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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: Continue to work on increasing the squat or get to maintenance for now?
« on: June 23, 2011, 03:20:22 pm »
What I meant is - right now I want to ENJOY what I worked half a year or so for. That is - true jumping and not fatigue masked low performance jumping. It's like "inseason" for me at this point. So it doesn't make sense to go all out with squatting only to go to the park and suck hard at dunking and playing ball.

I don't see any other option. I can still squat in very low volumes everyday so that hopefully helps me. Heck, it might even increase my squat if I'm overtrained or if I'm really a hardgainer.

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: Jumping And Smolov
« on: June 23, 2011, 03:16:18 pm »
Interesting, although I had protein powder coming through my esophagus while squatting, so...

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Pics, Videos, & Links / Re: beast
« on: June 23, 2011, 03:14:10 pm »
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lcgf2pllvNU" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lcgf2pllvNU</a>

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Article & Video Discussion / Re: Joel Smith's one-leg jump peak program
« on: June 23, 2011, 12:23:31 pm »
Well in the past the shock and collapse would've happen in the VMO area. Right now the shock and feeling of weakness when the collapse occurs happens in the lower part of the hamstring of the left leg (I can feel the part just above the knee stiffen up and giving up and the knee goes forward). So interestingly enough, the quad doesn't feel overload but instead that ^^^ happens.

So, like I said, maybe the hamstring contracts eccentrically to prevent hip collapse and as the hamstring contracts the quad needs to relax - and this leads to the knee going forwards.

Because the hip can collapse too (get too low) and maybe that's happening. No idea if I'm right or not.

Lance was hinting towards the hamstring not being able to maintain the same length during the plant if I'm right but still, what does that have to do with the knee? Maybe if the hamstring contracts more on the knee end then knee flexion occurs and that's it - the knee goes forward and collapses into the jump.

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: Continue to work on increasing the squat or get to maintenance for now?
« on: June 23, 2011, 10:36:23 am »
Well the be honest, when I started squatting at the end of the autumn the previous year, in 2010, the plan was to squat ~6 months, then do some plyos to maximize my strength into explosiveness and then enjoy basketball. And I'm kinda at the "enjoy basketball" moment right now.

Although vag is right when he says it's pretty hot right now... I tend to jump very high when it's very hot though.

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: Continue to work on increasing the squat or get to maintenance for now?
« on: June 23, 2011, 09:27:42 am »
Well because it's summer and I can't play ball or dunk because I squat. I can squat all winter long when I don't have a place to play, but right now it would be cool if I didn't have all that squat fatigue in my body and I could enjoy playing after squatting non-stop all winter long.

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Continue to work on increasing the squat or get to maintenance for now?
« on: June 23, 2011, 08:38:09 am »
I'm back at my PR of 120x5. The problem is - after I do my squats I'm just dead for days. I can't play ball well, I can't dunk well, I can't jump, tired etc. I'd like to be fresh and able to finally display my strength explosively.

For that to happen I'm thinking of ditching the squat workouts and stay with doing very low volumes every day. Like work up to 95% of my 1RM every day and that's it in terms of strength.

Basically like this every day:

30%x5
60%x3
80%x3
95%x1

And that's it^^^. Every day in the morning. This hopefully won't be tiring so I will be able to play/do plyos while providing enough volume over the week to maintain strength. Now obviously maybe this isn't the "right time" as far as strength is concerned since I just tied my PR in the squat but... I just want to play and enjoy playing.

I also found out that I'm much more reactive/elastic when I stop (high volume) squatting so...

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: The PR's/PB's, videos, pictures, and daily achievements thread
« on: June 23, 2011, 08:30:24 am »
Quote from: steven-miller on June 23, 2011, 07:15:05 am
Quote from: Raptor on June 23, 2011, 04:42:25 am
Yesterday - tying squat :personal-record: 120x5.

Good job dude!

Flander's pulls are through the roof...

Thanks Steven, hopefully I'll get 122.5 x 5 next time in.

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Program Review / Re: "Flight Right" by Brandon Todd
« on: June 23, 2011, 04:53:04 am »
Isn't he the one that I posted a reply on one of his videos saying something and then he came back to me to reply that "how I have the guts to comment when my form is that?" or something? Adarqui might know.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: June 23, 2011, 04:48:46 am »
That black guy with yellow shoes and black&yellow shorts standing idle there looked like Eric Snow. Never knew you play NBA players over there.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: The PR's/PB's, videos, pictures, and daily achievements thread
« on: June 23, 2011, 04:42:25 am »
Yesterday - tying squat :personal-record: 120x5.

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Article & Video Discussion / Re: Joel Smith's one-leg jump peak program
« on: June 22, 2011, 04:51:06 pm »
Would you say that the limiting factor is hamstring "responsiveness" in preventing knee collapse at high speed in a one-leg jump. According to Lance, once the quad is developed pretty well, it's not even the hamstring strength that's the limiting factor, it's how the hamstring comports itself in a high speed plant.

At first I wasn't sure he's right but now I'm convinced he is. I can do about 8-10 natural glute ham raises no problem, yet I still have knee collapse issues in my plants, especially as I'm not warmed up. The knee just goes forward and I fail my jump. And apparently, lately, it happens as I feel the knee part of the hamstring not being able to cope with the shock.

It still doesn't make any sense in my mind biomechanically as the quad should contract eccentrically to stop the knee from going forward and not the hamstring. The only thing I see is the hamstring contracts eccentrically to prevent hip collapse and as the hamstring contracts the quad needs to relax - and this leads to the knee going forwards. That's the only thing I can see happen.

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Pics, Videos, & Links / Re: Dan Pfaff seminar
« on: June 22, 2011, 02:02:05 pm »
Part 3:

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebIJcDwsVc8" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebIJcDwsVc8</a>

The continuation is corrupted when importing and rendering in After Effects... will try in Premiere to see what happens.

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Pics, Videos, & Links / Re: Dan Pfaff seminar
« on: June 22, 2011, 11:38:02 am »
PART 2:

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

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Pics, Videos, & Links / Re: Dan Pfaff seminar
« on: June 22, 2011, 11:24:20 am »
PART 1 uploaded^^^

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