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Messages - MattA

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Exactly, totally different :uhhhfacepalm:. Sorry for your situation man. My suggestion: Tinder

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I can't static stretch before training, lifting or playing...im not bouncy at all. Good dynamic warmup and just moving around til I get a sweat broke seems to be the best for me. I only static stretch post activity.

Right, that's how I am. I only stretch my calves and hip flexors before activity. The research actually says static stretching is bad for force production. I just don't think it has any effect on the SSC.

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By the way - forget what I write around here, I'm not in the right mental state to think about anything. Sorry about that.

No worries man. I actually thought you did have some reasoning behind your statement but just hadn't taken the time to write it all out. I can kinda see where you're coming from in that if I stretch really good, my muscles feel more relaxed and less explosive, but I don't feel like that has to do with the SSC but more the actin-myosin crossbridges not being at an optimal length for the muscle to contract maximally.

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Maybe Raptor knows something that we don't, but he needs to explain it in his post, not just take his opinion/theory and write it out as fact. The muscle spindles, which are responsible for activating the stretch shortening cycle, respond to both changes in muscle length AND the rate/speed of change in length. Regardless of how flexible you are statically, I would think it would still kick in during a rapid eccentric contraction. Like in a depth jump, your knees don't bend much to stretch the quadriceps, it's the rate/speed of that stretch that causes the reflex.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Chris' training journal
« on: December 05, 2014, 12:34:15 am »
Sick bro. 37 and 16 is no joke. Any chance for some game footage in the future?

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Because there's a loss of stretch reflex when you're too flexible - you don't benefit from it anymore. If you're still explosive it's because you're strong, not because you still benefit from the stretch reflex at the level of people that aren't as flexible as you. But this applies in something like ballet or whatever.

This answer does not justify your statement. What happens physiologically that makes you say that?

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Chris' training journal
« on: October 22, 2014, 04:56:11 pm »
Cool, do you mind linking the bands you use?

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Chris' training journal
« on: October 22, 2014, 02:59:01 pm »
What does it mean when you say "banded"?

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Basketball / Re: A WHOLE BUNCH OF DUNKS AND SHIT.
« on: August 06, 2014, 10:31:55 pm »
You can just tell with the power in his approach that when he adds 10-15lbs more muscle he will get his whole head over the rim.

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Basketball / Re: paul george leg injury
« on: August 02, 2014, 06:55:01 pm »
It was a compound displaced fracture of both the tibia and fibula. The tibia was also fractured up near the knee as well. There was no damage to any nerves or blood supply. I think he'll be back next year at 100%. Bone injuries look worse than say an ACL, but they will heal back fine, unlike ligaments and tendons. You have cells in your body that rebuild bone, there are none such cells for ligaments or tendons. Kevin Ware is back to 100% in a year, I think PG will be too.

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Basketball / Re: A WHOLE BUNCH OF DUNKS AND SHIT.
« on: July 27, 2014, 11:40:32 pm »
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baoY0pddIR4" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baoY0pddIR4</a>

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Basketball / Re: A WHOLE BUNCH OF DUNKS AND SHIT.
« on: July 27, 2014, 11:03:51 am »
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeWQ_WT_Cds" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeWQ_WT_Cds</a>

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Pics, Videos, & Links / Re: beast
« on: July 22, 2014, 07:10:47 pm »
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rP7m61gGmP4" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rP7m61gGmP4</a>

my boys!!

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Basketball / Re: A WHOLE BUNCH OF DUNKS AND SHIT.
« on: April 27, 2014, 08:30:47 pm »
Cliche reply: Although i adore Gerald Green's aerial skills, VC in his prime didn't dunk next to 7' guys, he dunked OVER 7'2'' guys:

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMrPjl-927Q" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMrPjl-927Q</a>

Can't get over that dunk, in my list it is #1 , tied with the MJ over Ewing one.

that probably wasn't even vince's prime in terms of ups.  his early toronto days were.

Those WERE his early Toronto days. The 2000 Olympics was after his 2nd year in the league.

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Basketball / Re: D. Rose jumping HIGHER post ACL?
« on: October 26, 2013, 07:06:53 pm »
Quote from: the article
Coming out of Memphis, he registered a "no-step" vertical of 34.5 inches and a max vertical of 40 inches. Prior to his ACL injury, he was soaring about 37 inches off the ground. Post-injury, he says he's at 42 inches, per ESPN Chicago's Nick Friedell, much to the dismay of opposing defenses everywhere.

Draft: SVJ 34.5" and RVJ 40"
Then: SVJ ?? (?) and RVJ 37" (?)
Now: SVJ ? and RVJ 42?"

have no idea what they're getting at here. stupid journalists.

It was not specified what type (standing or RVJ) the 37" or 42" measurements were from. I highly doubt he was only RVJing 37" considering how explosive he is. It makes more sense that the 37" was a SVJ.

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