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Well said!

Amen! +1

adarq:

wouldn't you be better served by being a super lean 170 or even 180?  If all that weight was gained in the jumping muscles I think you would be better...

nope, i'm not meant to be heavy.. heavy for me is over 160, i start feeling like shit & joints take a beating for it, no matter if it is pure muscle gain or what.. some people aren't meant to be heavy, and i've learned that the hard way.. the most injured i've ever been is when i started creeping up over 170.. if you look at then and now, i suffered multiple month long injuries when i was over 170, and constant achilles tendonitis/knee issues kicking in.. the highest i jumped back then was 160, the highest i've jumped ever is probably around 152.. the lighter i get, the better I *FEEL*, there's no comparison.. when I am sub 150 I feel amazing..

when I get to my 145 goal with 405+ pin 6 half squat, then i'll re-evaluate, but i'm pretty sure i'll continue to stay light and try to slowly increase my 1RM even further.

look at the industry as a whole, people who gain a ton of mass have at times obtain some pretty impressive numbers, but i'm not looking for 'impressive', i'm looking for 50, and to hit 50 i need to be EXTREMELY light and EXTREMELY strong.. going up to 170-180 would put too much stress on my joints during each jump session, it would also require me to get that much stronger under the bar.. i'm a natural endurance athlete, hypertrophy is not something I sustain easily.. as soon as I stop lifting I start shrinking immediately and my strength drops rapidly.

it's kind of like telling a "cheetah" to gain weight.. everyone is built different, naturally, i'm definitely an extreme ecto & I will always "struggle" to put on weight/maintain weight.. I've gone from 147 to 180 on two occasions, I have no problem gaining weight because when I commit to something I do it, but how I felt at 180 vs how I feel at 150, not even close -> I feel amazing at 150, I feel like shit at 180.

for example, there's casey combest vs pyrros dimas, same height generally, very different builds naturally, very different abilities.

what i'm trying to do has probably never been done, no offense to everyone out there who has worked there ass off incredibly, but 27" RVJ (highest of my life at the time) at age 26, to ~47-50 by age 29-30 would be unheard of.. so I need to do things that are also unheard of, to achieve that goal. If I "follow" instead of "lead", then I will come up short.. one thing i've done throughout my training history is, analyze what pretty much everyone is doing in terms of training systems/ideologies, then I try to avoid training like them.. their are no ELITE transformations anywhere, show me any that exist or have been well documented, I cannot think of one.. everyone who competes on the elite level has gotten there through enhancing their already excellent genetic gifts.. show me a guy jumping low 20's who is now jumping 50. show me a guy who started running 12's who is now low 10's (that one is more probable), show me a guy who was running 12's who is now running sub 10 (doesn't exist)..

etc

coaches brag about the elites they train, not about the elites they create..

lmao, people can't even make elite transformations while taking PED's.. i have no interest in "training like them".

i have yet to achieve my goal so for now it's just shit talk, but you get where i'm coming from. i've made impressive gains but not to the level I require of myself.. If I fail to achieve elite level athletic performance, then i'm just another "failure of a coach" in my opinion..

I always hear this one common line among "coaches": something like this... "well I wanted to be a professional ______ athlete, but I just didn't have the gitfs, I worked my ass off and now that's what I teach to my athletes" etc.. I hear that alot, it bugs me.. because, I see it as a failure.. I can definitely fail just like them.. they might not see what they FAILED TO ACHIEVE as a failure, but I do.. most coaches couldn't even achieve slightly impressive gains, yet they then "retire" from training and then teach their "failure ideology" to their clients... I know I sound harsh but that's my view on s&c... I consider myself a failure until I hit my head on the rim (47" RVJ), this is the mindset one needs to achieve the "impossible" (as many would refer to it).. so in the end, I'll either succeed and help to push the performance envelope for the entire s&c industry, or fail and just shoot the shit in the hole (anonymous subforum). There's no "i tried my best", there's only success of failure.. if we as coaches/athletes are truly passionate about elite performance, there's no "I tried hard enough but I just wasn't blessed with the gifts of athlete athletes".. so in the end, if i fail to achieve "elite level performance", then I am ONLY capable of coaching people how to "improve considerably" (as that is what i have done so far), but I am in no way capable of turning an "average joe" into an "elite athlete".. that's where the line is drawn, there's no way around it.. I am the perfect subject for this experiment.


lead by example.

145 is just too light for a strength/power athlete, which as a jumper, is what you are.

incorrect

tell t-dub, darlington, guy dupuy, kadour ziani, holm, etc.

Secondly, if you are not completing in a sport where it is illegal to dope, I would run a cycle.  I would read the doping protocol charlie francis used for ben johnson (its in the CFTS book) and then do that.  

i'm very much against doping.. I'd rather come up short and fail to achieve my dream than to "dope my way" to my dream.. just like I have no interest in dunking on low rims, I have absolutely no interesting in dabbling in PED's.. beyond that, I would never risk the tendon / joint injuries that come along with PED cycles.. I want to somehow achieve elite numbers AND achieve longevity with them, using PED's to recover would increase long term damage imo, to the joints & increase the risk of tendon injuries which I am pretty concerned about already.. If I were to do PED's, I'd have "tendon tears" in my mind every moment of my training, I already have to "fight" to keep those thoughts out of my mind, for some reason -> using PED's would cause me to go insane.

beyond that, i am just interested in what I can achieve without any "cheat codes".. the human body is capable of some amazing feats and I am going to try and demonstrate this ability through proper, progress, intense training.

can you imagine you at 150ish squatting 500?  you'd be unbelievable.

I can do that without PED's, because my squat is above parallel

i'm at ~150 putting up 335-345 half squat singles, I have alot more work to do, but it'll get done.

peace man

"Nature has provided man with the possibility to enhance his abilities in extreme situations, and we need to utilize it in the training of the high class athlete." -- Prof. Yuri Verkhoshansky

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Nature has provided man with the possibility to enhance his abilities in extreme situations, and we need to progressively tap into this ability over time, throughout an athlete's training history.

ok adarq i respect that.

i'm the opposite ha,
I put on muscle easily and am not very endurance oriented lol, gotta struggle for every achievement in that regard.

ya complete opposite of me.. hah

I appreciate everything you're doing with this site.

thanks man, gotta thank lance though and everyone else for making the site much better than it was.

In relation to your goals:

one of my favorite soccer players, Zinedine Zidane, once said that "growing up in the streets of Marseille there were many kids that were better than me".  He stuck with it, he persevered and is now one of the all-time greats.

i.e. what i'm trying to say is more people would achieve success if they just didn't take no for an answer

right, but im talking power, skills is a different issue.. people can work on skills all day long, putting in millions of reps, power is much diff.

Btw, I think you should start coaching other people again as a job.  You're too good not to and you could really effect some change working "from the inside".

Having first-hand experience of the incompetencies of the s&c industry myself, I wish there were more coaches like you...

thanks alot man, but i'm not even considering coaching until i reach my goals.. i'd rather work at whole foods until then lmao.

peace man

hey adarqui, as corny as I might sound, this post you put up was motivating.  just in time as Im about to go workout in the morning.  I've been taking your advice on the diet and you should see me eating fruits and veggies all day and shit lollll.  Anyways, for now, I am aiming for a 44" RVJ and won't be satisfied til I get that.

sick post adarq

I feel the same way, but you are the mastermind with all of the knowledge. For me, I won't be happy until I reach 40+ rvj, but of course I will want to go higher after that.

I've never been satisfied with people congratulating me on accomplishments (whether it be vert, physique, weightlifting, tennis, w/e) by just saying "wow, that's really good" or "I'm impressed". I'm not saying I don't like compliments like that, but I want people to be speechless. I want them to think I'm a freak.

I'm proud to be a member of adarq.org (here since the beginning, june 09 u mirin? jk but srs).

I'm with you on this journey to elite status.

Hands in

hands in..

and ya, once you get back on the power/reactive blocks, your vert will start sky rocketing.. no reason you won't eclipse 40 this time.

just stop playing 1 on 1's with spazzes ffs!@$!@$!@%@

hey adarqui, as corny as I might sound, this post you put up was motivating.  just in time as Im about to go workout in the morning.  I've been taking your advice on the diet and you should see me eating fruits and veggies all day and shit lollll.  Anyways, for now, I am aiming for a 44" RVJ and won't be satisfied til I get that.

glad you liked the post man, go get 44", nothing is stopping you.

Brilliant thread this Darq. Props.

Its the same idea I would like to embrace.

thanks man, and you are definitely well on your way to doing it.






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i didn't even get into a rhythm either, had to dunk sporadically between people shooting, and games... that one dude can fly holy crap.. regardless, big jumps by me im happy, next peeking session is monday, so, got to get up even higher.

peace

Haha, "peeking session"

hah first time i ever wrote it like that.. 6am breh gimmi a break

i definitely need more reactive work on my day 2/day 3 sessions.. my peaking needs a bit more of a boost on the 5th day:

day 1 = peaked dunks + squat x 5, heavy singles, push/pull/45deg hyper/swing exercise
day 2 = bball stuff / reactive work + volume squat, push/pull/45deg hyper/swing exercise
day 3 = possible jumps/dunks + reactive work + pin squat x 5 on pin 6, heavy single on pin 6, heavy singles on pin 7, push/pull/45deg hyper/swing exercise
day 4 = rest
day 5 = repeat

so far that's been my rotation recently, working very well.. need more reactive work though I feel i'm missing it. gotta sacrifice some dunking on day 3 especially, to help get a bit more pop on day 5.

peace