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Jackw mentioned a few time saying, it have the benefit of added resistance for your jump, without the extra load harming ur joint during landing.

on the other hand, the band force u to go down faster, increase ur counter movement speed, doesn't that yield extra load during the landing phase?

um, i am not sure..

Quote from: pelham32 on September 26, 2012, 02:37:38 pm

I have the other version from lifeline. I kinda wish I didn't have it though, beacause it's very tempting to want to use it with every exercise all the time. I've tried with squats, kb swings, calve raises(doesn't work well), deadlifts, bounds, depth jumps etc. I would say in the grand scheme of things it hasn't really helped me. I would consider this a worthy gimmick though, because of its variety with uses. I just don't think it will complement the general phase of getting stronger that much, it kinda just makes you want to use it all the time.

What about backward downhill "walks" or basically eccentric calf raising walks? Ever tried such a thing? Less intense but much more TUT and almost no rest in between reps.

Another option would probably be doing what I was actually doing that got me that hard soreness in the first place - eccentric oriented step-ups

Right, blame it on ME you naughty boy!

What are your experiences with backward depth drops for calf development?

I'm asking this because I observed something very interesting when I was doing step-ups: I wasn't too tired anywhere because of them but the one place I had HUGE soreness was the calves. Basically every time I put my leg back down from the step-up box I was doing an eccentric calf raise. I didn't feel it at the time but after I finished my sets my calves were fried. Never experienced any kind of calf soreness like the one that occured after those step-ups.

So I was thinking - shouldn't doing backwards stiff leg depth drops help quite a bit on calf training? The TUT would be pretty short with the possible downside of too many landings/landing stress, but as far as the amount of "weight" in that eccentric part - you can't replicate that in the weight room - too much for the back, at least for mine's. Plus you never really do backwards stuff often so they should take that as an "unusual" stress and adapt better to it than to regular calf raises etc.

Any opinions?

How come besides the speed being a lot faster, none of the other visual changes have happened to me?

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going to trick adarq.org out with my new webdev skills.... already it's looking alot nicer.. going to try and come up with some fun stuff.

it's looking 10000.05% better, i had people vote on it IRL.

change you can believe in.