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In the original speed he looks like speed runner upright just speeding past them lol. but in the slow mo when in the upright posture his balls of the feet touch the foor and hardly collapses in terms of his ball strikes the ground and his arch or the heel dont come close to the floor, he is literaly floating down the track.

I would like to see side view.

ya i was looking at that too.. each time i've run my fastest ever (according to my watch), I "feel" that.. feel like i'm way up on my toes and just zero collapse/very fast GCT.

i'd love to see a side view of that too..

pc!

T0ddday mentioned alot of this (lane positions, straighter vs sharper etc) in the olympic thread. Here's a small article about it:

http://www.outsideonline.com/2107041/what-we-can-all-learn-running-blind

wb vag!!! 

Quote from: vag on August 22, 2016, 05:21:26 am

Quote from: LBSS on July 30, 2016, 06:18:24 pm

20 days is awesome, where are you going?

Sorry for belayed reply. I was all around Greece, couple of seaside mainland places and couple of islands. It is too easy for us in the summer here and it is too good to consider going somewhere else, everything is reachable with a very cheap 30 minutes flight and even if you are not up to that there is always an awesome beach withing 1-2 hours drive, wherever you live.

Aaaaand, i'm back. No training at all those days, except from an extreme ( for my standards ) amount of walking the last 10 days at the islands ( mobile says 4-5 km per day ).

As we say here when coming back from holidays 'may we have a good winter'.

Man.  I miss the Mediterranean... I wanna visit Greece... Next summer I am.  That's it.  Seeya next year vag. 

This year I'm going to Japan... Anybody got any very advice for Japan?

dno. i've never been outside the US. :/ 

treyvon bromell's ridiculous technique (apparently). looks impressive in slow mo.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPLMGp_jx10" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPLMGp_jx10</a>

a closeup of Bromell's start:

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecpBJ-DLziM" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecpBJ-DLziM</a>

Quote from: vag on August 22, 2016, 04:50:46 am

Quote from: adarqui on August 16, 2016, 02:00:10 pm

ya 34 now..



i'm now entering 'age vs vertical' territory.. vag

Best age-vs-vertical era is yours, around 35. Old enough to get respect ( not that much deserved tbh, people seem very impressed from 35+yo  jumpers but it ain't that difficult ), young enough to make gains.

Happy bday! 

So true about age.  Awhile I was playing ball and it turned into an impromptu dunk contest and me and a kid were going at it - I could land windmills and he couldn't so I was pretty much the winner... After we were talking and he asked if I was in college (he was 22 - I look young but not that young) and I told him I finished college almost 10 years ago...  He asked me how old I was and I said 31 and he said "OMG!!!! You must have absolutely flown in your younger days!!!"

ha. nice!

I wasn't sure if I should feel insulted... Didn't like being called old but then again... No.  I landed my first windmill cleanly at age 31!  My first legit 45" jumps were at 31... Sure I sprinted faster in my twenties but jump wise I never put it together until I got older...

the 40 @ 40 club sounds pretty exclusive.. you think you are going to try and be in that club come 40's?

So what's the point of super high rep squat? Isn't it just endurance training at that point?

well, in the case of high rep squatting, it's not necessarily just strength endurance -> because you can recover between reps. You can take extra breathes between reps and pump out rep after rep until you pass out. This is much different than say, bench press or curls where you prime movers in the movement can't relax and just hit their limit. So, in that sense, high rep squatting is somewhat more of hypertrophy/strength training than simply strength endurance.

I think one thing that separates strength endurance from high rep strength/hypertrophy work is tempo/rhythm. If every time you perform a high rep set, you perform it NON-STOP using a consistent pace, then after ~15-20+ reps it becomes more of a strength endurance effort. If however, you hit your "burning point" around reps 10-15, and then stand there recovering for several seconds/breathes, and keep pumping out additional reps, I think it falls more into the hypertrophy/strength spectrum. I could be entirely wrong, but, there aren't many people studying performing 10-12RM lifts being performed for ~20+ repetitions. I really think that is a different animal.

with high rep squatting (and potentially RDL and calf raise), you can train at much a lower percentage of 1RM (<= 70%) and just keep cranking out recovery-reps until you are just toast (mentally or physically). A good portion of those reps will have some decent speed, due to the % of 1RM .. so you're getting in some good explosive strength work. The time under tension is just crazy, so that's good for hypertrophy. And the percentage of 1RM isn't low enough (in the proper case: ~70%) to simply be a strength endurance exercise (~40-60%).

High rep lifting, once adapted, can also be done @ high frequency.. It's almost like running 400's every day, but, without the impacts.. It takes longer to get adapted to high frequency high rep lifting than it does high frequency low volume/low rep lifting, but people will adapt nonetheless. The best way to adapt to such a routine is to simply do "one" high rep exercise per day, not multiple sets. ie, you perform several warmup sets, get really loose, then you just bust ass on one work set until you basically pass out.

From personal experience, i've had some impressive gains from high rep lifting. I used to promote "high rep nation" on here, which was high rep squatting. I'd like to take it further and enter the world of high rep calf work, & high rep hamstring work. I've already got high rep quad/glute work covered with the half squatting. I'd love to hit my calves and hamstrings harder.

The type of gains i've gotten from high rep lifting are strength, hypertrophy & power. This is a decent example:

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSmq5IopKuo" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSmq5IopKuo</a>

That video has more dislikes than likes, lmfao. For obvious reasons: I wasn't going deep, using plates under my heals, and I was touching pins. This video must drive purists crazy.

However, what can't be denied, is how easy i'm moving that weight (226 lb. @ ~154 lb)... and how many reps I hit. At that point in my lifting, I had been doing TONS of high rep squatting.. every day. 225 became a feather. I was just tossing it up like a toy at that time. And I also was getting up nasty on vert, with TONS of max effort attempts during those sessions. My work capacity was ridiculous.

Beyond all of that.. I think experiencing & working through that pain might be a good thing. There's something absolutely brutal but beautiful about heavy high rep lifting. It's a real fight to the death, mentally.

Here's another video, 275 x 21 @ 152 .. but this is more of a max effort high rep squat. You can see how bad it wrecks me. I'm completely toast. I'm surprised I was even able to joke around. Also you can see gizmo (the one with the juke) watching me beast out .. when he was a puppy. So i'm pretty sure he had good role models.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEMYJdxtdGs" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEMYJdxtdGs</a>

so ya i have nothing wrong with strength endurance .. but, this is legit strength + hypertrophy + power + strength endurance etc.. it's basically a big evil gumbo of torture.

lmfao @ "skin and bones crew".

Also that juke is soo quick and convincing, that's exactly what I need to be able to do to play O-line next year. My dog usually runs more curve-like patterns (maybe because of higher BW?)

ya my other dog runs curve-like patterns, he's also much beefier. the highest i've seen him jump is probably ~6" lmao... the other one (in the clip) is just a little freak. I've seen him jump ~25+ inches no joke on his best jump.. i mean he absolutely launched. he used to be even more athletic because i took him to the dog park alot .. but i can't take him anymore because he hates big dogs and will attack them if they come near him. He's been roughed up by a few big dogs so, he just goes apeshit when they come to mess with him or sniff him .. really sucks. He used play with the mini greyhounds and rat terriers which was incredible to watch.

I could never get someone to bite that hard on one step. I guess it has to be extremely quick and the rest of your body really has to look like you committing in order to sell it. No idea how you can step so quickly and also commit your body and still be able to reverse that momentum so quickly in the other direction

barry sanders style.......