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Ah, good. I literally laughed out loud at the comparison to crossfit.

In my short experience, in season or during a 'explosive' block of work my squat/dl usually go down a little as well. I contribute this too a few things.

1. Less volume and therefore less time practicing the movement.
2. Skill work and conditioning do nothing for strength,  in fact they usually have a detrimental effect.
3. The explosive stuff (DJs, bounds, etc) programs your neural and musculature circuits differently. Your body gravitates from being comfortable in a squat motion to being comfortable and therefore more efficient in another (jumping,  running, whatever)

With that said I have also noticed this weird conundrum with myself. I train a strength block and add say 20-30lbs to my squat and its now 300lbs (vert doesnt go up much or at all, we'll say it stays at 30" for comparison sake). I take up a explosive block and my vert shoots up a few inches, and squat strength goes down. Now, funny part, I go to another strength block...I can't do 300lbs so I go down to 275. Work my way up to 320 or whatever and my vert stays where it was after the explosion block and doesn't decrease while I cut back on reactive stuff. So it keeps going up faster than my weights are. This has happened twice now. Just my experience but still a thought worth considering.

Basically, you're playing alot (see point 2) AND you're cutting. So don't worry about losing some squat strength as long as your displaying a more explosive you on the court?

That is true Vag, he does present himself as failure prone often when in reality that isn't the case at all. I'd like to emphasize what raptor said in his post 'it wont be displayed In the gym, but on the field'. THAT'S an athletes response. He doesn't 'care' if he's 'beasting in the weight room as long as he's being a monster on his choice of field.

Honestly, it sounds like Entropy is inching closer towards my original point number 1. He's sounding like more of a power lifter than an athlete (not that power lifters aren't athletes but you see what im saying?). And let's face it, not many guys can do both simultaneously.

I think its safe to say he's pretty strong lol

Damn, I just came to post that Raptor! Fuckin STUPID.

I felt good about today until I saw that while stretching lol!

Man, if those felt meh, you can jam a well timed/thrown lob.

GL on the track stuff! I'm betting you will surprise yourself.

I wouldn't use anything while jumping that you aren't able to wear every time...IF it helps it'd just be a non repeatable disappointing PR. :/