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my youngest brother is 6'3 with an 8'2 reach. all else being equal, if i was that tall i could dunk with two hands and hit the middle of my forearm on the rim.

fuck tall people.

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re: fred hatfield: i stopped reading at, "Do NOT allow your hips to drift backward, your knees to drift inward or out beyond your toes, or your torso to incline forward," because it's physically impossible for you not to do those things. look at any picture of him squatting, he's doing every single thing on that list except letting his knees drift inward.

you're thinking about the positioning of the weight in completely the wrong way. look harder at the picture raptor posted. the lower the bar, the closer to the center of your torso, the closer to the center of your torso, the more of your torso needs to be on the other side of your center of mass for you not to fall backward.

getting stronger in the squat will make your squat go up, full stop. don't pick at the minutiae like that, you're getting distracted. just work on getting stronger, both of those squats look fine.

i was gonna say something snarky and clever about physics and something something something but raptor nailed it. just look at that picture, it's not a hard concept.

Speaking of leg pressing - why is it so "terrible"?

it's not.

BW = 174.5
SORENESS = none
ACHES/INJURIES = none
FATIGUE = moderate

- warm up
included a couple of rounds of knockout. nothing gets me quite as hyped for jumping as that.

- DLRVJ x 8-10
best 33.5, a few 32.5-33, rest 31-32. the 33.5 was the highest jump i've had since may. every other jump felt good.

- squat 310 x 5,5,3
rep PR, obviously. last rep on second set was grindy but not terrible. might have had one more on the third set but it would have been ugly. also, i was a little worried about depth but had one of my oly lifting friends watch the second set and she confirmed that i'm going way below parallel. no problems.

- pull up +10 x 10+3+2
damn it

- dip +50 x 10+3+3

- SS1: hyperextension x 10
- SS1: GHR situp x 10
- SS1 info: 3 rounds, no rest between exercises, one minute between rounds.

- calf raise 135 x 16
arthritis makes it hard to keep balance when plantar flexed. still, this was harder than it should have been.

- curlzzzzzz 20 x 10e

- tricep cable pull down 100 x 10

- stretch

good workout. pleased. 174.5 is the most i've weighed this year, i'm pretty sure. that's surprising because i was away last weekend at a wedding and was puking up my guts all saturday morning. i have a weird reaction to alcohol sometimes; i wasn't especially drunk on friday but as soon as we got back to the hotel i threw up and then i was terribly hung over the next morning. every once in a while that just seems to happen but other times i'm totally fine. i can't figure out what makes the difference there. anyway, guess the milkshakes have helped. also, i found a gym very near the beach that has a squat rack, so i will get in a workout or two next week while on vacation.

also, my pants felt a little tight today and my vanity is kicking in and telling me my belly fat is spilling over more. this is absurd, as i'm not more than ~11% bf and i can still see my abs and veins in my lower abs. i'm not going to let that stop me from chowing down over the next two days, just noting it.

three plates on thursday. come on now.

Quote from: LanceSTS on August 13, 2012, 09:25:38 pm

Quote from: Harvey on August 13, 2012, 06:09:08 pm

If you're white, you'd be better off ignoring your upper body...

You were doing better for a while, training, and actually making decent posts.  why are you acting like an idiot fuck again harvey?

I'm trying to make a point. If you want to make it somewhere as a basketballer, your priority should be jumping above anything else physically.

you are a fucking moron. if you want to make it somewhere as a basketball player, your priority should be BECOMING A GREAT FUCKING BASKETBALL PLAYER.

for fuck's sake, that's not a difficult concept.

There is a very common plot twist in movies where you have a superhero with utter faith in his convictions and beliefs, doing things he believes are right. Then he finds out he was actually with the BAD side all along, his actions weren't aligned good but with evil and now he is forced to question every single speck of faith and wonders where things went wrong. The big paradox for the audience is how dark gave birth to light (or vice versa). I think the last time I saw it was in Batman Begins (is that the one where he goes up to the mountains to train? and ras el-goul is his teacher who not pure, benevolent and good like batman first thought but turns out to be actually evil!). That sort of thing is unfolding right here in this thread. Batman was still awesome tho, he was pure of heart, and his squat form was probably athletic which spared him from squat morning his lifts. In general the protagonist has some overriding virtues of character which protect him and even save him.