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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: Buttocks
« on: December 26, 2010, 08:02:16 pm »
Thanks BMully! and Kellyb for your help! ;D But Kellb, I'll try to be glute dominant in my squats and train my glute to its limits! As you said, being glute dominant helps to be more athletic and prevents knee injuries. To do that I'll try some glute activation before I squat.

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Introduce Yourself / Re: Hello there!
« on: December 26, 2010, 05:24:20 am »
hahaha! Cool! "Asian Motivation"!  :headbang: hahahahahahaha

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: Buttocks
« on: December 26, 2010, 12:03:06 am »
Quote from: Raptor on December 25, 2010, 08:12:34 pm
Iso extension stim before squatting might help the glutes come alive I guess...

Thanks! But I think we don't have that kind of machine. :(

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: Buttocks
« on: December 25, 2010, 07:24:06 pm »
Quote from: Kellyb on December 25, 2010, 01:14:12 pm
It depends on the person.  Based on biomechanical testing it can be as much as 57% glute to 23% quad on one extreme to 49% quad and 28% glute at the other end, depending on the individual.  The best jumpers tend to be naturally hip/glute dominant and natural shitty jumpers and people with injuries don't. One of the best predictors of future knee pain is quad dominance/tightness and jumpers are already inherently succeptible to knee issues. Life itself also tends to leave the glutes disproportionately underactivated and unstrengthened and most training will inherenlty strengthen your quads disproportionately over your glutes, so more glute work is generally a good idea.  I believe Alex V did a case study of some sort where all he did was add glute work to the regimen of cross country runners and they all made awesome gains.

You can strengthen your glutes thru exercises like the squat providing they're not shut down.  A good observation to make is to pay attention to where you get sore when you squat.  If your ass is getting sore that's a pretty good indication that you're hitting your glutes. If it's not you could probably stand to follow more of the advice in that article.

Thanks for the answer. :D And I'm sure I'm quad dominant! Every time I squat, my quads are the ones who get sore. But when I did the box squat, my butt was the one that got sore.
I know I should change my squatting form and should open up my knees more(stretch my groin) when in the concentric pace or even add exercises for my butt. But I'm already following a program that's very taxing to my body.If an added exercise/s is recommended what would be wise to add to my program? And when? Before normal squatting? before doing any lower body exercise? or during my upper body workout days? Or should I change my Normal Squatting(5x5 80% with up to 1 rm warm-up) during Mondays to Box Squat(80% of max with 1rm warm-up?).


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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Buttocks
« on: December 25, 2010, 09:55:41 am »
I know that every muscle in our legs plays an important role in vertical jumping but is the buttocks more important than the quadriceps in the VJ movement, specifically in the concentric phase? Like what KellyB's article states?http://www.higher-faster-sports.com/noglutes.html

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Injury, Prehab, & Rehab talk for the brittlebros / Re: Squatting and Back Flexibility
« on: December 24, 2010, 09:17:32 am »
Quote from: Damien on December 24, 2010, 06:50:05 am
How is your (true) hip mobility?

Do some google search for "joint by joint approach"

Thanks! It helped alot!

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Introduce Yourself / Re: Hello there!
« on: December 24, 2010, 09:00:28 am »
Maybe... hahahaha

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Introduce Yourself / Re: Hello there!
« on: December 24, 2010, 06:34:29 am »
Quote from: ghettoracer on December 24, 2010, 05:28:14 am
Quote from: KokoyPinoy on December 22, 2010, 01:05:43 am
Hello! I'm Kokoy, well as you can see on my username, and I'm a Filipino. I'm 17 yrs old. I want to bust the stereotypes and myths that we Filipinos (and Asians) can't jump high (except for the tall guys)! That's one of my goals in life, to have 45+ inch vertical, and to be an inspiration for my friends and countrymen.

 :welcome:

but, the truth is usually the smaller the Asian the more athletic they are.  the taller Asians usually are less coordinated and jump not as well as the smaller counter parts.  there are plenty of speedy little asian dudes and lot of them have mad hops.  i know this old school pinoy guy he's like 55 now.  he's my height 180cm/5'11" and back he the days he was on the Philippines National team and he could dunk.  that's not too shabby at all.
 

Thank you! Well the thing is, it is very rare for as asian or filipinos (this is only my observation) to have 6'2'' height or taller. And those who are, does not train well. I see it happen in my own univeristy. Our basketball team does not even follow any weight training program! They all have the stereotypical mind that having high vert jump is only acquired if you have the genes for it. That's why  I want to shatter that stereotype by training myself to have 45+ vert jump 8). I'm not saying that genes does not play any factor, but you can't achieve your genetic potential if you don't train. :)

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Injury, Prehab, & Rehab talk for the brittlebros / Squatting and Back Flexibility
« on: December 23, 2010, 11:25:08 pm »
I'm 17 yrs old and currently squatting 235lbs. I'm a bit worried that my spine may get injured. I feel a little pain in the joints of my spine when I arch my back extensively. May be the pain is normal and all of the things I feel are all in my head. I need your opinion. I see to it that my form in squatting is good.

Or may be it's because of my bed? I just slept last night on the floor but my back feels the same way.

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Introduce Yourself / Re: Hello there!
« on: December 23, 2010, 05:14:48 am »
He said that?! :o Omen!  :-[ Owell. ;) Thanks Adrqui! I will succeed! I will make a training log when I feel like it. I already have written my log on a notebook but an internet source maybe better. Thanks again. :)

Long Live this forum! Mabuhay ang Forum na toh!

And again sorry for the 'free VJB advertisement'. ;D

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Introduce Yourself / Re: Hello there!
« on: December 22, 2010, 08:09:36 am »
Thank you very much!

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Introduce Yourself / Re: Hello there!
« on: December 22, 2010, 01:42:37 am »
Quote from: LanceSTS on December 22, 2010, 01:17:12 am
Hey man, glad to have you here, sounds like youre motivated, thats great.  Dont advertise sharing or stealing of peoples programs on here though, no illegal shit on adarq.org.    

hahaha. Sorry about that! Never will happen again.
Well i'm pretty much motivated. I want to dunk badly. BTW, I saw your vid on the hang clean and jump snatch it was great! I just started to learn how to do it. And i don't mean anything by asking this but, have you switched from vertfreak101 to this forum instead? ::)

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Introduce Yourself / Hello there!
« on: December 22, 2010, 01:05:43 am »
Hello! I'm Kokoy, well as you can see on my username, and I'm a Filipino. I'm 17 yrs old. I want to bust the stereotypes and myths that we Filipinos (and Asians) can't jump high (except for the tall guys)! That's one of my goals in life, to have 45+ inch vertical, and to be an inspiration for my friends and countrymen.

I did VJB with good results, around 5 inches in 5 months. I'm doing VertFreak 2.0 now for my first week and will know that i will gain much from it. I'm just a bit worried though Adam Link is a very nice guy but all of his marketing hype and promotion of Squatflex has destroyed his reputation. As Abraham Lincoln said, "If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all the people some time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can't fool all the people all the time". That's why I'm losing confidence on him. But still he gives free coaching in facebook and twitter.  :)

I am personally gratified as what this forum is aiming to do, giving free and reliable information for those who can't afford the programs that are sold in the internet. I too can't afford those prices but managed to save some money for 3 months or so, to buy Vertfreak 2.0. And I know it will work. By the way I got VJB for free, if anyone wants it you can mail me ;).

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