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Quote from: Dreyth on January 13, 2015, 01:14:21 pm

Do you think you could hit a non-paused 495 squat?
If not, then definitely in 3-4 weeks once you get used to doing non-paused reps at heavy weights.
Damn that's one of my long term goals...

no plan on doing anything 455+ without a pause. the point of doing the pause is to use lesser weights to avoid injury. training explosive strength is just second benefit of the pause for me.

most likely i can single a no-pause 475 right now. these 455 singles don't really feel very heavy at all.

Smartest thing ive heard in a long time in regards to training

Do you think you could hit a non-paused 495 squat?
If not, then definitely in 3-4 weeks once you get used to doing non-paused reps at heavy weights.
Damn that's one of my long term goals...

Totally broscience-based opinion:
I would guess that the less reactive you are, the more correlation your RVJ will have with your squat/bw ratio. Because a very reactive person will rely less on strength and vice versa. But now we have to define what a reactive person is, omg, i'm outta here! 
Also broscience, neural gains should be the same with 'real' gains. I don't care if it is the smolov routine, the spider in your shouler ( rip ) , an adrenaline injection or a pack of cocaine you inhaled that gives you the strength. Maybe it will go away soon if its neural or stim , but that given moment you are that strong and it should transfer to all activities related to that strength.

I definitely agree on the less reactive --> more correlation between strength and vertical part. makes sense.

And also starting to think that neural gains in the squat are highly transferrable to the vertical jump. Especially becase the more I think about it... the squat isn't so damn complicated that i can make SOOO many gains by improving my squatting efficiency. rather, the gains should be from an increase in rate coding and muscle fiber recruitment.

FWIW, my vertical has consistently increased with a higher corresponding relative squat. This includes even jumping off of one leg, though I don't do that as much anymore.

I'm wondering just how transferable neural gains in the squat are to the vertical jump, especially running ones. I jump off two feet.

I guess it all comes down to... what % of your neural gains are due to movement efficiency specific to the squat, and what % are to due to higher rate coding which (i assume) has extremely high carryover to the jump?

I know i could run a smolov jr cycle for like 5 weeks right now and put on maybe 50lbs on my squat, but just how much higher will I jump after that? I didn't do much jumping in those times where i was squatting 400's with ease so i'm not sure. i can't remember.

This happened at the gym today. Never heard more horrifying screams of pain in my life. His foot is completely in his shoe, btw. It looks like he barely has his shoe on, with his heel sticking out or something... but nope.





Careful out there guys.

Week 41

Friday - 01/09/14
194.0lbs | 14.9% bf | 61.9% H2O

-= Workout Log =-

Deadlift
135 x 5                               >> Almost back up to 385x5. I'll definitely get it next week.
185 x 5
225 x 3
275 x 1
315 x 1
365 x 1
405 x 1
385 x 4

Pull ups
BW x 5                       >> 2min rests, then 60sec rests for BW pullups, 3min rest for final set
+25lbs x 3
+50lbs x 2
+75lbs x 1
+50lbs x 6
+50lbs x 6
+50lbs x 6 PR
BW x 7
BW x 4
BW x 9

Super Strict Lateral Raises
30's x 3                          >> 60sec rests.
35's x 2
40's x 1
30's x 12
30's x 11
30's x 7 PR

Seated Cable Rows
140 x 5                     >> 60sec rests.
165 x 12                   >> WTF is going on here. Why am I dropping on these...
165 x 10
165 x 6

Working till 630pm today. Get home at 7pm. I work an overnight shift tonight 11pm to 7am. then no sleep, working 830 am till 530pm... then off to some market research study till 730pm. Won't have time to go home and nap after that before deadlifting tomorrow.

Week 41

Tuesday - 01/06/14
193.0lbs | 14.7% bf | 62.1% H2O

-= Workout Log =-

ATG Squat
135 x 8                         >> 2min rests.
135 x 8                         >> Used a different squat rack. Floor isn't straight there. It made this so much harder, and kinda hurts my left hip.
135 x 5                         >> Definitely going to be waiting on the one good squat rack from now on, screw that shit.
185 x 5
185 x 3
225 x 3
275 x 1
315 x 1
355 x 3
315 x 8
315 x 5
315 x 4 PR

Hack Squat Machine Calf Raises
+90lbs x 5                                   >> 60sec rests.
+180lbs x 3
+270lbs x 1
+320lbs x 1
+270lbs x 15
+270lbs x 15
+270lbs x 13 PR
+270lbs x 10
+270lbs x 8

Bench Press
45 x 15                     >> 2min rests.
95 x 8
135 x 5
155 x 3
195 x 1
225 x 1
200 x 10
200 x 9
200 x 6 PR

Standing Cable Crunches
85 x 15                               >> 60sec rests.
85 x 12
85 x 10

Incline DB Bench Press
65's x 8 PR                       >> 60sec rests.
65's x 5 PR

I'm really liking the standing cable crunches. Idn where to fit in the ab wheel rollouts and hanging leg raises, though I love em both. I think I'll do all three. I'll rotate. Still do abs 2x a week though.
Or maybe I'll just do a set of standing cable crunches after my regular 3x10 rollouts/legraises. Yea I'll probably do that.