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Pics, Videos, & Links / Re: beast
« on: May 24, 2014, 04:08:58 pm »
Well... I guess it depends on the structure of the individual. It also depends on your muscle recruitment: if you like "getting at your hamstrings" then you're going to lengthen the last step to stretch them (and also possibly bend forward at the hips a bit). If you're more glute dominant, I feel like you can take a shorter last step and emphasize the hip hyperextension instead.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Chris' training journal
« on: May 24, 2014, 04:07:27 pm »
A few things:
1) The reason for your knee cave-ins on the power cleans might be the lack of foot dorsiflexion, and you're compensating for that by letting your knees go in and allowing you to catch the bar lower. Something to think about;
2) The seated calf raises train the soleus muscle;
3) I wouldn't do cleans after a high volume of deadlifts
1) The reason for your knee cave-ins on the power cleans might be the lack of foot dorsiflexion, and you're compensating for that by letting your knees go in and allowing you to catch the bar lower. Something to think about;
2) The seated calf raises train the soleus muscle;
3) I wouldn't do cleans after a high volume of deadlifts
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Pics, Videos, & Links / Re: beast
« on: May 24, 2014, 03:48:05 pm »1790
Pics, Videos, & Links / Re: beast
« on: May 24, 2014, 03:44:39 pm »1791
News, Announcements, & Suggestions / Re: recent downtime
« on: May 24, 2014, 03:17:04 pm »
Wtf... really? Delete some of these damn bots
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Age vs Vertical
« on: May 23, 2014, 02:48:19 pm »
Still commendable. I would get tired of holding the isometric position from which to stretch for that long.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: May 23, 2014, 02:47:36 pm »
Well he brings a lot of very good points IMO. Couldn't find a way to disagree with him.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Age vs Vertical
« on: May 23, 2014, 02:40:07 pm »
You managed to do foam rolling for more than an hour?
#amazedbyyourpatience
#amazedbyyourpatience
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: May 23, 2014, 05:13:45 am »1796
Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: May 23, 2014, 04:33:33 am »
Hey entropy, I just solved your problem of "the Olympic lifters collapse their knees inward on their heaviest attempts".
It's because if you look at what muscles contribute to the hip extension (aka "the posterior chain"), they're the glutes, hamstrings AND ADDUCTORS.
And since in an Olympic lift the back is vertical (same as in a front squat, and to a lesser extent, the high bar back squat), then the knees go forward a lot and the hamstrings are put into active insufficiency.
This leaves only the glutes AND ADDUCTORS to provide hip extension. And the knees caving in is the athlete's attempt (subconsciously or not) to use these adductors to help the glutes, which are on an island on their own, to do the hip extension.
This is also the reason why front squats are great for hamstring dominant people (think - me) to learn how to use the glutes in the squatting movement: by putting the hamstrings into active insufficiency (shortening them at both the hip and knee joints), you're basically "isolating" the glutes and adductors as the only muscles capable of hip extension. And since you put the glutes in a stretched position going very low (assuming you can do it), then the front squat is maybe the best athletic training squat, assuming you still do stuff for the hamstrings.
Just thought I'll put this out there for the people wondering about these knees coming in on heavy attempts for the Olympic lifters, and also something to think about.
It's because if you look at what muscles contribute to the hip extension (aka "the posterior chain"), they're the glutes, hamstrings AND ADDUCTORS.
And since in an Olympic lift the back is vertical (same as in a front squat, and to a lesser extent, the high bar back squat), then the knees go forward a lot and the hamstrings are put into active insufficiency.
This leaves only the glutes AND ADDUCTORS to provide hip extension. And the knees caving in is the athlete's attempt (subconsciously or not) to use these adductors to help the glutes, which are on an island on their own, to do the hip extension.
This is also the reason why front squats are great for hamstring dominant people (think - me) to learn how to use the glutes in the squatting movement: by putting the hamstrings into active insufficiency (shortening them at both the hip and knee joints), you're basically "isolating" the glutes and adductors as the only muscles capable of hip extension. And since you put the glutes in a stretched position going very low (assuming you can do it), then the front squat is maybe the best athletic training squat, assuming you still do stuff for the hamstrings.
Just thought I'll put this out there for the people wondering about these knees coming in on heavy attempts for the Olympic lifters, and also something to think about.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Age vs Vertical
« on: May 22, 2014, 05:38:37 am »
What does 15:5 mean? 15.5 seconds?
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Chris' training journal
« on: May 21, 2014, 06:01:18 pm »yeah i don't get it either way. feet are just feet.
Says the guy with feet in his avatar
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Chris' training journal
« on: May 21, 2014, 04:11:39 pm »
What's up with people hating feet? I've heard this before, men hating other men's feet (seeing them etc). What's up with that?