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Pics, Videos, & Links / Re: Body Fat Decreased?
« on: October 03, 2013, 01:44:36 pm »
you look way way leaner than last time, wow. diesel
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Pics, Videos, & Links / Re: beast
« on: October 03, 2013, 10:17:23 am »993
Pics, Videos, & Links / Re: beast
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: October 03, 2013, 05:42:15 am »
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: acole14's journal - DUNK OR DIE
« on: October 02, 2013, 08:56:37 am »
^^^ Dan John and Pavel, who know a thing or two about swings, are pretty adamant that actively pulling the bell/plate down when it reaches head height is necessary for correct form.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: October 02, 2013, 08:09:06 am »
Ab work? I feel like those sorts of people are the type to have spent time doing tons of ab stuff in their bedroom for the last 10 years.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism -- W1D1
« on: October 01, 2013, 01:40:08 pm »Form change is basically to do with knees. They go in at the start of the concentric, and then OUT as I go past the sticking point. This is new for me, it's the antidote to the squatmorning sickness I so desperately needed to cure.
you are using too much weight if you had to grind the knees to get the rep. uneven stress on the knee is not healthy specially when supporting near-max weight.
A lot of Chinese lifters do it and Dan Green also recommends it. IDK how to feel about it because what you say has also occurred to me as a potential trouble.
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Pics, Videos, & Links / Re: beast
« on: September 30, 2013, 10:54:09 am »not sure this is the right thread but 675 while tearing a bicep is pretty intense
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: September 30, 2013, 10:36:33 am »man, on re-watching that 350 looked pretty solid. cool.
I think you could have got 360 if you were more used to grinding out heavy weights
Your squat looks more quad focussed than most low-bar squats. Your knees travel more forward than out and you don't squat morning that much.
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Article & Video Discussion / Re: Squats vs. Performance
« on: September 30, 2013, 10:31:20 am »Lifting won't do anything for top speed because that's mainly genetic.
"The squat becomes a poor measure of strength at maximum velocity. At this speed an athlete must exhibit extremely brief powerful single leg ground contact and the squat does not accurately predict their ability to produce power in this movement".
However, I believe squatting does improve your acceleration and can improve the start of your races, which will end up making you a faster runner. I was reading a book about Ben Johnson and Carl Lewis called 'The Dirtiest Race in History'. In the book it said even as far back as 1981 athletes were commenting on how impressive Ben Johnson's strength was in squatting. Back than in 1981 Johnson was running 100s in 10.8, however, he was leading a lot of faster guys than him in races up to 50m but just couldn't maintain the speed. He was always a brilliant starter and I attribute that to his natural strength and squatting. Ben Johnson didn't like cleans so he didn't do cleans. Same as Michael Johnson allegedly didn't do squats preferring lunges, so he did lunges. A guy like Linford Christie lives and dies by the squat believing it's an integral part of a sprinter's training. Same as Asafa Powell believes strongly in weights. But than you'll have other guys like Kim Collins who once again claim they don't even lift.<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cmv65yElP8A" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cmv65yElP8A</a>
Point being if you like an exercise and think it benefits you than do it. If you don't like it or think it doesn't benefit you than don't do it. The ultimate judge is always going to be your performance on the court, field or track that counts, not what you can do in the weight room.
I'm pretty sure Charlie Francis said that Johnson squatted 600x6 (not sure on depth) and benched 450.
http://www.charliefrancis.com/community/showthread.php?19380-Ben-Johnson-Squat-1rm
http://www.charliefrancis.com/community/showthread.php?19380-Ben-Johnson-Squat-1rm
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Pics, Videos, & Links / Re: beast
« on: September 30, 2013, 10:30:10 am »<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gfuf3D7RWes" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gfuf3D7RWes</a>
phone books are lame nail bending is where it is at
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Article & Video Discussion / Re: Squats vs. Performance
« on: September 30, 2013, 06:39:28 am »But as long as I had some deep heavy squatting in my program I could never feel as explosive as without any heavy/slow training,
Have you considered that it could be because you're just tired/sore from the weight training? That would be a pretty reasonable explanation without resorting to the claim that weight trianing isn't helpful when it has been the way almost everyone on this forum who has made big gains has come by them.
but there is a reason why in season athletes don't strength train rigorously.
Yeah, because it would fucking tire them out for their practices and matches and add a needless risk of injury. They should have taken care of their strength requirements in off-season.
if someone can explain in depth how to set up a proper program to avoid competing motor patterns I would be delighted to read it.
Read adarq's ratio method post in the performance blog.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: September 26, 2013, 08:52:02 am »
Don't kill the apostrophe. Bring back the diaeresis in places other than the New Yorker.
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MUSiC anD SHeeT! / Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now?
« on: September 25, 2013, 09:40:05 am »This is my theme song.
Edit: Best part of this video is that no one has an impressive physique.