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what olympic lifters squat to varies, since the squat is not actually part of their sport, although there still are some ccompeitions i believe

true that adarq, same thing i just said in my journal

Point being, IMO most people that do nothing besides lift and the low volume power oriented jump work will be in trouble without some kind of general fitness work (pickup,cardio,dribbling,walking,swimming,anything). The heart is the most important muscle.  Low work capacity not good for vert training or life in general(neither is being overweight)..

you mean quarter squatting 

specificity at its finest, def gonna be interesting to see your vert jump up

adarq, isnt that what periodization basically is

Just out of curiosity, anyone have idea of those that have achieved elite(37+) via mainyl low bar vs highbar

High bar
kingfish
rip?

low bar
uh?

do these run the same size/fit the same as regular nike shoes?

also are the Nike Zoom Waffle XC VII the same as the nike zoom waffle racers VI? (or maybe more improved?)

**Forgot landon evans great stuff on elitefts. Also forgot Alex V=beast and i guess that kelly guy knows stuff too

soo in no particular order, everyone that aspires to training themselves and train for sports or a particular sport athlete, ready as much as you can from-

James Smith,
Tom mylinski,
Landon Evans
Charlie Francis,
Buddy Morris
Alex V
Kelly B
and more..

To develop a 40+ inch running vertical jump, and to learn how to dress during training sessions, among other things, ask adarq


Anyways, good posts and good thread.  Very good points Alex.  How do you personally squat now?  how do you coach your athletes to squat?

Ive actually seen damn good athletes who struggle with proper squat technique and clean as well..

Anyways, gonna leave it as it is.  Squat how you do and ill squat how ill do.  I nor any athlete need to squat below parallel and vice versa.  Again, im not talking about squatting quarter squats, i mean i favor thigh parallel squats for the majority of my training IE powerlifting depth(lower than half squat). And you obviously prefer deeper, so be it to each his own.

also, are you a big RIPPTOE guy?  JW, like some of his vids, just cant get him over saying that VJ cant be improved.