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Introduction Area => Introduce Yourself => Topic started by: nba8340 on February 28, 2010, 01:49:49 am
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hey adarqui, wondering if you could put a bio, i'm pretty sure you have given short bio and info about yourself, i was wondering if you could give the long version. Something i've been wondering is how do you guys get to that level where your training pros and all that? Like how do you guys get so knowledgeable and get into these high class positions , is it just reading and researching, or has it been like learning from someone else. How do you go from just bs college or ms to a few years later training pros and olympians. For instance, eric cressey, he got his bs, then went to uconn for his ms, and then already started writing articles for tnation, and then a couple years later already had his own place and was training pro athletes. How do you guys go from just like college to that level, and how are you guys so good so fast, i would think you would need to start low follow and learn from people and keep workign your way up slowly, and then eventually you would have a lot of experience and knowledge, and start getting the big opportunities, but it doesn't seem to work that way.
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hey adarqui, wondering if you could put a bio, i'm pretty sure you have given short bio and info about yourself, i was wondering if you could give the long version. Something i've been wondering is how do you guys get to that level where your training pros and all that? Like how do you guys get so knowledgeable and get into these high class positions , is it just reading and researching, or has it been like learning from someone else.
no problem..
Well, in college (FAU, exercise science program), I was sort of a "standout" student in terms of my obsession with sports performance. My grades, the questions I asked, and the teacher's I talked too after class reflected it.
So I learned that "perfect competition" (www.perfectcompetition.us) provided internships to student's who were deemed "serious" about the s&c craft. So I went in, interviewed. They did a "background check" with my professor's. I got the opportunity.
2006-2007
So I spent an entire semester interning ~25 hours a week or so, middle school, high school, and college athletes. I was taught their system, read their internal documents on training, talked extensively with the main coaches. I led those groups of athletes through warmup, prehab, speed sessions, core, lifting, and flexibility BASED on their protocols. Usually it was myself and another intern & coach, but due to scheduling I did the entire session myself.
At this time, their was an NFL Combine Prep going on led under the coaching of Pete Bomarrito (http://www.perfectcompetition.us/Pete_extendedBio.htm). I assisted with the training of the nfl combine athletes, some big names, some not, but pretty much all dedicated as fu*k hardcore athletes. I taught them form on lifts, spotted, made protein shakes (holy shit F that), forced them to foam roll & stretch, and got their meals for them sometimes. On a few occasions, when Pete was "out of town" or whatever, I trained the nfl combine prep class myself. I'm pretty sure it was on two occasions, and being a student-intern, that was absolutely insane - i loved it.
I also was given the opportunity to train some pro & developing nba basketball players, as well as some minor league team (the pitbulls?).
Regardless of how well I performed, Pete & I did not get along too well. We are just on entirely different wavelengths, we butt heads easy. Now, I have no shame calling this guy a huge asshole in my opinion, BUT, he is one of the most ridiculous S&C coaches I've ever seen. The guy _knows his shit_. He is absolutely obsessed with getting results for his combine/pro athletes.
So, obvious tension existed the whole time, but when my internship was over, Pete offered me "another". He agreed to pay me some cash-monies but then we clashed heads again and I dipped.
2007
So now I had to do another internship, one that actually counted for credits. So I did my internship at Memorial Fitness Center. I trained old people, kids, weekend warriors, heart attack victims, etc. Occasionally I trained athletes. So, I meet this guy Bruce (Who would later hire me). He asks me why im in s&c and what I want to do. So I give him my mindset, and he's talking me out of s&c, telling me it's not for me. He was just testing me & busting my balls, but I didn't know that. So I was like whatever brosef im going to make athletes better peace-out. So he gets this guy, who is training for a "skeleton tryout", some olympic event. He had to meet a bunch of numbers for this 'skeleton combine' and he was way off. So long story short I trained him for ~12 weeks (I forget) and freaked him out, he hit every test, 5" on vert, tons on his broad jump/med ball toss/speed etc.
So bruce put me on as s&c coach, started giving me people to train.
Intern ends, get hired, work at s&c. There I started off slow, training h.s. athletes. Getting results. So we put together some summer camp. Again, ~50+ kids, real good results. So then he introduces me to one minor league guy and some football guy. They both look at me like im nuts, considering I was 147 lb, looking like a walking stick.
So whatever they decide to train because of how I talked about training. After a few weeks of training, minor league guy tells his agent about how good training is, so he sends me more people. Then more people. After you know it I had like 8 guys or so in a minor league off-season training camp. So that went well, got insane results with alot of them. They go off to minor league season, and absolutely blow up the pre-season testing. They all said they loved the training we did, because honestly it was results based, I am sort of obsessed about results like that coach Pete.
2008-2009
Now it's midway into 2008, I train more people, team's, kids, high school, college, football, whatever. Summer comes around, 2008, we got ~65 kids or so, an entire baseball team, and just tons of h.s. kids. Anyway, that went well.
Then I did another minor leage off-season prep, got even better results. Some freakish shit, as you can see on my youtube.
So, Bruce Aven, my former boss, he trusted alot of responsibility in me and built a s&c program around me. Bruce Aven btw, is an absolute freak athlete & a real good dude. I mean, out of shape he can just walk up to a 300 lb barbell and squat it like it's nothing, pull 405 on a trap bar no warmup, hold it and make fun of DRusso, and broad jump 110 no warmup.
Also on the side I was training eddie/taje and myself. Eddie & taje's performance blew up. So did mine in my opinion.
Not to get it twisted though, I did of course not achieve results with some people. I do not call them athletes though, because they were wimps, lazy, and weak minded.
That's pretty much it man. I might have got some dates wrong don't hold me too it.
How do you go from just bs college or ms to a few years later training pros and olympians. For instance, eric cressey, he got his bs, then went to uconn for his ms, and then already started writing articles for tnation, and then a couple years later already had his own place and was training pro athletes. How do you guys go from just like college to that level, and how are you guys so good so fast, i would think you would need to start low follow and learn from people and keep workign your way up slowly, and then eventually you would have a lot of experience and knowledge, and start getting the big opportunities, but it doesn't seem to work that way.
Well, I hope my bio above sheds some light on it. I did learn alot from some good people & good professors, such as Bruce Aven, Pete Bommarito, Keith Shimman, and David Sandler. That's how I got my opportunities, learning, applying, being given opportunities and excelling at them.
Beyond that, I was very self taught. I just studied supertraining/verkhoshansky/every article I could find. I did alot of self experimentation with training methods.
I kind of did the 'opposite' with what you are talking about, even though it was in a short time span. I started out gaining experienced and now years later have decided to "write some articles". Kind of the flip side.
Beyond that, I always took training serious, but I never approached it with the right mindset or knowledge. Growing up I didn't have anyone tell me anything. So I started training properly for something (boxing) in 2005. I started off with a ~24 min 5k time, which of course would have been lower had I not cramped, maybe ~22m or so. I decided to get that time down as low as possible, using intervals/protocols I got it down to mid 17's, with a PR 4:32 mile, but mostly running 4:45-4:55's, as well as going 8 rounds boxing on many occasions at ATT.
I was fighting through hand injuries from early 2007 to late 2007 (nearly a year). That's where my TVS journal picks up, in october 2007.
So you know the rest, 27 to 39" RVJ. Got bored of RVJ + Family issues = detrained and became a bum.
My whole life I've been riddled with injuries, and I'm just an endurance athlete by nature. So I take alot of pride in the vert achievement, less so in the mile/5k/10flight stairs feats. Regardless, I put in work & got results. Looking back though I wish I would have stayed with boxing/kept my conditioning, because hear I am two years later with the itch to get back into it and compete. So that's my only regret. I don't think anyone on TVS/here understand how good of shape I was in, it was seriously psychotic. Hopefully I can obtain that mindset again and regain it, which I think is happening lately, but it's going to take alot of late, long, and drenching workouts to get it back :)
2010
I'm back :F
twenty ten get right 2 years before doomsday 2012 holla atcha boy.
pc man
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you left out the part about your brief stint shooting, and self starring in your homosexual adult films
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you left out the part about your brief stint shooting, and self starring in your homosexual adult films
wtf is stint shooting?
those were heterosexual adult films, made with my canon hv30, IN HD.
*click for hd*.
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nice bio adarqui!
Man that's some good/motivating shit!!!!!
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nice bio adarqui!
Man that's some good/motivating shit!!!!!
cool man glad u liked it hehe! all thank to nba02941204910 :F
ya some people got no idea i did any of that stuff.. they just think i rock high socks, dunk, and make fun of scammers.
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nice bio adarqui!
Man that's some good/motivating shit!!!!!
cool man glad u liked it hehe! all thank to nba02941204910 :F
ya some people got no idea i did any of that stuff.. they just think i rock high socks, dunk, and make fun of scammers.
I read this and I still think that's all you do.
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nice bio adarqui!
Man that's some good/motivating shit!!!!!
cool man glad u liked it hehe! all thank to nba02941204910 :F
ya some people got no idea i did any of that stuff.. they just think i rock high socks, dunk, and make fun of scammers.
I read this and I still think that's all you do.
haha
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u knw, i'd tot u were just a guy fresh outta college, but damn that's impressive.
even before reading that, i alr wished i lived over where u were so i could get some pointers from u.
hahaha not nuthugging, just that u know ur shit, and sometimes all the info is over my head, too technical for me, and i'd just wanna get out there and train haha. u know, typical 'as long as it works' type of guy, with perhaps a pinch more of trying to understand wat i was actually doin at all. hahahaha!
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wow man, that's awesome that you got to work with all those ppl and do all that stuff. Glad i asked you, i didn't know how u got to where you were, thought you just went to college and then got an internship and started working somewhere or something like that
your entire story you were getting sick results with the athletes
was there ever a time the athletes just didn't get better, like from the get-go you all the people you trainined got awesome results? Did anybody get hurt training under you and it became a big deal or something like that?
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does that perfect competition place have any affiliation with test sports club?
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wow man, that's awesome that you got to work with all those ppl and do all that stuff. Glad i asked you, i didn't know how u got to where you were, thought you just went to college and then got an internship and started working somewhere or something like that
your entire story you were getting sick results with the athletes
was there ever a time the athletes just didn't get better, like from the get-go you all the people you trainined got awesome results? Did anybody get hurt training under you and it became a big deal or something like that?
Well, i had "witnessed" and "assisted" with ALOT of training before I had trained athletes entirely under my programs. I had the ability to witness what was working and what wasn't, at the beginner, intermediate, and advanced levels. So, before implementing my own programs, all that prior experience really helped me shape my own training ideas.
As far as results go, I can say with confidence that EVERYBODY I trained, who was serious, got good results. I trained lots of people who half-assed shit also, so, of course I had people who didn't improve, but that was mostly on them. Either their parents were paying and they didn't want to be there, or they signed up and just were lazy, those people can't make progress.
Man, you just can't NOT make results if you're improving your strength (in lifts & reactive movements), and managing fatigue properly. Of course some people made really freaky gains, others made just "good gains", but everyone was gaining nonetheless. My duties at MSC for the most part, were putting on muscle & making people faster. I still had the people who were vert focused, fat loss focused, pure speed focused, pure mass focused, etc, but mostly mass & speed for baseball.
I've had a few people get hurt, but most often than not, they did something wrong. One kid broke his ankle doing stepups, he jumped off the box and landed on something all crooked. One kid hurt his hamstring real bad during performance testing, landing extremely deep in a broad jump. One of my minor leaguers had a major back spasm, doing agility drills, the day after squatting. Another minor leaguer tweaked his hamstring shagging in the outfield (catching fly balls). Russo hurt his pec doing iso pushups after iso bench, that lasted a long time. The person I hurt the most, was myself, since I did alot of experimentation with training ideas.
That's about it when it comes to that...
My most proud moment as a s&c coach came during summer s&c camp, in a conditioning session. This new kid shows up, we're doing sled circuits. He's like "LEMME DO IT!". I'm like, "nah man you're not ready". He keeps bugging me, so I let him. He does the circuit, which everyone is completely adapted too, and he pukes his guts out. Then, he's like, "ok im good now let me finish", so I'm laughing and go ok. He does another circuit, pukes his brains out again. Session is now over, and I see him standing on a bench, with a garbage can nearby. Then I see a bunch of kids running around laughing. So I go see what's going on, and he's taking a dump in the garbage can. He kept coming for one week, but disappeared, probably due to the teasing. I guess he couldn't hold it in lololololol.
peace mang.
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does that perfect competition place have any affiliation with test sports club?
Not when I was there. They were trying to make some big moves though when I was there so maybe.
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what the hell, that's one of the weirdest stories i've ever heard, why that story with that kid who shit in the dumpster make you proud?
you have heard of test sports club though?
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what the hell, that's one of the weirdest stories i've ever heard, why that story with that kid who shit in the dumpster make you proud?
dno it's just pretty awesome.
you have heard of test sports club though?
yup.
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there's one not far from me, i might intern there for the summer
you think it's a good place?
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there's one not far from me, i might intern there for the summer
you think it's a good place?
well, they definitely seemed to have teamed up with perfect competition, from the sites I went too. The best way to see if it will be good, is to contact them and do an "observation". All of those places let you do observations, for school or for whatever. Do that first, try and get a good feel for the place. It'll probably be good, seems like they have alot going on. The best time to do that internship will be in the fall, when they have their NFL combine prep :)
Summer will be full of camps though.. Lots of stuff going on.
peace
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thanks for the info that perfect comp place looks amazing, they train the top of the top of the top it seems
i was gonna do the entire internship in the summer but now i'm not sure. it's really gay the internship counts as credits for my major, you can do 3 or 6 credits. I was planning on doing 6, the more the better, however since it counts as credits you are technically paying for the internship. in the fall and spring it's just part of the tuition, like for all your classes so technically it's not extra since i'll be taking classes anyway
during the summer it's 300$ a credit so now i'm not sure. during the summer would be much better i think since then i'll really be able to focus on that and really learn and get as much experience and everything as i can. i am planning on getting the nsca-cpt cert soon and i figured i would get some work at a gym somewhere (probably commercial) since i don't know any good place i could get a job at and i would do the internship as well, will have to rethink things now
during the year i'm so busy with classes and studying and all that stuff i barely have any time
there's a velocity sports performance place not far also, you know anyting about those places? it's a chain also, they got a bunch all over now i think
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thanks for the info that perfect comp place looks amazing, they train the top of the top of the top it seems
i was gonna do the entire internship in the summer but now i'm not sure. it's really gay the internship counts as credits for my major, you can do 3 or 6 credits. I was planning on doing 6, the more the better, however since it counts as credits you are technically paying for the internship. in the fall and spring it's just part of the tuition, like for all your classes so technically it's not extra since i'll be taking classes anyway
during the summer it's 300$ a credit so now i'm not sure. during the summer would be much better i think since then i'll really be able to focus on that and really learn and get as much experience and everything as i can. i am planning on getting the nsca-cpt cert soon and i figured i would get some work at a gym somewhere (probably commercial) since i don't know any good place i could get a job at and i would do the internship as well, will have to rethink things now
during the year i'm so busy with classes and studying and all that stuff i barely have any time
Ya man perfect competition has an insane facility... Huge weight room, huge turf area, and a 60 yd track in the back. Edit: Plus a second floor with med balls/sprint treadmills/chiro/video/massage rooms.
If I had the option on whether to be able to intern when nfl combine was there or not, I'd definitely wait another semester to assist with the combine. Those are some of the best athletes you will EVER see. I mean, we had chad jackson/maurice jones drew/pat walkins/bunch of other dudes. Those guys were so explosive it was psychotic.
there's a velocity sports performance place not far also, you know anyting about those places? it's a chain also, they got a bunch all over now i think
nah don't know much about velocity, though there was one close to me. Apparently Chris Carter owns the chain? It looked ok from what I saw on youtube.
pc
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why did you and pete not get along if you were doing an awesome job, and you said he was also brilliant, and he was getting the athletes crazy results
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why did you and pete not get along if you were doing an awesome job, and you said he was also brilliant, and he was getting the athletes crazy results
Well, he's pretty hot tempered, which isn't helped any by being in charge of the nfl combine prep, the facility, and the college/h.s./youth training. Being hot tempered and in control of all that, sometimes he'd be cool, sometimes he'd be a complete a$$. Mostly leaning toward the a$$ side, unfortunately. Being an intern I'd try and keep to myself & only vent with the other interns, but sometimes we'd get into it.
There were four interns in total, and he made a few interns "cry", let's leave it at that.. bahaha.. At times, it felt as if you were just an intern-slave, treated like trash. I've had a bunch of interns under me @ MSC, none of them will ever tell you that I made them feel like trash. So, I'm just not down with that. I'm pretty sure his internships & experience at IMG had an effect on how he treats his interns. He had some hard internships & realized becoming drill sergeant-like gets people to listen to him. Of the 4 interns, not one would deviate from this critique:
- Insanely knowledgable
- Insanely passionate about s&c
- If you ask questions, really gets into it
- Not cool to be around
- Has a GOD complex
We got into it a bunch of times, but the one that sealed the deal was this:
(this incident came after my first internship was done, just starting my second one)
He was on vacation, so I opened up PC on a sunday morning. I was the only person there, for some reason, so I was stuck with h.s. performance and something else (I forget), two conflicting groups. Massive-overload. But whatever I'm down, I'm a great multi-tasker when it comes to that crap, I can train h.s./m.s/college all at the same time it's nutty. So, the session has about 10 more minutes, you know, people are still doing their assistance lifts, finishing up, BUT, the next session is about to start. So, say 10 minutes left on this session, at 12pm, which is when the next group is supposed to start, but instead, since we're running 10 minutes late, it would start at 12:10.
So the secretary comes running out, "start the next group". I politely tell her we're going to be done at 12:10, so, 12:10 i'll start them. She throws a fit then leaves. Keep in mind, this next group, is the UNPAID athletes, meaning, ones who are about to sign up. This would be their first session, ie, performance testing, to get their initial numbers. She comes back out at 12:05 flipping out in front of everyone, even that group's parents, trying to make me look like a moron, so I got a bit loud with her, and basically said 12:10. So I'm finishing up, right before 12:10, she comes out once more flipping out beyond belief, so I said something I shouldn't have: "get the hell out of my face" (ya, not cool, no parents could hear it though, but not cool regardless). She goes back into the office, calls pete, tells him some asinine story. Meanwhile, the group at 12:10 starts just fine, everything goes fine etc.
Here's the problem I had with that scenario: Why would a group of athletes, who have already paid & have been working out for a while, have their session cut short by 10 minutes, giving priority to a group of people who havn't even been working out at the facility? THEY HAVE WORKOUTS TO FINISH. They paid alot of money (like ~$1000 for 32 sessions or something), I am not cutting shit short. I will give THEM priority. But nah, Pete came back, scolded me for it, said never to question her etc, so I was like:
"PEACE OUT MAYNE."
He told me I burned my bridges etc, wouldn't ever get a reference from him etc. I replied, "don't need your reference."
"ADIOS."
I'm not down with people who put the bottom-line before the athletes, I'd rather work at mcdonalds.
All those facilities or coaches who put the money before the athletes, can kiss my ass. It's about getting results, not creating an illusion of AMAZINGLY-AWESOME-TRAINING, getting that initial investment, then focusing on the next potential victims. When you have a big, insane looking facility, it's so ez to charge ALOT and get tons of clients. The look & feel of a place makes people automatically trust it & drop those $$.
pc
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ahaha funny story about that dude.
He wanted to throw an NFL Combine Draft Party, you know, to kind of "make amends" with the interns. Show everyone he's not a dick.
So he gives us this flyer, it's like:
- NFL DRAFT PARTY @ PETE'S
- BRING YOUR OWN FOOD
- BRING YOUR OWN BEVERAGES/BEER
- the address blah blah
So we're all cracking up at this bring your own shit concept.. So, one of his fav interns, who I forgot to include earlier, so that's "5", wrote up a mock flyer, which had:
- BRING YOUR OWN COUCH
- BRING YOUR OWN BATHROOM
- BRING YOUR OWN TOILET PAPER
- etc etc
So, she prints out like 30 of them and we taped them up EVERYWHERE. On the equipment, walls, office, etc.
So I come into PC that morning, and look at pete, and he looks at me and his face turns pitch red:
"DID YOU FUCKING DO IT TELL ME ILL KICK YOUR ASS"
So I break down laughing, "nah man but I know who did and aint telling you".
So he goes:
"TELL ME OR ILL FIRE EVERYONE"
So I'm just dying laughing, pretty much in tears, and this dude is steamed, and i'm like:
"OK OK... I'LL TELL YOU.................. SYKE!", and I left the office.
He comes out yelling, face is red like an apple, "I WILL FIND OUT WHO DID THIS AND THEY WILL PAY".
bahahahahahahahaahhahaha
So, hours go by, he's interrogating everyone, then his FAVORITE INTERN, walks up to him, in front of everyone, and admits she did it....... silence.... face goes from red to pale... and he basically tries brushing it off.
He loved to make fun of people's little "ticks", but when it got done to him he RAGED.
I'm cracking up just thinking about that shit.
ahahahah
OWNED.
He never got mad calling me "Powder" behind my back.. lolzlzlzozlzzozl.
http://www.maxsports.tv/Jones-Drew/
he got his own facility now or something:
http://bommaritoperformance.com/
check the main vid on the page, it's pretty tight.
http://www.youtube.com/user/bommaritoperformance
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damn, doesn't sound like anybody's idea of a good internship at all, at least you got to learn a lot and your doing our own thing now
lol, you post this after you made these posts
adarqui (6 hours ago) Spam
Hey? Pete, can I get a reference? -- Andrew Darqui
BWAHAHAHAHAH.
tight vids tho.
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damn, doesn't sound like anybody's idea of a good internship at all, at least you got to learn a lot and your doing our own thing now
lol, you post this after you made these posts
adarqui (6 hours ago) Spam
Hey? Pete, can I get a reference? -- Andrew Darqui
BWAHAHAHAHAH.
tight vids tho.
haha.. ya, hope he sees it.. would be funny.
ya the internship was weird, but i learned a ton.
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Dude you should open your own training compound. Your knowledge on sports training is as good or better then anyone anywhere IMO. The thing that has always stood out to me is you're not afraid to experiment with all sorts of stuff, but you don't lose site of the big picture. I dunno, it's hard to explain. In my experience too many people in S&C are either sheep or overanalyzers to the extreme. They either follow whatever they were taught and don't venture outside of it or they get bogged down in so much irrelevant stuff their program as a whole loses value You bring more of a principle based artistic approach to training.
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Dude you should open your own training compound. Your knowledge on sports training is as good or better then anyone anywhere IMO. The thing that has always stood out to me is you're not afraid to experiment with all sorts of stuff, but you don't lose site of the big picture. I dunno, it's hard to explain. In my experience too many people in S&C are either sheep or overanalyzers to the extreme. They either follow whatever they were taught and don't venture outside of it or they get bogged down in so much irrelevant stuff their program as a whole loses value You bring more of a principle based artistic approach to training.
hah thanks for the compliment. I don't think I'll be starting my own compound any time soon though, but that would be sick.
You're definitely right about the "artistic approach". I do consider s&c to be more of an art than science, especially considering that most people who get too caught up into the science end up getting nowhere. However, most people that lack knowledge of the sciences end up not getting anywhere either. Don't get me wrong, I love the science, as is evident with the peer-review section, but I don't dive into the minutia & get stuck there. Making use of frequency/singles, designing rebounds etc, takes a bit of an artistic approach for sure. I mean, you kind of have to feel all that stuff beforehand as it's happening, make adjustments, and go with the flow.
After having detrained for ~6 months, I've finally kicked my weight training for performance addiction. I've been training recently, first & foremost, to get in excellent shape. Secondly, I've started to want to get my running vert's back up, but using some stuff I tried experimenting with in the past: mostly reactive/plyo/bodyweight movements + jumping etc. I attempted this in the past, but, I just couldn't stick with it because of the addiction to heavy strength training. Instead of just focusing on my LR plant, I want to improve my SLRVJ now too, as well as RL plant.
I'm going to try and approach it the same way I would with lifting for performance. Right now I'm in a "GPP" stage, very long workouts working on alot of movements, especially single leg bounds & stiff leg ankle hops. I did 20 sets of bounds each leg the other night, it was too much fun. My legs felt pretty bionic yesterday, but my head is in a major fog today due to the ~400-500 pushups i did yesterday.
It's funny, every time i do 400-500 pushups, my brain turns to mush.
So ya, this experiment is entirely for fun, with nothing holding it back. I'm using the concept of "play", except my toys are reactive movements, sprints, bodyweight exercises, etc. I know it'll get me back to dunking but no sure how high in absolute terms I will get. One leg dunks will be fun though.
alright peace man
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good luck man,
yo for the internship you would expect that at the places they would want to help me reach my goals as well and help me with my training right?
check otu this vid also, what the hell is going on with his knee, check out the comment sand his reply to mine, doesn't make any sense, that had nothing to do with the balance that's how his knees are (probably weak stabilizers i guess)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2aFqKi08D0
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good luck man,
yo for the internship you would expect that at the places they would want to help me reach my goals as well and help me with my training right?
ya i'd imagine they would want to help you with your training.. I mean, at PC, they would do little classes and you'd participate / learn etc, but they also liked it when the interns trained using their system.
check otu this vid also, what the hell is going on with his knee, check out the comment sand his reply to mine, doesn't make any sense, that had nothing to do with the balance that's how his knees are (probably weak stabilizers i guess)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2aFqKi08D0
well, first of all he's pretty uncoordinated. I mean, he does have power but from some other video I watched, he's definitely lacking in the coordination department, for example in the hurdle hops.
But ya, he definitely has some glute weakness going on, especially glute medius, which is causing ALOT of adduction / internal rotation of the femur. It's not kicking in too abduct / ext.rot it. I mean it's hard when you're coming off a box, for sure, but when he's going back down it should be kicking in. His knee looked like a pinball.
I like those stepups btw, I've been doing that but on the ground, hits the glutes very hard. I sit back a bit more though.
His "excuse" about talking messing up his exercises, it's funny but it does have a bit of truth to it. You can tell he looks fidgity/jumpy. But ya besides that, he needs to do some single leg side planks = hit glut.med/TFL.
pc mang
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lol, i liked this post
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Originally Posted by fc101dunk
i just don't understand why some black people that never work out and are very lazy can jump like 40in naturally, and someone like me that workouts out 4 times a week and has been training vertical for about 2 years can't jump as high as them.......it just pisses me off
I signed up just to tell you this is one of the most weak as fuck posts I've ever seen on a forum.
Secondly, you're 15 with weak stats, you have plenty of time to jump 40+ if you train right.
Does a pitbull whine like a bitch about not being a greyhound? No, it's a fucking pitbull.
bye.
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haha
ya that shit bugged me so bad. I can't stand all these "FastFoodAthletes". First of all, the kid claims he's been training 2 years, yet he's 15. He hasn't been "training for 2 years", he's been preparing. He's young and doesn't know anything, so even if he was "training", it's not really training, it's just working out, because he can't really understand the training process.
Unfortunately (or fortunately?), people with that mindset usually go nowhere. Always looking to the genetically gifted and whining about "why me".
You have to LIVE the training process. You have to LEARN your body. You don't just walk into a weight room, lift a few weights, and expect to transform yourself into an elite athlete.
For someone to become elite, from "weak genetics", is an insanely tough process, but it can be done. The process is organic, it relies on feedback & adjustment. It can't be store bought.
peace man :F
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i hate genetic freaks too. ;) but at least im on my way
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i hate genetic freaks too. ;) but at least im on my way
Without the genetic freaks, you wouldn't have much to look up to. If all you saw were white people (or anyone) jumping 35 off a run, you'd be very close to maximum at this current point in time. You would be content. Instead, you're not content, you want 40+. So, thank the genetic freaks for motivating you.
peace
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i hate genetic freaks too. ;) but at least im on my way
Without the genetic freaks, you wouldn't have much to look up to. If all you saw were white people (or anyone) jumping 35 off a run, you'd be very close to maximum at this current point in time. You would be content. Instead, you're not content, you want 40+. So, thank the genetic freaks for motivating you.
peace
Agreed!!!
Genetic freaks = respect & admiration.
Also , something we seldom think is that we may appear genetic freaks ( or just a little gifted ) to other people too.
In things like motivation , dedication , staying healthy etc.
Some people cant drink milk... or take whey protein ( mike? ;) )
Did someone stop and think how shitty his training would be without milk and whey? nop! He just takes it for granted.
Human nature is greedy...
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i hate genetic freaks too. ;) but at least im on my way
Without the genetic freaks, you wouldn't have much to look up to. If all you saw were white people (or anyone) jumping 35 off a run, you'd be very close to maximum at this current point in time. You would be content. Instead, you're not content, you want 40+. So, thank the genetic freaks for motivating you.
peace
Agreed!!!
Genetic freaks = respect & admiration.
Who got me into jumping? Was it watching sub par athletes jump?
No, it was t-dub & frank yang.
Also , something we seldom think is that we may appear genetic freaks ( or just a little gifted ) to other people too.
In things like motivation , dedication , staying healthy etc.
Ya. Steve Nash is one of the best examples here. His lack of power is made up for by his work ethic. He does have "freak abilities" in other departments, such as hand eye coordination and very fast decision making.
I don't have any power genetically, instead I make up for it by having naturally good endurance, work ethic, consistency, hand eye coordination, good hand speed, and a combo of abstract/logical thinking. Also, my self-taught computer science background integrates highly with my s&c background.
Sometimes as athletes, we want to be something we aren't "meant to be". That's fine though, but it requires alot of work to overcome it. Everybody's body/physiology lends itself better to a certain type of performance, whether it is boxing, sprinting, high jumping, long distance, middle distance, archery, etc. Becoming something you're "not" takes alot of work, but it's possible to completely defy our genetics.
Some people cant drink milk... or take whey protein ( mike? ;) )
Did someone stop and think how shitty his training would be without milk and whey? nop! He just takes it for granted.
Human nature is greedy...
not sure what you meant here? But ya his training would be alot better if he didn't have those allergies & knee issues. However, I have been chronically "injured" my whole life, so those issues he has I would pretty much ignore. He's probably better off health-wise by not pushing through as intense as I would, but I know for myself, that the only way to success is to bulldozer over any obstacle I was facing. I mean, all of my biggest PR's in RVJ came after my debilitating hamstring tendon injury, which when reinjured, would sideline me for at least a month. That anger became some pretty intense fuel.
pc
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Some people cant drink milk... or take whey protein ( mike? ;) )
Did someone stop and think how shitty his training would be without milk and whey? nop! He just takes it for granted.
Human nature is greedy...
not sure what you meant here? But ya his training would be alot better if he didn't have those allergies & knee issues. However, I have been chronically "injured" my whole life, so those issues he has I would pretty much ignore. He's probably better off health-wise by not pushing through as intense as I would, but I know for myself, that the only way to success is to bulldozer over any obstacle I was facing. I mean, all of my biggest PR's in RVJ came after my debilitating hamstring tendon injury, which when reinjured, would sideline me for at least a month. That anger became some pretty intense fuel.
pc
Thats what i meant.
That everyone should try to get advantage of his own personal pros , not look to what he doesnt have (such as , say, a natural 40'' RVJ ) , but what he does have and can get him where he wants ( such as work capacity , motivation , his own gym , easy access to roidz :D , whatever... )
Were getting too off-topic though...
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Some people cant drink milk... or take whey protein ( mike? ;) )
Did someone stop and think how shitty his training would be without milk and whey? nop! He just takes it for granted.
Human nature is greedy...
not sure what you meant here? But ya his training would be alot better if he didn't have those allergies & knee issues. However, I have been chronically "injured" my whole life, so those issues he has I would pretty much ignore. He's probably better off health-wise by not pushing through as intense as I would, but I know for myself, that the only way to success is to bulldozer over any obstacle I was facing. I mean, all of my biggest PR's in RVJ came after my debilitating hamstring tendon injury, which when reinjured, would sideline me for at least a month. That anger became some pretty intense fuel.
pc
Thats what i meant.
That everyone should try to get advantage of his own personal pros , not look to what he doesnt have (such as , say, a natural 40'' RVJ ) , but what he does have and can get him where he wants ( such as work capacity , motivation , his own gym , easy access to roidz :D , whatever... )
Were getting too off-topic though...
lol ya..
what's funny is, my "good endurance / work ethic" helped me build a good work capacity. This ability to train hard & often, allowed me to do 3 blocks of high frequency training very effectively.
- First time I did it: 2 week squat routine, front/back squatting 4x/week, PR'd RVJ after two weeks
- High frequency squat experiment: 1 month, PR'd DJ's, RVJ, and 1-2 step lead in RVJ's
- High frequency block: ~2 months, my last PR's on RVJ, no vertec access so I couldn't get exact data
- CURRENTLY: experimental high frequency system, ~1 week, so far so good
:)
pc
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Which NBA players did you work with Adarq?
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Which NBA players did you work with Adarq?
i worked with a few when I interned at perfect-competition, I actually forget their names.. perfect-competition had some miami heat players also, and a "CBA" team (the miami pitbulls) or some shit.
pc
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I stayed till 01:44 to read this thread. This is nice info, now i really want to come on vacation to Tamarac, Florida and meet you personally. Problem is the tickets are around 1000 euros + i have to beg the consulate to give me a visa
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I stayed till 01:44 to read this thread. This is nice info, now i really want to come on vacation to Tamarac, Florida and meet you personally. Problem is the tickets are around 1000 euros + i have to beg the consulate to give me a visa
lol@!$ tamacrack florida mang, gonna put it onthe map.
ya man one day we will murk a rim together.. me, you, and the romanian crew.
i forgot what I even wrote in this thread, i'll have to re-read it, I remember dissing Pete Bommarito though.
pc
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Haha yeah I'd really like to visit New York, but Miami is cool too ;D
Problem is - time is passing by. There's only a small window of athleticism... which is fading as the days go by (unless you're training and getting better, that is :D).
I'd really really like to see Vince play in real life... time on THAT is going by rapidly.
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Haha yeah I'd really like to visit New York, but Miami is cool too ;D
Problem is - time is passing by. There's only a small window of athleticism... which is fading as the days go by (unless you're training and getting better, that is :D).
I'd really really like to see Vince play in real life... time on THAT is going by rapidly.
bro, stop ur whining, we'll just lower the rims as we get older.. i hope to be jumping 45" into my 40's, lol, but if that doesn't happen, we'll just age adjust the rims, 9' at 40, 8' at 50, 7' at 60.
adarq.org dunk fest on 7' rims at 60+ years old, wut u kno bout dat.
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bro, stop ur whining, we'll just lower the rims as we get older.. i hope to be jumping 45" into my 40's, lol, but if that doesn't happen, we'll just age adjust the rims, 9' at 40, 8' at 50, 7' at 60.
adarq.org dunk fest on 7' rims at 60+ years old, wut u kno bout dat.
WORD! :D ;D 8) :P
9'@40 is pussy though , with our reaches we need ~20'' to dunk 9'.
Step your game up , here are the real age-dunk requirements:
10' @ 40 ( needed vert = ~33'' )
9'6'' @ 50 ( needed vert = ~27'' )
9' @ 60 ( needed vert = ~20'' )
8'6'' @ 65 ( needed vert = ~15'' )
8' @ 70 ( needed vert = ~ 8'' )
I CAN HAZ OLDIZ BUT GOODIZ XPLOSIV VERTS???
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Oh man, can't I just GOMAD and lower the rims already? Be 6'0 at 350 lbs weight of SHEER STRENGTH BABY!!!
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bro, stop ur whining, we'll just lower the rims as we get older.. i hope to be jumping 45" into my 40's, lol, but if that doesn't happen, we'll just age adjust the rims, 9' at 40, 8' at 50, 7' at 60.
adarq.org dunk fest on 7' rims at 60+ years old, wut u kno bout dat.
WORD! :D ;D 8) :P
9'@40 is pussy though , with our reaches we need ~20'' to dunk 9'.
Step your game up , here are the real age-dunk requirements:
10' @ 40 ( needed vert = ~33'' )
9'6'' @ 50 ( needed vert = ~27'' )
9' @ 60 ( needed vert = ~20'' )
8'6'' @ 65 ( needed vert = ~15'' )
8' @ 70 ( needed vert = ~ 8'' )
I CAN HAZ OLDIZ BUT GOODIZ XPLOSIV VERTS???
lol good point, i stand by vag's recommendations.
xplosiv verts & xplosiv wheelchairs by 70.
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Oh man, can't I just GOMAD and lower the rims already? Be 6'0 at 350 lbs weight of SHEER STRENGTH BABY!!!
lol, just gomad so much that, when you jump it pushes down the earth and the 10' rim becomes 8'.