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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: November 16, 2012, 10:00:49 am »
god it's aallllllllmost like found poetry sometimes.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: November 16, 2012, 09:59:44 am »
haha you're probably right. oh well. btw here is the vid of SVJ x 3,3:
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkGWtN9Kwpc" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkGWtN9Kwpc</a>
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: November 16, 2012, 12:53:05 am »
WEIGHT: ???
SORENESS: none
ACHES/INJURIES: none, yay
FATIGUE: low until the end of the workout, then suddenly high
- warm up
- DLRVJ/DSVJ x 6
i wasn't warmed up enough because i was rushing in advance of old man basketball. fuckers. but jumps would have sucked anyway despite the good sleep the night before. legs were just heavy.
- MR half tuck x 15,15,15
- MR ME pogo x 5,5,5
- ME SVJ x 3,3
got video, will post later. judging by where my heels got relative to my thighs while standing, i'd guess these were in the 26-28 range.
- squat 315 x 3,3,3 | 265 x 8,8,8
super strong except last set of 8. got fatigued and form started to break down, ended up with a lower back pump that hadn't been there before. will bump weight next time anyway.
- OHP 105 x 8,8
- pull up x 8,8
too easy
- stretch
SORENESS: none
ACHES/INJURIES: none, yay
FATIGUE: low until the end of the workout, then suddenly high
- warm up
- DLRVJ/DSVJ x 6
i wasn't warmed up enough because i was rushing in advance of old man basketball. fuckers. but jumps would have sucked anyway despite the good sleep the night before. legs were just heavy.
- MR half tuck x 15,15,15
- MR ME pogo x 5,5,5
- ME SVJ x 3,3
got video, will post later. judging by where my heels got relative to my thighs while standing, i'd guess these were in the 26-28 range.
- squat 315 x 3,3,3 | 265 x 8,8,8
super strong except last set of 8. got fatigued and form started to break down, ended up with a lower back pump that hadn't been there before. will bump weight next time anyway.
- OHP 105 x 8,8
- pull up x 8,8
too easy
- stretch
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Bios / Re: Animals
« on: November 15, 2012, 08:13:35 am »
you should name him davey. don't ask me why.
had a friend whose family bred rhodesian ridgebacks. beautiful dogs.
had a friend whose family bred rhodesian ridgebacks. beautiful dogs.
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ADARQ & LanceSTS - Q&A / Re: calf training
« on: November 15, 2012, 08:08:41 am »I mean instead of putting the load on the ball of the foot, place your feet so that its focused more towards the mid foot.
oh so basically less ROM at the top (plantar flexed) end. thanks.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: THE DREAM JOURNAL
« on: November 15, 2012, 08:05:43 am »
I was part of a crew that had robbed an 18-wheeler because it had something very valuable stashed in it. In the dream I wasn't even sure what it was. The crew was kind of big, maybe 10-12 guys, and the two leaders were brothers. The marked contents of the truck were firecrackers, and before we got in the truck to escape, one of the brothers lit them inside the truck. We all got in, me up front with the two brothers and the rest of the guys in the body of the truck -- it was hollow and had seats like a city bus, so I guess the storage was just in a shell around the center. I remember thinking that was pretty inefficient.
Eventually we pulled onto some back roads. it was pretty, lots of trees changing to fall colors. Everyone was laughing and in a good mood. a blue van coming at us from the other direction stopped in the middle of the road and a woman got out. I had a premonition and got down as low as I could. She shot at the brother who was driving and the truck swerved and slowed to a stop. The brother was hit but okay, not gonna die. The woman then came closer to the truck. We were all kind of paralyzed, not sure what to do. Obviously she had beef with our stealing whatever the cargo was. She started picking up rocks and throwing the bigger ones at the truck. She wasn't very good at it, though, so there was no threat. We all got out of the truck and then the woman turned into a tiger and started rolling around in the leaves.
The end.
Eventually we pulled onto some back roads. it was pretty, lots of trees changing to fall colors. Everyone was laughing and in a good mood. a blue van coming at us from the other direction stopped in the middle of the road and a woman got out. I had a premonition and got down as low as I could. She shot at the brother who was driving and the truck swerved and slowed to a stop. The brother was hit but okay, not gonna die. The woman then came closer to the truck. We were all kind of paralyzed, not sure what to do. Obviously she had beef with our stealing whatever the cargo was. She started picking up rocks and throwing the bigger ones at the truck. She wasn't very good at it, though, so there was no threat. We all got out of the truck and then the woman turned into a tiger and started rolling around in the leaves.
The end.
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Injury, Prehab, & Rehab talk for the brittlebros / Re: get rid of soreness
« on: November 14, 2012, 08:42:51 pm »
also, suck it up.
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ADARQ & LanceSTS - Q&A / Re: calf training
« on: November 14, 2012, 08:41:37 pm »
thanks lance. i'm not sure i get what you mean by moving the plate further toward the rear of my foot. i'm totally comfortable in dorsiflexion, so i can hang down off the edge of a plate from the ball of my foot, no problem. the issue is when i'm up on my toes.
interesting thought about iso's, i'll give that a try.
interesting thought about iso's, i'll give that a try.
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ADARQ & LanceSTS - Q&A / Re: calf training
« on: November 14, 2012, 04:15:24 pm »
neither of you is adarq or lance, but thanks for the responses.
@entropy: it's not that my calves are small. my legs in general are pretty big.
@raptor: fair point. i might just be making shit up. i do think i go farther with four consecutive paused broad jumps than with four DL bounds. will retest tomorrow when i'm back in the gym.
i guess i'm just trying to figure out what it is really that's holding me back (down). i haven't had serious progress of any kind in months. part of that is travel and illness, but part of it has got to be specific weaknesses that i'm not working on well enough or hard enough.
@entropy: it's not that my calves are small. my legs in general are pretty big.
@raptor: fair point. i might just be making shit up. i do think i go farther with four consecutive paused broad jumps than with four DL bounds. will retest tomorrow when i'm back in the gym.
i guess i'm just trying to figure out what it is really that's holding me back (down). i haven't had serious progress of any kind in months. part of that is travel and illness, but part of it has got to be specific weaknesses that i'm not working on well enough or hard enough.
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ADARQ & LanceSTS - Q&A / calf training
« on: November 14, 2012, 10:45:23 am »
Sup brosephs. I have a question about my calves specifically and p-chain more generally. It may just be Raptor getting to me, but I think that calf and hamstring strength are limiting my jumps. (And to a lesser extent, glutes...I'm quad dominant but that's a story for another day.) Hamstrings I can address with reverse hypers, RDLs/good mornings, etc. But calves are a tougher deal for me because of my toe issues.
Basically, my arthritis prevents me from fully supporting my weight across the ball of my foot with my foot plantar flexed. I have to either shift weight to the outside of the foot (which, when it doesn't work and I have to correct balance by shifting weight to one or the other big toe, hurts like crazy and limits me for the rest of the workout) or stand on a board or something so that I can plantar flex without extending my toes. Either way, balance is an issue. That makes calf raises pretty challenging even just at BW, but especially with any kind of loading.
Any thoughts about how to address that?
Basically, my arthritis prevents me from fully supporting my weight across the ball of my foot with my foot plantar flexed. I have to either shift weight to the outside of the foot (which, when it doesn't work and I have to correct balance by shifting weight to one or the other big toe, hurts like crazy and limits me for the rest of the workout) or stand on a board or something so that I can plantar flex without extending my toes. Either way, balance is an issue. That makes calf raises pretty challenging even just at BW, but especially with any kind of loading.
Any thoughts about how to address that?
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: November 14, 2012, 10:31:52 am »
need comparison vid. athletic anorexia vs. gunning for two bills. i can't imagine what you look like 45 pounds heavier
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Age vs Vertical
« on: November 14, 2012, 10:12:21 am »
+1 for that sequence that raptor posted. great video.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: November 14, 2012, 09:56:59 am »
low back soreness might be related to your butt tucking at the very bottom. you don't NEED to go that low, you're way past parallel before the butt tuck starts. i notice more soreness when i can feel the tuck happen during squats (well, it hasn't happened in a long time but i remember it).
still, looks/feels cool to be true ATG.
still, looks/feels cool to be true ATG.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Loopie's Log
« on: November 14, 2012, 09:54:57 am »