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Week 96

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Friday - 02/05/16

-= Workout Log =-

Cable Rows

Lateral Raises

Pull ups

Ab Pulldowns

Rear Delt W Flyes

Worked out at my friends gym. Did random shit in addition to the usual, but even the usual was screwed up with rest times and a bunch of stuff. Don't feel like typing it and don't remember it either. Damn i hate working out with other people. Fucks everything up. No I don't want to do your workout. I'll do mine and you do yours.

Yeah I hate it too lol.  Most people don't understand keeping to the routine you have planned out perfectly with set rest times and everything. 

"Try this exercise man, just try it, it's great!"

I don't give a shit about your exercise! lolll

Yo Andrew,

Maybe you should quit all this running your doing and train for this instead

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sWYENsJ3O4" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sWYENsJ3O4</a>

You can implement this strategy and be elite

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSezq9sf4S8" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSezq9sf4S8</a>

If those same people who low bar with fairly vertical torso's did a high bar squat, you would see a difference I believe.  It may not be as obvious as normal low bar squatter's but the few inches of difference in the bar position, regardless of torso angle still makes a notable difference in the emphasis of muscles, and more significantly, stress on the knee from my experience.

^not necessarily, i dont think that has much to do with it, for me anyway. I think it's biological. a 220 pound dude feels more invincible than a 175 one. You feel and are stronger, bigger, all of that, it carries over to normal life even if it's mostly a potential thing (eg in a fight for survival) it means more confidence.

Nope, that's buying into standards.  We may still have similarities to our cavemen ancestors, but we have evolved drastically since then from a mental perspective.  Brute strength is not "survival".  Mental strength is.  Random example:  Kendrick Lamar is a 5'6" guy who looks skinny fat.  You think a guy like him has any sensations of feeling "vulnerable" or would feel more invincible if he got jacked?? 

If being bigger makes you feel more invincible, you are either very naive or buying into illusory standards.  Your mind/soul makes you invincible.

What you are saying CAN bring you more confidence.  If it's in the form of "I made this transformation and am proud of myself" then that's more a mental/spiritual thing.

If it's in the form of "I am stronger and bigger than you", that's buying into societal standards of what makes one better than another, which is an illusion.  It's a big illusion, because you buy into it and it makes you feel "confident" but it's a fake confident, one belonging to a person who is actually mentally weak if they need that kind of validation to feel "invincible"


edit:  BTW, no way am I saying there's anything wrong with working out and wanting to get bigger.  It's about, is the desire coming from you or is it coming from society/other people's expectations.  If it's coming from you, then training becomes an art form, one that is a very creative process.

to Final Phenom:

Yeah you basically have the body of a high jumper..  Tall long and skinny.  You got some strength too so really tuning up your body for sl jumping should do a lot for you.

About the achilles, yeah who gives a flying crap.  Lots of long achilles guys jump high off 1 leg, while lots of short achilles jump high too.  Doesn't matter if you strengthen/stiffen them up.

to Maxent:

Can't get to a lean 200 at 6'3" without drugs?  I know it's hard, but that self-defeatist attitude will be a self-fulfilling prophecy.  That's the same kind of pointless mindset as white or asian guys saying "I can never jump like him, I'm not black".

Also, about girls... Cmon guys we're not in high school anymore.  They really don't give a fuck about how ripped or buff you are.  It's crazy how many guys still think like this whenever you go to fitness videos on youtube and look at the comments and shit.  Being an attractive man is about your mental qualities not how big your muscles are.  A lot of times skinny guys who train and build a nice body will get more girls.  Contrary to what he or his bro friends thinks, he's getting more girls because of the new found confidence he has in the transformation he worked his ass off for.  The confidence is picked up by girls.  Most girls have no clue what it is about the guy they are attracted to.  They don't know, so a lot of times they just say whatever "makes sense" like "oh he got a nice body" or some dumb shit. 

As long as you are a man from a mental standpoint -> know's who he is and what he wants, doesn't try to please with their looks or actions, and other actually mentally manly stuff, girls will be attracted to you.  From a body standpoint, it helps to be in general shape, but any more or less than that matters about 1%.

It's no coincidence, creative artist type guys get way more girls than your average gym bro.  It's way more respectable to see a guy work hard just to express himself and accomplish his own inner goals.  It's not respectable to see a guy work hard for others to validate him.

not sure i understand your question. the vest "works" because it fools your brain into thinking your body is heavier than it is. i don't think there's much acute potentiation, i've just been wearing it all the time until it's time to try to PR and then i've been flying. i do wear it on some DLRVJ and all my other jumping and bounding (and lifting, for that matter).

What I mean is I understand the idea is to make your brain think you're heavier by wearing it all the time and only at understandable times should you take it off such as sleeping and showering (as well as ME jumps for you).  Those ME jump sessions probably don't last too long though so it probably works fine for you. 

I was wondering if taking the vest off for the entire training session 1.5~2 hours of jumps, plyos, weights is "too long" of a time to have the vest off to the point that the same beneficial effects won't take place.

Also I wonder if having the vest off during training where you are actually moving and having to deal with the weight even more has a greater negative effect on trying to fool your body into thinking your heavy than compared to if you had the vest off the same duration of time but while just chilling at home?

edit: last question lol (if you can't tell by now, I'm strongly considering trying this), is it advisable to gradually add weight to the vest or can you just stay with the same weight the whole time.  I ask because I notice in your journal you added weight over time

Hey LBSS saw your post in maxents journal but will just ask you here.

So you say wearing the vest 12-14 hours a day is having an undeniable effect in your training.  How long did it take for you to have this potentiation?  Are you wearing them during training too (maybe just during lifting and not jumps/plyos)?  Or just the entire day except for shower + sleep + training?

Primetimes:

Make sure you are starting from a dead stop.  No running in AT ALL.  Start from a standstill. 

At first, each ground contact will make you barely move.  As you keep going, each bound should start taking you farther/higher and farther/higher until you reach your max potential.

You should feel the glutes working.  If the glutes are not working, it most likely means the hamstrings are too weak and your collapsing at the knee.  It may not seem like it at all in real life, but in a slow mo video you'll see it.  A small degree of knee flexion turns the movement quad dominant.

If you can't get to your glutes from the beginning progression, doing certain stuff prior to primetimes to potentiate it is ideal.  Sprints work well.  Make sure throughout the primetimes, you are engaging your low abs hard, to keep pelvic position neutral