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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Scooby 2011 Journal
« on: November 17, 2015, 02:04:50 pm »
i dip pretty low as it is, sadly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1SDTb9EKTs

What if you try something like this (in terms of form):

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYCuys2uoZ8" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYCuys2uoZ8</a>

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Scooby 2011 Journal
« on: November 17, 2015, 08:02:22 am »
It's funny but I was looking through some of my old stuff in my computer and found a picture called "adarqui baseline plant" where I took a screenshot of adarqui before his plant, with his legs thrown almost parallel to the ground in front of him (mid-air). Weirdly enough, that followed his regular extremely quad dominant position.

That screenshot was from the clip above.

As for the relaxed part - it's only true about the run-up. If you're stiff during the run-up, you're already consuming a tremendous amount of energy and the muscles arrive at the plant point already fatigued/exhausted, being subjected to a very high tension with each step you took to get there in your run-up.

So the "relaxed part" is really an euphemism for movement efficiency.

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: GHR and RDL
« on: November 17, 2015, 07:58:46 am »
It's hard to tell. But considering all the other exercises you normally do (squats and deadlifts) train the hip extension part anyway, maybe it's a good idea to have the GHR incorporated since it's taking care of the knee flexion part of the hamstring function and it has a great effect eccentrically as well - something so important when loading for a jump.

I only did Natural GHRs on the floor though, never on a machine. I never seen a GHR machine in my life, in person.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Age vs Vertical
« on: November 16, 2015, 02:08:22 pm »
Oh, so they're not free barbell calf raises?

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Pics, Videos, & Links / Re: beast
« on: November 16, 2015, 10:09:40 am »
I like how he gathered like for a one leg jump at 0:58

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Age vs Vertical
« on: November 16, 2015, 10:05:55 am »
I have to say, 20 reps at ~70 kg is impressive, to me. I mean, I'm doing sets of 10 with 55 kg and the 10th rep already is somewhat uncoordinated, like I accumulate nervous fatigue that makes my intermuscular coordination to start to suck. Imagine what would happen in the 20th rep (not to mention the amount of cardio fatigue). :highfive:

My only problem would be the calf raises - you seriously struggle with 8 rep sets @ BW+90 kg?

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: November 15, 2015, 09:58:31 am »
That face looks familiar

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: squat form
« on: November 15, 2015, 08:13:07 am »
Interesting, you stay RL when you take the bar off the squat rack.

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: squat form
« on: November 15, 2015, 07:55:10 am »
I bet you plant RL.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Age vs Vertical
« on: November 15, 2015, 07:45:58 am »
10000 were made by me to see the answer to the question about play/played and pay/paid.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Party's Over!
« on: November 14, 2015, 07:09:56 pm »
I'm at 100-101 cm at the top of belly button.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: November 14, 2015, 03:03:21 pm »
Yeah well it depends on a lot of things... like how bent the knees are, the stance width etc. Weirdly enough, I feel better activation with the legs straight, but I'm speaking in general terms, not during the hip thrusts themselves (like if I try in bed to activate the glutes, I activate them much better with the legs straight than with the knees bent). Theoretically, the more the knees are bent the less the hamstrings contribute since you're putting them close to active insufficiency, but... the reality is that the glutes really really work well when the legs are straight. Whatever.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: November 14, 2015, 01:59:24 pm »
I use two big sponges and sometimes even an aerobic mat over them.

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Well that should prime the posterior chain, in principle.

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True. He also had some good ideas, beyond his crazy ones.

Btw... do you think he was trolling in that answer above? I don't think he was, I think he was genuinely replying. Hence why you put your response like that after that post. lel

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