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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Age vs Vertical
« on: November 17, 2012, 11:04:47 am »
Very nice. Stronger than me in both the OHP and chinups.
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Basketball / Re: A WHOLE BUNCH OF DUNKS AND SHIT.
« on: November 16, 2012, 01:13:38 pm »3678
Pics, Videos, & Links / Re: beast
« on: November 16, 2012, 11:05:49 am »
Your athletes are also capable of some very impressive "odd" feats of strength and athletic ability... such as 300 pound 50 rep rock bottom squats, back and front flips, and the ability to dunk basketballs at 5'7" tall.
Well the neatest looking thing I can think of is what Justin Brimhall sometimes does. He can hold a 55lb plate over his head with both hands, and bounce up and down on one leg or from one leg to another, and I mean FULL one legged squats, all the way down butt to ankle with the other leg held straight out in front of him.
He doesn't simply stand up from that position, he literally jumps up and lands on the other leg 3 or 4 feet across the floor and with no pause for balance descends to a full squat on the other leg and jumps again. He can cross a room in a few seconds doing this. I've never seen anyone else capable of doing this the way he does it.
I'm sure he could hold something heavier over his head and do it, but that's the heaviest plate I've got. Of course at 16 years old and 165lbs he also cleaned 352lbs and jerked 374lbs, so he's a good athlete; he can do all sorts of strange and unusual things.
My wife is the true athlete in the family. With about 6 months training back in college, she squatted 330lbs at a 125lb bodyweight. She could have been way better than me in any strength sport if she had wanted to pursue it. Her brother is so freaky I shouldn't even go into it, and you probably won't believe it anyway.
Things like cleaning over double bodyweight as a 15 year old (315lbs weighing 155lbs) and benching over double bodyweight in high school without any equipment (340lbs at 165lb bodyweight).
Both of these examples were done without any real training on those lifts, just natural strength
. He quit athletics after high school to concentrate on college and becoming a veterinarian, and is about to graduate from vet school at the end of the present semester.
Well the neatest looking thing I can think of is what Justin Brimhall sometimes does. He can hold a 55lb plate over his head with both hands, and bounce up and down on one leg or from one leg to another, and I mean FULL one legged squats, all the way down butt to ankle with the other leg held straight out in front of him.
He doesn't simply stand up from that position, he literally jumps up and lands on the other leg 3 or 4 feet across the floor and with no pause for balance descends to a full squat on the other leg and jumps again. He can cross a room in a few seconds doing this. I've never seen anyone else capable of doing this the way he does it.
I'm sure he could hold something heavier over his head and do it, but that's the heaviest plate I've got. Of course at 16 years old and 165lbs he also cleaned 352lbs and jerked 374lbs, so he's a good athlete; he can do all sorts of strange and unusual things.
My wife is the true athlete in the family. With about 6 months training back in college, she squatted 330lbs at a 125lb bodyweight. She could have been way better than me in any strength sport if she had wanted to pursue it. Her brother is so freaky I shouldn't even go into it, and you probably won't believe it anyway.
Things like cleaning over double bodyweight as a 15 year old (315lbs weighing 155lbs) and benching over double bodyweight in high school without any equipment (340lbs at 165lb bodyweight).
Both of these examples were done without any real training on those lifts, just natural strength
. He quit athletics after high school to concentrate on college and becoming a veterinarian, and is about to graduate from vet school at the end of the present semester. 3679
Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Two Hands Two Feet
« on: November 16, 2012, 07:39:05 am »
I jump higher in game because of two things:
1) Better rate coding;
2) Not being able to be my lazy self. If I'm my lazy self I can't get past the defender so in order to get past him I have to go really fast and then dunk
1) Better rate coding;
2) Not being able to be my lazy self. If I'm my lazy self I can't get past the defender so in order to get past him I have to go really fast and then dunk
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Kingfush
« on: November 16, 2012, 07:37:47 am »
Have you ever trained with very low rest periods in the last what, 3-4 years Kingfish? With rest periods like 1 minute or so?
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Two Hands Two Feet
« on: November 15, 2012, 07:47:53 pm »
Oh, and one more thing: don't expect your controllable approach speed to increase any time soon. It depends a ton on movement efficiency. If your movement efficiency isn't good then you won't be able to do a movement at high speed that you're not confortable doing at slow speed so... it's like dancing. You won't go out there dancing like a superstar without practicing that at a lower speed first.
For example you can see I can use a pretty good speed off one leg and really put out "heart" out there (I really go on with a rage mentality in my one-leg jumps) but if I try to do the same with my two leg jumps that have some 20,000 less practiced jumps I completely shut down in the plant. I plant at high speed and completely collapse in the plant. Sometimes I can't even jump at all (not even 1 inch) - I plant with so much rage that my body shuts down - it's not used to that kind of overload in that movement.
For example you can see I can use a pretty good speed off one leg and really put out "heart" out there (I really go on with a rage mentality in my one-leg jumps) but if I try to do the same with my two leg jumps that have some 20,000 less practiced jumps I completely shut down in the plant. I plant at high speed and completely collapse in the plant. Sometimes I can't even jump at all (not even 1 inch) - I plant with so much rage that my body shuts down - it's not used to that kind of overload in that movement.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Two Hands Two Feet
« on: November 15, 2012, 07:39:02 pm »
Yeah once you identify with some aproximacy what you need to do it's then a matter of doing it, and planning properly to do so.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: THE DREAM JOURNAL
« on: November 15, 2012, 10:41:15 am »
Is there anything better than what the brain randomly decides to create? I don't think so.
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Pics, Videos, & Links / Re: beast
« on: November 15, 2012, 07:26:49 am »
One of the greatest goals in footbal... I mean "soccer" history.
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ADARQ & LanceSTS - Q&A / Re: calf training
« on: November 15, 2012, 07:24:45 am »
Also a lot of people do bouncing calf raises which in reality utilize a ton of Achilles and very little muscle in itself so... do them slow and do them with pauses at the top & bottom IMO
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Kingfush
« on: November 15, 2012, 07:22:21 am »
Well luckily for us, Kingfish himself responded.
What, he didn't? Oh well...
What, he didn't? Oh well...
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Two Hands Two Feet
« on: November 15, 2012, 07:20:32 am »
It's easy to see that for you since you have such a low speed run-up. You're basically walking out there and jumping with such a low speed. Since the one-leg jump has much less strength to be applied due to a single leg muscles power output, you need to compensate by having good initial speed that basically makes you lighter. The one-leg jump is about conserving what you're already worked for to generate (the run up) and converting that into vertical momentum.
Compare yourself with me here:
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmODiHirz6o" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmODiHirz6o</a>
Even though it's a missed dunk, see the huge difference in speed. I kinda pushed to get really fast there and that's a bit over my controllable speed though. And obviously you can't LITERALLY compare to me or anybody else because of so many factors affecting approach speed, but still... something to think about.
I think the "correct" equation of jumping should be movement efficiency * structure * power ... you need to see where you need to improve. If you have decent structure (and flexibility goes to structure as well since it alters the posture and center of mass) and you have power then maybe you should improve your movement efficiency, which means you need to jump more often.
Compare yourself with me here:
Even though it's a missed dunk, see the huge difference in speed. I kinda pushed to get really fast there and that's a bit over my controllable speed though. And obviously you can't LITERALLY compare to me or anybody else because of so many factors affecting approach speed, but still... something to think about.
I think the "correct" equation of jumping should be movement efficiency * structure * power ... you need to see where you need to improve. If you have decent structure (and flexibility goes to structure as well since it alters the posture and center of mass) and you have power then maybe you should improve your movement efficiency, which means you need to jump more often.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Age vs Vertical
« on: November 14, 2012, 02:48:01 pm »
Have you done the RDLs with the O-lift shoes on?
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ADARQ & LanceSTS - Q&A / Re: calf training
« on: November 14, 2012, 11:05:57 am »
It's weird because from what I can remember, you're a pretty fast jumper off two feet. You'd expect a guy who has disfunctional calves to have a longer amortization phase... but obviously it's also a matter of structure.
You need to ask yourself "how good am I at rhytmic jumps vs paused jumps"?
For example, how good are you at consecutive two-leg bounds vs. broad jumps with a pause in between reps? How good at consecutive hurdle jumps vs. hurdle jumps with a pause? Usually the best you perform at rebound jumps (including depth jumps) - the more your calves are being utilized properly.
You need to ask yourself "how good am I at rhytmic jumps vs paused jumps"?
For example, how good are you at consecutive two-leg bounds vs. broad jumps with a pause in between reps? How good at consecutive hurdle jumps vs. hurdle jumps with a pause? Usually the best you perform at rebound jumps (including depth jumps) - the more your calves are being utilized properly.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Two Hands Two Feet
« on: November 14, 2012, 07:14:48 am »
Yeah because you associate "weaker" with squat strength and ignoring calf and hamstring strength. You were probably stronger relatively in your calves and possibly hamstrings at that weight. Obviously the speed you get into your runup will increase your body mass in the plant and it makes quite a bit of difference.
5 kg x 10 times bodyweight in the plant = 50 kg more to overcome for the calves... especially with these being concentrated on one leg (during the one-leg jump). It might manifest itself as the knee "giving out" when in reality is the calves that are overloaded, the ankle collapses, the tibia is traveling forward and they overload the knee (bend the knee) and quad in return. Same with the hamstrings. If they are weak your body will shorten them at the knee to prevent excessive tension to be applied to them, and since the knee becomes bent then the quad will be overloaded, and your knee will give out.
It's interesting because both these scenarios will make you think you have weak quads.
5 kg x 10 times bodyweight in the plant = 50 kg more to overcome for the calves... especially with these being concentrated on one leg (during the one-leg jump). It might manifest itself as the knee "giving out" when in reality is the calves that are overloaded, the ankle collapses, the tibia is traveling forward and they overload the knee (bend the knee) and quad in return. Same with the hamstrings. If they are weak your body will shorten them at the knee to prevent excessive tension to be applied to them, and since the knee becomes bent then the quad will be overloaded, and your knee will give out.
It's interesting because both these scenarios will make you think you have weak quads.