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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Kingfish
« on: March 08, 2011, 09:41:39 am »
Thanks for cutting out the 90 second set up. 
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: March 07, 2011, 08:37:10 pm »Adarq, I notice that you use to squat outside by yourself. Did you ever have any accidents?
LOL
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: March 07, 2011, 06:14:04 pm »youre so unaffected by lack of sleep, sickness, injury
lol
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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: Importance of Training Whole body
« on: March 07, 2011, 01:19:03 pm »yeah but big upper body and tiny legs makes you look like a fucking idiot.
That is a physical (observable) characteristic of some of the top sprinters in the world: Broad shoulders, narrow hips, relatively long, skinny legs.
touche. allow me to revise my statement: big upper body and tiny legs makes you look like a fucking idiot unless you are a demonstrably ridiculous athlete, e.g. a world-class sprinter.
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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: Importance of Training Whole body
« on: March 07, 2011, 09:01:55 am »Well there are many benefits.
For one, squats build core strength. Secondly, the power you get (whole body power) is still hip initiated in general, and core generated/managed. Thirdly, a good leg strength base is the foundation on which upperbody is based on in terms of good stability for good power generating. And quartedly, the more lean muscle in general you have the more irradiation effect you have.
Where I'm going here is sports. If you do pullups/chinups/pushups etc just for the sake of good looking, then all I said is pretty much nullified.
yeah but big upper body and tiny legs makes you look like a fucking idiot.
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Basketball / Re: LEBRON TO MIAMI HOLY SHIT I AM IN HEAVAN,DONT WAKE ME UP FROM THIS AMAZING DREAM
« on: March 07, 2011, 01:17:24 am »
^ strong post.
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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: Main muscles used in all aspects of basketball
« on: March 07, 2011, 01:16:32 am »
This will take care of every muscle you need to build:
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fO1zuBCMQ0" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fO1zuBCMQ0</a>
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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: Importance of Training Whole body
« on: March 06, 2011, 11:55:54 pm »yeaa ive heard the hormone misconceptions before..and the kid like most of the general population dont care about athleticism
confused. you mean your hormone misconceptions?
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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: Bench Press
« on: March 06, 2011, 11:54:48 pm »Ok so I have heard a bunch of crap about the bench press and it wrecking shoulders, etc.
My goals are to have a stronger upperbody without injuring anything. I am not too worried about numbers.
What would be better? Weighted Dips vs. Bench
I am looking for a time efficient, progress easily trackable, safe, and best bang for my buck.
I like limiting the number of exercises i use for the simplicity and focus it brings to training, so the one with the biggest bank for my buck is important.
Also I am a basketball player, so I probably won't be tested on the bench, so that is something not to worry about?
Standing overhead press or push press will give you by far the best carryover to performance with the added benefit of healthier shoulders. Bench press will go up along with your ohp or pp so you can kill two birds with one stone. Adding dips as an assistance exercise to the press to get some extra chest and tricep work is good as well if your workout permits.
this is total horseshit. you should do weighted dips for 3-5 reps total, superslow (e.g. 4s eccentric, 2s pause, 6s concentric). bench, ohp, db bench, all that shit will just waste your time. pretty much only superslow, very heavy weighted dips are the way to go.
that, and ATG squats.
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Calisthenics, Bodyweight Training, Gymnastics, Parkour / Re: John Alvino
« on: March 06, 2011, 10:30:33 pm »
not sure if serious? he does literally nothing impressive in that video, plus he's wearing all tap-out gear. and his calves don't seem that small to me.
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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: Importance of Training Whole body
« on: March 06, 2011, 09:47:48 pm »
also that just training upper makes you a bitchtastic bro. or a brotastic bitch. take your pick.
also, not whatbball2020 ineedtodunk said about hormones, cause that's not actually true.
also, not what
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Introduce Yourself / Re: Evening, gentleman.
« on: March 06, 2011, 04:43:53 pm »
To which gentleman in particular are you referring?
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Kingfish
« on: March 05, 2011, 04:44:39 pm »General Training: Nike track waffle (the ones recommended by darqui) 29.99$ on Eastbay. Makes you much more glute-dominant and lets your ankle move freely. I had 2 pairs of nike frees and i personally would take these over the frees ANYDAY.
Basketball or anykind of Sports Practice involving OTHER people/obstacles: Nike Hyperfuse. 89,99$ Light and good protection. However, it would be best not to use the same pair for outside on concrete and inside in a gym as the grip wears down pretty easily.
Peace.
Yeah but that's not what he asked. FWIW I use Brooks shoes for general training cause Nikes are too narrow for my feet.
Pendlay Do-Win lifting shoes are gonna fulfill your squatting needs unless you get serious about oly lifting. Others on this site use Adidas Ironworks or Nike Romaleos, but they're expensive as shit and for general purposes I don't think it's necessary to have such a nice pair. You can find Do-Wins for under $100 if you look around a bit.