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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: acole14's journal - DUNK OR DIE
« on: April 26, 2013, 05:35:39 am »
I think you were more than 1 inch away. Probably 3 or 4. 1 inch is EXTREMELY close.
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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: My current program
« on: April 25, 2013, 02:16:20 pm »
Yeah that's what I meant - what shitty movement patterns do you risk to develop. I have NEVER seen this discussed.
It's interesting but from a specificity for the one leg jump perspective, I plant the foot of the jumping leg in a externally rotated foot anyway so it would actually be MORE specific squatting this way. Obviously the body is differently arranged in a one leg jump than in a squat so ... my comparison is kinda silly.
The problem is that I don't know where I'm lacking in terms of mobility (that is - what is causing the "duck footed" stance - probably hip flexibility?)
I guess doing that sanfranciscocrossfit squat stretch before every squat workout is a good idea, and I'm doing that already.
It's interesting but from a specificity for the one leg jump perspective, I plant the foot of the jumping leg in a externally rotated foot anyway so it would actually be MORE specific squatting this way. Obviously the body is differently arranged in a one leg jump than in a squat so ... my comparison is kinda silly.
The problem is that I don't know where I'm lacking in terms of mobility (that is - what is causing the "duck footed" stance - probably hip flexibility?)
I guess doing that sanfranciscocrossfit squat stretch before every squat workout is a good idea, and I'm doing that already.
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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: My current program
« on: April 25, 2013, 12:17:47 pm »
I don't understand.
I can sink into my hips better when I externally rotate my feet (say 30 to 45 degrees) and I'm definitely more stable in that position (since I don't feel like falling backwards).
I want to know what the difference in muscle recruitment is, if any.
I can sink into my hips better when I externally rotate my feet (say 30 to 45 degrees) and I'm definitely more stable in that position (since I don't feel like falling backwards).
I want to know what the difference in muscle recruitment is, if any.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: April 25, 2013, 05:37:55 am »
3x25?! Damn, weak PR 
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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: My current program
« on: April 25, 2013, 05:33:58 am »
By the way - I used to squat with the feet kinda rotated a lot externally. You know, penguin squats... what would that do? I tried to figure out what is the difference between a front-oriented foot to a externally rotated foot (say 45 degrees) - that, again, could allow me to get deeper - and couldn't figure out.
I mean shouldn't the recruitment be the same? Even if you exaggerate it to prove a point (say you rotate the feet to almost having them pointing to the sides), what would be the difference in recruitment vs a front-pointed feet situation?
I haven't seen any article whatsoever about this. They all say it's "wrong" but nobody says why.
I mean shouldn't the recruitment be the same? Even if you exaggerate it to prove a point (say you rotate the feet to almost having them pointing to the sides), what would be the difference in recruitment vs a front-pointed feet situation?
I haven't seen any article whatsoever about this. They all say it's "wrong" but nobody says why.
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Pics, Videos, & Links / Re: funny / horrible training videos
« on: April 24, 2013, 05:13:31 pm »
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Nature, Wilderness, Hiking, Travel, and Misc Outdoorsy stuff / Re: Random landscape of the day
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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: My current program
« on: April 24, 2013, 05:07:27 pm »narrow LBBS is the most "natural" squat for me.
I always feel like falling back if I'm not widening my stance or wearing OLS.
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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: My current program
« on: April 24, 2013, 01:00:05 pm »
Well I'm currently doing medium stance high bar squats (like you see in that video I posted) and once I stall I'll get back to low bar squats and see where it got me, if they increased. And basically rotate around the low bar and the high bar squat, trying to get benefits from both styles. I THINK.
I'm not sure if this is a good idea or if I should just be choosing one style and stick with that.
I'm not sure if this is a good idea or if I should just be choosing one style and stick with that.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: April 24, 2013, 12:57:48 pm »
Damn you're on a roll... you lost so much weight but you still keep on piling up PRs... keep up this roll.
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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: training rhymes
« on: April 24, 2013, 05:06:16 am »
Hyperdunk is good at getting some rhymes
Too bad for his other forumistic crimes
Too bad for his other forumistic crimes
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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: My current program
« on: April 23, 2013, 05:43:35 pm »
Those look good Raptor, and its not how far out in front your knees go, rather where the weight is centered. If you look at a really good squat, the weight of the lifter and the load is centered further away from the knee. Thats where the knee stress really come into play, when the center of mass goes forward with the knees.
What could you high bar squat prior to your low bar? Those looked easy, definitely not near maximal.
Yeah I know what you mean... these O-lift shoes help me not get that center of mass too forward. If I wouldn't have the o-lift shoes I would've continued to low bar squat because my knees wouldn't be happy with a center of mass forward high bar squat (like in the past). The only way I could avoid that with a regular shoe (and not elevating the heels on plates etc) would be to REALLY widen the stance.
As for the max high bar squat... I have no idea. Back in the day I had a "body-crushing" max attempt of 130 kg and then I switched to low bar, I THINK. I'm not sure. Right now my high bar 1RM is probably ~145 kg but I don't want to try it.
This 130 I lifted here ... I have no idea why it looks so easy... it was VERY difficult, not necessarily the rep itself but thinking about repeating that rep was difficult to imagine.
Probably because I'm not used to do high TUT, grinding reps. Maybe I should play around with some tempo variance work in the near future.
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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: My current program
« on: April 23, 2013, 05:19:14 pm »By the way - I think I'll milk this high bar 3x5 I'm doing right now and once I get stuck (after I reset by 10% and try again) I'll probably switch back to low bar and see if it improved after this high bar squat stint.
If I could front squat I'd definitely do low bar back squat + front squat and call it a day.
just dont keep with the higher bar position if it messes with your knees, otherwise its fine. Nothing was drastically wrong with your squat the way you were, so youre not going to get a magic carryover from a higher bar position if thats what youre expecting.
But it's MUCH MORE difficult in this high bar way I'm doing it right now. So I guess that's my quads screaming "we're so WEAK". Sure, I probably go much lower now too, and with a narrower stance the total ROM is longer as well, so there are other differences than just the bar position.
You make the call about how much my knees go out in front:
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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: My current program
« on: April 23, 2013, 05:00:37 pm »
By the way - I think I'll milk this high bar 3x5 I'm doing right now and once I get stuck (after I reset by 10% and try again) I'll probably switch back to low bar and see if it improved after this high bar squat stint.
If I could front squat I'd definitely do low bar back squat + front squat and call it a day.
If I could front squat I'd definitely do low bar back squat + front squat and call it a day.
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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: My current program
« on: April 23, 2013, 04:58:08 pm »I wasnt saying you are not training, my original point was you keep changing the focus, when your goals indicate a much more simple approach. You could literally do two or three exercises for you lower body, but push the living FUCK out of those few, and do something like bounds and dunks, with a good diet and youd have a whole program that would get you on a linear path upwards rather than this circular one.
^that was what I meant about changing focus
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