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20116
Haha, I'll keep the videos the same, but I'll probably be getting a better camera soon. The pictures will all be in the same place around the same time of day, so in a few months I'll try to make a morph video.

My deltoid tear was actually pretty serious, I didn't do any lifting at all for a couple months after and the first few weeks I even stopped sprinting because even running made it hurt. Right now it's actually recovered quite well, inclined bench Monday wasn't at all painful like other times when I had attempted.

damn man.. ya sounds like it was pretty bad.. i tore my calf once really bad, split the gastroc right down the middle.. someone knee'd my as i was sprinting in a basketball game, like some crazy freak accident.. i couldn't walk for 2 months. NBA League Pass saved my life while I relaxed on the couch every night :)

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My kcal intake is over 4,000 right now, and I'll be upping that next week. (something like 4700)
I'll definitely do those short sprint starts, my start needs some help, especially for the 110m hurdles. Top speed needs to come sooner.

I'm pretty interested in seeing my progress as well, haha. I seem serious now, I used to think I was serious but my kcal intake was never high enough and my weight training wasn't really organized, so I never really got anywhere. This time it'll be much different.  8)

strong words! this will be a good journal.

peace

20117
the picture a day thing is really cool man.. try to make it similar lighting/position for the future video, those are always fun to watch.

how badly did you tear your deltoid ? my only advice on that is to just listen to your body, a big bench is nice but re-injuring the deltoid definitely isn't, especially since you can't even squat if you tear it.. so just back off when you see any signs that you need to.

as for HIIT, it'll be fine as long as your kcal intake isn't low, which it doesn't seem like it will be.. so that's good.. definitely have to get those sprints in.. i would also, beyond hit, work on 10 yard sprints from 2,3,and 4 point stances, maximally.. these aren't draining but IMO the more work you can get in with these, the better that start out of blocks will become.. it takes alot of practice to generate all of that force out of the blocks, it's definitely a trainable quality that improves by practicing the movement.

very interested to see your progress man, you definitely seem serious!

peace

20118
Introduce Yourself / Re: Hurdles. :D
« on: July 20, 2010, 11:34:42 pm »
I'm Omar (I go by Zetz online) I'm a high school hurdler. I just started a program called Scrawny to Brawny so I can bulk up before my last high school track season. I'm hoping to hear from other people with my same interests and I'm here to get help in that. Feel free to check out my youtube channel. (not much there, but it's a start)

http://www.youtube.com/user/TheZetz

hey man, welcome to the forum.. what are your current strength levels like and bodyweight? getting stronger is really going to help you get out of the blocks faster, from the video i saw.. the jump over the music stand was pimpin`.

have you taken measurements etc? i'd recommend doing that.. it's always great to have a legit before & after comparison (measurements and strength levels).

peace

20119
Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: July 20, 2010, 09:18:44 pm »
in one week, .5" gain on vmo/quad!! a little bit (.25") on thigh..

niceee

http://www.adarq.org/forum/strength-power-reactivity-speed-discussion/measurements/msg9481/#msg9481

20120
Pics, Videos, & Links / Re: beast
« on: July 20, 2010, 09:14:52 pm »
Five-hundred-eighty pound clean and jerk. And it doesn't even look like he's trying that hard. Enjoy.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mi6kfdwNDKw" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mi6kfdwNDKw</a>

too bad he got into that car accident.. blah!

20121
Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: July 20, 2010, 09:13:51 pm »
Ya that would be crazy to do 800 lunges with weight. 800 lunges bodyweight is damn impressive though, couldn't imagine doing that.

thanks man.. ya i guess the next step from here is to gradually add small bits of weight overtime until i can handle some impressive poundages for 400 each leg.. would need a good weighted vest by then..

it's kind of a "milo" approach, if you're familiar with ironmind/milo and his cow or whatever he lifted..

peace

20122
Nutrition & Supplementation / Re: Pre/Post workout Supplements
« on: July 20, 2010, 07:54:22 pm »
TMuscle is so deeply full of shit that I basically assume anything on there is wrong. HFCS is totally fine in moderation. If all your carbs come from HFCS, that's one thing. But as an ingredient in a PWO shake, or every once in a while in some ice cream or cake or whatever, it's not a big deal. The point is that metabolically, it's just sugar. There's nothing especially bad about it except for how pervasive it is.

Yeah there maybe a few shit articles on t muscle but I think Dr. John Berardi knows what he is talking about as well as Dr. Lonnie Lowery.

http://www.johnberardi.com/about/jb.htm

http://staleytraining.com/articles/lonnie-lowery/1-lonnie-lowery-articles.htm

I would stay clear of it in a PWO ingredient as well, but that's just me as i would like to have the best physique i can possibly achieve and wouldn't want anything to screw  that up. Of course having cake and ice cream or whatever once in a while, if your diet is strict most of the time, aint going to hurt.



cake = FAIL
ice cream = WIN

ice cream still has a good amount of protein in it usually :D

20123
Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: July 20, 2010, 07:46:42 pm »
802 lunges. Are you fucking kidding me. Damn man. You mad!

 ;D

i'm going to add weight next time.. 10 lb plate in my backpack @ 400 each leg.. :D

Of course you are  ;D

You must have the tightest ass in all of Florida.  8)

IM BECOMING A BUSHMAN'S BUTTOCKS.

20124
Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: THE DREAM JOURNAL
« on: July 20, 2010, 07:42:17 pm »
ok so, briefly, im at my house with a gatlin gun (huge machine gun), and cops are surrounding my house.. so i started offing them like terminator, then i take off on foot, in a battle with them for miles.. until i reach some parking garage.. and im running out of ammo.. then i just wake up.

was pretty crazy though.

20125

STRENGTH BLOCK A   :  2:1:0  :  STRENGTH - STRENGTH - EXPLOSIVE
STRENGTH BLOCK B   :  2:1:0  :  STRENGTH - STRENGTH - EXPLOSIVE
EXPLOSIVE BLOCK A  :  1:2:0  :  STRENGTH - EXPLOSIVE - EXPLOSIVE
EXPLOSIVE BLOCK B  :  1:2:0  :  STRENGTH - EXPLOSIVE - EXPLOSIVE
PEAK BLOCK              :  0:0:X  :  MSEM - EXPLOSIVE - SUPERMAX - EXPLOSIVE - MSEM

GREEN = DONE


20 July 2010

Weight@session: ~191,5 , END LOW BODYWEIGHT ALERT

PEAK BLOCK ,  Workout 'A'

FINAL WORKOUT OF THE SEASON

Depth Jumps : skipped once again because of yesterday's dunk session.

SQUATS , MSEM , rest between reps ~30sec , rest between sets ~4mins:
4x1@254lbs
3x1@297lbs
254 should be ~80% 1RM.
297 should be ~95% 1RM
ROM was ~3'' above parallel , i get hip pain lower , even in warmups , but at this ROM it was perfectly fine.
3 reps @ [1,6 x morning bodyweight] = good shit!

BSS , MSEM , rest between reps ~30'' , rest between sets ~4':
3x1@220
2x1@264

CALVE RAISES:
3x12@374
Rest between sets = 1'


i tell you what, that hip pain never completely disappears once you really get it, for example like i had it for 1+ months at a very debilitating level.. i mean just the other day it was bugging me while i was jogging.. it doesn't linger around as much since im not squatting heavy + deep, but it does rear its ugly head once in a while and scares the shit out of you.. there's something about hip pain that just scares the fuck out of me, feels so arthritic.

nice workout tho mang, just don't aggravate those hip sockets ! :)

peace man

20126
Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: July 20, 2010, 07:07:42 pm »
802 lunges. Are you fucking kidding me. Damn man. You mad!

 ;D

i'm going to add weight next time.. 10 lb plate in my backpack @ 400 each leg.. :D

How long do the lunges take? What is the primary purpose of them?

they make my legs feel bionic.. each lunge stretches out the glutes, hamstrings, quads, calfs/plantar-foot, hip flexors, etc.. so thats basically 800 stretches + strengthening.. i also go deep on each so im really focusing mostly on the glutes.. im trying to make my glutes RIDICULOUSLY strong, which i've come to realize these lunges are really doing that.. when i do lunges in such a high volume, the next few days i have so much glute/hamstring/quads tonus its amazing.. even if im sore my acceleration on sprints is crazy.. another thing they target, is conditioning/lactic acid tolerance.. heart rate is up pretty high during the session and there's alot of lactic acid going off and on throughout... my legs have also gotten bigger (glutes/quads/thigh) since doing this many lunges, i can literally feel my legs growing.. it's just a really intense stimulus, that many lunges in a very deep position.

since doing them my SLRVJ's (left and right leg) have also gotten so much stronger, without me even focusing on them..

i need to drop a vid soon of how i do them because i land pretty deep on the ball of my foot or midfoot, in a long lunge..

my legs feel much more powerful since ive been doing these long walking lunge sessions..

peace



edit: it takes about 3-4 minutes per 100 i'd guess (takes me a song length or a little more to get 100 usually), then 1 minute or so rest in between..

i first time i did like 100-200, i was sore for 7 days.. now i do 400 each leg and im only sore for about one day.. meaning my preparedness/work capacity is through the roof.. ithink the goal would be to have only one day soreness (doing 400 each leg) or so using 20-40 lb in my backpack/weighted vest.. that would be some beast strength/work capacity.

20127
This is a crucial matter when it comes to dunking , it is so much easier when you can palm the ball.
So what exercises should we do to improve palming ability?
Is it the normal grip exercises , wrist curls etc or would doing specific stuff like ISO-ball-palming be better?


palming relies on a wide pinch grip, so, some kind of plate pinching would be the best for it.. i know when i worked my grip hard doing plate pinches, that i could palm the ball pretty good.. my grip / pinch grip is way weaker now so i cant palm it for shit.

here's some examples, albeit, really strong examples:

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BY6v1rM7F8U" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BY6v1rM7F8U</a>

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dyj81VjZ3U" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dyj81VjZ3U</a>

basically, you can plate pinch 3 ten lb plates, 4 ten lb plates etc.. or come up with a device like the one in the first video to add weight based on a smaller plate thickness.. you could make a pinch block, like a 2", 3" and 4" block with a rope that holds plates, etc.. stuff like that..

there's a few types of grip:
- pinch
- crush
- support

palming falls under pinch :P

peace man...

20128
Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: July 20, 2010, 04:37:23 pm »
802 lunges. Are you fucking kidding me. Damn man. You mad!

 ;D

i'm going to add weight next time.. 10 lb plate in my backpack @ 400 each leg.. :D

20129
Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: July 20, 2010, 05:43:53 am »
ok ok.. flyin!

7/19/2010

bw = 162
soreness = nothing
aches/injuries = left plantar fasciae/heel


PRE-DUNK-SESSION DIET: (some people here will want to know)
- BW = 162
- 2:30pm: wakeup: glass of whole milk + instant coffee mixed in + 2 sweet`n`low , water + propel
- 4:00pm: small amounts of water + propel
- 6:00pm: 75% of glass of whole milk
- 7:00pm: small turkey sandwhich + pickel + 75% glass of milk
- BW = 162
- 9:00pm = dunks


workout #1: dunk session
- btw, i do a sprint warmup before all my dunk sessions now.. havn't been logging it for the last 2 weeks or so.. but i do 10's and 15's or so on the court.. like ~8 full speed sprints... just fyi.. fires me up good.. then i do my jump warmup in between or after.

- man i was FLYING early on.. on my ground cam angle in the vid, then their stupid full court became lazy with a bunch of fast breaks so i could barely get dunks in while they were playing.. anyway, hit 3/10, tried a two hander off dribble but i just didn't put enough into it.
- banged my wrist pretty hard a bunch of times.. middle finger tip is swolen.

- MR tuck jumps: 6x10



workout #2:
- 401 walking lunges each leg (802 total).. rained out, sidewalk slippery, had to be careful in some spots
- neutral grip pullups: BW @ 3 x 5 ballistic, BW + 20 lb @ 2 x 3
- natural ghr: 10 x ~10+ partials

natural ghr was very strong even after all those lunges... hit some very good reps.. even though i hit good reps though, i cramped up quicker overall.. hamstrings just fatigued.

that's about it!

peace




the vid:




raw footage of the dunks:






some pics:



the fan club:



another miss:



make:


20130
warm up
shoot hoops -- had the stroke, everything was falling
foam roll x15-20mins
mobility

ankle rehab circuit

work
trap bar DL 3x8x250
BSS 2x10x50 -- too easy
circuit x3
--chin ups x10, pull ups x5, chin ups x5 -- pussy
--pull throughs x10x70, 100, 100
--push ups x20
--sit ups x50
side plank x30s/ea

cool down
stretch

damn gotta get those chinups up!

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