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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: November 22, 2010, 01:40:25 pm »
It'll hurt like a bitch if it's what stops your upward movement.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: November 22, 2010, 12:27:33 pm »yea I did the same doing tuck jumps the other day. Hurt like hell but just adjusted how high I brought my knees.
That's interesting. I'll try less flexion the next time I do them, see how it goes.
lol im 24 also, happy birthday
Thanks!
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News, Announcements, & Suggestions / Re: Officially welcoming LanceSTS to the forum!!
« on: November 22, 2010, 10:26:57 am »Thanks guys! Cant explain in words how happy I am to be a part of this great place!@!@
And we, in turn, are happy to have someone who wakes up in the morning and can answer our questions before 3 PM EST.
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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: BOX JUMPS ARE STUPID - STOP BRAGGING AND DO A REAL VERT, BITCHES
« on: November 22, 2010, 10:23:22 am »So was Louie receptive to your ideas? I am sure there are few in the United States that are stronger than those WSB guys on the three major lifts, but as far as VJ goes, I mean they are too massive to even move all that weight to be among the best leapers.
My "ideas" were just valid points that he didnt disagree with, the thing that alot of people misunderstand about Louie is he doesnt care about vertical jump nearly as much as alot of us do, if you gave him a choice of increasing someones svj by 10 inches or increasing their box squat 50lbs, hed take the box squat no question.
Alot of those guys have too much bodyfat to optimize jumping, but the main difference is they dont really train for jumping at all, all of the explosive and dynamic exercises are done to improve rfd in the LIFTS, not a vertical jump. Powerlifting is NOT jump training, just like jump training is not powerlifting.
PAGING STEVEN-MILLER, PAGING STEVEN-MILLER
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: November 22, 2010, 08:50:21 am »Happy bday twin.Im 24 today as well then.
Damn I feel old. Maybe thats why you wrecked your back. Because of your extreme age.
LBSS happy birthday !!!
Flander are you trying to depress me?
Mid-20's baby! I'm getting on in years, for sure. Vag, you should pretty much hang 'em up at this point.
@adarq: I think you're right, combo of hip flexion/extreme posterior tilt did it. It was already feeling better throughout yesterday and I did some stretches and stuff. About 95% today, I'd say. Good enough to get back under the bar.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: November 22, 2010, 08:47:24 am »11/21/2010
BW = 150.8 <-- funny, carb depleted, feeling weak but looking lean, 2 days ago after carb'n up i was 155
soreness = hamstrings slightly, calfs slightly
aches/injuries = back still
fatigue = feel mad shitty
diet = protein shake, 4 pieces of pizza + salad + chocolates + 2 pieces of cake, training, protein shake + 4 bananas, protein shake + 4 bananas
workout:
- mr tuck: 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5
- dips: 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10
tuck jumps felt insanely explosive, took me a while to get into the workout, very long warmup, like 30 minutes of progressive warming up.. but once i got into the tucks at max effort, i had some insane pop.. tomorrow is actually looking promising, didn't think so before workout.
dips were very weak..
hopefully i can sleep around 4:30am and wakeup at 12:30am, that'd be great.
i challenged kingfish to a vert challenge, i told him i'd hit head on rim before he hits 40 SVJ.. letz see wut goes down.
he's at 38 SVJ max, i'm at ~39 RVJ max.. tomorrow im going to jump good though because he pissed me off badly, but we're cool, he's my boi.. i'll probably put his squat video on my ipod because i get so angry watching his squat videos, because it takes ~30-45s for the first rep to happen after he walks the bar out.. that should result in some PR's if i watch that shit before jumping
peace
lol'd hard at the bolded part.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: November 21, 2010, 10:51:12 am »
Warm up was standard. I really think it might be because it was the morning and my spine was still loose from sleep. But what about the tucking movement stressed it out, I don't know.
Anyway, thanks for the happy birthdays guys!
Anyway, thanks for the happy birthdays guys!
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: November 20, 2010, 11:56:31 am »
neutral focus
SH:SP:SR:SH:SP:SR:SH:SP:SR:SH:SP:SR:
power focus
SH:SP:SP:SR:SR:SH:SP:SP:SR:SR:
speed/reactivity focus
SP:SR:SR:SR:STIM:TEST
Not counting the first SP workout as done cause this was a half workout at best. Messed up my back somehow on the first set of tuck jumps, soldiered through the REA and jump squats but when I tried to load more weight on the bar it was just not happening. Fuck. How did I tweak my back doing tuck jumps? I guess this is what I get for trying to work out in the morning, or something.
warm up
jump rope x a bit
core stretches
work
tuck jumps x20 -- balls
t-spine mobility exercises
REA squat 2x3x85
jump squat 3x3x85
squat warm ups
goodbye
cool down
stretch
On the bright side, I'm 24 today.
SH:SP:SR:SH:SP:SR:SH:SP:SR:SH:SP:SR:
power focus
SH:SP:SP:SR:SR:SH:SP:SP:SR:SR:
speed/reactivity focus
SP:SR:SR:SR:STIM:TEST
Not counting the first SP workout as done cause this was a half workout at best. Messed up my back somehow on the first set of tuck jumps, soldiered through the REA and jump squats but when I tried to load more weight on the bar it was just not happening. Fuck. How did I tweak my back doing tuck jumps? I guess this is what I get for trying to work out in the morning, or something.
warm up
jump rope x a bit
core stretches
work
tuck jumps x20 -- balls
t-spine mobility exercises
REA squat 2x3x85
jump squat 3x3x85
squat warm ups
goodbye
cool down
stretch
On the bright side, I'm 24 today.
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Pics, Videos, & Links / Re: beast
« on: November 20, 2010, 09:19:35 am »
Actually it looks like 95 to me. But who's counting? He didn't do full depth squats in the middle there so he's obviously wasting his time. 
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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: low bar squat vs high bar squat
« on: November 20, 2010, 09:18:21 am »
AlexV nailed it: It depends, it depends, it depends, it depends.
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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: low bar squat vs high bar squat
« on: November 19, 2010, 06:51:47 pm »Yeah cause god knows you can't become stronger without ATG squatting. Elite athletes do strength exercises, they ARE STRONG, but many of them don't do full squats. In fact, I wonder how many Olympic athletes do real, honest-to-god full squats in their training, lifters aside. Or how many players within a given pro sport.
Do you think Rajon Rondo full squats when he trains? How about Vince Young? How about Chris Johnson? How about Cristiano Ronaldo? Dwight Howard? Jason Kidd? Andre Agassi, back in the day? How about Lindsay Vonn? I don't know, but I highly doubt it. Why should they invest time, energy and mental focus in steven-miller-approved full squatting? They spend all their time and energy doing important things, like getting better at their sport.
Elite athletes are often very strong/fast/amazing because of other reasons than training - at least to a substantial degree. That is also the reason why mentioned people might not even be familiar with a weight room. That however does not mean that the same source of action (becoming stronger being secondary to 6 days a week skill training for ones sport) is indicated for you and me to optimize results.
What? Sure, you need good genetics to be an elite athlete, but beyond that, how other than a decade plus of busting their asses in training do you think elite athletes get strong/fast/amazing? I squat because, like you say, I'm a hobbyist. I like to squat full and feel better about myself when I do than when I catch myself "cheating" on reps. And make no mistake, squatting is a fantastic exercise for developing leg strength. Duh. I would probably keep squatting full if I were to throw myself more completely into mastering a particular sport, for those reasons. But I don't for a second think that squatting is some kind of magical exercise that becomes infinitely more valuable when done through a larger range of movement.
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Nutrition & Supplementation / Re: macdonald's burgers don't age (even after 127 days)
« on: November 19, 2010, 04:43:07 pm »
No. This is stupid. Steven-miller is right. The burgers didn't spoil because they dehydrated too quickly to give mold time to grow. This is because they're small, not because of anything McDonald's puts in them.
http://aht.seriouseats.com/archives/2010/11/the-burger-lab-revisiting-the-myth-of-the-12-year-old-burger-testing-results.html
http://aht.seriouseats.com/archives/2010/11/the-burger-lab-revisiting-the-myth-of-the-12-year-old-burger-testing-results.html
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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: low bar squat vs high bar squat
« on: November 19, 2010, 03:45:58 pm »Yeah, I guess John Smith is a complete retard coaching-wise. I mean, he can't even teach a full squat! What a worthless coach.
Or maybe the guy who coached Maurice Greene, Ato Boldon, Carmelita Jeter and a bunch of sub-10 guys and a couple of 400m Olympic champs has realized throughout his decades of coaching that YOU DON'T HAVE TO SQUAT TO BE A GREAT ATHLETE. If it's going to distract from the main focus of training, why bother?
No, you don't need to squat, you can be a great athlete if you have good enough parents, too. So why don't we all choose ours instead of becoming stronger, seems like the best idea.
Yeah cause god knows you can't become stronger without ATG squatting. Elite athletes do strength exercises, they ARE STRONG, but many of them don't do full squats. In fact, I wonder how many Olympic athletes do real, honest-to-god full squats in their training, lifters aside. Or how many players within a given pro sport.
Do you think Rajon Rondo full squats when he trains? How about Vince Young? How about Chris Johnson? How about Cristiano Ronaldo? Dwight Howard? Jason Kidd? Andre Agassi, back in the day? How about Lindsay Vonn? I don't know, but I highly doubt it. Why should they invest time, energy and mental focus in steven-miller-approved full squatting? They spend all their time and energy doing important things, like getting better at their sport.
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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: low bar squat vs high bar squat
« on: November 19, 2010, 11:17:52 am »
I agree with you JCsBck, but Bret Contreras is a complete idiot. Don't trust anything he says.
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Olympic Weightlifting / Re: 69kg lifters
« on: November 19, 2010, 10:10:24 am »
The 170kg snatch was my favorite. Good lord those dudes are strong.