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Quote from: Mutumbo000 on April 12, 2012, 09:55:08 am

Yeh i hate public holidays and shit coz the gyms always closed and than it messes up your routines coz you got to work around it and train on different days. Your SJV looks sik btw.

Also i was just wondering where abouts you buy your spikes from? If you purchase your spikes online can you hook me up with a website or something. Cheers acole.

Thanks mate! I used to get my spikes from this place in Melb called Runner's World which had a good range and people who actually knew track sprinting and what shoes work best. But it's hard to beat places like Eastbay for price nowadays, got a cheap pair for around $50 with my last basketball shoes.

By the way, I found the perfect pair for you:

http://reviews.nike.com/9191/331037/nike-zoom-matumbo-track-shoe-reviews/reviews.htm

Lol nice name on those spikes but I don't really like the look of them haha. I'll check out Eastbay though coz it's probs cheaper than any shoe store in Adelaide. Thanks for the help.

Lol nice name on those spikes but I don't really like the look of them haha. I'll check out Eastbay though coz it's probs cheaper than any shoe store in Adelaide. Thanks for the help.

Yeah fair enough haha. Eastbay is the best for pretty much any sports shoes, hard to go past them. So long as you put a few items in your order to justify the shipping costs from US.

You remind me a lot of myself when I first started doing bounds... I still do them like you do them here when I go LRLRLR but when I do them on the same leg, I can dorsiflex well. You don't dorsiflex at all in either version... that's the thing.

Ask Lance about them... post these videos there, see what he thinks. He knows more about bounding than I am.

Yeah I'm still having trouble with dorsiflexion. I feel like I'm subconsciously stopping my toe from dorsiflexing fully to make the landing easier, as if I can't handle my full BW landing on one leg. But I'm working on it, will start doing some one-legged pogos/skipping trying to fully dorsiflex each time. Once I solve this I think it'll help my SLRVJ a lot.

Gym

Calf raise: 1x20@70kgs, 1x20@120kgs, 2x20@160kgs 

Clean: 3x5@50kgs

Squat: Warmup, 1x4@120kgs, 3x4@160kgs

Squats sucked today. I tried for an extra rep in the last set and actually failed to get the bar up for the first time ever, had to drop the bar onto the safety (it wasn't as embarrassing as I imagined it would be  ). It wasn't my quads though; my hips were hurting when getting to parallel for some reason and started giving out before my quads did. They might be a weakness I have, or I might not have warmed them up enough. Calf raises and cleans were good though. I think I could even go a bit heavier on the calf raises.

Don't worry about failing on the squats I wreckon almost everybody who lifts with low reps has failed squats before (or at the very least came extremely close to failing). Nobody would say shit to you when you fail 160kg especially if you're a regular and they know you put in work.
That's weird about your hip. What do you think the pain was from?

Gym:

Foam-roll (a lot)

Explosive squat (full ATG today, aimed for <3 secs per rep): 2x8@70kgs, 2x8@90kgs, 1x8@70kgs

Jump squat: 3x10@30kgs

Ghr: 3x10@30kgs

Single leg box-hop: 2x6/leg

I did full ATG depth today to get my hip flexors more of a workout. They didn't hurt like last session which is good.

Lol...yeah I don't know why I put 3 secs. They were all around 1.5-2 secs.

Lol...yeah it's more of a rough guideline...I think you can feel when your reps are really explosive and when they're getting grindy.

At what % of your 1RM would you say the reps are starting to get slow?

I guess around 70-75% (150ish kgs) it gets harder to be really explosive, more near the end of the set. I always think that perhaps a better way to train for vertical force output is to focus on doing the same % of your 1RM faster each session until you are really explosive, then moving up the weight. (I'm sure this method has probably been described and has a name, just haven't looked  ).

Training-wise, I had a test-tube with some weak acid in it break and spill on my leg at work (I work in a tissue engineering lab) which gave me a burn a bit like road rash. Nothing serious, but hurts a bit to run, doctor said not to do much on my legs while it scabs over so no bounds or jumping for a few days. It sucks.