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I enjoy reading too but not as many books like u do. Have you noticed different trends between books by men and books by women now that youve read a lot from each?

my tendon seems fine now, i just think that i just have a lot of scar tissue thats left there at the tendon. anyway, now i've only been jumping off my LR plant, sparingly jumping off my leg. gonna keep working on my posterior chain, but want to work on my quads again. quad power has been such a double edged sword for me, i was such a good two foot jumper before, and i was able to get the rim with both hands off a standing vertical. not sure how to stay a strong two foot jumper while still being able to jump well off one foot without knee pain.

I would say to be good at both SL and DL jumps you have to lean towards SL jumping training.  A good SL jumper can easily be good at DL jumping, but a DL jumper usually is not that good at SL jumping.  Of course there are exceptions

What I meant by my first sentence is that although training your quads crazy strong helps DL jumping immensely, it negatively affects SL jumping in many cases on top of knee pain.  So I think the solution is to be a very good DL jumper glute dominantly.  It seems most very good DL jumpers are quad dominant/very powerful quads but you can still have a very good DL jump with powerful glutes which allows your SL jumping to remain good as well.

Hey Andrew,

Noticed you're drinking lots of chocolate soy milk.  I'm sure all the talk of soy milk being bad for you is overblown, but what's your take on them?  Also is there any validity to the phytoestrogen stuff people say 'messes with ur hormones'?

There's so much conflicting info online I just wanna hear what your take on them is

i've never done it by the month. i've gone through periods where i'll squat every time i'm in the gym as long as my body feels right. right now, being on a trip with no squatting possible, i'm kind of evaluating how much to do when i get back. it does seem to help my jumping, even semi-acutely. when i go a while without squatting jumping tends to suffer. not sure there's a causal link there, or if so what it is, but that's a pretty consistent observation i've made over the years.

What do you think it is?  Losing strength when not squatting?  Or you think it's from the STIM/PAP effect of heavy squatting? 

I would say RDL's would be better.  If you're trying to load your P chain more to take stress off the knees, you need eccentric strength and deadlifts are primarily concentric.  Maybe some kb swings too since they're easy and helps load the pchain more with a speed component.

Quote from: Merrick on October 14, 2015, 05:08:33 pm

Thats crazy u got to go to nasa..  What did u do there?

ya it was one of the most fun things i've ever done. We were invited there to demo our software. We killed it, some nasa dudes' minds were blown. Afterwards we got a "private tour of nasa". We saw SpaceX off in the distance.. Wish they would have taken us over there. I should have kept asking for that HEH!

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Everything about space and physics fascinates the hell out of me.. The one thing more interesting than athletic performance for me haha

nice! are you pursuing it at all? i've had my math obsessions. Wanted to get alot better with math/physics. For some reason I just can't commit though, so, not pursuing it anymore (for now).

would be so fun tho..

pC!

Nah man, I'm just enjoying it as a fun hobby/passion of mine to learn about in my spare time.  Wish my friends liked stuff like that though.  I pretty much never get to have cool conversations in person with topics like theoretical physics and stuff so that sucks haha

DAMN! You got up to 207lbs!!!?!?!

On your youtube videos you look like, what? 165?

As you lost quite a bit of max strength, how much did your SL jump go down as opposed to your DL jump?

I'm very interested in the relationship between max strength and SL jumping.  There's obviously a very direct correlation between max strength and DLRVJ/SVJ, but the correlation is a lot fuzzier with SLRVJ's.  You clearly still need high levels of relative strength, but the 'types' of strength and optimal movement efficiency is much more important IMO.  What do you think?

Also in regards to that SL hyper's thread I made recently, do you think there's any benefit of doing them with specificity by having the foot straight up and down instead of externally rotated (pointing out) like how everyone does DL Hyper's?  Pointing outwards clearly allows better glute activation, but less specificity.  What's your take?

THanks!