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dude,

if there has been anything that having several career-threatening injuries has taught me it is...

don't, and I repeat DON'T listen to anyone who tells you what you will not be able to accomplish.
Obviously take it slow and follow all the rehabilitation protocols, but as for people trying to put a ceiling on how much the injury will stop you...forget about what they say.

Maybe your jumping "ceiling" will be lowered a bit by the injury, it's possible.  The point is moot though because nobody ever reaches their ceiling.
 

If you want it enough to put in the effort to rehab and then train following the injury, I guarantee that you will be better and more athletic than you were before.

There have been pro athletes who have torn their achilles and come back and performed just as they did before.  You will too.

Wow


impressive stuff man

Good post, but I don't get this PED hate. Everything you do can be considered "cheating". Training is cheating. Resting is cheating. Having money to buy better food is cheating. And by "cheating" I mean improving beyond your natural ability. Just because PEDs do the job fast and good doesn't mean that's cheating. Cheating does not exist.

Oh, yeah, it exists if you sign a paper where you say you won't use PEDs, I agree with that. But in terms of achieving maximal human potential quick and good, PEDs are good for that. Don't see anything wrong with that, if you decide to take them.

I think adarq is saying none of us have even come close to reaching our non-enhanced potential... so why use PEDS

Well said man...



I hope you don't think I believe drug use to be essentially for improving athletic performance

would it help...obviously

is it necessary...no



One question i have for you is: 

eventually you will reach a plateau on your squat, how do you plan further "intensify" after that? 

Furthermore, I assume (but please correct me if I am wrong), that following this "intensification", when you returned to squatting your squat would increase beyond your plateau, which is what happened when you described the transformation from 1xbw to your current abilities, no?

Julio jones in hs
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J49b9hC4hIg" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J49b9hC4hIg</a>


read that in hs he did 49'1" in the triple jump WOWWWWW
24'5" in the long
and 6'8" in the high jump


absolutely world class athlete, world class

my take on it is this: i personally don't care one bit because there's nothing I can do about it.

higher calfs = longer tendons = more spring = more impressive athletic performance

nothing for anyone to worry about UNLESS you are into recruiting/picking out talent etc.

in the end, doesn't matter what kind of calfs you have or tendon length you have, you can still perform insane on jumping/sprinting regardless of the build.. i've seen jumper's with huge calfs/shorter tendons who are all power and just fly.

peace

adarq.

for me at least this topic was engineered towards wife selection...   

just kidding   

but i agree 1000000000000000000%
everyone has to play with the cards they are dealt, no sense worrying about what "could have been"


btw kelly the article is really good.  You have a knack for simplifying and elucidating what is often confusing and complicated.

He truly was an awesome talent...
its too bad

Bret Contreras just posted a whole series of practical applications of recent studies.  This was one of them:

Interpretation of previous work showing long compliant tendons were better suited for jumping should take into account that during the quick jump situations often observed in sport that tendon length may actually diminish rather than enhance performance, and thus decrease the importance of AT-length for talent identification. Optimal muscle architecture appears to be dependent on both the eccentric load and the phase of jump. While both strength and plyometric training have been shown to increase FL only heavy strength training has been shown to increase P. Thus when a high eccentric load or multiple jumps are required for sport heavy strength training should be used to allow for early force production during jumping.