For the love of god, please teach whoever does your filming to use the camera properly. Watching 90 degree rotated videos is extremely annoying.
Also, one day I am going to one-up the shit out of this. Actually, that's my new secondary goal. First I will dunk. Then, I will dunk in a suit and tie. On camera, obviously. The background music for the video will be "You Know My Steez" by Gang Starr.
I always thought fat burning just came down to calories... Burn more than you consume and that's it. Apparently not.
Is it not possible to get very lean and rid of belly fat when you're around ~14% BF if you don't eat CLEAN, even if you do full body weight training, lots of basketball, interval training (sprint, etc..)????
There is no such thing as spot reduction. How your body puts on and sheds fat is not up to you. However, if you want to lower your bf% overall, which will bring belly fat down, then you need to eat enough protein, lift weights to build muscle, and, if you want, do some low intensity cardio.
Interval training is not a magic bullet for fat burning, or anything else for that matter. ESPECIALLY if you're also trying to get stronger, you're much better off incline walking for an hour than doing suicides. And if you're playing a lot of basketball, you probably don't need any extra cardio at all.
Also, Raptor, you can't jump maximally over and over throughout a game, by definition. As soon as you start getting tired, you are not jumping maximally anymore.
And go watch an NBA game, those guys don't jump "maximally" as often as you think. Most of the time it's little hops, submax jumps for rebounds or layups or jump shots, whatever. The only time they jump max effort -- as distinct from maximal jumping, which requires lots of rest -- is on hard dunks (and big players don't even need to jump ME for that) and sometimes on rebounds in traffic.
I vaguely remember you talking about this before, but why don't you squat low-bar? You could probably add a shit ton of weight right away and it's not like you're squatting deep on those max attempts now so you wouldn't necessarily be sacrificing depth.
So everyone has probably seen Maradona's famous goal against England. But maybe fewer have seen it with the original Argentine commentary. Suffice it to say, I almost put this in the "beast" thread for the announcer alone. The dude absolutely loses his mind, nothing in US sports announcing is like that. Which is a shame, cause it's awesome.
Translation of what he says (Guga can correct me if I mess anything up):
"They're going to pass to Diego, now Maradona has it, two defenders on him. Maradona touches the ball. The genius of world football starts to his right. He leaves the third behind and is going to pass to Burruchaga. No Maradona was always going to keep it! Genius! Genius! Genius! It's there it's there it's there it's there it's there and GOOOOOOOOOOOOOAL! GOOOOOOOOAL! GOOOOOOOOOAL! I WANT TO CRY! HOLY GOD! LONG LIVE FOOTBALL! GOLAZO!* DIEGO! MARADONA! IT'S MOVING ME TO TEARS, FORGIVE ME! MARADONA, IN AN UNFORGETTABLE RUN, IN THE GREATEST PLAY OF ALL TIME, COSMIC LITTLE BARREL,** WHAT PLANET DID YOU COME FROM, TO LEAVE SO MANY ENGLISHMEN IN YOUR WAKE? TO BRING THE WHOLE COUNTRY TOGETHER IN A TIGHT FIST? SHOUTING FOR ARGENTINA! ARGENTINA 2, ENGLAND 0! DIEGOAL! DIEGOAL! Diego Armando Maradona. Thank you God, for football, for Maradona, for these tears, for this Argentina 2, England 0.
*There's no one-word translation for "golazo." It basically means "really awesome goal." **He literally calls him a "cosmic little barrel," but he means that Maradona is short and stubby.
so ya regardless, if 20 reppers make you stronger relative to bodyweight, then they improve vert.. they definitely aren't an endurance lift imo, i get stronger very fast when i incorporate 20 reppers.
How about 20 rep deadlifts as opposed to 20 rep squats?. Pro's/cons?.
You have some guys like Barry Ross who swear by deadlifting.
Not adarq but I think they'd be fine if you can keep your form. That's very hard to do with high rep deadlifts, and you'll end up just using your back.
This. For all the evidence you'll ever need that this is true, just go to your closest Crossfit gym and cringe.
Of course, it can be done. But most people fuck it up.
BW = ??? SORENESS = none ACHES/INJURIES = right calf but almost better FATIGUE = none DIET = good
-jump rope 30/30 x 15
-stretch
Just wanted to break a little sweat and get my HR up a bit. Kept it nice and relaxed but still managed to get the rope caught a few times. Frustrated and would have been embarrassed had there been anyone else around.
BW = ??? SORENESS = none ACHES/INJURIES = right calf but almost better, right hip/groin FATIGUE = none DIET = good
-warm up jump rope 30/30 x 5 mobility stuff
-pogos submax 4 x 20
-leg press x 10+5,5,5,5 hip/groin felt fine on first two warm up sets but when i went to 150 kg the tweak came back. messed around a bit but it was no use.
-BSS 3 x 3 123,123,123 == kept it nice and easy, felt hip but didn't hurt
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