Show Posts

This section allows you to view all posts made by this member. Note that you can only see posts made in areas you currently have access to.


Messages - Raptor

Pages: 1 ... 33 34 [35] 36 37 ... 499
511
Basketball / Re: The Dunk King - coming May 18 on TNT
« on: April 21, 2016, 04:18:59 pm »
Definitely, the question is - was that rim 10 feet? Because if so, even with the angles and so on, definitely head over rim there. 10'6"? I don't know.

The point I was trying to make is that he's definitely at ~48" or so. But 53? Hard to say, it's exponentially harder to cover these 5 inches from 48 to 53 than it is from 20 to 25...

512
Basketball / Re: The Dunk King - coming May 18 on TNT
« on: April 21, 2016, 02:08:25 pm »
So I'm having this dispute with Myree about his reported 53 inch vertical. There's a video with him here:

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zL7wohPJYU" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zL7wohPJYU</a>

What do you think? Legit 53 or not? His head would have to be at 10'6" for him to have a 53 inch vert.

513
Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: Kingfush: SVJ 2-hand dunks 2.0
« on: April 21, 2016, 12:20:29 pm »
Well, I said that in the above paragraph of your quote - probably less absolute force is occuring through the body which makes the CNS accept it much easier, without the fear of things breaking up, and allowing a faster coupling phase etc, and the tendons pretty much maintain their material qualities regardless of weight, so the structural factors that have nothing to do with muscular strength, like Avishek used to say "muscles don't have anything to do with this bullshit" - these structural factors start playing a more important role at a lower bodyweight. Otherwise the CNS is going to make you use less speed in the plant to protect them, speed that has to be compensated for with voluntary power.

Since both athletes have the same voluntary power, then the heavier athlete will jump lower, due to the loss of speed in the plant/loss of accumulated momentum which would otherwise add to the voluntary power that is identical.

514
Pics, Videos, & Links / Re: beast
« on: April 21, 2016, 09:47:57 am »
Not a fan of baseball, as I don't understand anything out of it, but that looked pretty cool. I bet my mom would say "nice" and make a smilie face.

515
Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: April 21, 2016, 09:46:15 am »
It looks like you use a single arm swing coming up your right leg and a "somewhat double arm swing" coming off your left leg... I guess your body is just too much "forward" when you take off, that's the only thing I can see. Like you don't load the posterior chain too much because you stay too forward instead of letting yourself a bit on the back and "hip-popping". Oh well... I think my one leg jump of right now looks much uglier.

516
Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: April 21, 2016, 09:41:50 am »
Quote from: maxent on April 21, 2016, 08:57:30 am
He stared up into the dewy sky now littered with stars, wiped his brow and psyched himself up for his next attempt. Like magic, his quads dishibited, his glutes engaged for the first time, propelling him across the ground in 3 long bounds, he had finally set a PR behind him. How did it happen and more importantly what could he do to repeat it? He had done the same thing over and over, a thousand times before. It was a random mutation which unlocked in him a movement efficiency never before seen. Never to be seen again, he grimaced, the lens of his camera had retracted, propped on 3 shaky legs sat unevenly in the unruly grass. NO would ever believe him and the recording had cut out just as he began the rep, recalling @adarqui who had told him to be aggressive and not take so long to begin. And he repeats the insanity, expecting this time things would be different, but not today.

I just told my psychiatrist this, and he prescribed me a whole bunch of medication. Like I needed any extra ones!

517
Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: April 21, 2016, 08:24:10 am »
How much do you bend in the plant off one leg? In your standing vert you go so deep, yet you're bouncy off a running VJ off two legs. Hard to imagine how a one leg jump would look like.

518
Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: April 21, 2016, 08:15:40 am »
Have you tried, recently?

I can hear the answer without you saying anything: "No, and I don't plan to".

519
Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: April 21, 2016, 07:57:16 am »
I wonder if you can dunk using that dodgeball off one leg right now.

520
Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: April 21, 2016, 07:13:21 am »
I've given up on my diet, too. Tried it for 1 day and didn't see any effects.

521
Article & Video Discussion / Re: Spot reduction may actually be possible?
« on: April 21, 2016, 03:44:48 am »
See why this thread is so important?!

522
Article & Video Discussion / Re: Spot reduction may actually be possible?
« on: April 21, 2016, 03:19:13 am »
Quote from: maxent on April 21, 2016, 03:14:15 am
Quote from: Raptor on April 21, 2016, 02:48:49 am
Quote from: maxent on April 21, 2016, 01:38:11 am
Stubborn fat for women isn't abdominal .. it's thighs and hips.. but yeah. women who train will often have a sixpac way before they have lean butt/thighs/hips. src: instagrams

Nobody is objecting to that distribution.

Actually Dreyth was saying abdominal fat is troublesome for women but their body will burn that off preferentially so there's no point even trying to spot reduce because fat will come off there easily/immediately. Blood flow is good there compared to hips/thighs etc. But women shudnt even store fat there in the first place.. it takes a lot of bad eating, lack of activity and drinking alcohol to accumulate fat there :/

Anecdotally .. i found if i start playing bball regularly after a layoff, my body does use stomach bodyfat preferentially even if i'm not consciously dieting. just my experience, not sure why that happens.

What I meant is, I like big butts.

523
Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Two Hands Two Feet
« on: April 21, 2016, 03:07:57 am »
Hm... yeah I guess the goblet squats can help make the glutes fire better in the high bar squat... something to think about.

524
Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: Kingfush: SVJ 2-hand dunks 2.0
« on: April 21, 2016, 03:00:08 am »
We can go even further into our over-analyzing craziness:

Say we take a 300 lbs guy that squats 600 lbs and he also is jumping.

Say somehow we're making him to be 200 lbs and squatting 400 lbs over night. Let's also assume he loses the same percentage of muscle from all places, so his mechanics/bodyweight distribution are not modified.

How would his structural factors play in at that moment? Now we're ignoring completely the muscular and power aspects, and we're thinking about his tendons etc, his reactivity? How much better would he move and jump and respond to ground contacts, having tendons that are accustomed to a very heavy bodyweight and being conditioned in that way?

I bet he would become extremely reactive and his ground contact times would be lower, despite having the same power to bodyweight ratio.

525
Article & Video Discussion / Re: Spot reduction may actually be possible?
« on: April 21, 2016, 02:48:49 am »
Quote from: maxent on April 21, 2016, 01:38:11 am
Stubborn fat for women isn't abdominal .. it's thighs and hips.. but yeah. women who train will often have a sixpac way before they have lean butt/thighs/hips. src: instagrams

Nobody is objecting to that distribution.

Pages: 1 ... 33 34 [35] 36 37 ... 499