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Wow that guy had a lot of knee bend in his running... wtf... is that normal in long distance running?

haha I feel you. I also tried to follow this path of high volume. I did olylifts/squatting 4 times a week with jump training beforehand while playing volleyball 2 times a week. All I got out of it was some pretty bad patella tendonitis. I had to stay away from any type of jumping and squatting for the last several weeks which sucked. I now adjusted my training.

Trying to be somewhat intelligent for once.

Interesting stuff. I really can see this approach working out for you.

Or maybe soon.

As far as finding connection between mo farah and mutaz barshim. Find the common connection and train that area.

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What are the practical implications?
 

Since the correlations between this horizontal jumping test and distance running ability were very good, and since previous research has shown that both resistance training and plyometric training can improve running economy, it seems appropriate to include a small amount of horizontal and vertical jump training in distance running routines.
 

Care should be taken to use very low volumes of plyometric training 1 – 2 times per week, as this mode of training can be difficult to recover from. The high levels of force involved and the significant eccentric component can lead to fatigue as well as muscle damage and soreness. Ideally, an athlete would begin with minimal volumes.

You can read more here.
http://www.strengthandconditioningresearch.com/2013/02/21/jumping-distance-running/#button

How might greater strength lead to improve distance running performance?

It is likely that improved distance running performance is achieved through greater running economy. However, exactly how power training improves running economy and therefore endurance running ability is not completely clear. One theory is that greater strength leads to a lower percentage of maximum leg strength being used with each stride. This is thought to reduce the number of motor units recruited during running, which may be more efficient. Another theory is that greater strength means rate of force development would be increased. This would lead to a longer period of relaxation time in each stride. Since contracted muscles prevent blood from flowing through them, longer relaxation times mean improved circulatory flow through the working muscles and therefore better access to oxygen and metabolic substrates. This may increase the time before fatigue.

Unfortunately my chondromalacia is flaring up again. I don't need to go and get another MRI because it feels exactly the same. It's been hovering around a bit in the last 6 weeks since aths season finished but I was staying on top of it. Played fairly easy on Monday but probably was too much to play after track the day before. Yesterday just did the ADEs, no weighted jumps. Today it's sore again.

Overall it's not the end of the world because apparently this type of cartilage wear generally can heal quite well, but I never really gave it the full 4-6 weeks rest from aggravating activity. I did this for my achilles tendinopathy (by not running extensively on it) and it cleared up fine. I should have done this for the knee as well so I was going into the new program 100%. From experience, I'm not confident at all that I can do another week of T0ddday's program without it getting worse. FUCK.

I'm really annoyed at myself for over-committing to things too easily. I shouldn't have agreed to play ball as it added extra knee stress I couldn't handle. I shouldn't have committed two years to doing the athletics training (which didn't end up doing much except give me overuse injuries) while I was committed to jumping. I could have got better results doing jump training (including sprints as secondary exercise) and competed better!

My thinking atm is to suspend the program for now and rest the knee leading up to my US trip, which is six weeks away. Just do rehab 3-4x/week at the gym to fix the knee tracking that has caused this and heat pack the shit out of it 3-4x/day. I've tried training through this before and it got me nowhere. T0ddday's program is the type of thing I need to do to make vertical gains, but I can't do this training with concerns about knee stability/wear long-term because realistically I need to train for the long-term to get ~40'' to dunk. Six weeks is not so long in the scheme of things. Hopefully it heals, then when I get back, my life is PhD student from 9-5 and jump training everything else. I will do aths/bball again when I've retired from jumping.