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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: Resting the week before competition or continue training?
« on: August 21, 2012, 05:49:07 pm »
I think it depends a lot on the level of the athlete. If you're a beginner you won't be able to wear yourself down too much with your current training because you aren't able to generate a lot of intensity to begin with in your training.

But then it obviously matters if you have overtrained for quite some time and so on and so forth. So there are a ton of parameters at work, as usually.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: on the toad to 40
« on: August 21, 2012, 05:46:24 pm »
How difficult are the leg curls? It obviously depends on the machine levers but still... I nail about 8 reps with 123 lbs on the single leg leg curls pretty easily.

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ADARQ & LanceSTS - Q&A / Re: Push Press and Basketball
« on: August 21, 2012, 05:40:33 pm »
You should do a video^^^ it's hard to understand.

Especially at 1... narrow grip, and "less" for longer armed athletes? So if you have long arms you should use an even narrower grip? Doesn't make any sense, so probably I'm getting it wrong...

I also have different looking bars at my gym (olympic bars nonetheless) with different markers on them... not sure what "knurling" means.

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ADARQ & LanceSTS - Q&A / Re: Push Press and Basketball
« on: August 21, 2012, 03:47:44 pm »
Wasn't Rippetoe saying that out of 11 yearly fatalities in the US due to weightlifting, 9 are during a bench press?

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Basketball / Re: A WHOLE BUNCH OF DUNKS AND SHIT.
« on: August 21, 2012, 02:51:57 pm »
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQvBT9Xeo0A" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQvBT9Xeo0A</a>

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ADARQ & LanceSTS - Q&A / Re: Push Press and Basketball
« on: August 21, 2012, 10:44:00 am »
Quote from: LanceSTS on August 21, 2012, 10:13:50 am
Quote from: Raptor on August 21, 2012, 04:17:53 am
Quote from: Mutumbo000 on August 21, 2012, 02:23:25 am
I still prefer the bench press though since you can throw up more weight on it :P

Yeah, it's also safer. It's not like too many people die bench pressing or anything.

how is  it "safer"?

It's not.

Duuuuuuuuuuuh... that was the point...

Man I really need to use some sarcasm emoticons or something

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Basketball / Re: A WHOLE BUNCH OF DUNKS AND SHIT.
« on: August 21, 2012, 04:32:14 am »

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ADARQ & LanceSTS - Q&A / Re: Push Press and Basketball
« on: August 21, 2012, 04:17:53 am »
Quote from: Mutumbo000 on August 21, 2012, 02:23:25 am
I still prefer the bench press though since you can throw up more weight on it :P

Yeah, it's also safer. It's not like too many people die bench pressing or anything.

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ADARQ & LanceSTS - Q&A / Re: Push Press and Basketball
« on: August 20, 2012, 03:12:18 pm »
Can anybody post a video with the right form on the dumbbell push press? There are so many out there that I don't know which one is actually the correct form...

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: August 20, 2012, 09:36:09 am »
Quote from: LanceSTS on August 20, 2012, 09:02:50 am
and drive your chest and shoulders, not your hips.

Is there a bigger blasphemy?

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ADARQ & LanceSTS - Q&A / Re: Push Press and Basketball
« on: August 20, 2012, 05:23:44 am »
Quote from: LanceSTS on August 20, 2012, 03:10:06 am
Quote from: D4 on August 20, 2012, 03:04:09 am
This might be a stupid question, but I'm curious.  You know how shoulder power contributes to vertical jump height and to work on it people do arm swings like when Adarqui used to do his plate swings which basically mimics the same swing motion in jumps. 

Push presses aren't the same motion as plate swings, but does improving push press help with the same effect that improving plate swings will have specifically on VJ's?

Think of it from the muscles being trained instead of the exact movement.  Also, watch how people jump with the ball, which is what you will have to do in an actual game, assuming youre not catching lobs on a regular basis.  Lay up, jump shot, dunk with the ball in hand, watch that movement.

A jump and a shrug, baby!

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Basketball / Re: A WHOLE BUNCH OF DUNKS AND SHIT.
« on: August 19, 2012, 05:34:48 pm »
Look at these GOMAD obtained physiques:








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ADARQ & LanceSTS - Q&A / Re: Push Press and Basketball
« on: August 19, 2012, 05:05:59 pm »
I remember someone who said "people of the past had much more interest in the standing overhead press vs. pushing something from the chest while laying horizontal on a bench".

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ADARQ & LanceSTS - Q&A / Re: Use belt and progress or don't use it and stall?
« on: August 19, 2012, 01:53:33 pm »
Instead, 2 days ago one friend happened to be in the gym and he told me I had my bar tilted to one side while squatting, pretty badly. Now obviously I couldn't feel that on my back but I kind of expected it... I'm not sure though if it's because of my right knee pain or because of my left hip pain. Haven't asked him to where it was tilted (left or right).

It could also be because I load the left leg (MUCH stronger quad there) more than the right leg (weaker quad).

I think that's one (if not THE) reason why squat-built athletes (think Squat DR, Kingfish, acole) plant their both legs at the same time - because they don't have a CLEAR stronger leg on which to plant and rotate into their jump.

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ADARQ & LanceSTS - Q&A / Re: Use belt and progress or don't use it and stall?
« on: August 19, 2012, 01:24:27 pm »
I know... but luckily I am a very "leg driven squat guy" so... it shouldn't happen.

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