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lol, i also got 535...

ya i remember seeing this vid, his first vid looked all messed up but the aspect ratio is wrecked, so it screws up his vid.. in that vid it's clear he has some nasty hops.

wonder what happened to him..  all of his videos are old

ok adarq i respect that.

i'm the opposite ha,
I put on muscle easily and am not very endurance oriented lol, gotta struggle for every achievement in that regard.

ya complete opposite of me.. hah

I appreciate everything you're doing with this site.

thanks man, gotta thank lance though and everyone else for making the site much better than it was.

In relation to your goals:

one of my favorite soccer players, Zinedine Zidane, once said that "growing up in the streets of Marseille there were many kids that were better than me".  He stuck with it, he persevered and is now one of the all-time greats.

i.e. what i'm trying to say is more people would achieve success if they just didn't take no for an answer

right, but im talking power, skills is a different issue.. people can work on skills all day long, putting in millions of reps, power is much diff.

Btw, I think you should start coaching other people again as a job.  You're too good not to and you could really effect some change working "from the inside".

Having first-hand experience of the incompetencies of the s&c industry myself, I wish there were more coaches like you...

thanks alot man, but i'm not even considering coaching until i reach my goals.. i'd rather work at whole foods until then lmao.

peace man

i got a 535 lmao..

if possible i'd be 500 on bounce back factor alone at this point in my life.. lol

pc

it'd be more accurate if someoone knew you really well and answered those questions for you.

bounce back/motivation factor/pressure tolerance is definitely max for myself, that's for sure.. so at least i know that is correct.

as is frequently stated, i perform much better when dunking when people are watching.. the more people, the better.. this was just how i was on the street playing ball or in AAU/h.s. games.

if hot females are watching, it's over, i'm a beast.

adarq:

wouldn't you be better served by being a super lean 170 or even 180?  If all that weight was gained in the jumping muscles I think you would be better...

nope, i'm not meant to be heavy.. heavy for me is over 160, i start feeling like shit & joints take a beating for it, no matter if it is pure muscle gain or what.. some people aren't meant to be heavy, and i've learned that the hard way.. the most injured i've ever been is when i started creeping up over 170.. if you look at then and now, i suffered multiple month long injuries when i was over 170, and constant achilles tendonitis/knee issues kicking in.. the highest i jumped back then was 160, the highest i've jumped ever is probably around 152.. the lighter i get, the better I *FEEL*, there's no comparison.. when I am sub 150 I feel amazing..

when I get to my 145 goal with 405+ pin 6 half squat, then i'll re-evaluate, but i'm pretty sure i'll continue to stay light and try to slowly increase my 1RM even further.

look at the industry as a whole, people who gain a ton of mass have at times obtain some pretty impressive numbers, but i'm not looking for 'impressive', i'm looking for 50, and to hit 50 i need to be EXTREMELY light and EXTREMELY strong.. going up to 170-180 would put too much stress on my joints during each jump session, it would also require me to get that much stronger under the bar.. i'm a natural endurance athlete, hypertrophy is not something I sustain easily.. as soon as I stop lifting I start shrinking immediately and my strength drops rapidly.

it's kind of like telling a "cheetah" to gain weight.. everyone is built different, naturally, i'm definitely an extreme ecto & I will always "struggle" to put on weight/maintain weight.. I've gone from 147 to 180 on two occasions, I have no problem gaining weight because when I commit to something I do it, but how I felt at 180 vs how I feel at 150, not even close -> I feel amazing at 150, I feel like shit at 180.

for example, there's casey combest vs pyrros dimas, same height generally, very different builds naturally, very different abilities.

what i'm trying to do has probably never been done, no offense to everyone out there who has worked there ass off incredibly, but 27" RVJ (highest of my life at the time) at age 26, to ~47-50 by age 29-30 would be unheard of.. so I need to do things that are also unheard of, to achieve that goal. If I "follow" instead of "lead", then I will come up short.. one thing i've done throughout my training history is, analyze what pretty much everyone is doing in terms of training systems/ideologies, then I try to avoid training like them.. their are no ELITE transformations anywhere, show me any that exist or have been well documented, I cannot think of one.. everyone who competes on the elite level has gotten there through enhancing their already excellent genetic gifts.. show me a guy jumping low 20's who is now jumping 50. show me a guy who started running 12's who is now low 10's (that one is more probable), show me a guy who was running 12's who is now running sub 10 (doesn't exist)..

etc

coaches brag about the elites they train, not about the elites they create..

lmao, people can't even make elite transformations while taking PED's.. i have no interest in "training like them".

i have yet to achieve my goal so for now it's just shit talk, but you get where i'm coming from. i've made impressive gains but not to the level I require of myself.. If I fail to achieve elite level athletic performance, then i'm just another "failure of a coach" in my opinion..

I always hear this one common line among "coaches": something like this... "well I wanted to be a professional ______ athlete, but I just didn't have the gitfs, I worked my ass off and now that's what I teach to my athletes" etc.. I hear that alot, it bugs me.. because, I see it as a failure.. I can definitely fail just like them.. they might not see what they FAILED TO ACHIEVE as a failure, but I do.. most coaches couldn't even achieve slightly impressive gains, yet they then "retire" from training and then teach their "failure ideology" to their clients... I know I sound harsh but that's my view on s&c... I consider myself a failure until I hit my head on the rim (47" RVJ), this is the mindset one needs to achieve the "impossible" (as many would refer to it).. so in the end, I'll either succeed and help to push the performance envelope for the entire s&c industry, or fail and just shoot the shit in the hole (anonymous subforum). There's no "i tried my best", there's only success of failure.. if we as coaches/athletes are truly passionate about elite performance, there's no "I tried hard enough but I just wasn't blessed with the gifts of athlete athletes".. so in the end, if i fail to achieve "elite level performance", then I am ONLY capable of coaching people how to "improve considerably" (as that is what i have done so far), but I am in no way capable of turning an "average joe" into an "elite athlete".. that's where the line is drawn, there's no way around it.. I am the perfect subject for this experiment.


lead by example.

145 is just too light for a strength/power athlete, which as a jumper, is what you are.

incorrect

tell t-dub, darlington, guy dupuy, kadour ziani, holm, etc.

Secondly, if you are not completing in a sport where it is illegal to dope, I would run a cycle.  I would read the doping protocol charlie francis used for ben johnson (its in the CFTS book) and then do that.  

i'm very much against doping.. I'd rather come up short and fail to achieve my dream than to "dope my way" to my dream.. just like I have no interest in dunking on low rims, I have absolutely no interesting in dabbling in PED's.. beyond that, I would never risk the tendon / joint injuries that come along with PED cycles.. I want to somehow achieve elite numbers AND achieve longevity with them, using PED's to recover would increase long term damage imo, to the joints & increase the risk of tendon injuries which I am pretty concerned about already.. If I were to do PED's, I'd have "tendon tears" in my mind every moment of my training, I already have to "fight" to keep those thoughts out of my mind, for some reason -> using PED's would cause me to go insane.

beyond that, i am just interested in what I can achieve without any "cheat codes".. the human body is capable of some amazing feats and I am going to try and demonstrate this ability through proper, progress, intense training.

can you imagine you at 150ish squatting 500?  you'd be unbelievable.

I can do that without PED's, because my squat is above parallel

i'm at ~150 putting up 335-345 half squat singles, I have alot more work to do, but it'll get done.

peace man

im sorry but i have seen no evidence of any of your dunks, and the simple fact that you have posted you are a woman and you can dunk on this site has probably duped many guys who are sexually repressed on this site into believing somehow by posting on your thread that they are getting some type of intimate closeness to another female...which i highly suspect few people on this site ever do. regardless, where is an actual video of you squatting/and or dunking?

nah, she's legit.. i too was suspect initially after a few of the statements but that wiped away the more I read her post AND for the fact that she sent me video of herself jumping..

she's definitely legit, good jump too.. i could see how she could land a "soft dunk" with that kind of jump, i mean, most everyone on here probably wouldn't call it a dunk, but i'm picturing gently guiding the ball in then snapping down the rim.. which is kind of what she indicated.

she's legit, no need to go on about it further, trust me.

peace

bump

this is the current adarq.org motto, the idea is simple:

transform the s&c industry and athletes everywhere through legit transformations, for example, {below average/average/good}-natural ability to ELITE-LEVEL-ABILITY.

that is pretty much my main goal with this site.. it may sound like a "fantasy", but it's not, i know exactly what *I* have to do in order to achieve elite level athleticism, and it's definitely not impossible, in fact, it's staring me right in the face, it's not that far away.

A few but very important obstacles I need to overcome, in order to achieve elite level athleticism, is to get to 145 lb, shredded, with a 405+ pin 6/half squat while staying in shape/jumping.. the "protection" of modern society has turned me (us) into sub-human organisms, far from well versed with the fight or flight system.. too fat - too heavy, too content, too lazy, too submissive, reduced alpha.

the rest of the guidelines can be found here: http://www.adarq.org/forum/strength-power-reactivity-speed-discussion/posterior-chain-strength-preparation-for-the-vertical-jump-by-charles-poliquin/msg37420/#msg37420

so how far off am I ??? I'm 151-153 normally (154 today) with a 325 lb pin 6 half squat, putting me around 38-39" RVJ PEAK on a max jump... getting to 145 while maintaining strength would add at least 3 inches to my RVJ, so that puts me around 41-42".. being 145 while improving pin 6 half squat to 405+, well that has me at 47" RVJ, guaranteed. I don't know about you, but a legit 47" RVJ would have me in the elite category.

so what do you have to do to get to elite level? or do you not care?

I am not content with anything other than the most elite level of athleticism.. i'd love to go from "27 inch RVJ to 47 inch RVJ", but then when i achieve that, i'd want 50, 52, 55. etc... i know it sounds insane but that's my mindset.. got to hit 47 first.

all I know, is that 1000+ years from now, people will ask where it all started, and just like the Euphrates river, they will say "adarq.org". Who influences adarq.org? Verkhoshansky, Zatsiorsky, the animal kingdom.  Yes I've actually learned more about s&c from the animal kingdom than I have from t-nation. It sounds mean, but i'd love to cause a severe economic depression in the s&c industry. I'd love to hit my head on the rim and then within 24 hours have severe job loss throughout the industry. My reason is this: the vast majority of coaches use ineffective means and train their athletes like they are pussies. One of the most important aspects of this "performance training" we do, is to get us closer to being more animal like, more predator like, not sissified cows grazing on pastures waiting to be ripped to shreds. When we are in the weight room, on the court, jumping, sprinting, etc, we need to become more in tune with our animalistic roots. If we aren't trying to improve our "alpha" every time we train, then we aren't putting forth that true effort, that true intensity.

If you have a mirror nearby, when you're squatting, just stare into your eyes between sets, look deep into your "soul" and see what the fuck is going on there.. then go apeshit on your next set.

peace