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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: February 14, 2011, 11:02:44 am »
Lower leg felt totally fine yesterday and feels fine again today. It was a birthday extravaganza this weekend: Saturday I spent the whole day helping my mom prepare for my dad's birthday party while he did the rest of his hike, then we had the party, then I was too tired to do much but play cards and go to sleep. Yesterday was my mom's birthday (my parents' birthdays are 5 days apart), so we did some family shit.

I should go to the gym today, but I'm conflicted because A) it's Valentine's Day and B) Tuesdays and Thursdays are generally better because the court doesn't get taken over until 8, rather than 7:15.

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ADARQ & LanceSTS - Q&A / Re: LR vs RL plant for Dunking
« on: February 14, 2011, 10:42:27 am »
Pushing a Heavy object - Right foot forward
2-foot jump plant - LR
Kick - Left leg
Starting sprint stance - Right leg forward
1 foot jumping leg - Right leg

I'm right handed and jump much higher off my right leg than my left. Also, my handle (such as it is) is much better with my left hand than with my right. When I do jumps at the rim I reach with my left hand, because my shoulder is higher on that side so I can reach higher.

The differences are huge, too. I was never much of a soccer player but when I'm messing around left leg is a lot more powerful and a LOT more dexterous (see what I did there?) than right. Even popping a basketball up to myself off the ground, left foot is automatic. Dribbling with my left hand is MUCH more comfortable than with my right hand, although admittedly I suck at both. LR plant is probably twice as good as RL plant, shit just gets awkward when I try to go RL. Sprint isn't quite so much of a difference in terms of which foot starts forward, but in a race I would definitely do right foot forward.

Interesting thread.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: February 12, 2011, 10:40:01 am »
Quote from: adarqui on February 11, 2011, 04:10:25 am
Quote from: LBSS on February 10, 2011, 05:44:21 pm
Have been getting a crucial ache in my knee (ITB, maybe plantaris), calf, Achilles, heel and top of my foot just before the third and fourth toes. There's a dirty trigger point (or 12) in there somewhere. I haven't had an ache like this in a while so I'm gonna get to the gym early tonight and do a shit ton of SMR and stretching and shit.

Plan for tomorrow is to walk a whole lot with my dad (he's doing a 60 mile hike over 4 days for his 60th birthday, I'm joining for day 3), so it would be nice to be free of lingering leg pain before I get into that.

damn your dad is beast.. sounds fun, hope you're health for it.


Great walk. I ended up joining my dad for the last 13 of his 16 miles yesterday. Beautiful day and I love spending time with him, so it was really nice. My lower left leg (same as the other day) started acting up really bad sometime soon after lunch, much worse than Friday, but it had gotten better-ish with some stretching and, oddly, more walking. Feels totally normal this morning. No workout today, gonna help my mom with a bunch of errands and shit leading up to the party/grand finale of my dad's hike. Tomorrow, though, I'm going to head over to the middle school court near my parents' house and see what I can do. Also, try to measure that hoop. Glad we're getting a few nice days for once.

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: Strength rankings
« on: February 10, 2011, 07:27:59 pm »
Quote from: Dreyth on February 10, 2011, 06:21:21 pm
Which one is he?

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: February 10, 2011, 05:44:21 pm »
Have been getting a crucial ache in my knee (ITB, maybe plantaris), calf, Achilles, heel and top of my foot just before the third and fourth toes. There's a dirty trigger point (or 12) in there somewhere. I haven't had an ache like this in a while so I'm gonna get to the gym early tonight and do a shit ton of SMR and stretching and shit.

Plan for tomorrow is to walk a whole lot with my dad (he's doing a 60 mile hike over 4 days for his 60th birthday, I'm joining for day 3), so it would be nice to be free of lingering leg pain before I get into that.

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: Strength rankings
« on: February 10, 2011, 04:01:00 pm »
Lady and gentlemen, we have our first troll! Might I be the first to roll out the welcome mat?

WELCOME, SIR!*

I'm only disappointed that he's not less of a complete fucking retard.

*I'm assuming male gender here, could be wrong.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: February 10, 2011, 11:43:58 am »
Quote from: Sean0013 on February 10, 2011, 10:17:24 am
I'm going to Chapel Hill next month for the game. I'm not a UNC or a Duke fan but let's be real. Duke ain't looking that hot right now. Singler has gone to shiiiit. The only player that really stands out on that team to me right now is Nolan Smith. UNC are gonna take it next month...got a feeling!

Duke ain't lookin' as hot as they did before Irving went down, I will grant you that. But coming back from 16 down to win a rivalry game against a ranked team, while most of the team is playing like garbage, has got me feeling pretty good. Singler's too good to keep struggling like he has, Curry is coming along, the front line is underrated (and underperforming, but still, underrated).

And yeah, Smith is awesome. Maryland native, too.

We're not a great team and probably won't repeat, but anything less than Final Four would be a disappointment this year.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: February 10, 2011, 09:51:39 am »
didn't get to log last night, so here's what i did. pressed for time, shortened it a bit.

BW = 171.5
SORENESS = none
ACHES/INJURIES = none
FATIGUE = low
DIET = good

s2: power
- RATING (7/10)

- warmup

- 10 yard dashes x 5
did 'em yesterday, so skipped

- ME jumps (~5-7 x 2) - if feel very stale, 1-step lead ins

- ME MR halftuck: 5 x 5

- ME MR pogo: 3 x 5

depth jumps 4x3 == first two sets were good, third set awful, fourth set okay

- SQUAT: 4 x 5
275,275,275,275 == one of the trainers at the gym gave me some props on my progress on these. i don't think he has any idea what i'm talking about. 4x5x305 will be okay. this is not.

- S1: dips @ 3 x AF
+33 X10,10,11(F)

- S1: pullups @ 3 x AF
9,6,4 == WTF?!?!? regressing on these. also i noticed much more than i have before the asymmetry in the way my shoulders rotate on the way up. gonna have to concentrate on that a bit, next time. didn't help that i took a break in the middle to mess around with some partner balancing stuff with jimmy (this guy: http://beastskills.com/). got a double planche, which was cool.

- OPTIONAL: CORE (Y/N?)
N

- STRETCH

also:

duke 79
unc 73
suck it, bitches.

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: movement analysis
« on: February 10, 2011, 09:41:53 am »
go register at charliefrancis.com/community. search for videos. profit.

zetz, you ever get in there?

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Powerlifting / Strongman / Re: Tom Martin
« on: February 10, 2011, 09:37:33 am »
fast. twitch. machine.

insane. crazier to me than the pat mendes stuff (or chris, sorry breh) because he's SO FREAKING LIGHT. He weights like 181 pounds! That's almost a 4.25xbw dead lift!


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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Age vs Vertical
« on: February 09, 2011, 02:28:37 pm »
 :welcome: back.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: February 08, 2011, 08:19:27 pm »
fucking fuck. have felt like crap all day, was feeling better by the time i went to the gym but apparently not with it enough to bring my lifting shoes. tried to work out but it just wasn't happening so i'm going to try again tomorrow.

did end up warming up. shot around a little bit, which should have been the first warning sign: everything was short. driving me nuts. then did sprints and tried a few jumps. after one good one-step, everything else blew and once the crossfit class started taking over the gym i was done. mobility and stretching and home. early bedtime tonight.

Zetz: I work in international development, particularly on humanitarian aid and disaster risk reduction.

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Program Review / Re: The Four Hour Body by Tim Ferriss
« on: February 08, 2011, 10:31:37 am »
Couldn't find this before, but here's the NY Times shitting all over the book: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/07/books/07book.html.

A typical quote from the review:

Quote

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: February 08, 2011, 10:17:22 am »
Worked 11.5 hours yesterday and 11 on Friday, plus I started getting a headache last night, slept like shit and the headache is still there this morning (although not as bad). But I got my shit done when I said I would, and it's not as much of a piece of shit as it was when it came across my desk from Pakistan. Plus props from my boss (and her boss) for the work. Plus I just got off the phone with Afghanistan, which (at least from the point of view of my job) is a shining beacon of clarity, transparency and good work compared to the shitshow that is Pakistan. Always nice to talk to my people in Kabul and Pul-i-Khumri. So now I'm in a good mood, apparent cold be damned.

Gonna see if I can leave work a little early today, get to the gym with plenty of time to warm up and jump without anyone else around. Fingers crossed.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Kingfish
« on: February 08, 2011, 09:22:29 am »
When I did tucks and pogos in my lifting shoes a week and a half ago or so it actually felt great. I was surprised.

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