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Pics, Videos, & Links / Re: beast
« on: March 20, 2014, 09:24:34 am »
7'7 7/8" would have put him comfortably in the top ten at the world championships last year. jesus christ.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: March 19, 2014, 09:36:03 pm »
WEIGHT: 177.5 (lol, there it is right back. think it's water weight, though, ate a ton of carbs yesterday)
SORENESS: upper hamstrings and glutes
ACHES/INJURIES: low back as soon as i started squatting
MENTAL STATE: okay, a bit stressed
- warm up
- paused squat jumps x 3
- SVJ x 6
- squats
started to warm up but back was bothering me. super pissed about this, not sure what the proximate cause is and i've never had lower back pain from squatting before. something is off but not sure what.
- seated DB OHP 40s x 10,10,10
- lat pull down 120 x 10,10,10
- DB shrugs 65s x 20
- inverted row x 15
started to do some ab shit but it was bothering my lower back. guh.
SORENESS: upper hamstrings and glutes
ACHES/INJURIES: low back as soon as i started squatting
MENTAL STATE: okay, a bit stressed
- warm up
- paused squat jumps x 3
- SVJ x 6
started to warm up but back was bothering me. super pissed about this, not sure what the proximate cause is and i've never had lower back pain from squatting before. something is off but not sure what.
- seated DB OHP 40s x 10,10,10
- lat pull down 120 x 10,10,10
- DB shrugs 65s x 20
- inverted row x 15
started to do some ab shit but it was bothering my lower back. guh.
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Basketball / Re: A WHOLE BUNCH OF DUNKS AND SHIT.
« on: March 19, 2014, 11:14:50 am »
it's a matter of different styles. VC was aggressive and stylish, his dunks always had so much attitude. green seems weightless, he's so graceful even when he's dunking over or through people.
VC is the GOAT, i think, but i love watching green.
VC is the GOAT, i think, but i love watching green.
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Pics, Videos, & Links / Re: beast
« on: March 19, 2014, 10:04:41 am »
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Basketball / Re: A WHOLE BUNCH OF DUNKS AND SHIT.
« on: March 19, 2014, 09:52:31 am »
gerald green: better dunker than VC in his prime?
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Age vs Vertical
« on: March 19, 2014, 09:51:26 am »
it's wankery, i don't think it matters that much at our levels of training.
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Basketball / Re: A WHOLE BUNCH OF DUNKS AND SHIT.
« on: March 18, 2014, 06:22:37 pm »I'm not impressed either... it wasn't powerful... he just took off off one leg and threw down a pretty soft two hander... nothing impressive to me.
he double-clutched on a fast break through a 7-foot NBA player who was trying to get in his way. with ease.
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Article & Video Discussion / Re: The low bar squat is not an exercise
« on: March 18, 2014, 03:00:42 pm »
my default squat is low-bar but quad-heavy. not much hamstrings.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: March 18, 2014, 02:59:40 pm »
if the guy is in reasonably good shape, and it sounds like he is, then the answer is to practice jumping. simple as that. if he wants to, it can't hurt him to do some plyos, sprints, and/or leg strengthening stuff like BSS, RDLs, GHR, step ups, whatever. but the overwhelming focus just has to be jumping; secondary stuff should NOT get in the way.
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Basketball / Re: A WHOLE BUNCH OF DUNKS AND SHIT.
« on: March 18, 2014, 02:54:13 pm »And yet....I have a buddy whos saying he isnt impressed by that. SMH.
uh. awkward question: is he blind?
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Age vs Vertical
« on: March 18, 2014, 12:17:42 pm »
it's not an exact science, and that was for his basic bulking routine. in my brain it makes a sort of foggy sense to switch to 2x8 rather than 3x5 but i'm not sure it matters that much at the end of the day. 2x8 allows you to maintain the same intensity, or something like that. if you want to switch to 3x5, just do it.
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Pics, Videos, & Links / Re: beast
« on: March 18, 2014, 12:14:54 pm »
Oliver Sacks, a neurologist who wrote one of my favorite nonfiction books (Awakenings) and is one of the best-known doctors in the world - definitely the best-known neurologist - dead lifted 600 pounds in a powerlifting meet as a young man.
beast.
beast.
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Basketball / Re: A WHOLE BUNCH OF DUNKS AND SHIT.
« on: March 18, 2014, 10:45:42 am »merciful god.
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Article & Video Discussion / Re: The low bar squat is not an exercise
« on: March 18, 2014, 10:17:12 am »Now now... read the whole article...
I think there are more nuances that aren't being discussed in the comparison of the two, and one of the most important and understated of these is the foot dorsiflexion demands/dorsiflexion adaptations that the high bar requires/provides. And with that comes a ton of other "side-effects".
i did read the whole article. it's dumb, just rippetoe in reverse.