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hmm, still have 1 foot dunking dreams here lol. guess i'm finally gonna get an MRI on my knee and see how it really is. then after that, just nothing but a lot of deadlifts, 1 foot jumps, and a bit of sprinting.

Quote from: LBSS on November 16, 2016, 12:55:22 am

Quote from: jumperer on November 07, 2016, 03:52:08 pm

you think pistol squats hit the VMO hard enough though?

varies from person to person. for real isolation your best options are TKEs and SL machine leg extensions while concentrating on firing your VMO. externally rotating your leg a bit and palpating the muscle can both help get it to fire.

this x2 ^^

we used to do partner assisted TKE's: while seated on the floor, leg propped up on a foam roller, partner pushes down on the top of the foot and you just extend for those last few degrees.



i actually had a set of pistols "shut off" my VMO once.. waaay back, just tweaked it at the bottom of a pistol.. took a few weeks for my VMO to fire properly again.. was really weird. Did tons of TKE's to get it back to normal.

oh i see. well have no partner, but still gonna continue hitting TKE's hard solo. and i see. i really like pistols, so i guess ill continue doing them, but just gonna watch out for my VMO to keep firing properly.

can't wait til i have a barbell set up in my basement. dunno how i'd train, but i'd use the most out of it. probably gonna try to deadlift every other day lol.

i see. yea, i was thinking that any single leg variation with a partial range of motion would hit the VMO hard.

guess i'm going with the trap bar. i guess you can always adjust your shin angles with the trap bar, so if i wanna make it more hip dominant i just keep vertical shins.

Quote from: jumperer on October 24, 2016, 10:43:41 pm

for some reason i suddenly have sharp pain around/near my right hip today. i deadlifted and played on friday and jumped yesterday, but it was even fine yesterday. gonna see what the deal with and be extra extra careful with this.

edit: nvm, the pain is gone. weird, it only lasted for 1/4 of the day.

glad to see that edit.. hip pain sucks. just got done talking about it with Leonel in his journal.

keep ur eye on it mijo.

yup, its completely gone. played pickup on wednesday and it was 100% fine. i'm also supposed to be deadlifting today, but too lazy lol.

for the past few weeks i've been on rogue though, looking to get a barbell and bumper plates at home for deadlifts. still having a hard time deciding which bumper plates to get. also wondering if i should get a trap bar instead of a straight bar.

the last vid you posted is private.

fwiw, my extremely limited personal experience of dry needling (n=1 session) was startlingly positive, and i have a couple of friends who got it also to good effect. my extremely limited person experience of acupuncture (n=1 session) was negative: the dude must have hit a nerve in my toe or something because for a while there it felt like a good portion of my foot was on fire. never again.

but when what you're talking about is movement-specific pain, i'm with acole. the problem is likely not going to be solved permanently by dry needling, and it's definitely not going to be solved by acupuncture.

side note: the scientific evidence for acupuncture as a discipline (placing needles along some apparently very specific locations) is weak relative to placebo (placing needles sort of haphazardly but in the same manner). but the placebo effect is there for a lot of people and can be powerful enough on its own to justify treatment, depending on the problem being addressed. studies aren't all of musculoskeletal pain; acupuncture is also used to treat, say, digestion issues.

put it back up.

ah i see. still a huge risk for me cause the pain is very minor. hit deadlifts and played pickup today and had a few layups off 1 foot, no pain at all though.