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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: October 26, 2013, 03:25:28 pm »
Yeah some of my best jumps came when I was "relaxed", but it's easy to confound "relaxed" with "weak".
For example, if I am to really relax when doing stuff I'd become like jelly, and crumble down into horrible posture. I think being relaxed is all about having the tension in the RIGHT muscles while being able to call upon relaxing and contracting at the right times vs. staying stiff for the entire duration of that movement.
For example, if I am to really relax when doing stuff I'd become like jelly, and crumble down into horrible posture. I think being relaxed is all about having the tension in the RIGHT muscles while being able to call upon relaxing and contracting at the right times vs. staying stiff for the entire duration of that movement.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: October 26, 2013, 10:02:42 am »
I'm telling you - the way that I feel after playing 5 on 5 basketball, the feeling in my legs, I've never came across any training as of yet that gives me the same feeling.
But I RARELY play 5 on 5.
But I RARELY play 5 on 5.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: October 26, 2013, 09:18:09 am »
Because it teaches what he's not accustomed to: being explosively isometric. Everything that depicts this ability is bad for him: sprinting, one leg jumping, bounding etc.
He's good at generating strength, mediocre at expressing power and bad at managing isometric explosiveness (where you just lock out your muscles very quickly and create a stiff lever).
I couldn't agree more with Joel here:
http://www.just-fly-sports.com/long-sprinting-for-reactive-vertical-power-part-i/
He's good at generating strength, mediocre at expressing power and bad at managing isometric explosiveness (where you just lock out your muscles very quickly and create a stiff lever).
I couldn't agree more with Joel here:
http://www.just-fly-sports.com/long-sprinting-for-reactive-vertical-power-part-i/
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: October 25, 2013, 01:10:04 pm »
The more I look at this log the more I think that LBSS would be the best served doing longer distance sprints (200-400m). It's maybe the one thing he has never done consistently.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Age vs Vertical
« on: October 25, 2013, 01:00:50 pm »
Or just go crazy with the volumes:
squat 3x5 + hip thrust 3x20
bss 3x10 + deadlift 3x5
squat 3x5 + hip thrust 3x20
bss 3x10 + deadlift 3x5
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Basketball / Re: D. Rose jumping HIGHER post ACL?
« on: October 25, 2013, 12:23:28 pm »http://m.bleacherreport.com/articles/1801159-derrick-rose-says-vertical-leap-increased-by-five-inches-to-42-since-acl-injury
Ummm. Faster, stronger, quicker, better jumpshot and he says he's jumping higher than before? I'm excited to see him play again!
Steroids. That's why he took 1 year off, so it wouldn't show in the blood tests this year. If he were to come back into the active roster last year the roids would've appeared.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Age vs Vertical
« on: October 25, 2013, 12:22:22 pm »
Have you ever tried to get your bodyweight to somewhere at ~80 kg from 90?
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Pics, Videos, & Links / Re: 131018 This is the closest I had ever been to dunking a regular size ball
« on: October 25, 2013, 06:00:41 am »
You're right there, keep on doing what you do.
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Basketball / Re: A WHOLE BUNCH OF DUNKS AND SHIT.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Age vs Vertical
« on: October 19, 2013, 07:09:00 am »
Yeah but if you extrapolate the 1RM off a 5RM for a beginner/intermediate trainee vs. an elite trainee... what would the difference be?
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Age vs Vertical
« on: October 18, 2013, 01:07:44 pm »
In my opinion, when the real 1RM goes above the projected 1RM, that shows you're already at a good movement efficiency rate for that movement.
But I could be wrong in that maybe it's a sign of the actual reverse of this. Maybe when you up the number of reps you can't go as heavy because of the lack of movement efficiency (that adds up over the number of reps and makes the projected 1RM be lower than your actual 1RM).
It would be interesting to find out what the case is.
Do elite squatters have a much higher 1RM than their projected 1RM from a 5 rep set, for example?
But I could be wrong in that maybe it's a sign of the actual reverse of this. Maybe when you up the number of reps you can't go as heavy because of the lack of movement efficiency (that adds up over the number of reps and makes the projected 1RM be lower than your actual 1RM).
It would be interesting to find out what the case is.
Do elite squatters have a much higher 1RM than their projected 1RM from a 5 rep set, for example?
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