You are quite welcome. I am glad you are willing to take advantage of the linked program.
Something I learned about squats from a professional gymnast and former bodybuilder. He told me 90% of people that are squatting are not doing it correctly, that they cannot even correctly do a proper squat with no weight so they shouldn't even be using weight until they can do it with proper form and no weight first.
So I tried it with "proper" form and it was really a revelation to me. Basically just sit on a chair, cross your arms over your chest, and get up without leaning forward at all. You want your back to be parallel to the chairs back as you rise, so have someone hold their arms out in front of your chest and if you lean into their arms you are doing it wrong. It should be one movement from your legs going up from 90 degrees or a little lower, and your upper body and torso rising up on a parallel line to the back of the chair.
I tried this and it was hard as fuck. I could barely do 5 of them with proper form. A few months later I am doing 25-30 a set with a 40lb vest and I have seen more growth in my legs than when I was squatting 300+ at the gym. I cannot even imagine how hard it would be to get 280-300 up in the correct form the way you raise off the chair.
Here is a shitty pic to try to illustrate what I am trying to say, as it is kind of hard to explain with words. Maybe a video would be better, will try to add one next time. Try it out and let me know what you guys think.
Something I learned about squats from a professional gymnast and former bodybuilder. He told me 90% of people that are squatting are not doing it correctly, that they cannot even correctly do a proper squat with no weight so they shouldn't even be using weight until they can do it with proper form and no weight first.
So I tried it with "proper" form and it was really a revelation to me. Basically just sit on a chair, cross your arms over your chest, and get up without leaning forward at all. You want your back to be parallel to the chairs back as you rise, so have someone hold their arms out in front of your chest and if you lean into their arms you are doing it wrong. It should be one movement from your legs going up from 90 degrees or a little lower, and your upper body and torso rising up on a parallel line to the back of the chair.
I tried this and it was hard as fuck. I could barely do 5 of them with proper form. A few months later I am doing 25-30 a set with a 40lb vest and I have seen more growth in my legs than when I was squatting 300+ at the gym. I cannot even imagine how hard it would be to get 280-300 up in the correct form the way you raise off the chair.
Here is a shitty pic to try to illustrate what I am trying to say, as it is kind of hard to explain with words. Maybe a video would be better, will try to add one next time. Try it out and let me know what you guys think.
I'm scared.
So as of this very moment, I am physically unable to run at full speed. What. the fuck? All these injuries have been very humbling, if anything. I don't feel like Superman anymore, and it sucks ass. Someone give me some ray of hope here. Like I said, I can do EVERYTHING else on my knee (including jogging for 5.5 miles at a moderate pace) and not feel an INKLING of pain, but the second I try to sprint it's like someone shot me in the leg.
And all this just a month-and-a-half before my first obstacle course race.
The best teriyaki is owned and staffed by Koreans selling bastardized Japanese and Chinese cuisine cooked by Mexicans with a majority White consumer base... at least in my experience here in the Seattle area.
That sucks big time! How are sprints holding up for you given the problems you ran into on your run? Or have you tried sprinting since your knee gave out?