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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: lead by example
« on: February 26, 2011, 09:29:06 am »
Getting better hams will probably help you jump faster/extend faster at the knee, since the CNS will "know" (in lack of a better term) it can allow a faster knee extension because the hams are powerful enough to stop the knee from hyperextending (act as brakes). So therefore, at least in my opinion, your knee extension power will improve.

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: Mental toughness test
« on: February 26, 2011, 09:23:53 am »
Quote from: adarqui on February 25, 2011, 10:24:06 pm
Quote from: Raptor on February 25, 2011, 05:51:53 am
25-25-45-35-85

215 Total.



wow what? seriously??



Yup. I think my education/childhood stays at the base of that. My dad used to beat me whenever I was doing any little mistake etc (probably good subject for "the hole" forum or something now that I'm saying it) so it just develops that "fear" of doing any mistake and weakens your mind as heck. If you pan that to ~10 years of that non-stop in terms of "environment", you better believe it's going to affect you big time.

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: Posterior Chain Strength Preparation for the Vertical Jump by Charles Poliquin?.
« on: February 25, 2011, 09:42:09 pm »
Well yeah because you're going to need the quads for amortization and the glutes for hip extension. So...

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: Posterior Chain Strength Preparation for the Vertical Jump by Charles Poliquin?.
« on: February 25, 2011, 09:35:38 pm »
I remember DeFranco saying the best jumpers had the best hamstrings in his tests, and the best (quickest) drop down and jump up (shortest amortization phase).

I was like, "what do hamstrings have to do with that?". The quads improve the amortization phase by decelerating the knees going forward and preventing the knees from collapsing.

I remember Kelly telling me, years ago, that my leg collapse in the plant is actually, by what he can guess, more a matter of hamstring strength than quad. I was, again, like wtf?

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: Posterior Chain Strength Preparation for the Vertical Jump by Charles Poliquin?.
« on: February 25, 2011, 09:06:50 pm »
Yeah. CUT THEM OFF!

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: High cut calves
« on: February 25, 2011, 08:58:57 pm »
Oh yeah, I know, I don't worry about that or anything, it's just nice to know and decipher the intricasies of human structure and all that.

Some coaches use high cut calves as signs of possible track stars so... it has a possible practical application/effect.

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: High cut calves
« on: February 25, 2011, 08:25:01 pm »
What if you have a longer but more compliant tendon vs a shorter but stiffer tendon?

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Pics, Videos, & Links / Re: beast
« on: February 25, 2011, 08:24:08 pm »
Haha, Chris in the beast thread. Well he better be in here.

Next I want Casey Combest.

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: High cut calves
« on: February 25, 2011, 06:16:27 pm »
Usain's calves look really weird. Under his calf you can see there's another lump... that's a big soleus alright.

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Basketball / Re: Carmelo Traded To Knicks
« on: February 25, 2011, 06:13:53 pm »
Why? I like rivalries and great teams going head to head. Parity is not that great in my opinion.

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: High cut calves
« on: February 25, 2011, 04:57:17 pm »
Could narrow hips be detrimental to a standing VJ? I'm thinking you can bend less with narrow hips until you need to compensate by bending forward and all that. So I think it's both detrimental to squatting and standing vertical jumping (less ROM to apply force).

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Basketball / Re: A WHOLE BUNCH OF DUNKS AND SHIT.
« on: February 25, 2011, 04:50:24 pm »
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DX82prktIbw" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DX82prktIbw</a>

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: lead by example
« on: February 25, 2011, 02:09:47 pm »
It doesn't make sense for you to only have a 30 inch standing vert. I have a 28 and I'm squatting ~140-145 kg at the most.

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: High cut calves
« on: February 25, 2011, 11:27:01 am »
I wonder if calf length and tendon length affects ankle ROM.

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: High cut calves
« on: February 25, 2011, 09:48:04 am »
Well yeah, that's why I said "at the same time", because I made another point before the calf size potential point, that being "Maybe a shorter tendon might be thicker and get stiff easier"

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