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ADARQ & LanceSTS - Q&A / Re: Weight and Caloric Deficit
« on: July 22, 2011, 11:01:44 am »
Is it possible to gain weight with a caloric deficit?
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Pics, Videos, & Links / Re: Handstand Pushups
« on: July 22, 2011, 10:56:43 am »why was that childish? it was just meant to be a reminder that you can get rally strong without much barbell training.
Maybe the fault is on my side here. But I feel that you don't make an effort to be understood. You posting that video might implicate a variety of meanings. It can very well be interpreted as a criticism to me asking this question in the first place or making fun of the idea that barbells are a superior training tool for most purposes. Why not just make the point and say "you can get really strong without much barbell training" and then post the video?
even if that's the case, which it very obviously wasn't, why do care so much?
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: July 21, 2011, 10:40:44 pm »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.
BW = ???
SORENESS = mild in quads, glutes, hamstrings
ACHES/INJURIES = none
FATIGUE = low
- warm up
- sprint
2 @ 60%
1 @ 80%
1 @ 90%
all felt sluggish
- depth jump 2 x 5
way more coordinated and explosive than last time, seemed to be getting higher
- pogos 2 x 5
- squat 5 x 7 x 240
still pretty easy
- OHP 2 x 115
was going for 3 x 5 x 115, lol. skipped BOR, too. not important.
- hanging leg raise 3 x 10
legs straight on most reps but a few i lost concentration and they bent a little
- stretch
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Injury, Prehab, & Rehab talk for the brittlebros / Re: Upper back pain when dead lifting
« on: July 21, 2011, 02:59:55 pm »So, when I do conventional style dead lifts, I try hard to keep my back straight, use my lower body/hips, and keep my shoulders pulled back/chest out. How come recently, when I dead lift, like the middle of my back, like where my spine is, in between my shoulder blades, it gets uncomfortable and kinda hurts. The pain is not that much, it just feels weird. This is weird, because before I used to never feel anything on my upper back, only my lower back when I would perform with improper technique. Anyone else experience this?
because god hates you
Is posting stuff like that fun for you?
yes. is posting questions to which you have basically no chance of receiving a meaningful answer fun for you?
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Injury, Prehab, & Rehab talk for the brittlebros / Re: Upper back pain when dead lifting
« on: July 21, 2011, 02:06:25 pm »So, when I do conventional style dead lifts, I try hard to keep my back straight, use my lower body/hips, and keep my shoulders pulled back/chest out. How come recently, when I dead lift, like the middle of my back, like where my spine is, in between my shoulder blades, it gets uncomfortable and kinda hurts. The pain is not that much, it just feels weird. This is weird, because before I used to never feel anything on my upper back, only my lower back when I would perform with improper technique. Anyone else experience this?
because god hates you
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ADARQ & LanceSTS - Q&A / Re: Some Questions!!
« on: July 21, 2011, 12:39:36 pm »
isn't part of the point of rest-pause that you only have to do one set? e.g. 10+3+3+3+2 done.
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Article & Video Discussion / Re: Jason Ferruggia's bodyweight article
« on: July 21, 2011, 12:38:12 pm »any thoughts on this?
those are all good exercises.
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any other exercises you would add if there was no equipment whatsoever nearby? ie depth jumps, sprints, etc.
your body is an amazing thing and can do an almost limitless range of exercises. which ones you choose depends on what you're trying to achieve.
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any kind of routine that could be set up for a person without weights whatsoever ?
unanswerable question because see bolded section above.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: July 21, 2011, 11:38:28 am »
you know what, adarq? come to dc, wearing that disgusting shirt. in fact, wear both of them at once. might be just what i need to get my cns fired up enough to dunk.
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Injury, Prehab, & Rehab talk for the brittlebros / Re: Lower back injuries and olympic lifts
« on: July 21, 2011, 11:29:19 am »
fair enough
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Pics, Videos, & Links / Re: funny / horrible training videos
« on: July 21, 2011, 11:28:55 am »
don't get why you put that one here, raptor.
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MOVIES & ENTERTAINMENT & SHeeT! / Re: The Paleo Diet
« on: July 21, 2011, 11:24:24 am »
fuck you bitch, get the fuck out of here. don't care if you're a bot or whatever the fuck these newfangled trolling machines are called. still addressing you directly. get. the. fuck. out.
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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: Who would jump higher and why?
« on: July 21, 2011, 11:23:17 am »
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Injury, Prehab, & Rehab talk for the brittlebros / Re: Lower back injuries and olympic lifts
« on: July 21, 2011, 10:56:23 am »
@steven-miller: surely you have seen countless people in the gym doing dead lifts, power cleans and power snatches that are really more like standing back extensions, sometimes with a flourish (the latter two). maybe i've got a biased sample because i go to a crossfit-happy gym and some of the form there is just, well, it's just awful.
of course your low back muscles can't extend your hips, but they sure can take your upper body from parallel to the ground to perpendicular.
of course your low back muscles can't extend your hips, but they sure can take your upper body from parallel to the ground to perpendicular.
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Pics, Videos, & Links / Re: Handstand Pushups
« on: July 20, 2011, 04:39:55 pm »I'm chasing a 300 lb clean and strict press (I think I'm good for 255-260 now) and one of the better assistance lifts I've found are paused handstand pushups on parallettes. I'm still not great at them, but having said that, I do weigh 225 lbs. Thought I'd post up a video of today's top set.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CLWBhbe514
For those of you who know me from the past, I'm not all legs anymore.
Why would you do them instead of a barbell movement?
https://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=10150242346315188
Damien, you have a bad habit of answering with really childish responses to serious meant questions. I was not trolling RJ here, because I am not a troll. I recognized that he is very damn strong in the press and asked why he would do handstand push-ups as assistance instead of light, higher volume presses because of the reason I stated above (better control over resistance). I was not going to imply that you cannot get strong with bodyweight movements. I just think that less ability to control resistance is a disadvantage in many cases, but probably not in this one for the reasons RJ posted. It is also an assistance movement, realize that he does real presses as well.
aaaaand you take shit too seriously sometimes. funny video was funny.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: July 20, 2011, 01:49:19 pm »
also, about chin ups, i've started to adjust to keeping the backs of my legs tight so that my bodyweight doesn't shift under the bar. still feels a little weird but i'm able to get a lot better back/arm ratio in terms of effort.