really trying to get up there.  Its like my mind is saying dunk and my leg is saying fuck you, thus resulting in a totally uncoordinated dunk attempt where I only get 3 inches of the ground.

What exercises should I be working on to help me become more of a complete jumper?. 

the bold part made me laugh. great description. 

Can't these artificial legs help? I don't want to sound like a jerk but can't they actually give you an advantage?

yes, they can. he's basically not even doing the same thing as running, mechanically speaking.

http://www.sportsscientists.com/2007/07/oscar-pistorius-science-and-engineering.html

From a different (later) post on that site:

Pistorius had an eventful year off the track - a boating accident which was alleged to have been the result of alcohol, a night in jail after allegations of assault, and finally, a research publication by his own scientists which suggested that he enjoyed an advantage of 10 seconds in a 400m race.

everyone gains fat when they gain weight. except steroid users. and sometimes even them. the proportion you gain of muscle and fat depends on (not in order of importance):

1. your genes,
2. your size and how fat you are when you start trying to gain weight,*
3. your activity level and the types of activities you're doing, and
4. your diet.

*e.g. very fat, untrained people are generally the only people who can really build muscle and lose fat at the same time. everyone else is stuck with at least a little fat gain.

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ADD THIS NOTE TO EVERY POST SO YOU KEEP REMEMBERING: JUMP EVERY WORKOUT. IF THERE'S NO SPACE, FIND SPACE.

FOAM ROLL BEFORE EVERY WORKOUT, LACROSSE/TENNIS BALL SMR AFTER EVERY WORKOUT.

STANDING QUAD/HAM/CALF/ITB/PEC STRETCHING THROUGHOUT THE DAY, EVERY HOUR OR SO.

KEEP SWEETS TO A MINIMUM. MOAR PROTEIN. MOAR VEGGIES.

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BW = ???
SORENESS = none
ACHES/INJURIES = right toe bugging badly, have to concentrate to not limp
FATIGUE = low to moderate

- warm up

- tuck jump 2 x 10
submax

- sprint x 15y
2 @ 60% == standing start because of toe, toe hurt anyway, stopped

- DSVJ x 5

- DLRVJ x 10
felt technically pretty good but wasn't getting very high, maybe 30.5, maybe 31 at most.

- squat 5 x 7 x 260
felt great, lost focus on the last couple of reps of the last two sets but not a big deal. squatting yesterday was smart.

- chin up x 10 + 3,3,3,3
pseudo-RP

- dip + 8 lbs x 10 + 3,3,3,3
real RP

- stretch

felt pretty good. talked to my other brother on the way home, helped to just check in about our little brother. i do much, much better in the gym when there's no one else around, or almost no one.

So if you get him into a rehab center? A good one for that matter.

he's been in and out of rehab centers since he was 14. suggestions not really likely to be helpful, but i appreciate the thought.