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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: April 10, 2016, 06:31:54 am »
Quote from: T0ddday on April 10, 2016, 05:00:45 am
Quote from: Raptor on April 08, 2016, 04:27:58 pm
I just bought a 5 kg med ball and a 24 kg kettlebell with less than 100 euros, years ago. I just paid 100 euros for two items I'll basically have forever, so a great investment.

Ehhh I hope it is forever.  We had a 12lb medicine ball crack in half on us at practice today.  Never been tossed on hard surfaces only turf, grass and sand and the ball split down the middle on a far toss...

It's a Kettler ball, pretty sturdy.

This reminds of an incident with another med ball, a yellow, 3 kg medball that we took to the track back in ~2010 or so. We were tossing it up etc and it used to make this weird sound when it hit the ground.

At one point, we toss it up, it hits the ground and it explodes, and water with some sort of soap pours out of it. We laughed like crazy for 10 minutes when that happened.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Loopie's Log
« on: April 10, 2016, 06:30:02 am »
My vert is about ~24 right now, off both 1 and 2 feet.

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: Fixing the Good Morning - Squat
« on: April 10, 2016, 06:28:14 am »
I think it's still a matter of quad strength.

I never ever goodmorninged any squat, and I'm quad dominant.

It can't be the hamstrings, because when you're goodmorninging a squat you are loading up the hamstrings more, and you wouldn't do that if they were weaker.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Two Hands Two Feet
« on: April 09, 2016, 09:40:29 am »
Quote from: LBSS on April 09, 2016, 09:19:53 am
recommendation: do heavy core work on lifting days, after main lifts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KZEGhqMOxA

It looks to me like you're doing hip flexion there. For the abs to do the work, you should "fold yourself" like a blanket, vertebrae by vertebrae, not with a stiff back.

This is similar to doing hyperextensions on the 45 degree hyperextensions machine: if you have a stiff back, you're actually doing hip extension work. If you fold yourself and have the bads at the belly area, you're doing back work.

Furthermore, I think there's some danger in using that machine, since the feet anchoring activates the psoas which can twist the spine (especially considering that the psoas is a hip flexor and you're doing hip flexor work).

So... this is just what I have observed. I think you'd be better off in pressing your lowerback on the floor, having the feet elevated on a bench, and doing weighed crunches with a plate being held over your head, with your arms extended upwards.

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Nature, Wilderness, Hiking, Travel, and Misc Outdoorsy stuff / Re: Random landscape of the day
« on: April 08, 2016, 07:02:20 pm »

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: Fixing the Good Morning - Squat
« on: April 08, 2016, 06:04:39 pm »
What about heavy overhead squats, full ROM?

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: April 08, 2016, 04:27:58 pm »
I just bought a 5 kg med ball and a 24 kg kettlebell with less than 100 euros, years ago. I just paid 100 euros for two items I'll basically have forever, so a great investment.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: acole14's journal - DUNK OR DIE
« on: April 08, 2016, 06:10:11 am »
He looked at the ground, though, just like me and scooby naturally do. I guess a sign of quad dominance.

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Pics, Videos, & Links / Re: funny / horrible training videos
« on: April 08, 2016, 04:46:03 am »
Why can't I see the youtube button for embedding videos? I have to type it manually.

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

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: acole14's journal - DUNK OR DIE
« on: April 08, 2016, 04:44:33 am »
Haha, nice find.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: April 07, 2016, 06:14:10 pm »
No, not really. You mean, you map 1.2 to 2, 3.2 to 4 etc?

My scenario is happening in a large supermarket with the prices, which are obviously diverse.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: April 07, 2016, 03:26:52 pm »
Quote from: LBSS on April 07, 2016, 03:11:09 pm
Quote from: Raptor on April 07, 2016, 02:36:42 pm
One company records its invoices totals with numbers with 4 decimals.

Say you buy 3 items that each costs 1.0250 $. The total would be 3.0750 $ (with 4 decimal numbers).
However, this company calculates the item prices with only 2 decimals.

So they would calculate 1.02+1.02+1.02 and expect to find 3.0750 at the end. Our company has two choices (according to this retarded company) - either truncate (and end up in the 1.02x3 situation) or round (and end up in the 1.03x3 situation).

Both, as you can see, are "wrong". One gives a total of 3.06 (instead of 3.0750) and the other gives a total of 3.09 (instead of 3.0750).

This, for many products, leads to a significant different between the calculation and the actual total.


pretty sure that's the plot of "office space."

Uhm... I don't watch movies. lol

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: April 07, 2016, 03:26:09 pm »
Don't forget about www.edx.org, also.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Dreyth's New Journal
« on: April 07, 2016, 03:04:01 pm »
I can give you an invite but... I don't know how well you seed your torrents and I don't want to get banned :D

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Dreyth's New Journal
« on: April 07, 2016, 02:38:42 pm »
Quote from: Dreyth on April 07, 2016, 12:13:49 pm
Started officially studying for Network+ today. Reading one chapter a day of this book:
http://www.amazon.com/CompTIA-Network-All-In-One-Edition-N10-006/dp/0071848223

It's 20 chapters. Found a free pdf of it. Already took all of the quiz questions in the book and made flashcards out of them and put them on Quizlet. From there I download into my phone into my Flashcards Deluxe app. That app makes use of spaced repetition to learn better, as in faster and with less effort and time (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaced_repetition). It'll automatically notify me when I need to study old cards again. Automatically asks me questions that I get correct and less often, and vice versa. I used this app for a huge Cyber Security Essentials midterm I had and I got the highest grade in the class. This was last month. Learned about 165 flashcards in just a week. And some of those flashcards were HUGE. Not one word answers. About 40% of them were  3 to 7 sentence answers. Spaced repetition is the truth!

So I plan to read this whole book in 3 weeks and at the same time know the answer to every quiz question (200+) in those 3 weeks. Then a 4th week of taking practice exams wherever I find them online and reviewing stuff I have trouble with. Then take the official cert exam.

There's a ton of info on this on www.bitspyder.net - the best IT tracker in the world. You need an invite though and it's hard to obtain :D

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