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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: my jump training
« on: March 01, 2013, 12:15:50 pm »
Thanks guys, it makes sense. Although for whatever reason I would like to increase my RVJ without actually going through the trouble of practicing RVJ dunks. The reason is I don't have ready access to a gym and I only drive out once a week which is a bit of a mission to do more frequently. I made my SVJ go up by doing approx 5jumps a week, so I was hoping to find some way to get my RVJ moving the same way.

pelham, re my rvj dunks - not great im afraid. I can't dunk at all on an fast break, it just doesn't happen, i guess im moving too fast to dip down into the jump?

like in KFs video, i can do the three step dunk pretty well. But if I come into the jump with speed i wont be able to finish the dunk.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism -RHW1D1
« on: March 01, 2013, 09:49:12 am »
Training
FS 3Fx108, 4Fx103
BS 2x6x97.5
OHP 2x5x54
WCU 3x95, 4x92.5, 4x90, 5x85, 5x82.5
DJ 3x5x7"

FS notes:
Late night last night cost me the PR today.Annoyed with myself. Will get 3x108 (PR) and 5x103 on sunday.

BS notes:
I decided to keep up the 2.5kg jumps up to 100kg, then i'll go to 2kg jumps.

Depth jumps:
Started these. I hope they make a difference. Form check video below:

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EyNLeQEX7U" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EyNLeQEX7U</a>

let me know what I can improve, I don't even know what a depth jump is to be honest just guessed.

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: my jump training
« on: March 01, 2013, 09:42:24 am »
So i tried the depth jumps for the first time. Not sure if i'm doing them right, i'll put a video on my log. I started conservatively with a drop of 7". I'll work up to the recommended heights with successive workouts. Thanks again.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: March 01, 2013, 08:36:54 am »
Quote from: flyingthunder on February 28, 2013, 05:00:02 pm
at 6.3 you want to cut down to 155 ? man I´m 6.1 with 160 at 6-7% bodyfat. Why you want your bodyweight that low ?

Everyone is different! For everyone who is above average in lean mass there will be someone on the other side of the average. I'm on the other side, it happens, it's normal.... haha

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: my jump training
« on: March 01, 2013, 08:07:37 am »
They were 5x30s but point taken, I'll experiment with depth jumps before and after and see which works better

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: my jump training
« on: March 01, 2013, 07:34:38 am »
I tried it once when someone told me to sprint before squatting. I had teh worst squat workout and swore off never to do it again. Maybe jumping is different but i'm wary..

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: my jump training
« on: March 01, 2013, 03:16:43 am »
Thanks guys. I'll add the depth jumps & practice rvjs.

Btw why do they have to be done before squatting?

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / my jump training
« on: February 28, 2013, 08:55:41 am »
Background: 6'3", 75kg/165lb, 29 years old, current ATG front squat 120kg, best full backsquat 130kg (no belt).

Through training & diet i've taken my SVJ up from 20" to over 30" which i'm happy with. I can dunk SVJ with one hand, both hands and almost there with a reverse SVJ dunk.

I now have a decent SVJ and three step jump. I jump much less from RVJ. Always has been the case for as long as I can remember.

Training hasn't done much if anything for my quicker RVJ, it's remained pretty much constant as far as I can tell.

I would like to get my RVJ moving up now. It's more useful to me than SVJ is, SVJ is nice and all but RVJ is sexier and more applicable to sport. To get a good SVJ I dip down quite a bit, approaching the positions and angles of a deep squat but for RVJ where the knee angle is much smaller, I don't get much VJ out of my gym training.

I've never done any jump specific exercises before but I think it's time I started.

Which basic exercises, movements or drills should I add to improve my RVJ in particular?.

Thanks for your time.



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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: abandon the back squat, and move to front squat!
« on: February 28, 2013, 03:52:19 am »
Squatting is efficient if you're trying to drive your SVJ up because it increases your strength which the SVJ is dependent on.

I don't see the mechanism for transferring full squatting (bs or fs) over to RVJ because the knee angles are acute whether single or double leg jumping.

I would think heavier partial squats (quarter to half) are more applicable to RVJ. Is this well known in our circles btw?

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MOVIES & ENTERTAINMENT & SHeeT! / Re: Django Unchained
« on: February 27, 2013, 09:59:28 am »
Quote from: LBSS on February 27, 2013, 09:53:48 am
Quote from: LBSS on January 09, 2013, 05:16:58 pm
these are my thoughts, copied from a post i made on lyle's forum:

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It was the worst movie I've seen in a long, long time. I can't remember the last time I had the impulse to walk out on a movie but if I'd been alone I would have. Bored me to tears, almost none of the jokes were funny, nothing happens, every scene is 1/3 too long. That's the same problem Peter Jackson had with King Kong, btw. A director is too busy smelling his own shit particles and massaging his balls while moaning sweet nothings to himself to listen to his editor saying, "Hey, Quentin, I don't think this sequence needs to be quite that long."

By about halfway through I couldn't wait for it to be over and it just kept grinding along, to my mounting disbelief. The female character was a vacuous, trembling, empty hot body. Sam Jackson was not even a tiny bit funny. I wanted to slap the various people in the theater who laughed every time he opened his mouth. "Oh! Look! A black man dressed as an older black man said something disrespectful to a white man in a movie about slavery! SWEET MOTHER OF MARY WHAT HUMOR!" God even the music was awful. I love Rick Ross as much as the next suburban-bred white kid but what the fuck was that song doing in there, thrusting its dick in your face after an hour and 45 minutes of setting-appropriate music?

The only redeeming qualities were the charisma of Waltz, Foxx and DiCaprio, who are all fun to watch. Especially Waltz. But all-in-all, what an atrocious shit dribble of a movie.

For the record, I'm not generally a Tarantino hater. I liked Pulp Fiction and Jackie Brown and the Kill Bills a lot.

bumping this post because literally everyone else in the world is wrong about this movie except me. it sucked donkey balls. actually, it tried to suck donkey balls but the donkey was like, what the fuck are you doing, bro, so it sucked rat balls instead.

I also thought it was awful in every respect. The only redeeming quality was parts of the sound track.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: February 27, 2013, 08:13:46 am »
Training
FS 3x106, 5x101, 5x97
BS 3x90, 2x6x95, 3x6x77.5

BP 3x6x67.5

FS notes:
Next time I'll go for the PR of 3x108 which is mildly exciting. Realistically though before injury I was due for 5x105 which means my best triple ought to be around 3x111 so it's not that special either. But either way, i'll keep pushing the triple up. Maybe I can get it as high as 3x115? That would be nice. I'm trying to keep a 5kg difference between my top triple and top fiver. This should mean when I triple 110 I will be using 105 for 5 which is where I was pre-injury.

BS notes:
Last 2.5kg jump, from now on it's 2kg increases.

BP notes:
These bothered my previously injured pec. Blah.

Will do upper body after dinner. Probably only just bench press.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism -- reversing hypertrophy one day at a time
« on: February 25, 2013, 06:48:37 am »
Day 1 (25th feb 2013)
here we go..................  :strong: .. To 155lb of pure reverse hypetrophy and beyond. All I want in life is people to say "do you even lift bro" when I walk into the room. In related news, im giving up eating pork because pigs are such amazing intelligent animals .. it just seems wrong to me, like eating a dolphin, a dog or a well groomed rat.

Goal is to get thru 3 weeks of this thing. Then I go away on holiday. maintain for a week or two, and come back and do the next 3 weeks. 6 weeks ought to be enough to get down to 155.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: February 24, 2013, 03:08:51 am »
Fair comment fella. I'll explain! Since I got injured til today i've had 2 weeks off my diet. I ate towards healing, not caring about body comp. 2 weeks is what Kyle McDowell recommends as the right amount of time between stints of long dieting. So i've got that base covered. Not intentionally, it just happened that way that I went down and while resting and eating to heal, I got the diet break in as a result.

So i'm legit in a position to resume dieting. As far as going down to /only/ 159. I think that's conformable with my goal to get to 155. Let me explain. If i diet down to 155, then once i stop cutting and eat more food and carbs, i'll quickly gain water weight and top out  probably topping out to 159ish.

And training wise i'm staying the course, lots of squatting and lots of running. That will help with my cutting goal anyway and i'm not a pussy to worry about muscle wasting as an excuse to shy away from doing lots of 60-150m sprints.

Rushed thru my front squat workout before ball training, took 20mins including warmups.

Omgs just came back from basketball training. life is so much better when you're on a cal surplus. I was bouncy as fuck. Got my first in-game dunk!!!!!! It's possibly one of the best feels i've ever had on the court. It was a pickup game mind you, not a proper one, but still felt so good. I caught the ball on the left block, and dunked it so hard i pulled the rim down and had to push it back afterwards. PPl around me were stunned cos they didn't expect it haha.

Will do PM sesh later, going to backsquat and upper body.

Training
FS 3x104, 5x99 (AM)
1.5 hr basketball training

BS 2x6x92.5, 3x6x75
OHP 2x5x53

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism -- reverse hypetrophy pledge
« on: February 23, 2013, 10:12:36 pm »
I've decided that starting Monday i'm going to resume cutting and I'll cut for 6 weeks til i'm down to 155. You heard it here first.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: February 23, 2013, 07:31:15 am »
Went to the park to shoot around. Warmed up and knees felt great and did some dunks. Haven't felt this fresh in ages. Dunks felt strong.

Tried doing some self lob dunks adarqui style but i found out i'm not able to do those or anything else because then i end up approaching them in a single leg fashion. In fact as I've found the only way I can jump decently is off two legs off a coupla steps. If i take a runup i can't jump as high, because then i try to jump off one leg and it all comes apart.

To sum it up, my SVJ is strong. My double step RVJ is strong. But everything else is weak.

Any suggestions for exercises i should be doing to improve my single leg jump performance or if there is a trick to double leg jumps off a runup?

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