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Basketball / Re: The Dunk King - coming May 18 on TNT
« on: May 20, 2016, 03:08:47 am »
Check out 1:45

Marberry is 5'5 (if he really is) - that's 1.65 meters tall. Rim is at 3.05 - he needs to jump 1.40 m to be head to rim. That's 55.11 inches.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9pcvtbsIhc" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9pcvtbsIhc</a>

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This reminds me of people that want to demonstrate that they have hamstring flexibility and that they can touch the floor with their hands etc. When in reality, they don't bend at the hips from a point on, they just bend their back and continue on bending it, with the hips doing nothing. From the point on, the hamstrings are not influenced by what's going on, so it's not a display of hamstring flexibility, but of erector spinae flexibility.

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To me, my best warm up was playing some aggressive defense. Sure, go through some dynamic warmup, if you do static stretches don't do them for longer than 20 seconds each, at best. In fact, I would static stretch only my hip flexor and maybe quads.

Then I would pick up a team mate and play some one on one for 2-3 minutes, playing aggressive defense on each other. That's been a great way to warm-up well for me.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: May 20, 2016, 02:52:46 am »
It's hard for me to imagine breathing "deeply" through my mouth for a long time while running, I would probably get tired like crazy.

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For a few reasons - it's hard to reverse the movement that quickly when you're heavier. The amount of tension you get in the connective tissues when doing that is too much and the CNS is more likely to shut you down.

Furthermore, heavier people have a tendency to be "strength dominant" - so they need more time on the ground to produce and apply that strength - a 1-2 plant where the first leg gets loaded more and the 2nd leg is more for "blocking"/changing directions from forward to upward is more suited for that purpose.

The "hop" plant is better for the more reactive, lighter individual that doesn't have these issues. He wants to take advantage of his "bounciness", aka his connective tissues' stored elastic energy. And that's done the best with a quicker amortization phase, which is what a hop plant allows to happen.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Two Hands Two Feet
« on: May 19, 2016, 06:48:37 pm »
Happy birthday

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: May 19, 2016, 04:56:29 pm »
It looks so weird... won't your quad tire like crazy doing that? Won't you "not achieve" hip extension doing that? It's crazy how much endurance any guy has in his quads vs. me.

Whenever I bike, and I stay straight up on my feet, I lock my knees. It's so easy to stay like that. A friend of mine's always says that it annoys him to see me do that and that I should stay with my knees unlocked, having my quads do the work. But that's crazy talk, it's completely unnatural to me.

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i tried a semi JusFly approach where i 'hopped' into the plant. Boom. Instant inches even tho it felt weird as shit.

I experienced this a while ago too. i completely forgot about it for a couple years though. definitely looking forward to try it out again.

i wonder if it'll still benefit your jump verses your normal approach once you get your movement efficiency back

It probably works the lightest you are. The heavier you are, a 1-2 "step" plant works better, IMO.

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Thanks. I'll take a bottle a day from now on.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Age vs Vertical
« on: May 19, 2016, 07:18:35 am »
I usually stretch the quads/hip flexors during the breaks between sets of other stuff, in the gym. Otherwise I wouldn't stretch. So I go to this incline bench press, and put my knee at the bottom of the chair, and the chair keeps my shin at a 45 degree angle. And there I can stretch my quads/hip flexors etc in all kinds of ways during the breaks between sets of other exercises. I do that every time I go to the gym.

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I'm asking both. "Studies" done by the companies that sell the product claim it increases testosterone mildly. But ignoring that marketing, it helps have very interesting dreams, so it improves sleep.

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Have you ever took ZMA?

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Primetimes are some sort of "straight leg" runs, throwing your legs straight in front of you and pulling yourself across the track.

I personally like the dynamic loaded hip dominant exercises like KB swings (assuming you do them right) because they're both dynamic but they also load you up quite a bit so you feel if you load your posterior chain or your quads. Sometimes it's harder to feel it with just your bodyweight.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Age vs Vertical
« on: May 19, 2016, 03:00:51 am »
He's probably in some kind of chronic fatigue phase right now... reminds me of the Dan Pfaff "acute relieving syndrome" vs "chronic fatigue syndrome" antithesis.

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Well, there has to be a solution. Maybe you can do strictly hip dominant work like very heavy kettlebell swings? They would pretty much target everything: power, strength (due to the constant time under tension), fitness, posterior chain activation, you name it, while also taking away focus from your knees and programming you to be more hip dominant. Sounds like the perfect idea.

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