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To me, the "no need to do parallel or ATG squats if following JumpManual" sounds like "don't worry guys, if you buy my program you don't need to worry about doing full squats, you know, the squats you actually hate to do".

So if my one-leg jump has a knee bend of ~20 degrees, I should only train with 1/8 squats?! Great!

Not really, no. My point was to do a more power oriented jump squatting approach instead of using 8 reps during which, at the end, they will probably suck. The thing with the 1 minute rest periods was just to keep THIS 3x5 or 5x3 a bit shorter than what the same 3x5 or 5x3 would take if you were to pause as much as in your 2x8 (2 or 4 breaks in between sets instead of 1 break).

But whatever.

So these are actual reps, no singles?

Maybe. Maybe that increased TUT in the half squat allows enough time for the lesser explosive guys to actually turn on and recruit muscle fibers better. So I guess the transition towards more specificity from the general full squat COULD be applied with half squats while at the same time getting some additional specificity bonuses.

Because you can only get better at so many things, and because you'd be better served to do something else with your time (either strength or speed related, or should we say, general or specific). I think this is a good reason.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIfXMmRSG28" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIfXMmRSG28</a>

Yeah this is a fun time. If anything, make sure you finish fresh your workouts. If not, then the weights are too heavy.