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Quote from: LBSS on September 22, 2011, 07:01:14 pm

Quote from: ruso15 on September 22, 2011, 06:10:17 pm

i dont know why but i have never felt any pain on shoulders or upper back while doing front squats, even though i used crossed arms stand.
But somethimes i feel they put much presure on the calves

obviously, your calves are lagging and you need to do more seated calf raised.

WTF is wrong with you!!

i don't know, but certainly not anything with my calves. they feel great.

i just realized you're 20 pounds lighter than when you started this log 10 months ago, and squatting pretty much the same amount. good work.

Quote from: TheSituation on September 21, 2011, 11:35:02 am

Quote from: LBSS on September 21, 2011, 10:47:17 am

Quote from: ruso15 on September 21, 2011, 09:48:14 am

wich one would work better as a general/main exercise?

front squats will make your knees fall off and give you tendonitis in your wrists. back squats will cause discs in your lumbar spine to explode, risking paralysis. stick with leg curls, seated calf raises and hamstring curls.

I enjoy doing leg curls and hamstring curls in the same workout

Once my leg fell of at shoulder level while doing leg curls. DONT DO THEM!!!

fuck, i guess that limits me to seated calf raises. on the plus side, i'm going to look like this in no time!

I feel u man.

But it's always workouts like these, when u dun even feel like it, that makes u feel tt u've grown slightly, innit?

for sure. i dunno about grown but i'm damn sure happy i fought through the malaise and got something done. i would be feeling mighty shitty about myself right now if i hadn't done that, even though at the time my whole body was saying "go home, there's always tomorrow, take it easy."

What is your full squat again?

n/a 

I was reading the No Bull Speed Manual and it is really helpful in understanding and one of the tests was to draw a line and standing with 2 feet jump back and forth over the line, you should be able to get 60 jumps; counting one jump forward as 1 and 1 jump back as 2 and so on, and with one leg should get 30-40.
with 2 leg i got 46 and for the 1 leg i got about 50.

in what period of time?

so i was thinking

any 3 days of the week with atleast 1 day rest inbetween

ankle rotations
hip flexor stretch
ipsoas stretch
glute bridge
Dynamic warm up

you can do these things every day and it wouldn't be a bad idea to do so. hell, you can do ankle rotations 50 times a day. but what does it have to do with agility? you certainly don't need a day of rest on account of these.

not sure for the drills to do for speed, agilty and quickness not together but one for each one for all doesn't matter
thanks

how about jumping back and forth across a line as quickly as possible, in a specific period of time, then repeating that over a period of several months while trying to improve your performance each time?

i'm not denying the impact of culture. i'm acknowledging that it's very important while saying that sometimes people take that argument too far, and neglect to acknowledge the impact that shitty training approaches have. and, definitely, point taken about the dictatorial state grabbing kids and forcing them into the grinder to see who comes out. but it's not either/or.

good points all around, really. i understand what you mean about football or soccer "stealing" an athlete away from something he or she might be good at and turning them into a crappy football or soccer player instead. but that's still not enough for me, somehow. everyone everywhere plays soccer when they're little.* but lots of people turn into elite basketball players or T&F athletes or gymnasts or even fencers. why not weightlifters?

on the thrower thing, in 2011:
women's shot put: 3 of the top 5 performers were americans
women's discus: 3 of the top 11
women's hammer: 2 of the top 11

men's shot put: 3 of the top 5
men's discus: 1 of the top 5
men's hammer: 1 of the top 5

we do suck quite a bit at javelin. the point wasn't that the US dominates throwing and everyone else is playing catch-up, it's that we're competitive at a world level. i'm not saying i think the us should be number one at everything, just that it's a shame that we suck so very, very badly at a sport we used to beat everybody at, and it's interesting to look at why that might be. some combination of cultural factors and training factors is no doubt the answer, but what combination?

damn it, all i wanted out of this thread was for people to go read that article series, and it seems like no one has.

*for the love of god, please don't take this literally.