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You're retarded. You really are. You started with the premise that I tried to use the "fancy word "protagonist"" and because I don't know any better, I mispelled it and looked bad because of that. So you basically think I was trying to be arrogant and failed. If you knew any better then you'd see how I always use that word and it's not arrogant by any means.

But whatever man... show your diploma everywhere and be happy you did something in your life.

By the way - nice discussion by you on the actual subject of this thread. A real contribution.

Quote from: Raptor on June 10, 2012, 04:48:36 pm

Because "protagonist" is a synonime to "agonist". Or maybe it isn't. I'm sorry I wasn't born in an English-speaking country. I should be ashamed of myself. I wonder how well you speak Romanian. Or French. Or German? What's that? Oh...

I understand that you are not from America, so why try to use/make up the most complicated sounding words when you could get the point across with much less complex verbiage. If I was in your country, i wouldn't ask for a "carbonated beverage" i would ask for a "drink" or "soda"... you always make it out to sound like you have some educational background in anatomy/physiology/kinesiology with the way you talk and make up theories and hypotheses, but then you use the word "protagonistig" to talk about prime mover muscles. Why not just use words anyone on the forum can understand and comprehend, prime mover is much more self explanatory and informative than "protagonistig muscles." Think of how Kelly Baggett writes: simple, concise, where anyone can understand his point.

I miswrote "protagonistic". What's so unusual about that? We say "protagonist" for the "agonist" muscle in Romanian.

From PRO and ANTI. Protagonist and Antagonist.

And the fact that you understood what I meant proves I use the words well.

As for the educational background - I don't care about that and I have never pretended that. What I pretend is that I've read quite a lot and I have done quite a lot in the field. And I jump pretty well too despite having nerdish genetics and a nerdish background (haven't played sports until 15-16 years old).

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylXhPrOYCK4" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylXhPrOYCK4</a>

Looking great ^^^

In the one leg jump, if you could use more speed you'd get much higher. You got a lot of hip involvement there.

In the SVJ try to get your arms behind you and use a double arm swing. You're just opening the chest now IMO.

Yeah ^^^

At least this article increases awareness for proper recovery. I also think that the volume is detimental not necessarily for the protagonistig, big muscles, but because the stabilizers fail during longer set (with many reps) and therefore a whole bunch of stuff starts to happen (muscles start to overload because other muscles are already fatigued, poor form occurs and so on and so forth).

Yeah but compare the volume of slow training to the volume of explosive stuff you do in a period of time. If you jump a lot playing ball and doing plyos, I can't believe you're going to get slow even training strength wise with super slow movements.

That article still gave me more awareness towards actually recovering properly, and not going to failure is a good way in doing that.

I still think it's important to adapt it to the type of person you are. If you really grind out the squat and take a ton of time to complete the movement, then maybe you should use a lower % and move the bar faster. The question is - how fast is fast enough? Then you need to ask yourself how much time do you squat and how much time do you play/jump/do plyos etc. Because if you really spend quite a bit of time doing explosive movements, then doing a few sets of squats very slow for muscle building purposes should have no bearing in making you slow by any means.

Also, when training for strength vs specificity, should the eccentric part of the lift be slow vs. fast? Meaning - should you train with a slow and very controlled eccentric for building muscle vs. going on a very fast dip down when training for specificity (as in half squats)?