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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: 100m final london olympics 2012
« on: August 07, 2012, 01:03:14 pm »
Quote from: seifullaah73 on August 07, 2012, 11:12:40 am
Quote from: acole14 on August 05, 2012, 09:05:15 pm
Yeah I've always liked Asafa and his running style. I really wanted him to sneak up and get bronze over Gatlin and Gay. Hopefully he can reload for the WCs next year, but I can't see him ever beating Bolt or Blake now. Blake is the only threat to Usain but he's still metres away from him when Bolt turns it on.

Blake would be able to beat bolt if he is able to improve on his pb time up to 9.6.



hahaha, what? if you mean this the way it came across, it's the dumbest tautology i've read all day. NEWSFLASH: IF YOHAN BLAKE BECOMES FASTER THAN USAIN BOLT, HE WILL BE ABLE TO BEAT HIM IN A RACE.

also, are you not aware that blake has beaten bolt twice this year?

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: August 06, 2012, 10:22:40 pm »
BW = 171.8 motherfucker
SORENESS = none
ACHES/INJURIES = none
FATIGUE = moderate to high

- warm up

- DLRVJ x ~10
32-32.5, hanging on rim easily but not comfortably.

- MR half tuck x 40,25

- squat 310 x 2, 305 x 3+1+1+1
fuck me. it's at least partially mental, i'm just afraid of the weight or something and psych myself out. would help to have a training partner. i think once i get 315 x 3 x 5 i'll switch to an MSEM-based block. gotta eat and sleep.

- stretch

i didn't sleep enough last night because of work (again). that plus not eating at a surplus over the weekend meant failure on the squats. i'll do upper tomorrow and try squatting again on wednesday. out of town against this weekend.

on the other hand, i was super active this weekend: swimming, hiking/climbing, tennis. family reunion at a resort up in new york on the occasion of my step-grandmother's birthday. such a great time.

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ADARQ & LanceSTS - Q&A / Re: Hip thrusts instead of deadlifts during Starting Strength?
« on: August 06, 2012, 02:50:52 pm »
Quote from: Raptor on August 06, 2012, 02:49:17 pm
Quote from: LBSS on August 06, 2012, 09:49:04 am
Quote from: LanceSTS on August 05, 2012, 02:40:32 pm
Quote from: Raptor on August 05, 2012, 02:33:46 pm
I also wonder what would happen with a similar thread on Rippetoe's forum.

search "incorporating the half squat into an athletic program"

oh man, that takes me back. halcyon days, those were.

I didn't find anything, I need to answer "3 non random questions" to do a search and I said "fuck it, whatever".

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=incorporating+the+half+squat+into+an+athletic+program

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: Amrs & legs lengths
« on: August 06, 2012, 02:48:51 pm »
Quote from: T0ddday on August 03, 2012, 07:56:16 pm
Quote from: hyperdunk1 on August 03, 2012, 09:17:11 am
is it better for your leg to be longer above the knees or below the knees as a jumper?

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22090004

do you have the full paper? was it CMJ or running vertical?

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Article & Video Discussion / Re: Short vid on how Oscar Pistorius prosthetics work.
« on: August 06, 2012, 02:45:30 pm »
Quote from: Zetz on August 06, 2012, 01:47:43 pm
I was wondering when you'd show up with that article. Same one you had posted before. What I'm wondering is why he's still running if the evidence is so conclusive as they say. USATF and IAAF are organizations that disqualify people from running over too much caffeine. It's not something they take lightly. If they really do give him that big of an advantage, and it's been shown in research, why are they still letting him run?

hell if i know why they are, but there was pretty obviously a political decision to ignore the main thrust of weyand's and bundle's findings. maybe they figured he'd be good for the sport financially.

Quote from: Science of Sport
There is the argument that the CAS-proceeding determined a very narrow approach to the scientific question, which had really only one goal - to disprove the IAAF's findings.  In other words, the CAS process was not interested in the entire truth, but only in evaluating the evidence gathered by the IAAF.  And there's no question that the IAAF started off with a very narrow research question.

By extension, Pistorius' scientific team were interested only in the "truth" that would, among other things, eventually see them add distance runners to the control group until Pistorius looked similar to able-bodied athletes.  Effectively, the previous research had "set the bar" and they jumped over it, using the methods I explained yesterday.  A narrow finding got even narrower, and the whole truth did not emerge when it could have.  In all this, there was reason to suggest an advantage but the scientists did not make it known at the time, even if it was only for the purposes of debate.

Taking this into account, and adding in the fact that the research to clear Pistorius had very obvious omissions and false comparisons with distance runners when they knew what the sprinter-comparison would have revealed, you start to see that things really were not what they appeared to be with this "independent scientific process".  You may make up your own minds about what it means when scientists selectively leave out able-bodied sprinters and compare a sprinter to distance runners?  Or what it means when scientists recognize the possible advantage but fail to mention it at a hearing on advantages?  It strikes me as strange at best, manipulative bordering on dishonest at worst.

right-o.

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When the time comes that he's actually a concern for a medal or even finals, then I'll be worried about it. So far he isn't really affecting anything with his times, so I don't see why it should be such a big concern.

are you serious? he's doing something fundamentally different from what able-bodied runners are doing. seems a bit ridiculous to say that he should be allowed to compete until he gets faster at the thing he's doing than they are at what they're doing. you could race a motorcycle against a boat, but if the motorcycle won you wouldn't call it the faster of two boats.

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Program Review / Re: crossfit
« on: August 06, 2012, 01:50:10 pm »
paleo dieting is already a crossfit thing. i turn into a tangle of sputtering rage when i overhear people discussing their paleo diets. at this point, when it comes up, i usually say something like, "oh, yeah, i don't really want to get into it." if i start to actually talk about it, i can't stop myself before phrases like "deeply stupid" and "brain-meltingly idiotic" start rolling out.

interesting to wonder what the next fad will be. i'd be surprised if it were a paleo exercise thing like mouvement naturale, because crossfit has already absorbed that kind of stuff into itself (POSE running, bear crawls during warm-up, FiveFingers and Inov8 shoes), and from where i sit all that seems to be on the wane in the crossmunity. everyone is more interested in olympic lifting than parkour or even gymnastics. actually, i wouldn't be surprised to see an explosion in the number of people focusing exclusively on oly lifting. it'd be cool if that were the next fad. lots of work for the very few qualified coaches. and maybe we'll be good again on a world level in a few years.

also, you might be right about IF. has all the hallmarks of an appealing fad to exceptionalist rich white people. only problem with leangains is that martin berkhan is a sexually insecure 11-year-old boy.

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Program Review / Re: crossfit
« on: August 06, 2012, 12:15:46 pm »
Quote from: entropy on August 06, 2012, 11:55:02 am
Perhaps. My understanding is that what makes crossfit crossfit is the PEOPLE. And the dumb exercise shit. But definitely the PEOPLE doing the dumb exercise shit. That's not going to change as long as HQ keeps charging the usual crossfit premium. It will stay attractive to the same sort of people, I don't see them changing THAT business model considering it is quite lucrative. But go on, tell me the point that I have missed - I didn't find that wall o text very readable admittedly

the point is that the appeal of crossfit to the PEOPLE you refer to is that it is special and kind of secret and totally not corporate and outside the mainstream and better than what most pussy-ass pink-dumbbell-and-machine-loving gymgoers do. once crossfit is taken over by an enterprise whose main objective is unrelated to the production of THE MOST ELITE FITTEST HARDCOREST RAWEST ATHLETES ON EARTH, that appeal will diminish. there was a similar but much less hysterical reaction to the reebok sponsorship deal. "are we selling our soul?" kind of whining.

crossfit has been a fringe thing for its whole life, and while that status has been eroding for a few years (ESPN telecast of the WSE, the aforementioned reebok deal, etc.), it's clung to its roots pretty well. until now. gold's gym and LA fitness will start offering watered-down group-exercise "crossfit" classes, it will become about as cool as zumba and spinning, and the core audience will move on to the next thing.

that's the fear among the ELEET, anyway. and TBH i think they're right. the shark has been jumped.

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: 100m final london olympics 2012
« on: August 06, 2012, 12:01:51 pm »
Quote from: Raptor on August 06, 2012, 09:05:59 am
USA lost with all its steroid abuse. Nothing to see here people!


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Program Review / Re: crossfit
« on: August 06, 2012, 11:49:27 am »
Quote from: entropy on August 06, 2012, 11:20:56 am
I don't think crossfit has anything to worry about, it's still attractive only to the white yuppie with more money than sense. Except for Charles Barkley that is, but he's not even human.

you seem to have missed the point.

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Program Review / Re: crossfit
« on: August 06, 2012, 11:14:00 am »
saw this posted in lyle's forum: http://gawker.com/5931288/crossfitters-worried-that-private-equity-deal-will-destroy-their-precious-crossfit.

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my response:


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ADARQ & LanceSTS - Q&A / Re: Hip thrusts instead of deadlifts during Starting Strength?
« on: August 06, 2012, 09:49:04 am »
Quote from: LanceSTS on August 05, 2012, 02:40:32 pm
Quote from: Raptor on August 05, 2012, 02:33:46 pm
I also wonder what would happen with a similar thread on Rippetoe's forum.

search "incorporating the half squat into an athletic program"

oh man, that takes me back. halcyon days, those were.

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Article & Video Discussion / Re: Short vid on how Oscar Pistorius prosthetics work.
« on: August 06, 2012, 09:40:28 am »
Quote from: Zetz on August 05, 2012, 01:36:17 pm
I remember we debated whether or not he should run in the olympics a while back. Same argument everyone has about him having an advantage with the springs. No conclusive evidence in either direction though, but I say it shouldn't be a problem. At least not now. In my mind it's leveled out, because even though the springs don't lose nearly as much energy as an achilles tendon, he's missing the entire active component that other runners have to give them more spring. He has to compensate through the rest of his legs and especially his core to keep his legs high, that and his arm swing has to be harder and tighter than others just to keep him balanced. Until there's conclusive evidence in either direction I'll continue to be inspired by the man. Just the fact that he puts a smile on kids with a similar condition and gives them a little hope makes me like him.

WRONG. http://www.sportsscientists.com/2011/08/pistorius-12-sec-advantage-and.html

This is still true, though:

Quote from: Sports Illustrated article
"What Oscar has done represents for a lot of people an unwillingness to accept expectations others might impose on you," Weyand says. "And that part is inspiring and makes you feel great about human nature."

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: on the toad to elastic greatness!
« on: August 06, 2012, 09:33:52 am »
lol, toad.

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: 100m final london olympics 2012
« on: August 06, 2012, 07:35:13 am »
Quote from: acole14 on August 05, 2012, 09:05:15 pm
Yeah I've always liked Asafa and his running style. I really wanted him to sneak up and get bronze over Gatlin and Gay. Hopefully he can reload for the WCs next year, but I can't see him ever beating Bolt or Blake now. Blake is the only threat to Usain but he's still metres away from him when Bolt turns it on.

NO! USA NUMBER ONE!

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: August 02, 2012, 10:19:35 pm »
BW = ???
SORENESS = none
ACHES/INJURIES = none
FATIGUE = very high

- warm up

- DLRVJ x 4
nothing. CNS d-e-d dead.

- squat 310 x 1
not happening.

- pause squat 225 x 3,3

- futzed around a bit with inverted rows and bench

was utterly dead. i could barely get myself to descend with 225 on my back. this week has been rough at work and i haven't gotten enough sleep. also, today was the day my body decided that i've been eating to much. i haven't been hungry all day, despite not eating lunch. going to force some food down now and try to figure out how to make these days come on days when i'm not supposed to train. fuck it. i'm away this weekend (again) and will hopefully get plenty of sleep and be back on monday. this summer has been rough from a training standpoint, recent PR notwithstanding.

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