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Basketball / Re: A WHOLE BUNCH OF DUNKS AND SHIT.
« on: March 07, 2016, 05:38:06 pm »
It was really cool the way the guy that got dunked up reacted, props to him.
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Basketball / Re: A WHOLE BUNCH OF DUNKS AND SHIT.
« on: March 07, 2016, 09:31:34 am »
Just look at that crazy plant:
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1DzqgUADms" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1DzqgUADms</a>
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Injury, Prehab, & Rehab talk for the brittlebros / Re: Low back pain
« on: March 01, 2016, 06:47:59 am »
Yeah I'll try to put a pillow under my knees... my APT is so bad that if I sleep on my belly my face is being pressed down into the bed, because of the APT. And I have to sleep with one leg bent and the other one straight, I can't sleep on my belly with both legs straight, lel.
If I do leg raises while lying on my back (where you need to keep the lowerback pressed into the ground), I can't even do them because there wouldn't be any space for my butt "to be". And so on.
So it's imperative to lose weight, in other words. I think gaining weight has been in itself terrible for my back.
If I do leg raises while lying on my back (where you need to keep the lowerback pressed into the ground), I can't even do them because there wouldn't be any space for my butt "to be". And so on.
So it's imperative to lose weight, in other words. I think gaining weight has been in itself terrible for my back.
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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: Fat loss program
« on: February 28, 2016, 02:24:58 pm »
I know I know... I'll try... if I fix my back and I lose some weight while getting my mind a bit better, that would make a ton of difference from all angles. I think these are the three actual important things that should matter right now.
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Injury, Prehab, & Rehab talk for the brittlebros / Re: Low back pain
« on: February 28, 2016, 01:38:16 pm »
It's weird but I repaired my bed, and it's now firm and tight (did this 3 months or so ago). Coincidentally or not, my back pain started pretty much at the same time.
When I sleep in my bed now, my butt is so big that my lowerback is in the air all night long (I sleep on my back) and it hurts like hell. It's like my butt is so big and I'm in such anterior pelvic tilt that my lowerback can't help but be in terrible shape.
When I sleep in my bed now, my butt is so big that my lowerback is in the air all night long (I sleep on my back) and it hurts like hell. It's like my butt is so big and I'm in such anterior pelvic tilt that my lowerback can't help but be in terrible shape.
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Injury, Prehab, & Rehab talk for the brittlebros / Re: Low back pain
« on: February 28, 2016, 12:07:14 pm »
My back is really messed up... it wakes me up during the night when I turn on the other side, for example. Thanks for the links, but they're hard to follow/understand.
I think the only thing I can do is step away from training (from gym work) and revert back to my regular, normal, untrained athleticism, 12-inch vert level. I can't imagine my back ever recovering while continuing to train, as bad as it is right now. Wonderful news.
I think the only thing I can do is step away from training (from gym work) and revert back to my regular, normal, untrained athleticism, 12-inch vert level. I can't imagine my back ever recovering while continuing to train, as bad as it is right now. Wonderful news.
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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Fat loss program
« on: February 28, 2016, 12:04:10 pm »
OK so considering my continuous back issues, I think I'll be out of the gym for a while and I'd want to kind of do pullups and pushups and planks with dynamic leg work (jumps, plyos etc) for some period of time, while trying to lose weight.
Training wise, how would you structure such a thing? I'd like to do the calisthenics work for "strength" and then do jogging/cardio work, and maybe some interval sprints (if I have where to do them, they are now asking money to get to the track).
Would you do long distance running (long distance for me, that's a mile or so) one day and then 2 days later, interval work? KB swings? (assuming my back allows me to do them)
PS. Come to think of it, maybe I should just give up. After 8 years of non stop squatting I'm pretty much at the same level of absolute strength (if not worse) than for example 2-3 years ago, while being 10 kg heavier. Not to mention my vert is 24-28 inches off one leg and ~24 off two.
So when you look at this, after years of training (consistently), you can only conclude it doesn't work and it's a waste of time while also destroying my body. We like to come here on this forum and pretend it works but the reality is that it only works for people who actually are made to respond to training and don't have ultra-extreme depression and terrible nutrition and 0 money and a ton of other issues.
Maybe I should revert back to being a skinny-fat nerd with no life AND no training on top of it, it kinda comes naturally to me.
Training wise, how would you structure such a thing? I'd like to do the calisthenics work for "strength" and then do jogging/cardio work, and maybe some interval sprints (if I have where to do them, they are now asking money to get to the track).
Would you do long distance running (long distance for me, that's a mile or so) one day and then 2 days later, interval work? KB swings? (assuming my back allows me to do them)
PS. Come to think of it, maybe I should just give up. After 8 years of non stop squatting I'm pretty much at the same level of absolute strength (if not worse) than for example 2-3 years ago, while being 10 kg heavier. Not to mention my vert is 24-28 inches off one leg and ~24 off two.
So when you look at this, after years of training (consistently), you can only conclude it doesn't work and it's a waste of time while also destroying my body. We like to come here on this forum and pretend it works but the reality is that it only works for people who actually are made to respond to training and don't have ultra-extreme depression and terrible nutrition and 0 money and a ton of other issues.
Maybe I should revert back to being a skinny-fat nerd with no life AND no training on top of it, it kinda comes naturally to me.
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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: Hip Hyperextension
« on: February 26, 2016, 05:25:52 pm »
What do you think? Isn't the answer obvious? Look at any great single leg jumper at the time of take-off and you'll see a tremendous amount of hip hyperextension.
In fact, maybe that's one reason the "abs" (hip flexors) are pretty important in the one leg jump - being the antagonists of the muscles that do the hip extension, and because the hip hyperextension is the end of ROM in the hip extension movement, you want to have very powerful antagonists that are able to stop that powerful movement before it goes through "too much of a range" (too much hyperextension) and injures you. It's similar with the hamstrings stopping the quads from hyperextending the knee (in that case).
So the CNS has to be able to count on the strength of the hip flexors to stop that dangerous hyperextension from occuring, or else the CNS will cut short the amount of hip hyperextension that is going to be used, in order to prevent injury. So you won't get "max" hyperextension, meaning a lesser power/over a lesser ROM hip hyperextension, meaning a lower jump.
In fact, maybe that's one reason the "abs" (hip flexors) are pretty important in the one leg jump - being the antagonists of the muscles that do the hip extension, and because the hip hyperextension is the end of ROM in the hip extension movement, you want to have very powerful antagonists that are able to stop that powerful movement before it goes through "too much of a range" (too much hyperextension) and injures you. It's similar with the hamstrings stopping the quads from hyperextending the knee (in that case).
So the CNS has to be able to count on the strength of the hip flexors to stop that dangerous hyperextension from occuring, or else the CNS will cut short the amount of hip hyperextension that is going to be used, in order to prevent injury. So you won't get "max" hyperextension, meaning a lesser power/over a lesser ROM hip hyperextension, meaning a lower jump.
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Pics, Videos, & Links / Re: The old farts dunking thread
« on: February 26, 2016, 05:18:29 pm »656
Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: THE DREAM JOURNAL
« on: February 18, 2016, 09:27:18 am »...
Crazy, crazy shit, I still feel so weird after this dream. I put my clock to wake me up at 20:45, it woke me, I stopped it, and now it's 21:22 and all this time (more or less) I dreamed about this thing, being between sleeping and being awake.
I wonder how long that dream actually lasted. Could have been a few seconds or minutes.
The Brain > *
I actually have a course on sleep, 24 lectures long (12 hours). I will check it out soon, it's one of the most interesting subjects (sleep phases etc).
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: THE DREAM JOURNAL
« on: February 17, 2016, 02:37:17 pm »
So I had one of the weirdest dreams ... ever? Here it goes:
I was living through some of the "end times", in the future. I looked out my window and some sort of pink, luminous bright sphere was launched from one of my building's window, that did a strange noise. Nobody knew what that was, but it was some sort of alien creature/device. Somehow, you could "feel" the humanity was about to be wiped out.
As an effect, a lot of women (neighbors) were topless, with their tits out. Some wife of a neighbor (which doesn't exist in reality) was topless, with a coat on just for "effect", with him at the window, like waiting for the end of the world to happen.
I live at the 10th floor, so I came, no pun intended, to look at the window and see what's going on. Also did mom and dad. Mom wasn't topless, by the way. We go to the window, we look out, and there he is, a childhood friend was on his back, in the snow, with his wife that was topless, in front of my building, looking "high" or crazy because the end of the world was about to happen. Next to them, another couple (unknown). Similar stuff going on in the next building to us, some neighbor with his wife at the window, her being topless (yet each of the women still had a coat on, which they will pull over their tits from time to time, in "shame").
And every now and then, these pink bright alien things were launched that did some noise initially. They were very fast, I'd say about 3 times or so the speed of a normal airplane (they looked like fireworks being launched but they were either alive or were some kind of devices/spaceships of some sort).
Then I go back and think "WTF is happening, what is all this".
Lo and behold, I find a book written by JJ Redick about mathematics and calculus, and one of my math teachers that was a neighbor (which is now dead) combined somehow with Richard Dawkins told me "wow, JJ Redick is so smart, he wrote a book about these advanced mathematics topics".
And there's other stuff I can't remember exactly now... I think it's about my crow - I forced her to leave outside and then she came on one of my windows and hid there, and I caught her again. Apparently, my crow also evolved to a "human level intelligence" and probably all the animals on the planet, at that point.
Crazy, crazy shit, I still feel so weird after this dream. I put my clock to wake me up at 20:45, it woke me, I stopped it, and now it's 21:22 and all this time (more or less) I dreamed about this thing, being between sleeping and being awake.
I was living through some of the "end times", in the future. I looked out my window and some sort of pink, luminous bright sphere was launched from one of my building's window, that did a strange noise. Nobody knew what that was, but it was some sort of alien creature/device. Somehow, you could "feel" the humanity was about to be wiped out.
As an effect, a lot of women (neighbors) were topless, with their tits out. Some wife of a neighbor (which doesn't exist in reality) was topless, with a coat on just for "effect", with him at the window, like waiting for the end of the world to happen.
I live at the 10th floor, so I came, no pun intended, to look at the window and see what's going on. Also did mom and dad. Mom wasn't topless, by the way. We go to the window, we look out, and there he is, a childhood friend was on his back, in the snow, with his wife that was topless, in front of my building, looking "high" or crazy because the end of the world was about to happen. Next to them, another couple (unknown). Similar stuff going on in the next building to us, some neighbor with his wife at the window, her being topless (yet each of the women still had a coat on, which they will pull over their tits from time to time, in "shame").
And every now and then, these pink bright alien things were launched that did some noise initially. They were very fast, I'd say about 3 times or so the speed of a normal airplane (they looked like fireworks being launched but they were either alive or were some kind of devices/spaceships of some sort).
Then I go back and think "WTF is happening, what is all this".
Lo and behold, I find a book written by JJ Redick about mathematics and calculus, and one of my math teachers that was a neighbor (which is now dead) combined somehow with Richard Dawkins told me "wow, JJ Redick is so smart, he wrote a book about these advanced mathematics topics".
And there's other stuff I can't remember exactly now... I think it's about my crow - I forced her to leave outside and then she came on one of my windows and hid there, and I caught her again. Apparently, my crow also evolved to a "human level intelligence" and probably all the animals on the planet, at that point.
Crazy, crazy shit, I still feel so weird after this dream. I put my clock to wake me up at 20:45, it woke me, I stopped it, and now it's 21:22 and all this time (more or less) I dreamed about this thing, being between sleeping and being awake.
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Basketball / Re: 2015-2016 NBA Dunk Contest: Needs its own thread
« on: February 15, 2016, 02:45:24 pm »659
Basketball / Re: 2015-2016 NBA Dunk Contest: Needs its own thread
« on: February 15, 2016, 02:20:45 pm »
By the way - have you seen Kilganon dunk during the All Star Game timeout?
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: February 15, 2016, 12:51:03 am »I figured out how I hurt my back. It was the stupid pointless jumps I did on the 23rd of Jan at home.JS 6x145 (PR)
A super natural movement like unloaded jumps vs the monstrosity of jump squats with a 145kg barbell on your back, one of them hurt your back, guess which.
Wait, he actually did JUMPSQUATS with 145 kg? I read that and thought "oh he changed the units back to lbs"... wait... so you're telling me... that... he... wait... what?!