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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: Basketball palming
« on: July 21, 2010, 08:23:21 am »
Yes but say you're very strong grip-wise and apply that strength to a slippery ball. The result of that will be the ball will fling out of your hand because the more power you apply to it, the more it has a chance to fly out. So you need to actually apply less strength and go up gingerly with a slippery ball.

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: Basketball palming
« on: July 21, 2010, 07:28:51 am »
I probably won't get approval, but it's not a matter of strength but a matter of skin quality/friction. If it was a matter of strength, then you would have to be so weak that you wouldn't be able to hold a cola bottle in your hand.

I mean, think about it - you just hold the ball for less than a second when you dunk. And yes, there is acceleration involved there which increases the ball's weight, but that is not important. The important thing is how much grip does the ball have, and what kind of skin you have.

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: Adam Linkenauger jumping form video series
« on: July 14, 2010, 05:40:36 am »
I'm still jumping better with a longer last step... I guess it just developed over time. So does Adarqui's boy Eddie if I remember right.

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Pics, Videos, & Links / Re: Richard Sorin - 521 lb deadlift x 3 on 60th birthday - Deserves it's own thread
« on: July 14, 2010, 05:13:31 am »
Yeah I guess so.

Check this skinny guy out: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMx6eUQEAAY" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMx6eUQEAAY</a>

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Pics, Videos, & Links / Re: Richard Sorin - 521 lb deadlift x 3 on 60th birthday - Deserves it's own thread
« on: July 14, 2010, 04:44:35 am »
Well I think we're actually both right. You can't really imagine me squatting or deadlifting heavy by the way I look just as much as you can hardly imagine a "big" guy (even muscular with a low bodyfat) as going up off one leg. You'd expect him to be better off two (that's not always the case though, but there are much more chances a big guy gets up better off two feet than off one).

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Article & Video Discussion / Re: LD ISOS
« on: July 14, 2010, 04:42:47 am »
Well that's actually good that it bothers you because, like me, I think you will agree that AC was giving up good advice. I mean the guy wasn't talking silly stuff and he was a pretty nice guy. The photoshopping blew the thing up.

So when you combine these two things in an antithesis... you can't help but feel bad for the whole situation.

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Pics, Videos, & Links / Re: amazing natural glute ham raise
« on: July 14, 2010, 04:40:38 am »
Yeah that's the first thing I saw... back neutral "enough"... butt not very much sticked out. I don't know.

And yeah my stride frequency is very high so one explanation might be good hamstring development. I have no idea if it has any bearing on that though... from what I'm aware of, the hamstrings in a sprint, besides helping into hip extension (ideally) - they prevent knee hyperextension when the leg is swung forward so I have no idea if that's a factor in the stride frequency deal.

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Pics, Videos, & Links / Re: A few videos from yesterday
« on: July 14, 2010, 04:37:53 am »
Yeah everything you said is true. Not only that, but when you think about it - landing in a stretched position can put on a lot of other benefits (including better activation and possibly hypertrophy). I think RJ is very fond and favorable in training in a stretched position. The thing is if you can do that safely.

I really need to focus on landing properly and landing in a manner (especially with my arms) that allows me to jump immediately forward as I land. The same thing I was saying in the DC Jayhawk's depth jumps (that he didn't have his arms in the proper position to take off quickly again).

So I need to go all out and do stuff... I'm always afraid of going all out... it's my mentality so it's hard to change that... I'm always very careful when jumping so I limit myself a lot to be safe...

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Pics, Videos, & Links / Re: Richard Sorin - 521 lb deadlift x 3 on 60th birthday - Deserves it's own thread
« on: July 14, 2010, 04:33:01 am »
Quote from: LanceSTS on July 14, 2010, 04:14:37 am
Quote from: Raptor on July 14, 2010, 03:58:49 am
Well first off, that was really cool. Secondly, "Sorin" is a Romanian name :D

And thirdly, I do pretty much the same thing before a heavy squat or deadlift. I usually psyche out, I feel the body temperature increase, anxiety, electric current through the body, a rush of power and tension occuring, and then I just go and do my thing. It's great but it's very consuming on the CNS.

Do you have a video of you doing a heavy squat or deadlift? Its hard to imagine you doing a heavy squat or deadlift for some reason(well that reason being you look "frail" for a heavy squat or deadlift :)

ps. see my journal on tvs to understand this

Haha I don't need to see the journal... I know exactly what you mean. It doesn't help with me jumping 50 inches every single time... it's so hard to imagine me squatting that much when I'm the kind of high jumper that beats Sotomayor.

Two skeletons are grabbing themselves by the fat... or something...? Huh? Nevermind :D

PS. Damn, I'm starting to develop the Jay Schroeder disease.

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Article & Video Discussion / Re: LD ISOS
« on: July 14, 2010, 04:30:11 am »
Maybe he should photoshop a few things and that's it... :D

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Pics, Videos, & Links / Re: amazing natural glute ham raise
« on: July 14, 2010, 04:01:56 am »
I hate that my knee is injured... because I can do pretty much the same thing even though I have much more bodyfat than that guy so it's more difficult for me (and I was doing them on the floor by the way... with just a gym mat folded a few times under my knees)...

This video really makes me want to go out and film one natural GHR rep...

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Pics, Videos, & Links / Re: Richard Sorin - 521 lb deadlift x 3 on 60th birthday - Deserves it's own thread
« on: July 14, 2010, 03:58:49 am »
Well first off, that was really cool. Secondly, "Sorin" is a Romanian name :D

And thirdly, I do pretty much the same thing before a heavy squat or deadlift. I usually psyche out, I feel the body temperature increase, anxiety, electric current through the body, a rush of power and tension occuring, and then I just go and do my thing. It's great but it's very consuming on the CNS.

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Pics, Videos, & Links / Re: A few videos from yesterday
« on: July 14, 2010, 03:51:40 am »
I have analyzed my jumps/bounds/2-leg bounds frame by frame yesterday and discovered a few things:

1) I don't get "deep enough" on my two-leg bounds so I think I put mostly quad in them (since I bend at a 1/4 squat position); I need to focus on getting deeper.

2) I don't completely hip hyperextend... I use just a short burst of hip extension and then stop it. If Bret Contreras was right, pulling the heels at my butt (flexing the knee) improves your ability to hip hyperextend by 5%, so that's interesting. I need to work on both more, hip hyperextension and heel-under butt pull and then leg extension forward to land further;

3) I don't use my arms like I could/should. I need to extend them and use the momentum they create.


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Pics, Videos, & Links / Re: A few videos from yesterday
« on: July 13, 2010, 05:24:10 pm »
Oh yeah it's definitely the angle, but that pic you posted had a low jump... we filmed the side jumps the last and I was empty and wanted to just leave... no mood for jumping at all at that point. So that's like a 28 inch jump there. I think the jump is 31 inches in the pic I posted according to my timer. Still, the left leg is pretty extended (although lifted forward) in the pic I posted... and it's at that bar in the fence level. I need to measure that but I remember it's at 95 cm (I might be wrong). I need to measure that just for the fun's sake.

Anyway, my 2-leg bounds from today:

2-leg bounds: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDVO7rSw3j8

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: Lower back soreness from 2-leg bounds
« on: July 13, 2010, 04:06:29 pm »
Yeah steven-miller suggested contracting the abs more on TVS... so I probably have sucky abs... they are whack actually.

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