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Quote from: Nightfly on July 25, 2010, 05:18:44 pm

It's really great that you're doing something like this. Props

thanks man. just trying to do my part in fixing this 'journals go nowhere' issue we see for the most part on forums.

other coaches need to open up their training more, show detailed journals of their athletes, so that we can all progress this damn s&c like it should be.

peace man!

Wikileaks needs to turn its eye to S&C.

Welcome.

Grip and hand training is awesome. Crazy how people can find so many ways to train such a small part of the body.

Beastly jump. Congrats on the PR, man.

"Music, I regret to say, is only an arbitrary succession of more or less unpleasant sounds."

-Vladimir Nabokov

I don't happen to agree with the guy but I love that quotation.

I do not agree, as I recognize what music can be, but I certainly relate.

It's not hilarious... it's a good use for the Bosu ball.

It's a Carrot Top lookalike, dude.

Maybe you are just a very analytical person  .

Yup.

I do not understand music. The sounds (as in, not the lyrics) elicit no emotional response in me. Merely the lyrics suffice to do that. My tone sensitivity is not very great, so often I struggle to make out the lyrics.

I do, however, respect the genius required for the most high level of creation of any kind, music is no exception.

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ya, though, with my close stance + feet neutral + half squat, i get tons of hamstring.. people with shorter legs might have problems getting alot of hamstring in that style of squat, but then they'd be able to squat oly style with good form alot easier.. even so, I get most of my hamstring work from lunges and now pmghr's.. I always took that approach for the people I trained too, that's why i'm so big on unilaterals.. I never could understand how someone could neglect unilaterals anyway, they are so beneficial..

So ya, my formula would be, if you can't engage hamstrings too well in squat, with squat form being "pretty nice", I would:
- hit unilaterals hard
- hit ghr/hamstring isolation hard
- sprint hard

eventually they will become more active in squat regardless of form (to a point) simply from getting stronger.

peace!

Yeah that'll definitely work. I definitely didn't wanna make that sound like I think squats are all one needs for hamstrings. I consider some forms of glute hams or hip extensions a must.  I'm not sure of the hamstsring activation in the unilaterals though based on a book I have by bompa his EMG research doesn't rank them very high:

Biceps femoris (hamstring)
Standing leg curls --------------------------82%
Lying leg curls -----------------------------71
Seated leg curls ----------------------------58
Modified hamstring deads --------------------56

Semitendinosus (inner hamstring)
Seated leg curls ----------------------------88
Standing leg curls --------------------------79
Lying leg curls -----------------------------70
Modified hamstring deads --------------------63

So, based on that chart, training knee flexion will improve hip extension power? I am making this deduction based on the assumption that the hamstring deads are a hip extension dominant movement, and that, therefore, the knee flexion and hip extension exercises both activate the same muscles in the hamstring.