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ADARQ & LanceSTS - Q&A / Re: Gaining muscle + strength detrimental to the one leg jump
« on: July 01, 2012, 07:39:04 pm »
I mean - it probably would be better if I'd focus on losing weight and getting towards ~75 kg and then start on building up muscle from that point on.

Obviously I've said this over and over in the past year or so... and never kept word on it... never got my bodyweight under 82 kg... weaksauce by me.

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Basketball / Re: A WHOLE BUNCH OF DUNKS AND SHIT.
« on: July 01, 2012, 07:00:37 pm »
Nightfly:


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ADARQ & LanceSTS - Q&A / Re: Gaining muscle + strength detrimental to the one leg jump
« on: July 01, 2012, 05:58:18 pm »
Right... but considering my body composition of the last few years and training history and all that - that's what I want to establish - if it's plausible or if I should work more on shedding down weight (fat if possible) and then start building muscle from a lower bodyweight value than where I am right now.

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ADARQ & LanceSTS - Q&A / Re: Gaining muscle + strength detrimental to the one leg jump
« on: July 01, 2012, 05:25:27 pm »
Haha yeah I know, I don't disagree, the first guy that came into my head (not literally, of course) was Shannon Brown. I'd like to be that kind of a guy athletically.

The question is - considering my frame, with my very thin bones and very thin joints - is that possible or is it overkill and possibly detrimental?

I'm sure both Shannon Brown and the guy in the video above don't have my thin bones and joints.

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ADARQ & LanceSTS - Q&A / Re: Gaining muscle + strength detrimental to the one leg jump
« on: July 01, 2012, 04:07:21 pm »
The question is - isn't ~90 kg too much for my bones/joints? It's like weighing a building with a small structure too much...

Now I know muscle actively contributes, absorbs shocks etc, but still.

And I don't tend to lose fat quickly.

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: how much squat for athletes?
« on: July 01, 2012, 07:04:27 am »
Good. You can make good progress movement efficiency-wise by squatting very often. I squatted every day for a while and really got my squat up because I became so efficient at it, and then, once you're very efficient, you can really start to adapt muscularily (not just neurally) to that load since you're using a ton of weight at that point.

Obviously, just a way you can go, I'm not saying "go for it" but this is the way I got my squat up to 140x5. Sure, once I stopped squatting frequently it got down but I have a feeling that if I were to continue with that high frequency it would've been great. You can't help but adapt muscularily too considering you're moving a heavier weight so often.

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ADARQ & LanceSTS - Q&A / Re: Gaining muscle + strength detrimental to the one leg jump
« on: July 01, 2012, 06:57:46 am »
Yeah but I'm pretty heavy already. Think about it... I'm 1.82m tall and 84 kg and I suck at upperbody lifts which means it's not a ton of upperbody muscle that I'm carrying either. Nightfly is 1.95m and 84 kg.

I should be at ~76 kg and then from there I could go up in weight but starting off at 84 kg ... isn't that a bit overkill, especially off one leg and at my bone structure?

(check this out, picture with Octavian Belu (head of Romanian Gymnastics team) back when I weighed 67 kg):


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ADARQ & LanceSTS - Q&A / Gaining muscle + strength detrimental to the one leg jump
« on: June 30, 2012, 04:48:40 pm »
I was wondering Lance, would me going on a way of increasing my strength while gaining weight (muscle) be bad for my one-leg jump or dangerous as far as bone/joint health (considering I have thin bones to begin with)?

I'm at ~84 kg now, but would me getting to 90 kg and gaining a ton of strength in the process be bad/dangerous since when I jump I'll put a lot more stress on the bones/joints with all that additional weight (could you imagine me doing maximal one leg jumps or single leg bounds at 90 kg bodyweight)?

I already am a power jumper off one leg anyway so... it could work as far as gaining strength/jumping higher off one leg is concerned. The other stuff is what I think about and I was wondering if you have any experience with this with your one-leg jumping athletes that you train/trained.

Thanks!

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: how much squat for athletes?
« on: June 30, 2012, 02:04:58 pm »
How often do you squat?

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MUSiC anD SHeeT! / Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now?
« on: June 29, 2012, 02:32:48 pm »
Quote from: Dreyth on June 29, 2012, 01:47:25 pm
This appears to be the new european hit for this summer:


<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccUskHHfJ9M" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccUskHHfJ9M</a>

Listening to Romanians eh?

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: stole acole14's program and adapted it for myself - thoughts?
« on: June 29, 2012, 01:07:02 pm »
Quote from: T0ddday on June 25, 2012, 09:42:45 pm
Quote from: Raptor on June 25, 2012, 06:11:25 pm
The question is - how can you increase the maximum controllable speed in the one-leg jump?

The old standby is speed reserve.  Basically, that the more speed you have... the faster you can run under control.  But, really their is more than one way to skin a cat.  All triple jumpers are elastic, but you within the population of triple jumpers you def see those whose strategy is to maintain speed and those whose strategy is to sacrifice speed for a more forceful upward impulse.  Here is a quick high-speed camera analysis... it's about long jumping rather than vertical, but it's a good lesson to realize that two of the greatest in the world do things in a very very different fashion:

http://www.arielnet.com/cloud/Publications/Show/adi-pub-01140/long-jump-technique-power-or-speed

It probably has a lot to do with your training background as well. Back when I wasn't strength training at all (and weighed 67 kg) I used to jump at a constant speed with a long approach. Now, at 82 kg and with a strength training background, I use a short approach and an acceleration jump (not at a constant speed).

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Basketball / Re: A WHOLE BUNCH OF DUNKS AND SHIT.
« on: June 29, 2012, 07:37:14 am »
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXv1fgKtc7c" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXv1fgKtc7c</a>

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Pics, Videos, & Links / Re: Jordan Kilganon - this kid hit a new gear, unbelievable
« on: June 29, 2012, 06:25:36 am »
Quote from: ESav15 on June 29, 2012, 02:17:20 am
that's a wall-walk jump. He said-wrote it clearly. He'll never squatdr anyone, that's for sure.

Of course. You can even see the spot where he put his foot on that mattress.

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Pics, Videos, & Links / Re: beast
« on: June 28, 2012, 07:05:53 pm »
Sorin Matei of Romania jumping 2.32m (check out the amortization phase which is pretty much 0... I mean wtf)

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBmoiTTeAtc" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBmoiTTeAtc</a>

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: acole14's journal - DUNK OR DIE
« on: June 28, 2012, 11:21:42 am »
Why indoor? I haven't played indoors in years.

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