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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Dreyth's New Journal
« on: May 29, 2015, 02:28:15 pm »
What if you low bar squat, just for the heck of it? What happens?
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Dreyth's New Journal
« on: May 29, 2015, 12:32:28 pm »
Well I can barely squat 105x5 in the high bar squat while weighing 90 kg. Squatted 150x1 a week ago in the low bar squat. People say I shouldn't worry about a few cm position of the bar on the back. Maybe they'd like to explain this difference then.
It seems that the same mobility and lack of foot dorsiflexion issues that prevent me from bending my knees well and stable in a one leg jump also prevent me from squatting well in a high bar squat, even with Olympic lifting shoes on.
Also, in the high bar squat I break at the knees first whereas in the low bar squat I initiate the descent going back with the hips. So it's not just the bar position, it's a whole different movement.
Funny thing is that when I did low bar squats a week ago I got pretty severe VMO soreness. So weird.
By the way - how difficult are half squats for you? For me they're maybe more difficult than full squats. That reversal point for me is hell and I feel a huge knee overload.
It seems that the same mobility and lack of foot dorsiflexion issues that prevent me from bending my knees well and stable in a one leg jump also prevent me from squatting well in a high bar squat, even with Olympic lifting shoes on.
Also, in the high bar squat I break at the knees first whereas in the low bar squat I initiate the descent going back with the hips. So it's not just the bar position, it's a whole different movement.
Funny thing is that when I did low bar squats a week ago I got pretty severe VMO soreness. So weird.
By the way - how difficult are half squats for you? For me they're maybe more difficult than full squats. That reversal point for me is hell and I feel a huge knee overload.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Dreyth's New Journal
« on: May 29, 2015, 07:01:39 am »I was expecting a one-leg jump judging by the speed of your approach. I'll never understand how people can deal with such high speeds when going off two without getting completely overloaded in the plant. My knees and quad tendons would blow out after such a tremendous "stop" off two.
could it have something to do with the fact that i used to be a one legged jumper? i switched 5 years ago, at around the same time that i was able to tomahawk for the first time.
i wonder how high i would get off of one leg actually. maybe i'll try it out sometime. I bet it'll feel really awkward at first though.
No, because if that was the case I would jump off two at high speeds. But I don't. I think it has more to do with quad strength and quad tendon ability to load a ton of tension without feeling it will break and signaling the CNS an overload has occured and that it must shut down the jump.
Think about it - I collapse even when I do consecutive high hurdles. If there's something quick when I can't load the quads slowly and under control I stiffen up and shut down. So it must be something about the quad tendons in my opinion.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Dreyth's New Journal
« on: May 28, 2015, 03:22:53 pm »
I was expecting a one-leg jump judging by the speed of your approach. I'll never understand how people can deal with such high speeds when going off two without getting completely overloaded in the plant. My knees and quad tendons would blow out after such a tremendous "stop" off two.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: May 28, 2015, 03:17:12 pm »
I obviously am VERY depressed. Depressed as in borderline crazy.
Stayed away from computers and any kind of "social activity" (including talking to her) this week. I'm just completely exhausted.
Stayed away from computers and any kind of "social activity" (including talking to her) this week. I'm just completely exhausted.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: May 28, 2015, 02:21:41 pm »Raptor why are you comparing your situations bro, he was in an actual relationship not some made up infatuation thing. His situation is different from yours, mainly because yours is completely self created and sustained.
Who the fuck said anything about "comparing my situation to his"?
And why are you commenting on my situation like you know everything about it? You don't know jack shit, nobody here does except a few things I've said about it. Trust me, you don't. And even if you did, I don't care what your opinion is. Even if I have 0.1% chances of being with her, I will take them.
But no, I wasn't comparing his situation to mine's and no, you don't know my situation.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: May 28, 2015, 01:31:19 pm »
Well I deactivated my facebook account and just stayed in bed in the last few days. I can't do anything. I can't even watch an NBA game. I pause in the 2nd quarter or so and just sit there doing nothing.
The last thing you should expect from me is logical thinking. I was supposed to learn Java in a course and that is light years away from where I'm at now mentally. 8 months of every day burning and crying is Hell on Earth to put it mildly.
Anyway, topic hijack /off
The last thing you should expect from me is logical thinking. I was supposed to learn Java in a course and that is light years away from where I'm at now mentally. 8 months of every day burning and crying is Hell on Earth to put it mildly.
Anyway, topic hijack /off
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: May 28, 2015, 06:09:48 am »
To me... when I think about my situation and I read about yours here... I can't stop thinking "how amazingly powerful the human brain is, and the CNS per total".
Just a few miligrams of neurotransmitters X and Y and hormone Z alters your entire perception and behavior and grasp on things in such a substantial way...
Also, how powerful this personal bonding thing is... but I tell you what: if you were dumb or really careless, you would suffer no such things as these.
The ability to suffer in this way just proves to you and everybody else what kind of person you really are in your kernel, in my opinion. Maybe it will make a positive difference at the right moment.
Just a few miligrams of neurotransmitters X and Y and hormone Z alters your entire perception and behavior and grasp on things in such a substantial way...
Also, how powerful this personal bonding thing is... but I tell you what: if you were dumb or really careless, you would suffer no such things as these.
The ability to suffer in this way just proves to you and everybody else what kind of person you really are in your kernel, in my opinion. Maybe it will make a positive difference at the right moment.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: May 27, 2015, 02:34:24 pm »
This... depresses me even more. Like that was possible!
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Age vs Vertical
« on: May 13, 2015, 07:46:01 pm »
Yeah these all sound like good ideas... it's weird but when I don't run maximally I "think" about my running and start moving really weird or having my muscles shut down randomly on random strides that I take - like I have my hips collapse or knees collapse or muscles lock down, I can't keep either a relaxed nor a stiff "pace".
I'm just too much of an overanalyser/obsessed on thinking about stuff and what's going on and all that jazz. If you combine that with my current mental state you get weird running behavior... I have never heard anybody else saying similar stuff to what I'm saying here.
I'm just too much of an overanalyser/obsessed on thinking about stuff and what's going on and all that jazz. If you combine that with my current mental state you get weird running behavior... I have never heard anybody else saying similar stuff to what I'm saying here.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Age vs Vertical
« on: May 12, 2015, 06:44:00 pm »
Would you recommend something similar to this thing above for fat loss? Like, one mile run (never ran more than 2 laps or half a mile, ever, in my life) + tempo runs?