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you're too weak to be worrying about whether you should add supramax squats to your routine. no offense, so am i. depth jumps are a different story in part because you're not loading your back in the same way as on a very heavy squat and because you're not loading your body to the point where it literally can't come up.

just focus on making your legs stronger through basic means: squat, GHR, RDL, hip thrusts, etc.

low motivation today.

earlier:

- walk x 1.5 hours

just now:

- warm up

- SVJ and double jumps x a bunch
- pull ups and clapping pull ups in between jumps

- circuit x 2
-- BSS 26s x 5
-- DB RDL 26s x 10

- some cable rows and DB OHP

- stretch

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKfcGfdvFDI" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKfcGfdvFDI</a>

knees out the whole time, no collapse. obviously doing it wrong.
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- warm up

- 1-2 jumps x 6

- DSVJ x some

- DB bench 16s x 25

- pull ups x 9+6+5+4

- decline situps x bar held in front of/above head x 10,10

- stretch

the verdict is that pretty much any cue is context-dependent, and trying to universalize something as vague and ill-explained as "knees out" is a recipe for disaster.

EDIT: also that just because someone uses words like "torque" and "eversion" doesn't mean they actually know what the fuck they're talking about.

yesterday spent 12 hours in the car driving back through the mountains to dushanbe. stretched and went to bed immediately after. cough was back this morning.

just now (wednesday evening):

- warm up

- 1-2 jumps x 6
ME jump followed immediately by another ME jump. coordination spotty on these, will continue to practice as i think they're probably good.

- SL pogo x 5/e,5/e

- DSVJ x a few
got up pretty good on one or two of them

- circuit x 3
-- DB bench 20s x 10 (had to pause in the middle of the last set to cough a lot)
-- DB row 20s x 10
-- DB BSS 8s x 10
-- DB RDL 16s x 10

- circuit x 2
-- DB curl 8s x 10
-- tricep press down 12.5(?) x 10
-- paused decline sit up x 10

- stretch

feels so good.

cool post, except the part about bobsledders being the fastest athletes in the world. the fastest athletes are, beyond obviously, 100m sprinters.

this morning i did 20 or 30 minutes of calisthenics and stretching. kept it light so as not to kick off the coughing. air squats, some isometric stuff, band-resisted RDLs, pull-aparts, etc.

this evening i did the 7DVJC.

tomorrow i'm hoping to skip across the border into afghanistan for the afternoon.