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Article & Video Discussion / Re: Rippetoe...
« on: May 10, 2011, 04:40:36 am »
I'm going to watch them all, they seem really interesting. Will comment later on that part.
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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: Hip Belt Squats
« on: May 09, 2011, 04:00:20 am »Kinda looks like he's grabbing the chain off his privates half way through
Chi weight lifting. Weight lifting with the testicles.
That explains a lot.
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Pics, Videos, & Links / Re: funny / horrible training videos
« on: May 08, 2011, 01:07:37 pm »
Wasn't that bad^^^
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Article & Video Discussion / Re: The way you sleep might affect your athleticism
« on: May 08, 2011, 06:08:09 am »
I think it gets even worse since my bed has been "broken into" over time so I get even more flexion than in a new bed.
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Program Review / Re: Project Vertical
« on: May 07, 2011, 03:31:55 pm »The emphasis on core stability and activation is very different from my past workouts.
Translation:
Buy the program I endorse.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: May 07, 2011, 06:24:41 am »going to practice SLRVJ hard.. landed a nice SLRVJ dunk today AFTER my double leg jumps were toast/fatigued, single leg felt good.. need to train it fresh so i can really make some good gains on it.. going to warmup with my layups like i do, then transition into double leg dribble dunks, then go into double leg lobs, max height double leg lobs, then go into SLRVJ fresh..
bet i can start landing some very hard dunks real quick off single leg.. lots of potential.
Thank you. You finally start to get it
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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: Hip Belt Squats
« on: May 06, 2011, 07:02:31 pm »5933
Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: 40 yard dash start
« on: May 06, 2011, 03:24:50 pm »
Even bounding (both 1-leg and two legs on the hill could be helpful (for both jumping and sprinting)).
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Injury, Prehab, & Rehab talk for the brittlebros / Re: Back/left buttock pain
« on: May 06, 2011, 01:34:42 pm »
Yeah I do the layign pigeon, it's not that hard.
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Article & Video Discussion / Re: The way you sleep might affect your athleticism
« on: May 05, 2011, 05:14:16 pm »
On your back with pillow under knees would resemble sitting... I think that would stretch the glutes and really shorten the hip flexors.
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Article & Video Discussion / The way you sleep might affect your athleticism
« on: May 05, 2011, 01:21:59 pm »
I've been thinking a lot about this and I came to the conclusion it's true. Not only that, but it never gets talked about, nobody mentions it. Probably everybody thinks it's not important.
But really - you spend in bed say ~8 hours EVERY day (night), and you think that doesn't affect you?
Where I'm coming with this is something I realized soon enough: I always sleep on my back. Always always. Rarely, if ever, I get on my belly. Now the question was "why?". And you'll probably say "who cares?".
Well, staying on my belly I always feel like I suffocate, like I'm "trapped", my face is being pressed on the bed sheet and I need to twist my head around to breathe properly, my back feels weird, and all kinds of distressing stuff happens. So I stay on my belly 5 minutes at the most and then need to turn on my back to actually sleep.
So why is all this important and how is this related in actually helping you?
Well let's think about it - why would that happen? And I've came to the conclusion that all this stuff is actually a lack of flexibility in certain areas. In my case, I'm in anterior tilt and the hip flexors are very tight. They pull to "shorten" the angle between the legs and the upperbody, thus pressing my face onto the bed sheet.
Also, the shoulders are not flexible and they make me feel all kinds of pressure on my upperback/neck/head while on my belly.
If you'll actually pay attention to the way you sleep you could find potential valuable info about your flexibility (or lackthereof) for YOU.
A guy who likes to sleep on his belly a lot will probably have very flexible hip flexors yet tight hamstrings, while a guy who prefers to sleep on his back will be the opposite: tight hip flexors and flexible hams (not a rule, but you get the idea).
Now obviously there are tons of positions you can sleep into, but just think about this stuff if you care to.
But really - you spend in bed say ~8 hours EVERY day (night), and you think that doesn't affect you?
Where I'm coming with this is something I realized soon enough: I always sleep on my back. Always always. Rarely, if ever, I get on my belly. Now the question was "why?". And you'll probably say "who cares?".
Well, staying on my belly I always feel like I suffocate, like I'm "trapped", my face is being pressed on the bed sheet and I need to twist my head around to breathe properly, my back feels weird, and all kinds of distressing stuff happens. So I stay on my belly 5 minutes at the most and then need to turn on my back to actually sleep.
So why is all this important and how is this related in actually helping you?
Well let's think about it - why would that happen? And I've came to the conclusion that all this stuff is actually a lack of flexibility in certain areas. In my case, I'm in anterior tilt and the hip flexors are very tight. They pull to "shorten" the angle between the legs and the upperbody, thus pressing my face onto the bed sheet.
Also, the shoulders are not flexible and they make me feel all kinds of pressure on my upperback/neck/head while on my belly.
If you'll actually pay attention to the way you sleep you could find potential valuable info about your flexibility (or lackthereof) for YOU.
A guy who likes to sleep on his belly a lot will probably have very flexible hip flexors yet tight hamstrings, while a guy who prefers to sleep on his back will be the opposite: tight hip flexors and flexible hams (not a rule, but you get the idea).
Now obviously there are tons of positions you can sleep into, but just think about this stuff if you care to.
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Injury, Prehab, & Rehab talk for the brittlebros / Re: Back/left buttock pain
« on: May 05, 2011, 01:10:16 pm »
OK, so I did some piriformis stretch, then some lowerback stretch, then some hamstring stretch, did 20 + 20 bodyweight squats, then 24 kg KB deadlifts/squats 10+10, then gone with one-leg straight leg deadlift with the KB (kettlebell), then did 4 sets of 10 swings with it, back to 1-leg deads, then did the stretches again...
Now mobility is basically 100% and pain is almost none (a very faint pain sensation when I get past the knees in a hamstring stretch) but that's pretty much it. Will see what happens next.
Now mobility is basically 100% and pain is almost none (a very faint pain sensation when I get past the knees in a hamstring stretch) but that's pretty much it. Will see what happens next.
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Injury, Prehab, & Rehab talk for the brittlebros / Re: Hip flexor stretch...
« on: May 05, 2011, 01:07:59 pm »At the same time, dont really stretch the hip flexors, just get into a similar position and contract ur glute. If you can get ur glute to contract, keep it flexed and slowly increase the stretch and see if u can keep it contracted.
+1231493742389472
If the hip extensor, the glute, is flexed (contracted) then the hip flexors have nothing to do but relax and stretch. Same applies for a hamstring stretch: if you really contract your quad then you're going to get much better ROM in that stretch. Protagonist flex = antagonist stretch.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: May 05, 2011, 12:23:14 pm »
0:57 looked like the best plant.
What happens if you take more of an arc in the run-up instead of the straight line approach to the plant site (pretty much) that you usually do? It might get more posterior chain power into it without affecting the quad power too much.
What happens if you take more of an arc in the run-up instead of the straight line approach to the plant site (pretty much) that you usually do? It might get more posterior chain power into it without affecting the quad power too much.
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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: pissed off today
« on: May 05, 2011, 03:57:27 am »
yeah, how's your shits, derp?