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Pics, Videos, & Links / Re: highest running vertical ever?
« on: January 29, 2016, 11:32:19 am »
just a thought, maybe he had a fluke moment..I had some insane jumps when i am super relaxed, like 5-10inches more than normal jump due to being unnaturally calm for no cause

5-10 inches???  :o

I've had that with ~2-3 inches but a 10 inch increase out of the blue from being relaxed.



I'm not attcking you BMully, everyone is different and i just felt like posting the pic  :P

i don't lie, i got super relaxed in a game and almost dunked with 2 hands, head was heigh as hell, this was 8th grade

Yes yes. And I won Mr Olympia. It was just a fluke. Im back to fat now again.

that is a physical change, not possible to do just like that..in times of extreme pressure or extreme relaxation, people can get super human abilities..that is how i grabbed rim as 13year old who could only normally get half way up, this one jump i got rim, then it took a while before i got it legit everytime...the cns is responsible for strength and power, we develope it to allow more, but it is always capable of that power

ya bmully is definitely right about a substantial performance increase, verkhoshansky referred to it as the 'innate (protected) reserves'.. in which access to that strength/force output is restricted, but through years of proper/aggressive training, athletes can keep improving how much they can tap into it at their own will.. i mean, i remember i was jumping shitty say 5 months ago, then that cop pulls me over, and i jumped like 3" higher after alot of fatigue, that wasn't even life or death, but that small adrenaline response/heightened cns arousal lead to some gains..

level-7 = PR city.


True. But claiming a 10" sudden increase is idiotic. Thats like when Rip claimed that crazy crazy sprint time because he saw a spider or something like that. Actually I dont remember if it was Rip, but someone did claim to run a crazy time, faster than world record speed.


btw yes, that was rip that ran a WR after having a spider on him :D

Hehe. I thought I remembered it. :highfive:

Yes, athletic improvement can increase during certain circumstances we all know (Lev 7 MANG). Yes 10 inch vert increase suddenly is about as likely a sudden 100lbs improvement in the bench. And yes this is a long quote, quote, quote, quote, quote. And we all know that rip pr'd becuase that spider was a super duper mega jumping spider, and when in landed on rip, some of the exlposive and elastic qualities of its legs were temporarily fused with rip's Bi-legged frame.



show me the video of ripp doing a wr in 100m after a spider jumped on him

No vid. Only story.

correction, "No vid. Only true story."

Can I quote again? Looks like fun.

Was it fun?

It definitely was, it's like the LEVEL-7 quote training.

This thread is epic. I only pr when running after the bus

I PR when on massive amounts of caffeine & when my legs feel light.

I tend to jump best when a smoking hot bitch will give me something as a result of great dunking ability.

I know, but doesn't that apply to anybody that's heterosexual?

i jump REALLY good when hot chix are around.. i say to myself, "land this dunk and they will leave their pathetic boyfriends for me".

Why would you want a girl that has pathetic boyfriends? Or is this the kind of girl that looks the best?

well, their boyfriends might not actually be pathetic, that's just my perception of them because the sexy female is not with me. They are probably very successful, nice, charitable, respectful human beings, what do i kno.



I doubt they are. From what I know about women, which is very little, they all like guys who beat them and love other women, so these women can cry and think about how great it would be if the guys wouldn't do all these things. :(

possibly, but that illustrates our differing views, you, the pessimist, me, the optimist.

:P

So you're optimistic about your chances to :P a woman?

17 DOLLARS !!!

( only www.verydemotivational.com followers will get this joke but it's 1000% relevant! )


this is my favorite

Hence we can now conclude that the conservation of angular momentum and its vector quantities contribute to the degree of arousal in the average athlete in regards to vertical displacement when performing a veritcal jump, off the running or counter-movement sort.



I thought that was obvious? clearly this convo has all that crap you made up





hahaha! nice pic

Can we continue this thread? #pls

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: weight vests
« on: January 29, 2016, 06:01:27 am »
I've used one in the past to play with it for 30 minutes and then take it off and see what happens. You feel light, but you (at least me) don't jump higher. You're so tired, both neurally and cardio-wise from wearing it that your legs collapse in the plant. If anything, it makes you more muscle-bound for a while. Maybe it's good for standing vertical jumps, in that sense.

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: Explosive template
« on: January 28, 2016, 09:11:15 pm »
Yeah... hard to do right now, though. Winter, snow, plus me weighing 95 kg. I can't afford to do plyos until I get to a more... "manageable" weight like ~85 kg or lower.

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Explosive template
« on: January 28, 2016, 04:19:49 pm »
OK so I'll continue to train for strength for a while but then I'll switch towards a more explosive-focused program. Any ideas on the structure of it? I'll probably do one from the VJB 2.0 to stop myself from over analyzing it but any other ideas are welcomed.

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Article & Video Discussion / Re: High bar vs Low bar 2.0, by Greg Nuckols
« on: January 26, 2016, 02:39:23 pm »
That front squat looks great

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Article & Video Discussion / Re: High bar vs Low bar 2.0, by Greg Nuckols
« on: January 25, 2016, 07:36:31 pm »
I squat low bar but my mechanics are that of a high bar. I never ever shoot my butt upwards and collapse my chest forwards, I pretty much maintain a vertical back just like in a high bar squat.

By the way, haven't been squatting in a month+, squatted low bar, got horrible quad soreness, and pretty much no glute soreness. That's why I'm choosing the hip thrust as a main lift in my program.

And regarding familiarity, people around here don't even KNOW a thing such as a "low bar squat" exists. They say "squat" and automatically mean "high bar".

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Article & Video Discussion / Re: High bar vs Low bar 2.0, by Greg Nuckols
« on: January 25, 2016, 03:27:29 pm »
Well, because they kind of are "used" to high bar squatting. I'm the only guy the low bar squats in my gym, or in any other gym I've ever been in.

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Article & Video Discussion / Re: High bar vs Low bar 2.0, by Greg Nuckols
« on: January 25, 2016, 01:00:57 pm »
So in a way, if the back is less of a limiting factor, then more work is being done by the legs, which is what we, as aspiring athletes, care about.

Truth be told, when I try high bar squats PRs, the limiting factor IS staying upright with the bar. I can't even "imagine" going down with it due to this limitation. It's not really the leg strength that is stopping me.

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Haha I actually did that one today but didn't bother to export it again, upload it etc.

Whenever I do, I'm always like "for sure I can sing better than this" and am just disappointed.

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My first karaoke in 2016:

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiSstFwps5k" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiSstFwps5k</a>

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Yeah, that's the basic idea.

But in a standing vert, a long Achilles is better. Anyway, no need to talk about it because you can't change what you have, so... might as well continue working on that PC strength.

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Well, that's what you always hear about the Achilles.

Yeah, it's impossible for me to initiate a high bar squat from the hips, I would just lose position.

A longer Achilles usually translates into more knee bend in the jump. You should watch that Donald Thomas vs Stefan Holm video.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BmuHGu-SB0" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BmuHGu-SB0</a>

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