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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Age vs Vertical
« on: June 30, 2015, 07:14:13 am »
What tempo do you have on the calf raises?
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Age vs Vertical
« on: June 28, 2015, 05:47:57 pm »
Yeah that's why I say it's weird. Obviously there's an underlying cause... but I haven't been able to find out what it is. Long story short, it doesn't REALLY matter. You can only control what you can control, and that is strength, body composition and movement efficiency, pretty much.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Age vs Vertical
« on: June 28, 2015, 11:49:39 am »
I don't get it though. I mean I know everybody is different and all that, but something is "afoot" here. Maybe you have stronger quads or something?
Granted, I'm 10 kg heavier than you. So there you go.
Granted, I'm 10 kg heavier than you. So there you go.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Age vs Vertical
« on: June 27, 2015, 11:02:25 am »
You still have a better vert at 40 than me at 30. I think my SVJ is ~24 right now, dropstep ~26 or so. And you don't squat 120x7, low bar or whatnot.
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Bios / Re: Animals
« on: June 25, 2015, 06:20:26 am »
Interactive video (in Chrome you can pan and rotate around):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0180hEnKUI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0180hEnKUI
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Nature, Wilderness, Hiking, Travel, and Misc Outdoorsy stuff / Re: Random landscape of the day
« on: June 24, 2015, 06:16:32 am »
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Bios / Re: Animals
« on: June 11, 2015, 06:29:01 pm »984
Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Chris' training journal
« on: June 02, 2015, 01:48:13 am »
You're getting crazy-strong lately... how?
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Dreyth's New Journal
« on: May 29, 2015, 05:59:09 pm »
I'm liking that site much better the way it is now!
I didn't get terminal vertical, but I was on the vertical summit.
I didn't get terminal vertical, but I was on the vertical summit.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Dreyth's New Journal
« on: May 29, 2015, 02:28:15 pm »
What if you low bar squat, just for the heck of it? What happens?
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Dreyth's New Journal
« on: May 29, 2015, 12:32:28 pm »
Well I can barely squat 105x5 in the high bar squat while weighing 90 kg. Squatted 150x1 a week ago in the low bar squat. People say I shouldn't worry about a few cm position of the bar on the back. Maybe they'd like to explain this difference then.
It seems that the same mobility and lack of foot dorsiflexion issues that prevent me from bending my knees well and stable in a one leg jump also prevent me from squatting well in a high bar squat, even with Olympic lifting shoes on.
Also, in the high bar squat I break at the knees first whereas in the low bar squat I initiate the descent going back with the hips. So it's not just the bar position, it's a whole different movement.
Funny thing is that when I did low bar squats a week ago I got pretty severe VMO soreness. So weird.
By the way - how difficult are half squats for you? For me they're maybe more difficult than full squats. That reversal point for me is hell and I feel a huge knee overload.
It seems that the same mobility and lack of foot dorsiflexion issues that prevent me from bending my knees well and stable in a one leg jump also prevent me from squatting well in a high bar squat, even with Olympic lifting shoes on.
Also, in the high bar squat I break at the knees first whereas in the low bar squat I initiate the descent going back with the hips. So it's not just the bar position, it's a whole different movement.
Funny thing is that when I did low bar squats a week ago I got pretty severe VMO soreness. So weird.
By the way - how difficult are half squats for you? For me they're maybe more difficult than full squats. That reversal point for me is hell and I feel a huge knee overload.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Dreyth's New Journal
« on: May 29, 2015, 07:01:39 am »I was expecting a one-leg jump judging by the speed of your approach. I'll never understand how people can deal with such high speeds when going off two without getting completely overloaded in the plant. My knees and quad tendons would blow out after such a tremendous "stop" off two.
could it have something to do with the fact that i used to be a one legged jumper? i switched 5 years ago, at around the same time that i was able to tomahawk for the first time.
i wonder how high i would get off of one leg actually. maybe i'll try it out sometime. I bet it'll feel really awkward at first though.
No, because if that was the case I would jump off two at high speeds. But I don't. I think it has more to do with quad strength and quad tendon ability to load a ton of tension without feeling it will break and signaling the CNS an overload has occured and that it must shut down the jump.
Think about it - I collapse even when I do consecutive high hurdles. If there's something quick when I can't load the quads slowly and under control I stiffen up and shut down. So it must be something about the quad tendons in my opinion.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Dreyth's New Journal
« on: May 28, 2015, 03:22:53 pm »
I was expecting a one-leg jump judging by the speed of your approach. I'll never understand how people can deal with such high speeds when going off two without getting completely overloaded in the plant. My knees and quad tendons would blow out after such a tremendous "stop" off two.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: May 28, 2015, 03:17:12 pm »
I obviously am VERY depressed. Depressed as in borderline crazy.
Stayed away from computers and any kind of "social activity" (including talking to her) this week. I'm just completely exhausted.
Stayed away from computers and any kind of "social activity" (including talking to her) this week. I'm just completely exhausted.