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ADARQ & LanceSTS - Q&A / Re: Weight lifting shoes
« on: June 17, 2011, 09:05:28 am »
I'm for weightlifting shoes although I never wore any... they just look like they're good for lifting. I think Tychver and Kingfish have some.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: acole14's journal - DUNK OR DIE
« on: June 17, 2011, 03:20:54 am »
How much do you weigh right now?
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Injury, Prehab, & Rehab talk for the brittlebros / Re: In Defense Of WRAPS, Especially For Beat Up Knees
« on: June 17, 2011, 03:03:47 am »
I have found out that whenever I use some form of straps on my right knee I always mentally start to "ginger" that knee and load the right leg less. For example in a squat, I can feel the weight moving to the left side just because I feel that strap there and I "believe" I need to load that knee less. It happens pretty much automatically, so...
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: acole14's journal - DUNK OR DIE
« on: June 16, 2011, 09:20:49 am »
411? What kind of monster are you? 
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Pics, Videos, & Links / Re: Hang Clean Form check please
« on: June 16, 2011, 04:36:42 am »Trying to focus in what lance is teaching in his video.
Focus in JUMPING with the bar...
and I lift like this today:
http://vimeo.com/25169031
100x better man. good work.
Yeah it's actually looking really good in my opinion, especially as that is a dead hang clean and not a hang clean as far as I'm concerned.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: June 15, 2011, 06:02:52 pm »
Some of those jumps look 40+ by how high your arm is over the rim, is that 10'?
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Pics, Videos, & Links / Re: beast
« on: June 15, 2011, 01:47:00 pm »
Randy Culpepper:
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8u8oNgbtSAo" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8u8oNgbtSAo</a>
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Basketball / Re: LEBRON TO MIAMI HOLY SHIT I AM IN HEAVAN,DONT WAKE ME UP FROM THIS AMAZING DREAM
« on: June 15, 2011, 05:54:15 am »5649
Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: Why The Lifeline Power Jumper Worked For Me / Greedy For More Gains
« on: June 14, 2011, 04:51:59 pm »
Very interesting. I'll start using my powerjumper again and see what happens. Will probably limit it's use to low box depth jumps and two-leg bounds and broad jumps, since in a one-leg bound, because one leg is flexed, it won't have any effect (or even worse - make the bound imbalanced).
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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: Starting Strength - Incorporating Half Squats Link..
« on: June 14, 2011, 05:16:44 am »I started at 27 and have more than doubled my SVJ. Although to be fair I was almost intentionally de-training SVJ type qualities by running long distance (20km plus) and being weak as fark (no strength training).
When I first read it I was like "oh man, this guy has a 54 inch vert!".
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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: Starting Strength - Incorporating Half Squats Link..
« on: June 13, 2011, 04:28:14 pm »
Very unique physical traits? Wait, what?
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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: Starting Strength - Incorporating Half Squats Link..
« on: June 13, 2011, 10:59:55 am »
I don't think there's such a thing as a "typical" improvement, unless typical means "the guy reaches ~2.5x squat", since that's the squat value were more strength usually won't transfer too good to explosiveness. If you take a guy from a 0.7x squat and get him to 1.5x squat and he improves by 6 inches and stops his squat improvement to 1.5x instead of continuing to get it up to ~2.5, then how can you say that that's his near max ceiling of improvement?
So in reality you could say "your limit in terms of strength to SVJ improvement is probably a 2.5x squat" instead of throwing a number of inches or a % of the original SVJ around.
So if a guy has a 2.5x squat and jumps 26 inches, besides that he must be humongously unexplosive (and he should train that), then yes you could say that maybe the structure is very bad for jumping and therefore he doesn't have much ceiling to improvement.
But if you take formerly weak people, regardless of structure, with say a 1x untrained squat and get them to 2.5x, wouldn't you expect them to improve a lot? The only factor at that point becomes if they ARE ABLE to get to that ~2.5x number.
So in reality you could say "your limit in terms of strength to SVJ improvement is probably a 2.5x squat" instead of throwing a number of inches or a % of the original SVJ around.
So if a guy has a 2.5x squat and jumps 26 inches, besides that he must be humongously unexplosive (and he should train that), then yes you could say that maybe the structure is very bad for jumping and therefore he doesn't have much ceiling to improvement.
But if you take formerly weak people, regardless of structure, with say a 1x untrained squat and get them to 2.5x, wouldn't you expect them to improve a lot? The only factor at that point becomes if they ARE ABLE to get to that ~2.5x number.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: acole14's journal - DUNK OR DIE
« on: June 13, 2011, 10:56:13 am »
Well those were the true athletes. Oh wait...
I had a guy today see me do broad jumps and he was like "hey, what's your best broad jump?". So I said "2.60m". And he was like "mine's 3.60m".
As far as I know, the world record is ~3.50m.
I had a guy today see me do broad jumps and he was like "hey, what's your best broad jump?". So I said "2.60m". And he was like "mine's 3.60m".
As far as I know, the world record is ~3.50m.
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ADARQ & LanceSTS - Q&A / Re: Keeping gains in your vertical jumps
« on: June 13, 2011, 10:54:11 am »
Maybe you're becoming more efficient at utilizing your current strength and then when you back off you lose that efficiency and fall back into using a lower % of your strength to apply in your jumps.
So either increase strength or keep on jumping.
So either increase strength or keep on jumping.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: June 13, 2011, 05:42:16 am »Derails? Boy they have some old trains out there don't they?
i've never even seen a hint of a train track out here or heard anyone talk about trains. same thing with pakistan, which is funny because india is all about trains.
You mean - all about riding ON trains (on the roof of trains).