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damn his legs got huge.

Quote from: LBSS on June 12, 2012, 07:32:07 am

Terry Gross is boss although my cousin (an actress) pointed out that she sucks at interviewing actors: infantilizes them or asks insulting questions. But in general she's awesome.

she's my fav.. beyond her being a great interviewer, her voice is so soothing hah.

this one interview i heard yesterday, was perfect.. an interview with "baratunde thurston", a writer for "the onion". had me lmfao'n at work. i'd listen to that again, great stuff.

you have any recommendations for podcasts/streams, politics/science related?

radiolab is fun for science stuff, although the older episodes tend to be better. they had a dip in quality there for a while but seem to be coming back. the recent episode about colors was really cool.

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Diane Rehm is also really good, not sure if she's podcasted but I'd guess she is. Her voice is wacky. My uncle (father of that cousin -- talented family) has been on her show at least once.

cool.. what did he go on there to talk about?
i love rehm's wacky voice :F

peace

yeah her voice is awesome. he went there to talk about this: http://www.amazon.com/Backing-Into-Forward-A-Memoir/dp/0385531583.

STEVEN-MILLER IS VERY CONVINCING. SOMEONE CONTRADICT HIM OR I'M GOING TO FOLLOW HIS ADVICE.

also, i lost five pounds on my trip so now is probably as good a time as any to eat a lot and see what happens.

@lancests re: jonesy video: ohhhhhhhh, i get it. thank you.

@steven-miller

thanks for your thoughts. i mean that genuinely, despite what you will read in the next sentence. this might just be the pride talking, but please go fuck yourself for calling me a novice. to be fair, i'm still quite a novice at reactive-type things. or, if not a novice, still bad at them.

squats and basic jumps are what i've been doing for two years. improvement of at most 4.5 inches on DLRVJ in that time despite a 50 pound increase in squat and no change in BW. i know my squat still ain't great and -- before you point it out because god knows you'll want to -- i know 50 pounds is not great as far as 2-year improvements go. but i squat 2x bw. it's "enough" for now. i could always be stronger, but i think what's holding me back is more the inefficiency and lack of power.

the point is, i need to try something else.

also, if i get back home and the intro block i planned sees me making continuous gains, i'm not going to switch to this just because. i'll stick with the squats and jumps, jumps and squats. simplicity is a good principle for training. but this plan is also simple, just has a bigger focus on jumping and sprinting and a lower focus on strength. and if i don't make improvements on it, i'll stop.

on the other hand, you're probably right about there not being enough strength work. perhaps i should squat on the second strength day, as well, perhaps in place of the depth jumps. and you might be right about power snatches being inefficient and very light for me right now. still, they're light enough to also not be draining and it can't hurt to keep learning the movement. so thursday could be:

THURS: Gym (explosive exercises/hamstrings)
- DLRVJ x5-15 depending on feeling
- power snatches x10-15, doubles or singles
- Jump squats 2x3
- squat 3x3 @85% OR 2x3 MSEM @ 90-95%
- RDL/GHR 3x8 (start really light, this is going to murder me at first)
- Core, UB superset/circuit as I've been doing them

anyone else on that tweak?

I vote your SVJ would got up a few inches with practice. Your jumps look solid and strong but not overly reactive. I feel your pain in the fast-twitch dept. In fact your run up and plant looks damn familiar .

you're right about the SVJ. true of SLRVJ, too. as you'll see when i get some video up, they're so ugly that they can't not improve.

Sorry, you may have mentioned it before but what kind of athlete are you?  Are you competing in the jumps or sprints or just interested in jumping high vertically?

You claim you are really unreactive, do you have any videos of this unreactivity on display, for example of your bounding attempts?

I ask because you said your approach vertical is 34 inches but your standing vertical is only 26 inches... that doesn't sound like an athlete whose super slow and unreactive!

All, said your template looks good even though I am a little lost on the terminology, but the main point (focusing on the specifics) is something I will always agree with.

i'm just trying to dunk. once i can i'll get back into competitive sports but for the time being it's just that. whether that's getting back into ultimate (which i stopped playing because i started spraining my ankle at least once a summer and that gets in the way of, well, everything), i don't know. my standing vert would probably be better if i EVER practiced it. i have gotten much, much more efficient at DLRVJ because i've done it more consistently. i'm not completely without reactive ability -- actually, i'd say i'm probably average -- but what athletic ability i have doesn't seem to lend itself to fast-twitch things.

here's a video of a couple jumps from last month. ordinary-ish day, these are around 32. i don't always jump-stop that badly. also, i put one of my first-ever attempts at LRLR bounds on the video, too, although it's almost too embarrassing to post.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMgzORu7rek" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMgzORu7rek</a>

i will take and post more video when i get home. sprints, SVJ, DL and SL bounds, DLRVJ and SLRVJ.

a side note: my libido is lower than i can ever remember it being since i had a libido. it's not gone, but i haven't jacked off (or had sex, obviously) in probably five days. unheard of.