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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: March 13, 2013, 11:55:07 am »
Yeah you can even go crazy and do low bar half squats for more specificity. Not sure if that makes sense and overcomplicates things.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Loopie's Log
« on: March 13, 2013, 11:54:19 am »
Well why don't you lower the weight and go deeper and more under control? That will benefit you much more than what you're doing now. A 5 rep ATG squat is similar to a 10 rep parallel squat in terms of TUT so... it's more than just depth.

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Pics, Videos, & Links / Re: beast
« on: March 13, 2013, 11:49:20 am »
Quote from: Avishek on March 13, 2013, 11:39:00 am
NO WAY MY RENTS FROM KOLKATA

HOLY SHIT THIS GUY IS MY FUCKING HERO. BENGALI REPRESENT. FUCK YES. THANK YOU.

Make sure you up my post then. Thank you.

Just kiddin :P

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Boxing / Re: If You Troll A Professional Boxer On Twitter, He Might Show Up At Your House
« on: March 13, 2013, 11:48:17 am »
Fuck... I'm never trolling Adarqui again!

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: March 13, 2013, 09:03:23 am »
Yeah it might be a good idea, to have the backoff sets as low bar for more posterior chain work/hypertrophy.

I should do it the other way around - having the backoff sets being high bar.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Loopie's Log
« on: March 13, 2013, 07:32:56 am »
Damn, why such a high depth... that's not even parallel

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: hitting a pr did more bad than good?
« on: March 13, 2013, 07:30:58 am »
That's why I don't get at least getting pinned so often.

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Article & Video Discussion / Re: Olympic lifters vs sprinters vs powerlifter VJ study
« on: March 12, 2013, 01:53:14 pm »
Quote from: ChrisM on March 12, 2013, 01:28:47 pm
Lmao!

Just for kicks I tried squatting on the smith (no weight) and it felt completely unnatural. I cant imagine how a jump squat would feel!

It's one of the weirdest things in the world - the smith machine squat. It feels OK at the top but once you start going down... oh boy...

But apparently you can load the quads more with it by putting your legs forward and making a "sliding wall sit" out of it.

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Article & Video Discussion / Re: Olympic lifters vs sprinters vs powerlifter VJ study
« on: March 12, 2013, 01:13:30 pm »
Maybe a 3x squat in a smith machine is equivalent to a 1x free squat :trolldance:

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Article & Video Discussion / Re: Olympic lifters vs sprinters vs powerlifter VJ study
« on: March 12, 2013, 12:24:30 pm »
Quote from: vag on March 12, 2013, 11:57:25 am
So the maximum average unloaded countermovement jump ( SVJ ) is that of the sprinters. And it stands at..........



50cm ( 19,68'' )  :o  :o  :o

:trollface:  :gtfo:

This^^^

Something is really fishy there... I mean what, they all squat over 2x (even the control group with no training background) and jump just 50 cm? No way that is happening unless they all are 3 feet tall or something.

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Article & Video Discussion / Olympic lifters vs sprinters vs powerlifter VJ study
« on: March 12, 2013, 11:47:45 am »
http://www.strengthandconditioningresearch.com/2013/03/11/sprinters/?utm_source=getresponse&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=bretcontreras&utm_content=Military+Press+and+Back+Pain%2C+Differences+in+Sprinters%2C+Powerlifters%2C+%26+Oly+Lifters%2C+and+Training+the+High+School+Athlete

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Basketball / Re: A WHOLE BUNCH OF DUNKS AND SHIT.
« on: March 12, 2013, 11:04:53 am »
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqNi4uL2FAo" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqNi4uL2FAo</a>

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: acole14's journal - DUNK OR DIE
« on: March 12, 2013, 08:22:24 am »
Definitely. These shoes will probably last more than I will in terms of injury/deterioration due to squatting.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: March 12, 2013, 06:45:59 am »
I hate good mornings... even with an empty bar the tendency of the bar is to roll on your neck forward and the load on the back is a ton etc, fuck them.

ANYWAY

The snatch grip deadlift is really the "full deadlift" if you want to go that route. I'd argue that the regular deadlift is a half-deadlift and the RDL is a 1/4 deadlift.

The SGD has the longest ROM, gets you the deepest, and it really works the glutes and hams and everything. I did 2x10 yesterday with 60 kg and it was great. It's a bitch to hold the weight though so you'll use very low weights but that's great, it just means your more likely to use your legs rather than your back, and that's what you want to do. I also use the mixed hook grip when doing SGDs.

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: hitting a pr did more bad than good?
« on: March 12, 2013, 06:32:39 am »
I just don't get it. I mean you can "feel" if a weight is too heavy or not most of the time, and you can make a good judgement based on how your previous set's weight felt like.

So if my plan is to get a 160 kg squat PR and I barely lift up 140 in the set before my planned 160 kg PR set, then guess what - I won't try the 160 kg set. If I barely moved up 140 then why the heck would I risk the 160 one? And yes, it's still a big risk, safety pins or not.

Just use good judgement.

I understand getting pinned with a weight you've never tried before that seems like doable but who knows what can go wrong with that weight you have never tried before? (say your back is not strong enough despite knowing/feeling your legs being strong enough etc).

So I was totally expecting the possibility of getting pinned on my 160 kg squat attempt but other than that, good judgement always prevailed.

The same applies to benching without a spotter. I always stop 1-2 reps before failure, as soon as the last rep becomes slow. That's good for both safety and recovery/cns preservation.

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