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Damn, PR tie off four? Never tried jumping off all four

Anyway, it seems your strength is carrying over to your jumping more and more. Sounds like improvements in movement efficiency to me.

Yeah the LRLR bounding is sooooooooo difficult for me to understand. Instead, a LLLL bound is easier form-wise.

I am much worse than acole is:

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ho3JljB4d2Y" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ho3JljB4d2Y</a>

Granted these are from years ago, but I will do them the same if I try to do them now. Just horrible.

Yeah but it's better to specialize yourself if your only goal is dunking. So if all you want is dunk, you gotta make up your mind what kind of plant you want to use and only practice that endlessly. Eventually you should be able to do it.

Hey Adarq check PM, thanks!

One of the main reasons some strong people suck at one leg jumping is because they let their calves "fall behind". The calves are less adaptable in terms of strength gains and if you gain weight, gain quad mass, gain glute mass, get hamstring mass, you name it, and get "strong" (while also getting heavier), you will have a higher relative squat to bodyweight ratio but you will collapse in a high speed one-leg jump plant because the calves are the ones that didn't grow at the same rate.

And since that happened, then you will experience ankle collapse that will feel like the quads are giving out or the knee itself gives out.

So it's a bit counter intuitive because you'll think the quads aren't doing their job, when in reality the quads are overloaded by the ankle collapse.

Haha you're on a rampage lately, getting progress in both weight lifted and form.

I wonder what the actual gains are? Logically, since you do such a low volume, it would make sense these are strength gains, unless it's not some kind of delayed movement efficiency effect from the higher volume that you did before?

It depends on what you mean by squatmornings (how bad would they be) and how often you'd do them. If they're very bad and you do them often, then you're going to:

1) Program yourself to execute faulty mechanics
2) Not gain any leg strength
3) Subject yourself to increased injury risks

You make the call.

There's a reason we want to do perfect-form squats - because they have their targets, and these targets are what we want to improve while also staying safe.

What you're proposing, to me, is like saying you're going to do half squats because you can use more weight, and no other argument than that. Or that you should use a bent-back deadlift form because you're going to lift more. And so on.