How To Improve Your Vertical Jump!
We"ve spoke before about the importance of strength and explosiveness and we"ve mentioned the first key portion of a good vertical jump program is power. One old school exercise we love for developing power are RDL"s.
Rdl"s are Romanian deadlifts, they we"re made famous by of course the mid easterner"s that were performing this unique exercise for their time. It"s basically a form of a deadlift that trains the most overlooked athletic musculature in the body. Your hips (specifically hip extensors/hip flexors). You take a straight bar and beginnners should start without using any weight. Hold the bar at arm"s length then while keeping your back tight and straight you allow the weight to slowly descend down your legs and your butt should move back slightly with your head looking straight forward.
Literally, it is easiest to allow the weight to slide down your pant legs obviously controlling the weight as you go. And as you descend, your butt should move back ever so slightly and you should feel a stretch in your hamstrings. In fact, I find it"s easier to learn this exercise if you visualize it as a hamstring stretch with no lower back movement. Most people will find that they can safely bring the bar down to around knee level before their lower back begins to straighten. Understand, this is not a lower back movement you should not be using your back at all, you will feel the stretch in your hamstrings then your movement is that pelvic hip thrust forward and the flexion of your glutes.
Really force yourself to thrust and power forward through the lift and concentrate on flexing your glutes at the end of the rep and hold them tight. Ladies, really there is no better movement out there to tighten and strengthen your glutes. And for the average male, this is the perfect exercise to actually develop a athletic posterior chain. Which we have spoke so much about before, the average athlete just never develops these muscles and this I have found to be one of the best exercises available. Note it is most important to start with a lite weight and wear a weight belt until you understand the exercise. Good luck with this one, we"ll have more on this topic and specifics of reps/weight etc. You"ll love this exercise...
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