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No Avishek... you're just not going to get any "real benefits" and you could even program yourself with a FAULTY mechanic doing these.

Your jumps do not occur due to reaching a point of extension that determines a jump to occur, but rather you forcing the jump pulling with your "back" and using the weight of the KB to pull you forward. Which is something you don't want to do and it's counterproductive to athletic endeavors.

So you're not:

1) Using maximal power
2) Using maximal extension
3) Using maximal speed
4) Using correct mechanics


Then why the hell would this still be beneficial and not a waste of time and body resources? You could do regular KB swings and overhead tosses with a medball or basic broad jumps and get a much better workout.

You'd get maximal power doing the "grounded" KB swings AND maximal hip extension while using correct mechanics and doing overhead tosses or broad jumps you'd use maximal speed as well + hip extension + correct mechanics + maximal power.

So there ya have it.

This exercise is like me saying "if you want to drive a car better you should drive it at 10 miles per hour with 2 pairs of sunglasses on - that will improve your ability to drive the car faster without these sunglasses on".

Well how about driving the car faster without the sunglasses on in the first place?

You should film the bounds and 2-leg bounds/broad jumps. Heck, film everything.

Um... two observations

Looking at the replay I can see two things:

1) Hip hyperextension DOES NOT occur
2) You're actually initiating a "pull the torso up" movement to "jump" forward

So if you're doing these two things ^^^ instead of actually working on emphasizing the hip extension/hyperextension you're not only not training the hip extension but you're also programming yourself to raise the torso when jumping and not actually using the hips.

If I were you I'd stop doing these

If you compare what you're doing here with a med ball overhead toss or a traditional KB swing... the amount of hip extension/hyperextension is not even comparable.

Well you get more calf involvement in the depth jump than in the jump squat since you have to take in a landing before jumping.

Also, after you take in the landing at an overloaded weight you can jump with only your bodyweight.

So it's a overloaded eccentric coupled with a bodyweight jump squat.

Actually, you can recruit all your motor neurons from doing 80%+ of 1RM squats, so the need of doing depth jumps knowing that is SEVERELY overrated.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDMCh5HrcG0" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDMCh5HrcG0</a>

Quote from: LBSS on August 02, 2013, 10:23:41 am

Quote from: Raptor on August 02, 2013, 10:13:23 am

Quote from: LBSS on August 02, 2013, 09:43:36 am

ffffffffffffffake.

No shit?! I thought he was fast enough to catch the ball in a full court sprint, jump and finish the alleyoop. Thanks for clarifying that.

 

lol raptor owned

 

ffffffffffffffake.

No shit?! I thought he was fast enough to catch the ball in a full court sprint, jump and finish the alleyoop. Thanks for clarifying that.