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what adarq said. your form is a little scary: lower back too rounded throughout the movement. starting from blocks is a good idea because you're so tall. no shame in that game, you're not trying to compete in PL so who cares? also, on the descent, you stop lowering your hips about halfway down and just lower the bar with your back; that's kind of a quasi-straight-leg-DL and you don't have the mobility to do it safely. but the bigger problem is the lack of back/core strength and hip mobility to maintain proper form.

weightlifting shoes "100% contribute to achilles tendonitis." that's a type of tendinopathy.

disagree slightly with t0ddday. squats are GPP. i don't see why doing them in one kind of shoe or another would have more carryover to athletic movements. i can't squat deep without squatting shoes but if squats are just a part, rep- and effort-wise, of my training then what's the problem? i dunno, seems like the kind of false-carryover thinking that maxent would go for.

also not sure where he's getting the evidence for squat shoes causing tendinopathy.

What if there as an adult version of a two week training camp vacation...  Probably not a huge market...

this is actually an incredible idea.

squats look good. i disagree slightly with leonel: chucks are okay if you like 'em and i don't think the instability in your vid is that bad. but i'm a weightlifting shoe guy forever.

WEIGHT: ???
SORENESS: none
ACHES/INJURIES: right knee
MENTAL STATE: great

- warm up

- skater jump x 20,10

- one-step RVJ x 4
P motherfucking R. hit 36+. holy shit. have vid, will post later. acole can attest anyway.

- DLRVJ x ~15
dunk attempts. didn't get one, got very close on maybe 5-6. fuck. felt great though.

- continuous backboard touches x 8,8

- paused speed squat 285 x 5,5

- DB OHP 55s x 10,10

- pull up x 8,6,4,2

- MB OH toss x 5

legs toast, so dead.

what up acole.

Hahaha I laughed in real life when I read that, especially since my back hurts so bad now

lol me too. except the back pain part.

my brother (the disappearing one) and i were sharing a room at this motel that we stayed at up in MA. he falls asleep before me and talks in his sleep a lot so i got a sense of a couple of his dreams. in one he was trying to get into a residential treatment program. introduced himself to whomever he was talking to on the phone, asked some questions about the program, asked for their fax number, etc. very thorough and polite. the other was more incoherent, kept saying the name of a major street near where we grew up and talking about crossing it.

meanwhile, in MY dream last night i was awake, reading, in the room and he was asleep. then he woke up and stood up to go to the bathroom. i looked over and he was naked from the waist down, and his dick was about 2 feet long and shaped like a wooden dowel with a hot dog skewered lengthwise on the end of it. that's all i remember. fucking weird.