Rick Walker Posted May 22, 2015 Share Posted May 22, 2015 Same here bud, i ended up deleting it. This thread was to recognize Alan's achievement, not bickering with miserable people. Considering Alan isnt a member, I doubt he will mind. He has made it as far as he has without any advice from "the strongest men in the world" and he charges for his own advice, so I doubt anyone is going to get any magical program off him for free. Now that I think about it, most of the strong guys on here charge for their advice... He has an amazing vertical and works full range speed reps. Dude is a ball of fast twitch fibers. You could train like him all day long, if you arent wired the same way, you will just spin your wheels. EJ-keep doing your thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Walker Posted May 22, 2015 Share Posted May 22, 2015 To add to that, guys like Jedd put out great info on technique. Thats the best info you can get. Learn proper technique, and put the pieces together for yourself. I would never put out programming advice unless I was personally working with that person. Too hard and way too many variables. But look at how popular glossy muscle magazines are and they are full of programs to get you jacked and stacked! Go your own road. Sure, get advice on form and techniques, but then forge your own path. Let me give you a lame example. I am diving into wood working. I have ben slowly collecting the tools I need. I have watched countless hours of online tutorials on how to plane, scroll, etc. but I still choose to do it the way it feels best to me. I have jacked up a lot of wood, but it is coming together and I am starting to get decent. No one is holding my hand despite my 83 year old father being a master carpenter. He has tried to show me stuff but I need to do it my way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cannon Posted May 23, 2015 Share Posted May 23, 2015 Yeah, quick google search also showed he held the vertical jump WR at one time. Not too many people can say they own that record and can CCS a 3.5. I bet the list stands at one, to be exact. Haha thats really impressive, considering: "White men can't jump" Some can! I thought the post above about "high jumpers don't long jump, etc" was interesting. I ran track in high school and my 3 events were high jump, triple jump, and the 800m. I had the vertical jump record for our high school (which I'm sure has been broken but it was 37" or something at the time). I could dunk anything I could palm, which was not a basketball, but could put one down 2 handed and a good day. Wish I could still jump like that Congrats to Barch. I've been poking around his website. Really interesting! Great athlete. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elmo Posted May 23, 2015 Share Posted May 23, 2015 I thought the post above about "high jumpers don't long jump, etc" was interesting. I ran track in high school and my 3 events were high jump, triple jump, and the 800m. I had the vertical jump record for our high school (which I'm sure has been broken but it was 37" or something at the time). I could dunk anything I could palm, which was not a basketball, but could put one down 2 handed and a good day. Wish I could still jump like that Quoting my post about closing #4 in another thread? I wasn't completely clear. Decathletes do many things at the same time. But they don't compete with specialists (as a rule of thumb; of course there may be rare exceptions). And I mean at very high level, Olympics, world records. Because the question was if someone could focus on many events and even many sports at the same time and get #4 cert. Some genetic freak, maybe? Those who now are the strongest candidates? Is #4 with CCS comparable e.g. to breaking the world record of 100m? No decathlete could do that. Can a top gripster get #4 cert without dropping other goals for a while, 6 months or a year, and focusing completely on #4? If yes, then #4 isn't so hard after all. It would be just very, very hard Maybe I can't explain my point clearly, please try to understand what I mean. This guy here is extremely good, but he didn't cert #4 (yet) and the difficulty of #4 was the question. With 3.5 he got my admiration and awe. It would be very interesting to see what would happen amongst gripsters if he certed #4... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jose Cabrera Posted May 23, 2015 Share Posted May 23, 2015 Same here bud, i ended up deleting it. This thread was to recognize Alan's achievement, not bickering with miserable people. Considering Alan isnt a member, I doubt he will mind. Understandable, but its more likely he'll become a memwber if we can be civil when talking about his achievements. Idk about you but, I think a good discussion is far more inviting to a person than walking into a heated argument. Regardless the guy has my (and hopefully many others) respect, high jump record,certing the 3.5 and raising 5 kids makes him mans man. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoshW Posted May 23, 2015 Share Posted May 23, 2015 Bored to death of hearing about #4 certs. This guys seems to know what he's doing so I respect him a lot for that. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hubgeezer Posted May 23, 2015 Author Share Posted May 23, 2015 I ran track in high school and my 3 events were high jump, triple jump, and the 800m. That is a VERY unusual Combo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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