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So I'm having this dispute with Myree about his reported 53 inch vertical. There's a video with him here:

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zL7wohPJYU" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zL7wohPJYU</a>

What do you think? Legit 53 or not? His head would have to be at 10'6" for him to have a 53 inch vert.

Not a fan of baseball, as I don't understand anything out of it, but that looked pretty cool. I bet my mom would say "nice" and make a smilie face.

He stared up into the dewy sky now littered with stars, wiped his brow and psyched himself up for his next attempt. Like magic, his quads dishibited, his glutes engaged for the first time, propelling him across the ground in 3 long bounds, he had finally set a PR behind him. How did it happen and more importantly what could he do to repeat it? He had done the same thing over and over, a thousand times before. It was a random mutation which unlocked in him a movement efficiency never before seen. Never to be seen again, he grimaced, the lens of his camera had retracted, propped on 3 shaky legs sat unevenly in the unruly grass. NO would ever believe him and the recording had cut out just as he began the rep, recalling @adarqui who had told him to be aggressive and not take so long to begin. And he repeats the insanity, expecting this time things would be different, but not today.

I just told my psychiatrist this, and he prescribed me a whole bunch of medication. Like I needed any extra ones!

Have you tried, recently?

I can hear the answer without you saying anything: "No, and I don't plan to".

I've given up on my diet, too. Tried it for 1 day and didn't see any effects.

Quote from: Raptor on April 21, 2016, 02:48:49 am

Quote from: maxent on April 21, 2016, 01:38:11 am

Stubborn fat for women isn't abdominal .. it's thighs and hips.. but yeah. women who train will often have a sixpac way before they have lean butt/thighs/hips. src: instagrams

Nobody is objecting to that distribution.

Actually Dreyth was saying abdominal fat is troublesome for women but their body will burn that off preferentially so there's no point even trying to spot reduce because fat will come off there easily/immediately. Blood flow is good there compared to hips/thighs etc. But women shudnt even store fat there in the first place.. it takes a lot of bad eating, lack of activity and drinking alcohol to accumulate fat there :/

Anecdotally .. i found if i start playing bball regularly after a layoff, my body does use stomach bodyfat preferentially even if i'm not consciously dieting. just my experience, not sure why that happens.

What I meant is, I like big butts.

We can go even further into our over-analyzing craziness:

Say we take a 300 lbs guy that squats 600 lbs and he also is jumping.

Say somehow we're making him to be 200 lbs and squatting 400 lbs over night. Let's also assume he loses the same percentage of muscle from all places, so his mechanics/bodyweight distribution are not modified.

How would his structural factors play in at that moment? Now we're ignoring completely the muscular and power aspects, and we're thinking about his tendons etc, his reactivity? How much better would he move and jump and respond to ground contacts, having tendons that are accustomed to a very heavy bodyweight and being conditioned in that way?

I bet he would become extremely reactive and his ground contact times would be lower, despite having the same power to bodyweight ratio.

Absolutely. For the standing vertical jump, things are easier, meaning, the 300 lbs guy might have an easier time being at the same level as the 150 lbs guy. More about voluntary power than anything else. Maybe the speed of the movement/reversal of the jump would differ due to the added momentum of the extra weight, but even then, mathematically, they should pretty much be the same. I don't see why they would be different. Maybe all the extra things we've talked about above would still apply (there's still some G-forces occuring during the reversal) but the percentage that these factors are important are far less in the case of the standing vertical jump.

Also, and this might be interesting, maybe there's a certain threshold of "mass" certain muscles have.

Maybe if you take one guy at 150 lbs that squats 300 lbs, and get him to be 300 lbs and squat 600 lbs, his muscular distribution changes and his mechanics change. Maybe when he was 150 lbs and squatted 300, his quads weighed 30 lbs and his glutes weighed 50 lbs. Now, at 300 lbs, his quads weigh 80 lbs and his glutes weigh 100 lbs. Or it might be that his quads weigh 50 lbs and his glutes weigh 150 lbs. Who knows, right? They grew differently, and promote different mechanics. They have different strength ratios now, because the shape, the amount of muscle fibers, motor neurons etc in each muscle is different and has a different potential for growth.

So it's not that easy. But assuming everything is equal, which is not, in real life, then I don't see any mathematical undertaking that would make the 150/300 guy not jump exactly as high as the 300/600 guy.