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Quote from: Glenn Pendlay

But, I think more important is the fact that you are going right up to failure every time you do this exercise, and are so emotionally hung up on your reps. Everyone has an exercise that they are prone to get too emotional about. One exercise that they base some of their "self image" on, or base an inapropriate amount of their feelings of going forward or backward in training on.

You have to fight that shit, and fight it hard. The more you can divorce emotion from the training process, the better. Training is a process of loading the body a certain amount that causes an adaptation to that load. It is not a process of coming to the gym and proving how strong you are or proving that you have not lost strength or muscle, etc.

I don't have a problem with this when I lift because for me lifting is just fun. But jumping is another story. I hate not being able to jump as well as I want and that's bad news. Need to remind myself of this quote when I start jumping again in earnest. I get so pissed at myself for jumping poorly and that is such a stupid cycle to be in. Training is about getting better a little bit at a time.

definitely.. when i get too into jumping i always get pissed at my performance, but the last few months whenever that happens, i just focus on distance running/sprints/something else to get that shit out of my mind.. it's annoying and stupid to get all bent out of shape over jumps or any exercise, because instead of helping it actually makes you perform worse.. but at the same time, there still needs to be some progress, but that can come from many factors, such as getting stronger in trap bar dl/squat etc.. if you're improving hollistically, then eventually you have more ability to improve your main goal, but you don't beat yourself into the ground as much, that's for sure.

if anyone gets depressed over 'jumping' or 'performance' it's me.. breaking out of that was hard, i'm a training addict.. that's why having tons of goals instead of just one, makes everything alot better for me. such as yesterday, i jumped shitty, then ran 7 miles, and felt great because of that distance work, feel even better today

peace man

terrel owens dunking in VBL (venice beach league)

8/31/2010

bw = 160
soreness = calfs a little
aches/injuries = right knee a little

workout:
- jumps: about 30 minutes of DLRVJ (LR & RL) submax.. SVJ's too, but max effort.. svj's were surprisingly not bad.
- 7 mile run (slow pace, felt great)
- walk 2 miles <- i hit a major stoplight at 7miles with tons of traffic so after i slowed down i was just like F it.

weight before workout: 163
weight after workout: 154

haha.. lots of water loss..

rehydrated to 162 within an hour hehe!

peace

8-31-10
Session 1

Dynamic warmup, sprint warmup

3 or 4 10 yard sprints, slower than usual, 1.65-1.75

SVJ's and drop steps, about 10 total - highest svj 28", highest drop step 30" - pr

squat warmup 135x5 185x2 225x1- felt light

squat - 270x2.5, hit the safety bar on third rep cuz I went a bit too deep, threw me off, also pissed me off. 275x5 275x6 - nice

lunge - 183x5e 193x5e 198x6e - pr on the lunges, those have definitely gotten better.

forgot to do 4x5 calf raises

core circuit x2

Really good workout

nice on the PR !! big svj pr soon

squat/lunge is ballin too.

http://www.globalthrowing.com/1137


^^^^180kg Power clean^^^^

^^^^241kg front squat^^^^^

nuff said.

daaaaaaaamn

ugly p-clean but he's just all power.

well i have stopped lunges step up. in fact, maybe in 10minutes or so I;ll start warming up and workout. I'm going to s=do reverse lunge with a greater step. I do it in a way it reassembles travelling lunges.

elevated reverse lunges are great, love those.

And I do try to keep my back a straight as possible through my whole workout. Do you think i might be inflexible? I cant reach my toes with my legs straight. I did a test by myself before and the results were that I did work on that stretch. basically, sitting down, legs straight, and reach for your toes. I could only touch barely touch it after basketball. AFter stretching it for like 20sec or so I can slowly touch it. and for hip flexors, I still am not sure where it is. I have googled it, but jsut doesnt make sense. I mean, they say normally tight hip flexors are what makes ppl hard to squat down. But you see, when you squat down, I only see my glutes and back getting stretched. Has not a single thing to do with the hip flexors. They are below your stomach, somewhere around there. unless I got it wrong.

all you have to do is finish your sessions with some light static stretching.. don't get too caught up in reaching your toes or not, it's not actually that important.. what is important though is that you're not getting TIGHTER.. so just finish each session (basketball/strength) with static stretch of quads, hamstrings, hip flexor, lats, chest, calfs.. if you are consistent, flexibility will improve.

And well what you said is all true. Not sure if this will help, but when I do single leg RDL, i squeeze my glutes hard, when i go through the pulling motion, I feel it in my glutes. I do it until my glutes are really uncapable of doing another rep of good form. Yet , my hamstrings get sore the next day. But I think its the glute bridges that makes my hams sore. thats the one I really feel my hamstrings. So if it was the glute bridges, doesnt that mean my other workouts are not intense enough?
Wow this are so complicated. SO how do I test my weak link thn?

it's too hard to pinpoint the weak link over the internet and without proper equipment.. neuromuscular testing would be effective, but so to would just being able to do certain movements until an estimated 1RM (weight room stuff).

consider everything a weak link, you need strong glutes, hamstrings, quads, calfs, core, and upper body muscles (lats/pecs/shoulders etc). if you perform exercises that hit those muscle groups, through a full range of motion, everything will take care of itself.. add in jumping/sprinting, and you're good to go.

making training too complicated, especially when you don't have much equipment, will just become a burden.. just hit the whole body & try to make everything stronger (bodyweight or weighted):
- squat
- lunge
- ghr
- pullup/chinup/horizontal pullup
- pushup/dip
- calf raie
- core
+ sprint, jump, basketball

peace man

week 43
GPP week 6: lower A, monday

warmup, prehab
sprint warmup
sprints: 2x

ME jumps: couldnt do, courts were booked.
MR tuck jumps: 3 x 10
SL RFI laterals: 3 x 10 each leg

REA squats: 4 x 3 (60kg)
squats: 4 x 8 (100)
18" stepups: 3 x 8 (60, 65, 65)
DB reverse lunges: 3 x 5 (30)

calf raises: 3 x 5 (100)

pullups: 15

rushed workout, by the time i headed to the showers, it was 15 mins to closing.

great workout man..