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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: Measurements
« on: January 26, 2011, 08:30:40 pm »
I think my shoulder girdle might sit low relative to the top of my head compared to other people. I've notice people like Amare Stoudemire has his shoulders almost permanently shrugged up if you know what I mean?

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: Measurements
« on: January 26, 2011, 08:23:52 pm »
Wingspan is measured fingertip to fingertip I'm assuming? Because in that case my reach baffles me.

yup, why whatsup?


Because I'm 6' almost 6'1 tall, have a 6'4 almost 6'5 wingspan, and only have a 7'9 reach haha.

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: Measurements
« on: January 26, 2011, 08:15:08 pm »
Wingspan is measured fingertip to fingertip I'm assuming? Because in that case my reach baffles me.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: January 23, 2011, 02:32:18 am »
That was brilliant. I bet it took a lot of work, because that vid was awesome. Lots of takes, angles, effects, awesome audio -great work man.

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ADARQ & LanceSTS - Q&A / Re: One-leg wall sits
« on: January 10, 2011, 05:19:37 pm »
Very good thread. I think I'm going to make changes to my technique after figuratively beating my head (and knees probably) into a concrete wall for so long.

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So that's Raptor singing?

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: January 02, 2011, 07:44:46 am »
Awesome stuff man. You're dunking so much damn harder now than in the past. You're very consistent too. To me, this means that when you have one of those random "good" days, you're going to be so damn high- if you get what I mean.

I think I may have had the same peroneal thing a month or 2 ago. Mine felt kinda like DOMS, but I had it (inexplicably) for 2+ weeks = weird = not actual DOMS. Damn aches and pains huh :uhhhfacepalm:

PS. Don't move my log to the deserter section please haha. I will log tomorrow!

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I'm yet to log the workout from yesterday, but I squatted heavy and did sled work. The squats have left my legs with DOMS. I'll be doing another sled work session tonight and see how it affects recovery.

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Good feedback from everyone. Nice discussion.

A few things: Thibaudeau definitely isn't swearing solely by the concentric work. His prescriptions still consist of high sets of low reps on the bread and butter movents (Squat, front squat etc.), - something like ramping up for approx. 6-12 sets of 3 - 5 reps. He then recommends the rest of the workload coming from concentric only work, at a relatively high frequency. He even goes as far as saying that the more you do, the better.

My experience so far is:

- it does get you pumped nicely

- you don't feel fucked the next day

- some of these movements might sort out activation issues (glutes contract very hard on pull throughs) and iron out imbalances (dragging the sled backward or forward in a striding motion is unilateral by nature).

- I have a minor hamstring pull and this is allowing me to work the hamstrings without any pain.

I believe it's important not to overlook the fact that this is purely assistance work and is just one part of what should be a balanced program containing the basics.

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Eh?
Those exercises you mention actually contain plenty of eccentric contractions, right?
If you were to train purely concentric you'd have to go with squatting/deadlifting from pins for instance
Might be wrong.

IMO, since the muscle can exert a lot more power due to the myosin being utilized optimally (active + passive), the eccentric portion of lifts is rather Underrated and should not be avoided.
I've seen great gains (Strength wise, red.) with guys that put in effort in the eccentric portion in stead of just dropping down and bouncing back up.

Aside from the increased workload, I'm guessing the Tibideau theory has something to do with sport specify and neural drive too, which is understandable, but then again all compound lifts are not sport specific, so that wouldn't make any sense to me.

Ain't well read on the subject so I'm eager to see how you do though.


As Damien said above, the sled doesn't weigh you down. Doing the sled work in the way Thibaudeau describes is purely concentric.

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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Eccentric-less Training
« on: December 13, 2010, 03:36:19 am »
What are your thoughts on this method which Thibaudeau is proposing?

Essentially, the idea is that the legs need high volume to grow, but the eccentric portion of exercises beat the body up too much and leave the muscles damaged.

Instead he proposes building strength with squats doing low reps, and bumping up the volume of training the legs are subjected to by doing concentric-only work such as:

Sled pushing
Sled dragging
Sled pull-throughs
Sled straight legged walks etc.

Opinions?

I am trying it at the moment. At least it's going to provide some GPP - we'll have to see what growth or strength gains come from it.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: December 06, 2010, 01:39:52 am »
Sweet ass on that chick in the blue jeans, 2nd pic. Nice jumping too btw hahaha.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: November 30, 2010, 04:45:49 pm »
GOOD concentric speed on the last rep of 265  :P :P :P Hahaha nah good strength though man. That's pretty damn heavy considering your weight at the moment. Definitely relatively stronger than your 315 @ ~185. Keep it up.

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If I remember correctly, Stefan Holm was doing low box step ups (I assume for specificity) but his back squats actually looked very deep (to recruit more fibres etc. like KellyB would say I'd assume). Just more food for thought.

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Introduce Yourself / Re: for 45" running vert
« on: November 24, 2010, 10:10:29 pm »
Its fall....Im sure you can get more than just one leaf.


It's Spring in my side of the world.

New Zealand owns.  :headbang:

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