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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal

« on: April 12, 2016, 03:01:01 am »

You know what I never understood? How you guys don't have a mandatory ID in the USA? Here in Romania, everybody has one at the age of 14. You renew it every 10 years or so.

There it seems people are unidentifiable unless they have medical insurance or a driving license or something.

Here, you just take your ID, to go the voting poll, vote, and go home. That's it. Nothing to fuss about.

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Basketball / Re: A WHOLE BUNCH OF DUNKS AND SHIT.

« on: April 12, 2016, 02:59:13 am »

https://www.facebook.com/IGotBounce1788/posts/10208661827081583

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!

« on: April 12, 2016, 02:46:25 am »

Listen, will you try something for me? The next time you do the bounds or jump, try to point your thumbs upwards when the arms are behind you. So basically, internally rotate your arms so much that the thumbs are pointing to the sky. Right now they are pointing to the floor.

See if you feel any difference.

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: Fixing the Good Morning - Squat

« on: April 12, 2016, 02:32:52 am »

To quote:

1) The origins and insertions of the hamstrings and rectus femoris allow them to extend the hip and knee simultaneously, even though their actions oppose each other.

2) Two joint muscles allow force from single joint muscles to be transmitted to joints they wouldn’t otherwise be able to effect. For example, the rectus femoris allows the glutes to help extend the knee.

3) You can put these principles to work for you by learning the best way to grind through your sticking point on a squat

4) Because two joint muscles transmit force throughout all of your hip and thigh musculature, squats aren’t truly knee or hip dominant, regardless of how they look or what the external torques at the joints are.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal

« on: April 12, 2016, 02:31:42 am »

Paul Ryan? lel

Listen, the voting system in the USA is so obsolete and screwed up. Obviously, if you're part of the establishment, you want to keep it that way.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!

« on: April 11, 2016, 08:47:00 am »

I haven't jumped in a gym in... ...... 2 years I think. And before that I haven't jumped in a gym for 5 years.

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: Fixing the Good Morning - Squat

« on: April 11, 2016, 06:58:13 am »

Here you go:

http://strengtheory.com/fixing-the-good-morning-squat/

Also:

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1) If you’re prone to turn your squat into a good morning, these findings throw another potential culprit into the mix – your glutes. Since they can contribute to knee extension via the rectus femoris, if you’re unable to produce enough knee extension torque to come up out of the bottom of a squat without your back angle relative to the ground decreasing (hips rising faster than the bar), they could potentially be to blame.

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Pics, Videos, & Links / Re: beast

« on: April 11, 2016, 03:34:55 am »

I swear whenever I see Roy Jones JR I want to take up boxing.

Can I get to a boxing club and just train there without going into actual fights and have my cranium cracked and liver dispatched from my body? Although a lot of boxing clubs here are absolutely horrible, in terms of what people are in them (everybody, trainers, boxers etc, are absolutely hideous human beings that you don't want to associate with in any way).

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism

« on: April 11, 2016, 03:32:58 am »

Yeah they look fine, however, I would emphasize the hip hyperextension part and pause in that hyperextended position for one or two seconds, with a lighter weight. You'd get a much better training effect.

Keep the dynamic movements using dynamic movements so to speak, so be explosive with KB swings and med ball tosses, not with hip thrusts. Do hip thrusts with the purpose of tension and great ROM and movement control/pace.

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Pics, Videos, & Links / Re: beast

« on: April 11, 2016, 03:09:58 am »

Roy Jones JR is my favorite boxer of all time... he's just, I don't know, amazing, looks unreal at times, has has a great combination of savagery, athleticism and "swagger"/arrogance.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism

« on: April 11, 2016, 03:08:50 am »

What do you mean "you can't do them while maintaining a flat back"? In what way? What's stopping you?

It sounds to me like you're the kind of guy that likes to use his back on hip-driven lifts, especially dynamically. I wonder how your hip thrusts really look like, there's a big change you're doing "back extensions" on them and not necessarily using the glutes right.

I also wonder how a deadlift looks like for you.

What weight did you use for the KB?

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