Quarter squats are helping my backsquat!!!!!!!!!! My finishing strength on backsquats has improved incredibly. Im snapping them out piston like once ive gotten past the sticking point. Today my hamstrings were DED .. even warmups with 70kg indicated that much, however, so good is my glute/quad strength now i can still knock out a 6rm effort explosively (thanks to quarters). Fuck dogma .. fuck all that stupid 'ATG or nothing' bs .. it's complete nonsense.
Here is the plan for the next 8 weeks. I want 6x6x127.5kg @77kg bodyweight. I wont settle for 4 sets or 5 sets with 1 done with a belt. 6x6x127.5 @ 77kg rawdog .. no belt no wraps no creatine, no gomad, just balls. A complete list of lifts:
6x6x127.5kg bs @ 77kg
200kg bht worksets
180-200kg RDL worksets
180-200kg quarter squat worksets
After 8 weeks, the following things will still be available, unused in my toolbox: 1. creatine, 2. belt, 3. knee sleeves, 4. stimulants like synephrine and L-tyrosine and 5. Not cutting and even gaining weight.
Going from 117.5kg x 6 to 127.5kg 6x6 in a matter of 8 weeks is just completely unrealistic imho unless you just came back from a major injury. And as T0ddday already mentioned before, the romanian deadlift is definitely not an exercise (if done correctly) which is supposed to be done for worksets of 200kg+... that doesn't make any sense... even less so when you never deadlifted that much with a normal conventional setup.
Yeah sometimes this journal veers off into such self-congratulatory contradictory nonsense that it is hard to understand whether he is serious...
Like I'll read one post where he says "I'm looking ripped, I'm seeing abdominal striations from this highly restrictive diet."
Then the next post is "any dunk I do counts as a weighted dunk because I'm wearing this massive adipose layer around my gut."
This type of bipolar self-image of ones body is scary, tbh.
And there is am very little understanding of what a toolbox is for a jumper... He lists a lifters toolbox! The toolbox way of thinking does make sense but he has it completely backwards... Knee sleeves and a belt don't help you jump high - they make lifting safer... You don't save them up if you need them.
For god sake, you also don't save up creatine... High jumpers CUT creatine to shed body weight to peak their jump... They don't avoid creatine during an 8 week lifting block!!! I don't understand this backwards thinking at all... Do you want to jump high or lift heavy? Make a decision... Trying to handicap yourself to add a ton of weight to your squat in 8 weeks is pointless... If you wanna get to 127.5 x6x6 then just get there. Get there as fast as possible. Your an athlete. Make you strength gains quick cause they detract from other stuff... What are you saving all that stuff in your toolbox for? Clearly not jumping... It's to lift more? So you plan to handicap yourself and still achieve this squat goal and wreck you back cheating on RDLs and get to your goal and then... Break out your toolbox and... Squat more? Ok cool.
I think you could really benefit from the forum most of anyone by actually posting data... I think it would help with your strange dysmorphia and contradictory statements...
For example - you claim your looking ripped and striated. I don't believe you. You claim your fat and have a layer of adipose that needs to go. I don't believe you. I could be wrong but at most I'm wrong about one of those things. At best I'm right and your wrong on both claims and a picture is worth a thousand words. Post a pic of video.
Sometimes you claim your getting up super high and you claim a high vert even though you legs never look high in dunk videos. Other time you claim your max vert is like 26" inches. Probably somewhere in between. Video a height check. Bang your head on the rim or backboard or touch top of square or something... Get it on tape...
You claim an workset RDL of 440 pounds.... This equates to a conventional deadlift of 650+. No way you can do this (approaching 4x bw and 3x bw for RDL) and are anything close to slow at sprinting... Speaking of... How slow are you... I have no idea...
Biggest problem with your training is I can't really give advice because depending on the day you sound like a fat amatuer or a highly trained world class guy... Again I don't believe either and I'm sure your in between but I really don't know where...
